Letter following our Christmas call

Hey mom/ everyone, 

It has been a great week filled with love of family, friends, and the savior. This week has been a lazy week since we were not aloud to go out and proselyte i was able to take my "spa sesh" in the tub haha. We had two amazing dinners, one Christmas eve which was crab, scallops, and steak and Christmas night we has the best roast i have ever had, it was a very elegant meal ( and my bishop is a chiropractor so i got alined which always makes the night better). The ward out here is awesome, they are the typical back woods love everyone type people. The ward brings light in the sorrows of the work, and on the bright side it is getting lighter every day. A few weeks ago i went to a meeting and our steak president spoke and he gave this quote for our specific area "you cant learn to work hard if the work is easy" and i think that relates to all of you guys. The work im doing is a bit different than yours, but this applies to all factors of life. God knows us and he knows our limits and will push us because he knows what we can become. My dad wrote me this week and said that, "It is easy to look good when the work is easy. It is easy to feel good when baptism are coming right and left. The real measure of a person comes when no one is looking." No one may be temporally watching me but i know that the work i do today will effect tomorrow, or my kids, or my wife and thats what gets me out side knocking doors in the cold. I had to take a long hard look at my self and ask Why is this important? then when i came up with that answer i asked again, why is that important? I needed a drive, a motivating factor, and i found it.

Keep on keeping on

Love Elder Chacon

Fellowship of the Unashamed - Poem 12-14-2015

Dear Family & friend, 

I have been singing a lot in church and am singing this Sunday,  just thought I would let you know.  I kind of forgot to tell you,  I have sang 4 solos since I left.

I am extremely tired and have very little energy so pray for that.

I heard this poem and loved it..

I am part of the "Fellowship of the Unashamed."

The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line.

The decision has been made. I am a disciple of

Jesus Christ. I won't look back, let up, slow down,

back away, or be still. My past is redeemed, my present

makes sense, and my future is secure.

I am finished and done with low living, sight walking,

small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams,

chintzy giving, and dwarfed goals.

I no longer need pre-eminence, prosperity, position,

promotions, plaudits, or popularity. I now live by

presence, lean by faith, love by patience,

lift by prayer, and labor by power. My pace

is set, my gait is fast, my goal is Heaven, my

road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions few,

my Guide reliable, my mission clear. I cannot be bought,

compromised, deterred, lured away, turned back,

diluted, or delayed.  I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the

presence of adversity, negotiate at the table of the enemy,

ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander

in the maze of mediocrity.

I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I must go until

Heaven returns, give until I drop, preach until all know,

and work until He comes. And when He comes to get

His own, He will have no problem recognizing me.

My colors will be clear.

Love. Elder Chacon

Hey guys, I am staying in Port Ludlow and i am getting a kid who has been out less than I have. The ward is awesome and i love the people. I am very very tired. The cold sucks the life out of you and its really windy and rainy so when we are out knocking doors we are wet and its cold and then the wind chill... soooo blessings should be coming hahah... our car got nicked by a tree while in a highway and it took the Toyota sign off hahah so that you for your prayers of safety. The work sucks here.... its old people and they just don't care...i knocked close to 1,000 doors this transfer and we got about two new investigators and the were flakes ...so that should give a good idea of what its like haha, but we will have a baptism this transfer. There is this girl named Alyssa that is 16 and she has been coming to church for 4 months and has taught lessons in young women's  and she drives an hour to come to church and is enrolled in seminary so she is solid haha we just have to wait for her dads approval and he lives in Virginia. The crappy work wont stop us but its just sad. Its really hard for me and sometimes i cry a little and its not because people are mean to me ( im used to that haha) but because i know how there life could be and they are denying pure happiness. A few nights ago, on a very rainy night the winds were blowing pretty hard for hear and i had this prompting to know a certain area and when i got the prompting i said dang it because i knew it was from god but the place was scary and it was a no trespassing trailer park. So as we walked in i snuck to the back and started knocking so we did not run into a manager. We knocked a few doors and just offered service and they we hit the mean people. One after the other yelling at us saying there going to call the cops, so we just said ok we will go have a nice day, and we walked away... but i knew he was not going to call the cops( you can tell the people who will and wont) and as i got further away i looked back and saw him not looking and turned back into the trailer park just to try to get a few more before the "cops came"... and there were a few nice people but then mean ones again... so we were leaving and as we were we knocked one more door at the front of the place.... and nothing ...no miracle no amazing experience, but i know that i did what i was supposed to do. I am not changing in my appearance, im not changing in the way i talk, im not even changing in people skills. but what is changing is the power in which i speak. Because i know im not the first one to say that this is hard, someone much greater asked if there was an easier way a long time ago. He cried "papa, is there any other way? Please remove this cup from me" But there is not an easier was because this life is not easy. Just remember that you are not the first, but because of the first its a lot less easy than it ever would have been. I know as we follow our promptings we will see miracles.... maybe it was just a test for me, to see if i would go know that place, well if it was i passed. Now i can be trusted with more. Trust in God so he can trust you. Merry Christmas Elder Chacon Diane Chacon <dianeschacon@gmail.com> Dec 7 (2 days ago) to Charles Click here to Reply or Forward 3.98 GB (26%) of 15 GB used Manage Terms - Privacy Last account activity: 14 minutes ago Details

I had an awesome Thanksgiving.  it was nice to switch out a bad memory with a good one. I had dinner at the Perkins house and she has made it on my “mom list”. She really cares about the missionaries and is a fun and awesome lady. 

My week was slow because Monday was p-day, Tuesday was normal, Wednesday was district meeting, Thursday was Thanksgiving, Friday was weekly planning, and Sat we went to Brinnon, WA which is 50 miles away (farthest part of our area).  I am excited for this upcoming week to get back on the normal schedule. Transfers are on the 8th and I will know what’s going on this Saturday. 

There was once a little boy who wanted to play with his dad, but the dad was always to busy. The boy would always ask his dad to play catch but the dad would say "I can’t, I’m too busy".  One day the boy asked his father if they could go play catch, and the father being annoyed took a map of the world and ripped it up in to tiny bits and said, "once you put back this map of the world we will go play catch"  The little boy took the pieces and left.  He came back shortly, with the map all in place. The father looked at him in amazement and ask his boy how he did it so fast. The young boy told his dad that he drew a house on the back of the map and said "I knew if I put the house together then the world would be in place too" 

When writing my little sister, Brooke I started to cry when I comprehended the fact that I will be able to be with her forever. 

This gospel is amazing, and I am so grateful to have it in my life.  

Love Elder Chacon

Yesterday was one of the hardest days of my life. Im not going to go into why but I have never prayed so hard..... I sobbed and groaned and pulled my hair just begging .... repeating "father.....Father please"....

so why would i share this with every one? because as i logged on today i received emails from people that i would have never thought would email me, and not just one person, but 4.... 4 people emailed me who i would have never of thought would. They uplifted me, in a way that they don't know. It solidifies my testimony to know that the spirit can testify to others what to say to help me... I am just a child, just a single person, but i am of worth to my father in heaven, And that has made all the difference to me. I received and email from a high school friend who told me that she has found the gospel and is going to be baptized soon. and i had a dream last night of that experiences. (Im crying in the library haha) But i have felt such an overwhelming amount of love from heavenly father. I know my savior lives, just as i know the day is long.

I can now say with a fervent accord that I am a disciple of Jesus Christ the son of God, I have been called of him, to declare his word, among his people, that they might have everlasting life.

The words I speak are not of me,

Love The typist Elder Chacon

NOVEMBER 16, 2015 - PORT LUDLOW

Hello family and friends,

My companion is elder osmun and I served with him in the mtc, He is from Utah and he and I work very well together. He has been out the same amount of time as I have so there is a lot of trust being put on us out here. Yes, it is cold out here but I am doing fine. Knocking doors from 5-7 is not to fun because its dark by 5 and we are in the woods.  I spoke in church yesterday and talked on the atonement and how it makes us better.   I read my poem and Isaiah 49: 15-16 and a lot of people loved it.  I need to send you a copy of it, I will have it as  proof that I wrote it because a few people wanted it and told me that it  touched a lot of people and is going to spread.( Idk if it will but just put it in a safe place, still sealed).

A miracle happen this week. In the land that no one baptizes we found two people that want to be. While we were knocking 5-7s we asked this lady who was outside her house if she wanted to hear a message about Jesus Christ. She responded no, we then asked if she needed help with anything ,she asked us if we could help her move a TV. So we went to where the tv was and she brought her sister out and we got started to talking and one of them had just had her husband die six months ago on that day and the other sister had her only son leave for college. She was a single mother and her son was a football star and had all of his friends over to hang out so she was that type of mom and now she’s all alone. We started sharing the plan of salvation with them which is unusual for the first thing to teach but as we did we opened a Book of Mormon we had with us and there was a plan of salvation pamphlet, we never put them in the book, but it was amazing how that happened. After we set up a return apt we prayed and I prayed for her husband and comfort of the other sister and they we both crying during the prayer . We told them we were going to come back and get the TV with our car, and when we came back and were walking up they told us that they want to be apart of our church so we put them on date for the 22nd of this month ... which is my 4 month mark! Yes, it was a miracle, we have a baptism date for two and a TV to give away.   haha.

My thought for the week is I just wanted to say that is the scripture that I keep talking about. Isaiah 49:15-16 is perfect for the description of the love that Christ has for us. When it talks about a mother’s compassion, compassion is a word that would also describe the atonement. Even though our mothers were able to bare us they can not bare our sins. "yea they may forget" .... but he will never forget us, and that brings us to the next verse, The word wall is referencing Jerusalem or wall of protection, and the atonement was suffered just out side of the city walls but the path that Christ was brought in on, to be judged, led straight to the temple, (another for the Hebrew word wall). " they walls are continually before me" .... continually means daily sacrifice in Hebrew, and before is referencing him out side the walls of Jerusalem. The ( ; ) that precedes this sentence causes the meaning to change to have some referencing to the atonement. ....LONG story short Christ has preformed the atonement and loves us more that we can imagine, even though we put up walls between us and him. I pray to understand the atonement more, so I can come closer to Christ, but you don’t’ need to know all the details to use it. 

I’m really just venting and writing to help myself better understand, but I can testify that as I read that verse the first time it meant something, but as I read it again in my talk the power of each word changed and with every word fell a tear, knowing that Christ did that for me. 

I love all of you so much, if we all just had an ounce of the love Christ had for us we would not be seeing the stuff that is going on right now. 

Go and do missionary work while you can..."you can count the seeds in an apple, but not the apples in a seed"

-Elder Chacon

Dad's Q & A with Harrison's response

From: Charles Chacon <charles@charleschacon.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:19 PM
Subject: Letter 13
To: Harrison.chacon@myldsmail.net, Charles Chacon <charles@charleschacon.com>, Diane Chacon <dianeschacon@gmail.com>

Harrison, I got so busy, I did not get your letter off in time. I really enjoyed your poem last week . I am really impressed with your talent in this area. I do have lots of questions that have not been answered. I understand that you are busy on P-Day's and all. I am going to email you , but also mail the email with all my questions. I will leave a blanks so that during the week , you can answer the questions and with mail it back or reply to my email with the answers (which ever you want. I love to get emails from you and use your expereinces in many lessons and even ward council. 

I would love to have a nice long lunch with you or a long paddle board ride  and just ask you some questions about how the last three months have been.Since I can't do that, I put together some of the questions that I would ask. I would really appreciate you answering them for me.

Here are some questions that I have been wondering. 

HARRISON RESPONDED WITH A HAND WRITTEN LETTER BACK ON 11/1/2016  I have typed in his response. 

1) Do you eat dinners with the members every night. I know you are to door knock from 5-7, so do you eat before or after or do you just eat on your own ?

Not every night, but most and we eat @4:00pm and members complain about that some times.  The lady that is over our meal calendar looses it quite often, so we sometimes go a while without eating.  Shes’ not the smartest person.

2) How is the tracting going. They don't do it in our mission. Can you explain a little your experience with that. I know at the beginning of your mission, you said it was tough with guns and anti stuff 

We find a ton of people from knocking on doors.  This is something that other missions think does not work, but look at the numbers.  The gun thing… was kinda random.  There are a lot of mean people, but I don’t care anymore.  People will try to Anii us, but after rebuilding my testimony it does not faze me. 

3) How many do you have in your teaching pool on average. ?  A LOT… like we have 8 progressing investigators and there are families in that.  We have about 25-25 potential investigators.  We don’t really stay to long with decent people.

4) How many lessons are you teaching per week ? What is the mission goal. 

We are teaching about 50-60 lessons and of those, there are about 20 tht are set appointments and on goal for baptism is 800.

5) I know you mentioned your ward did not care any about missionary work. Do you go to ward council and give input there or do they not want you there?  I got the ward to like missionaries and we are working with them

6) Do you have a ward mission leader and how is he?  So I have 2 wards that I cover so I have Bro Abersal 70 yrs old and Bro. Richardson 30’s.  They are really good and come out a lot. 

7) What is you average sacrament attendance. Our ward is 250 or so. 1st Ward – 100, 2^nd ward – 100

8) What would you say is the hardest thing on your mission so far?  I would have to say not having enough time to Study… You have prepared me extremely well for a mission.  Thank s for that.  I would also say, not being able to drive. 

9) What do you like the most about your mission so far?  The mission fits me, cool socks, same hair cut, exact obedience is the “Cool” things and It’s perfect for me.

10) What has been your biggest discovery about yourself so far?  I have learned a lot about my  testimony and that I have a huge opportunity to help people come unto Christ.

11) are you taking the medication everyday and how is that going. You seem to be always positive and that is so great to hear.  Yes I am, and it’s going great!

12) are you taking pictures ? and can you send them to us ? Yes, often and they won’t send, so I was thinking I could send my sim card to you guys.

13) Last question. Where are you getting the material for your poems. Do you get to read literature or are you just dreaming this up on your own ?  do you get to watch church videos ? Where did you get the information on the Anti Anti stuff you spoke about a couple of weeks ago ?  I guess this was more than one question. I am just thing about it and no we can’t read that stuff.  The anti gets passed down to Special people within the mission.  I am giving it back today. 

If you want to email me back , you can just put a the number of the question and then the answer. If you write me back , you can do the same or just write it on the paper I sent you. 

I love you very much and I think of you many times per day.  I am so grateful that you appear to be doing well. I know your letters touch Brooke also. Keep influencing her for good. 

Do you need anything?  Grey Jacket, a book “Seek these things Diligently”, more Adderal and Germin, GPS.

*** ADDED AT BOTTOM :  Hey, I got transferred to Chimacum Port Angeles Ludlow.  It is in the middle of nowhere and I will be with a guy that came out with me.  I will get the address soon.  He was transferred to 100-3 Highland Greenport, Port Ludlow, WA. 98365 with Elder Osmun on 11/2/16.  We could not be more proud and grateful for Harrison’s successes.

Love always

DAD