Week 5 in Curitiba

Family

This week was a hard one. Everyone one is out travling for the hollidays and it has been super hard to find people in house and in the streets but we are working hard and the Lord has been blessing us becuase of our work! we have found a lot of new investigators and all of them are amazing! we found an older man who has been having dreams about us and heard a voice saying he would recieve two messangers of the lord and the next day we showed up and started teaching him! ahahah he is the perfect investigator he has recieved an answer about the book of mormon and our message and we hope to baptize him next week so we are going to have to work alot to get him ready. we found another family who we were trying to talk to for a long time but could never get a hold of them. we stopped at their house and we not going to stop by again if they didnt answer but when we clapped at the gate an old lady oppened to door to the house and let us in. apparently the address we were given was wrong and the people that gave us the address gave us a fake one but the lady we meet is amazing! she lives with her 40 year old son and has to take care of him because he has some mental issues and her husband died a couple of years ago and her other children live far away. she said she has been waiting for the lord to tell here what the meaning of life is and where we go when we die and hadnt recieved an answer and then she felt something telling her to go outside and then she saw us standing at the gate. she let us in and we taught her about the plan of salvation and she started crying and told us about her husband and her questoins. she wants to get baptized and we are going to try and baptise them in two weeks. The Lord has been blessing us so much and if we work hard this next trasfer we could have up to 9 baptisms! i hope i can do my part in the lords work and really be a tool in his hands. I am so greatful for my opportunity to serve the lord and i know his is blessing me every step of the way. i love you all and hope you had an amazing christmas and have a happy new year. i love you all 

Elder Harris

Here are some pictures...FINALLY!

Merry Christmas from Elder Harris!

So happy to see this cute face today!!

2.5 months down...21.5 more to go!

Oi Família

Hello everyone!! Merry Christmas! I hope all is well and everyone is excited for christmas this year. i hope you all have been good and that you get everything you asked santa this year. I know i will. i cant believe it is already christmas! time passes so quickly here it is unreal. i have already been out for 2 1/2 months! it is crazy. i dont have much to say this week because i will talk you in two days and i will tell you all there but i have a vouple of things to ask before then. will you find a creepé  and a cookie recepie for me i had some others but i dont remember... oh well. i hope you are all excited and have a wonderful week i will talk to you soon

Love Elder Harris

Week 3 in Curitiba

Oi! Família!

 

i cant believe another week has passed by it feels like nothing but then again i have sone so much this past week it is crazy! the life of a missionary is not easy but i am loving it. we do the same thing every day but i dont mind vido de gado e? nothing too crazy has happened this week i had my first confimation this sunday which was cool and i was able to do it which was kinda scary but it went well. we met a lot of new investigators this week and had some interesting experiences with them hahah the people down here are crazy i love it. it has been really hot these past couple of days and i am starting to get some nice tan lines they are pretty nice let me tell you. we had another divison this week which was fun. it was nice to go to a different area for a day and be with a different companion and see how they do things. i always learn a lot when we do divisions. Oh we had an amazing traning session with Elder Masagatte (dont know how to spell his name) of the seventy for the area of brazil! it was super good and i learned so much. he talked a lot about how we can become better missionaries and all that stuff and how to become better teachers. he also wanted to stop by a lot of the houses and check them out which was cool and i hope he liked ours because he stopped by while we were out on the streets... other than that nothing too special is going on my portuguese is getting better and i am always learning new words and phrases one day i will be fluent i hope but that wont be for a long time. i am super excited for christmas i cant believe it is so soon! i hoe you all are enjoying the cold cause it is super hot down here. i dont have much to say this time sorry.... all is well lovin every minute here wish you all the best and hope you have a wonderful christmas season and enjoy the little things. I love you all and think about you all the time.

Love Elder Harris

Week 2 in Curitiba

Oi Família

Im sorry to hear about Grandpa i am really going to miss him and i know all of you will as well. He was an amazing husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, teacher, and servant of the Lord. I hope i can become more like him and be the kind of man he wants me to be, i am so greatful for the example he has been in my life and i hope i can make him proud. I send you my prayers durring this sad time and i hope we can all remember the plan the Savior has layed down for us and know that Gandpa is in a better place and watching over us. 

I have though a lot about the Plan of Salvation this week durring my lessons and i am so greateful that i know the plan our Heavenly Father has for us. I have thought a lot this week about how lucky i am. i have so much and i dont know why the Lord has blessed me so. i look at the people here and at their houses, clothing, food and their living conditions my heart aches. i have been given so much and i have always had more than what i need. i have been blessed with such an amazing family, you all help me so much and whenever i have a problem or a doubt i know i can look to you and you will help me with anything i need. i have such amazing friends that are always there and we always have good times together, i was born into a family that knows and understands the Gospel of Jesus Christ and i grew up in the church and know so much. i could go on forever but i dont have time. The Lord has been so kind to me it seems unfair when i see some of these people. i hope that during these two years i can give a little of what i have to these people and make their lives a little better in anyway i can. I hope you all can look at your lives and see how truely blessed we are and recognize the things we have been given. 

I dont have too much time so i will tell you a little about my second week here. i cant believe it is p day again it feels like yesturday i was sitting here writing to you all. i was talking to my companion about it and he says your entire mission feels this way. it makes me sad because i am loving it out here and i dont want it to pass too quickly. i hope i can make every second count. I had my fist baptism this week!! it was amazing her name is Simoni and she is super strong. she was so prepared to recieve the gospel i didnt even have to do anything. she did everything we told here as soon as possible and so ready to get baptized. Elder Moura baptized her and i will confirm her next week in sacrament meeting. i am kinda nercous because my potuguese is not too great yet but i will try. we had a really successfull week and everything went super well i went on two different divisoins this week and both of them went super well. one of them was in a different area and that place had so many hills it was crazy! i think all of the hills in brazil are in that place no joke. the other was in my same area and i had to be the senior companion! i was super nervous but it went really well and our lessons went well. nothing else has been happening just the normal missionary grind. i am eating so much it is not even funny the members here give us so much food i think i am going to die. Grandma you would like my companion he is always making me eat more and more. i am not sick any more i just had a little cold nothing to be worried about mom... Yes i have to say my mission is going great and i live every minute of it. i have to go  love you all and wish you the best tchau!

Love Elder Harris

Curitiba, Pictures, New Address

Oi falilia

sorry i dont have any time today i had to write a letter to the president and another to the card company so i only have ten minutes! i will try to send some pictures really fast. i am loving the mission so far my companion is great his name is elder moura he is 23 years old and from brasil he doesnt speak any english which is hard but it makes me use my portuguese. he is super funny and always in a good mood he is a hard worker and knows what he is doing. he has been in this area for 3 months so he knows everyone and i am his fourth person he has trained which is nice. everything is going well i am a little sick but getter better and my legs are kinda sore from walking all day everyday but other than that everything is good. we have a lot of people to teach and this week went pretty well we have 3 baptism dates for next week so i am super excited for that and we are always finding more people to teach and trying to help the less active members. my mission presidednt is super great i love him and his wife they are super young and energetic and i cant wait to get to tknow them more. the member cook us food everyday for luch wich is super nice and i am lovig the food. good thing i like rice and beans cause that is all they eat here. Brasil is beautiful i havent taken many pictures outside but i will try to do better. our area is in the city but more outside and kinda ghetto but i am loving it. i am so gratefull for all i have and i am so gratefull for you all and all that youy do for me i hope i can make you all proud. the only thing i really miss fron the us are the bathrooms... we dont have a toilet seat which is kinda ruff and you cant flush the toilet paper... it is going to take  some time getting used to that but it is not too bad so dont worry. i am out of time and i am sorry for the small letter today i will hand write one and do better next week. i love yoyu all and wish you the best i hope your thanksgiving wasnt too boring without me. with all my love 

Elder Harrs

My new address:

Elder Connor Harris

Missão Brasil Curitiba Sul

Recanto Joseph Smith, 15 – Portão

Curitiba, Paraná 80610-210  (Brasil)

MTC Round 2

Hello Family!

 

I cant balieve my MTC stay has gone by so fast this is my last P Day and then i will be in the field! it is crazy i am so excited but also really nervous. my companions were talking about how in a week we will be having dinner at a members house and not knowing how to say anything! hahah i cant wait it is going to be such an amazing experience. nothing new has been going on here just the same old same old MTC life all i do is sit around, eat, learn, and teach. i am gaining weight because we dont do anything here but i know as soon as i get to the field and start walking everyday it will come off fast. i was able to talk to a missionary this week who has been out for 3 week and he said i better enjoy the food at the MTC because as soon as you get out into the field your meals are not good becaue you have to cook them yourself. i really dont have anything special to say i am loving my stay here and my classes are good and the language is coming fine. we say a really good devotional by Elder Holland and after that i was super excited to get out and start teaching. it is always good to hear from you all and i am glad everyone is doing well. i wish i had more to say but i dont hahah. the next time you hear from me will be from Curitiba so be ready for that! i am so thankful for the oppotunity i have to serve the Lord and i hope i can serve him well. i love you all and wish you the best.

 

Love Elder Harris