Another new Companion!‏

So I'm really good at getting rid of my companions real quick. I've run out of lines in my Preach My Gospel to write their names. :( Elder Stevens went home on Saturday morning for his knee, so now I have new companion. His name is Elder Bertha (no joke that is his real last name) and he's from San Diego California. He's a visa waiter on his way to Puebla Mexico. He's a funny kid. He's been in the field for only two weeks and he's been a lot of fun. This also means that I'll probably be getting another new companion next transfer when President will most likely put him back into a spanish area so he can get ready for Mexico. I'm glad he's here. It's nice to be able to run and gun again. Elder Stevens wasn't really able to move very fast at all.

Marta was able to come to church on Sunday and she really enjoyed it. She's got it set up where she can come for the first half of sacrament meeting on a lunch break until she gets her schedule changed. She really enjoyed church and is excited to get baptized on September 25th. I'm excited too. She's been a fun investigator to teach.
Her daughter Jen slept through church because she was out partying all Saturday night. I'm so confused about her. She's really excited some times and others she's just blah. It's kind of frustrating.

We met a new friend this last week. Her name is Betty Yellowhair.... She's native American. She seems really interested but she seems to be YES! person. Says she agrees to everything and commits to everything but then hardly follows through. We'll see how it goes though.

A small miracle we had this week was with the McDaniel family. The McDaniels are a part-member family who have been taught by the missionaries for the last 2-3 years or so. They've never actually come to church though. They were in Texas for the summer and we met back up with them this last week. We talked for a little while and told them of our desire to help them go to the temple to be sealed as a fmaily. They didn't seem to commited but said they'd try to come to church. They weren't there for our next appointment, but Leah(she's the non-member) called the Bishop's office yesterday morning to find out when church was and came all by herself! It was so awesome. Her son was being fussy so she ended up leaving part way through which was a bummer, and we weren't able to meet up with them after church but the fact that they came is a miracle! I was excited.

Anyways. I hope all is well with everyone at home. Send my love and a big hug to Mel and tell her I'm sad I can't be there.

Love you guys

Elder Harris

Another week come and gone‏

Well the work keeps on moving forward.

Mata is still doing really well, even though she didn't come to church yesterday. We were sad but we reset her date and she's committed to come. Her date has now been reset for the 25th of September. We're excited for her. Her Daughter Jen didn't come to church either but she really didn't have any reason. She has been to church once and so she can still make her date for the 11th but we're not sure if she will or not. She isn't progressing too well right now.

Other than that our investigator pool is kind of slim. We're trying to find some news and trying to help the wards with Activation and praying some good experiences follow.

This last weekend we were blessed to have Elder Christofferson(Apostle), Elder Rasband(Senior President of the 7 Presidents of the 70), Elder Quiron(Newly called member of the 70), and Elder Pickard(Area 70 from Phoenix) come to our mission and speak to us. It was a great meeting and we were blessed to have them there.

Good luck to everyone with the new school year and hope all is well with everyone. We'll talk to you all later.

Love you guys

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