Hinanap ang kagalakan

Kamusta y'all!
     Well, after several weeks of hard work in Caliguian, we got to see some miracles :) Sister Su'a and I had exchanges with our sister training leaders on Friday. Sister Cabaraban taught me a lot about finding joy in the journey, and gave us a lot of suggestions on finding new people to teach. So we applied those suggestions on Saturday, and we found five new people to teach! And they were all so cool and we're so excited to go back to them. Then Sister Gigi, who we've been teaching for a while now finally came to church! It was getting close to 10 and church was about to start, and she wasn't there yet. But she'd told us on Saturday that she was definitely coming so we hadn't lost hope yet. And then we see her daughter running in from the parking lot. They had such a great time at church, and the members were so happy to see them too.
    One of the speakers in sacrament meeting yesterday talked about how obedience brings blessings, but exact obedience brings miracles. It's easy just to do the minimum and call it good, and we do receive blessings from keeping even the simplest commandments. But I know that if we want to experience real miracles we have to exercise real faith and real diligence. Those miracles usually won't come immediately, but they will come.
       Aganad y'all!
         Sister Harrison
1. Sister Su'a made Samoan food, and it was delicious :)
 

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