I just can't keep 'em‏

So it seems I just can't keep a companion for more than a transfer. Elder Burke is getting shipped out and he's going to Safford (Lucky dog). He wasn't too excited to go and not get to work anymore with our invertigators but I know he'll do well.

My new companion is Elder Stevens. He's from Orem and he seems like a pretty kool guy. He has knee problems right now and he's thinking he might have to go home... hopefully not but we'll see. He had an MRI earlier today and we'll find out next week.

Other than that things are going good.
Hope life on your end is good

Sorry for the short letter, not much more to report.

Love you guys

Elder Harris

Some Good and Some Bad

Hey everybody.

This last week has been kind of crazy

Denise K Higgins our awesome investigator went Jekyll and Hyde on us. We saw her on Thursday morning and tried to reset her baptismal date. She was really excited and even picked the date herself. We went over the next day and she dropped us hardcore. It was lame. That's number 3 on the mission of people/families that were going really strong that dropped us for no reason. Makes me sad :(

But our other investigators, the 4 generation family are doing great. The were sick yesterday and weren't able to come to church :( But when we went over last night they were really excited about getting baptized. Before they've been unsure but now they really want to do it. The two girls are even signing up for seminary! Things are going great with them. They're even having us over for dinner tonight.

Not a while lot else to report. President is taking us to the temple this week so that's really exciting. We're going on Friday! It'll be so good to go back to the temple again.

Hope all is well with you. Keep in touch. Love you guys

~Elder Harris

Not a lot of time‏

So I don't have a lot of time but here's the basics.

Denise is still nervious and she didn't come to church because she was taking care of a friend who just got out of the hospital.

Others we were teaching aren't too awesome but we're still trying.

We also found a few new investigators this week. The Relief Society president asked us to go and visit a less-active sister named Marta Kellemen. She's a sweet lady who is 80 years old. In the house is her daughter, granddaughter, and 2 great-grand daughters. None of them are members of the church and we were able to start teaching them this last week. We're hoping that it will turn out well with them.

Not much else to report other that I love you guys.

We'll talk to you later.

Elder Harris

Changes all around‏

The church has made a whole bunch of changes to how we do a lot of things in missionary work.

First they've changed how we do meetings. They've consolodated a lot of our meetings and put us on a monthly schedule rather than a transfer schedule. Now instead of a Zone conference every transfer it's going to be every quarter(about every two transfers) Interviews also changed in the same manner, but they've also added a few new meetings as well that will happen monthly which will be fun to go to.

They're also changing up the Curriculum at the MTC a little. We're still using Preach My Gospel but applying it a little differently. We're not too sure on all those changes but we'll be trained on them the coming months and the missionaries coming in next year will be trained on it too.

With that said, the work is moving along pretty well here in the Wards.

Unfortunatly Denise wanted to drop her date for now so that she can learn more. We have a baptismal interview set up with her for next monday and hopefully she'll understand that she's ready by then and can still be baptized on the 7th of August.

We have a few other potential investigators that we'll be following up on this week and we're excited about what is happening this week.

Hope you all enjoyed you 24th, they don't do much here in Tucson.

Love you guys

Elder Harris

Went Hiking

Elder Burke and I went hiking today. 3 hrs in 100+ weather may not have been the best idea in the world. I'm exhausted... but it was a lot of fun anyways.

This last week went by fairly uneventful. We are still teaching Denise Higgins and she came to church again and sang in the choir with us during sacrament meeting. She seems to really enjoy the church and things are going great. Other than that I don't know what to tell you. Not much else has happened.

They are changing a lot of things church wide and so we'll learn a lot about that during Zone Conference. Also Elder D Todd Christofferson will be coming to the mission in August, so that will be pretty cool. He'll be joined by Elder Rasband of the 70 as well as a few others. They're visiting all of the stakes here in Tucson but also have a special Zone Conference with all the missionaries as well.

Well not a great letter this week but love you guys!

Elder Harris

Not as bad as I thought‏

So, life with Elder Burke is not as bad as I thought and actually it's more exciting than life with Elder Larsen. Elder Burke is from Orlando and he's a great missionary, he was just with a lazy missionary and so he fell into a little bit of laziness. We're seeing some good things happen.

Allyson was baptized which was awesome! Both her parents were there, which was nice to see them come even though they were so opposed to the idea from the beginning. Also this last week we found two new investigators. The Rainbow lady and the Rabbit lady. I know awesome right?

Olevia the rainbow lady called and requested a dvd and when we brought it by we were able to teach her a little bit as well. She's really nice but not too sure about baptism. We're working with her to overcome her barriers.

Denise the Rabbit lady is awesome though. Denise was over at her friends house when her friend's home teachers came over and she accepted to have missionaries over to teach her. We taught her the restoration and she loved it. She accepted a baptismal date for the 7th of August and even came to church and sang in the choir. It was awesome. She's a funny lady.

We decided to drop Lisa and Lacy, They're not keeping any of their commitments. And Vanessa is out on the reservation for a while :( But with these new investigators and others that Elder Burke and I will find we'll get this area rolling.

Life is moving forward and I'm loving being a missionary.

Hope life is good for you too. Love you all. We'll talk to you later!

Elder Harris

I'm sticking around‏

Well transfer calls were last night and I'm sticking around. Elder Larsen is getting transfered though. It seems that I can't hang on to a companion for more that a transfer since Elder Vermillion went home. Oh well. My new companion is named Elder Burke. I've never met him but aparently he's struggling a little bit and so I'm suppossed to help him out. I guess I should be glad that they thought of me to help him get back on track but I'm still trying to get over the fact that it sounds kind of like a "babysitting" assignment. Hopefully it won't be too bad. We'll see.

Since I'm staying you can send my next batch of meds to the same place, and this time I was wondering if you could include a couple jars of Grandma's turkey, that would be awesome.

This last weekend was kind of lame. Holidays are never fun as a missionary. Everyone uses it as an excuse not to do anything. Because of it, no one was at church and now no one has a baptismal date anymore. Kind of a bummer. Vanessa is still struggling with the faith to keep commitments but we're still working with her, and the Nepali's still have a hard time understanding what we are teaching. Unfortunatly there is no mission in Nepal so the prospects of finding a member of the church who speaks their language is not likely going to happen. Right now we're waiting for the book of mormon in Nepali to come in so we can use that to teach them. The funny thing is they keep bringing more and more friends over for us to teach with them. It's kind of funny. They're a good family that I know would accept the gospel if only we could communicate.

I hope you guys had fun with the fireworks. We had to be in our apartment by 9:00 and our apartment is in a funny position and so we couldn't see any fireworks. I was kind of sad.

Well, love you guys and we'll talk to you all later!

Elder Harris

PS - Lexi Jurado finally got baptized.

After I left she went through the temple open house and the spirit touched her heart there and she called he missionaries wanting to be baptized. All those prayers were answered.