What an Adventure! - 3/18/13

Dear Family!

Wow what an adventure President put us in! My companion and I are blanking this area, and honestly I have never seen more tender mercies from the Lord then in these last couple of days. It seems like every time we are heading a wrong direction He sends someone to put us back on the right path. The members here are fantastic! I honestly love them already. The branch is much larger and stronger then the branch in St. Lucia. The branch President set a goal for us to have eight baptisms in the next two months! We are going to have to work our tail off.

President is relizing that when my group goes home there will be no leaders in the mission so he has put pretty much everyone in my group with a new District or Zone leader to help train them up. So that is what I am doing. My companion has been out for five months and is the District leader here. He is from Trinidad, his name is Elder Ramdhanie. He is a boss, we have been working really hard so far together.

I am sorry but I do not know my address yet. I will try to get it to you next week. You will also have to tell Grandma and Grandpa Hartshorn that I am sorry, I wrote them a letter in St. Lucia but I left it there. Well I gots to go, so id be talkin to you later.

Love Elder Hartshorn

Pics - 3/11/13

Cool Things - 2/25/13

Dear Family,

Thank you for your e mail. My shoes are pretty bad, but my I have not worn my hush puppie shoes as much, so they will be alright until the end of my mission. I was mostly just wondering about the warranty, because if it is free I would love to give it to someone here. Dont worry about sending new shoes for me though.

It is great to hear that everyone is doing good and staying busy. I am glad Hannah is running track. That should be great!

We also had a good week and taught a lot of people. Also two people are going to be baptized this week. Pray that all goes well... haha Transfers are coming up, which reminds me. This transfer is a seven week transfer, so I will now no longer be coming home in May, but in the first week of June. The transfer ends in two weeks.

We are doing something cool in the branch right now. We have been working on getting all of the members testimonies on video. We are going to have a Fireside, and teach about building up Zion, and also on giving referrals. In between the lessons there will be musical numbers preformed. We are pretty excited about it. I can already see it helping the Branch.

I am glad to hear from you.
Love,
Elder Hartshorn

Whoosh! - 2/18/13

Dear Family,

Well as you probably know, I have no time to write at all. I am very sad to hear about Rex. You will have to send my love to Russell and Rocky.

My trip to Barbados was nice. I was able to see so many of my buds in the mission. We stayed over night there, actually two nights.

I am very excited to talk to Elder Egberts brother. That just makes me happy.

I love you all, so just remember that.

Love,
Elder Hartshorn

The Work is Going Onward - 2/11/13

Dear Family,

I am glad to hear that someone finally went ice fishing. We went fishing this morning as well! It was pretty darn fun, but between us all we only cought one fish. One of the Sister missionries had the lucky rod.

The work is going onward. We are working a lot with our members and it seems like it helping the missionary efforts here. We just need to get these people baptized. It kinda depresses me somtimes when people fall through all the time, but it is just another life leason learned from the mission.I m really excited to fly to Barbados this week for zone
conference. It should be great to get to see and hear from our mission President. I dont think there is any other mission where you see you mission president so little. Between the Presidents I have probably seen them about ten times haha

I have so many funny stories building up, I cannot wait to share them with you all. Most of them are random and would take forever to type so I will just save them.

I wrote Grandma, and Brittney this week so I hope they get them.

I love you all, so keep being awesome.

Love,
Elder Hartshorn

Waiting for the Fruits - 2/4/13

Dear Family,

Well we had a pretty good week again... It is pretty much the same ol same ol here in St. Lucia. Not much to say. Our Zone conference is in Barbados. We travel there on Valentines day. That is something to look forward to.

Our investigators are still progressing, for the most part. We should be starting to see some fruits of our labor soon, but I wont promise you anything, every time I do it always falls through. I hope we do though.

i hope everything is going good up there.

Love,
Elder Hartshorn

Sister Marius :) - 1/29/13

Dear Family,

I am happy you got to talk to my grandma down here. She called me after she talked to you and was like "you have a nice mother" I am not sure why but she just wanted to call you. I know she would love to get a letter from you. 

We had a pretty good week The other Elders in Castries baptized! It was one of those people who had been taught by missionaries forever and just decided it was time. We had a few investigators come for the baptism. We should be having a baptism on the ninth. We are continuing to have investigators at church. I am thankful for that it helps keep me going.

How is everything at home? What is Nathan doing? Hannah is running track, that is pretty boss. Is Britt having any fun in Utah?

I hope you all have a great week, thank you for all that you do.

Love,
Elder Hartshorn