May News from Chile

From May 21:

Hola,
I`m sorry but this week is going to be brief.  I`d love to talk about the misison a ton but I`m going to mention a little no mas.

This week was a success as we were finally able to work full throttle.  We had a total of 29 lessons with 11 new people found and 4 with bapt. date.  One success story was a particularly powerful manifestation to me of the direction of the Lord in this work was with a couple named Carlos and Jaquiline.  We were going through our list of supposed members visting their houses to see if they still lived there.  We go to their house and ask if their sister still lived there.  They tell us no, but then relate how they listened to the missionaries 4 months ago, but didn`t get baptized because they weren`t married and were not in a finacial position to do so.  They welcomed us into their home and told us how they had been praying for a way to come back to the church.  And they were going to ask their neighbor (the relief society president)  when the church times were.  After teaching them about the restoration they accepted dates for the 17th (following their successful marriage).  They expressed that we were an answer to what they`d been missing.

I love the Savior.  This work is very hard.  And its easy at times to feel helpless, but I have faith that the Lord with carry me through this.

Con Amor
Elder Parry Harrison

From May 28:

Hey :)

Two things noteworthy.  I`m not sure if I mentioned but I gave a talk in church about consecration 4 weeks ago and last Sunday gave it again in this branch.  I thought it went quite well.  Also, yesterday I gave the Sacrament Prayer for the first time in Spanish.  As to what I do on P-day:  Now we`re too tired and too far to do much other than go to the internet cafe to do email, buy are weekly food, make lunch and sleep :)  This week we had to paint the whole house inside which took awhile to do, and drained our energy too.

I`m terribly sorry but my companion's ready to leave so I`m going to have to leave it short this week.  But know that while there are dissapointments in this work (like Patricia not being there when Elder Sanchez goes to visit her now) or those of weak testimony who fall into paths of things like "energy" that the Lord still directs this work.  And He is happy if the one soul I save is my own.

Mucho Amor
Parry