Brett-July 20, 2009

Wow!! Today marks my 17th month as a missionary...CRAZY!! The time just keeps on flying by. You're probably wondering why I'm emailing so late. Sorry about that. We had set some appointments this morning cuz some people couldn't meet with us in the evening so we just worked this morning and are doing all our preparing now. Well this week has been pretty exciting. The other day we were out finding and we walked in this gate to knock on this door. It had a no trespassing sign but didn't say anything about dogs. Anyways I knocked on the door but I didn't notice the doggy door right next to it. As soon as I knocked you could hear two humongous dogs barking and running towards the door. I didn't think anything of it because they were inside but my comp took off running and before I knew it this huge half pitbull half something comes flying out the dog door and comes at me like its gonna bite me but you know what they say...perro que ladra no muerde. So I jumped off the patio and jumped over the fence and cut my hand up on the fence...man it was the scariest thing ever. I know that God protected me and closed that dogs mouth. The owner came out and said that the dog had just bitten somebody the other day. She was shocked that I didn't get bit. It was pretty crazy. As if that weren't enough the very next day we were going to an appointment and this lady has two big pitbulls chained up in her yard so I was still kinda scared. Her dogs and the neighbors dogs all started barking but none of them tried to attack me this time. But her neighbor came out and started yelling at us and told us we were disrupting the neighborhood. He asked to see our door to door license(which we don't need) Anyways to make a long story short he called the police on us haha That's a first for me. The police were really nice and just told us not to knock on his door. Satan has been working really hard against us this week. But I know that we are going to double the baptisms here in our mission. We've got two baptisms coming up next weekend. We were supposed to be having two more but unfortunately one of the ladies that was gonna be baptized went out partying Saturday night and didn't show up to church on Sunday. But If everything goes good Emery and Blanca are going to be baptized. Pray for them for us. We played some soccer today for P-day with a member and his friends. We've been playing the last few weeks. Its way fun. I'm getting a lot better. Next p-day we're probably going to go help this guy fly his glider. I'll tell you about it next week. Well I love yall lots. I hope all is well back home. I pray for yall everyday. Thanks for all your support. I know that the church is true. Heavenly Father truly does look out for his servants. Thanks for all your prayers. Have a great week.
Elder Harber