4/30

This is the fish head that another missionary made me eat.  He ate the other half.  It was like a super salty fishy chip.

An awesome sunset from the window while doing studdies.

We had a baptism this last Saturday.  The girl in the middle is the one we baptised.  Here mother is the one on the far left and the father is the one kneeling in the blue.  Here parents aren't members but the rest of the people in the picture are her extended family members who she always goes to church with.

Some kids were catching these sea critters in a bottle and it was pretty cool.  There's a jellyfish some squid, a long worm fish thing and some other really small fish.

Thanks mom.  Sorry this is late but I found out that skyping is next Monday (Sunday night in Provo) and I realize you guys will be in Korea.  I will still try to skype you guys.  It will be on monday morning because you are in Korea.  It would have been Sunday night in provo.  I realize that skyping might not work out this time and I won't be able to email you all again until it is time to skype.  If it all works out I will be skyping to you guys next Monday morning between 8:00 and 10:00.  It is okay if you guys can't Skype. 
This email will be really short because I don't have much time left.  This last week was really good.  We finally got a baptism in this area.  The first one in Months!!  Transfers are this week so I don't know if I will have a new companion, be transferred or stay the same. 

    Things are going alright in the area.  We got one investigator who doesn't believe in any religion after searching for years.  He told us if we can convince him that our church is true then he will join.  I told him that depends on you.  I really does.  As missionaries we can teach, bear testimony, and invite but if the investigator isn't willing to do anything nothing will happen.  Hopefully he will keep his commitments.

     The baptism last saturday was good.  My companion baptised our 8 year old investigator Kayla.  Afterwards we all had pizza.

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Love, Elder Harkness

Love, Matthew

4/23

We cleaned up these streets

The view out our window.

This past week we have gotten a lot of new investigators.  I have found that in this area we have to work a little differently than I did in my last area.  This last week I told my companion that we were going to a certain area and we were going to knock on every single person's door.  There just aren't enough interested people here for us to walk until we see someone like in my last area.  It has proved effective and we got a lot of new investigators this week.  One of the investigators was an old man in his 80s.  He was really nice and we taught him a little bit about the plan of salvation.  We also gave him a plan of salvation pamphlet and when we came back to him and asked him about it he said "I don't have any problems with it."  Some other investigators we found are friendly but the worst is when you get to the end of the lesson and think they are golden investigators and then find out that the husband in a fisherman (they are gone too often to come to church enough times to be baptized).  The fishermen here go out on their boats for days to weeks.  One fisherman I talked to told me that the best fishing is down in Malaysia.  I asked him how long it takes to get to Malaysia and he said it takes a week (and that is traveling on one of those boats that I have sent pictures to you of). 

     This last week we also had interviews and zone conference which was great.  Interviews and zone conferences are always so motivational. 

     This Saturday we will have the baptism of our 8 year old investigator Kayla.  I am excited at last to have a baptism in this area after almost two transfers.  This area hasn't had a baptism in many months.   

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Love, Elder Harkness