Another crazy week in Sahuarita‏

So this last week went pretty crazy.

Alexis is still on track for her baptism on the 7th. We're super excited for that. Unfortunatly Sister Vault started having some issues with another of their foster kids and so there was a lot of stress on that family this last week. We really didn't get to teach her at all this last week and so that was kind of a bummer.

We did however find 5 new investigators this week and set dates with all of them!

First is Amy Kirkland. She is way funny and has a great laugh. Kind of reminds me of aunt Amy. She went through kind of a rough divorce a few years ago and a lot of the members reached out to her. She is really excited to learn and accepted a date for the 22nd of May. Unfortunatly she didn't come to church yesterday. She got called by the church that she is currently attending to help teach the "Primary" that week. We'll get her this week though.

Then we started teaching this really kool Family. The McGee's. Tristan Mcgee married Rhonda about 6 years ago and she and her 3 daughters moved down here with him. Rhonda and her girls are all Catholic but Tristan is a member of some wierd break off of our church that exists down here. They believe that Joseph Smith is a Prophet and they use the Book of Mormon but they have some other crazy beliefs as well. We didn't get too much into it but from what Tristan was telling us they kind of believe that they are a Branch of Gods Church. They referred to us as the Fishers and they were the Gatherers. They believe that McGee Ranch, which is kind of like the place where Enos has property, will be a gathering place in the last days and some day. Baptism will be provided for them. Needless to say he wasn't too keen on joining the church but the girls sure were. Tristan is very warm and accepting of the church but he just has his own beliefs.

Sadly though, they didn't come to church either yesterday. Because they live on a ranch there is always lots of work to be done and they got super busy yesterday(stupid Satan...) and weren't able to make it to church.

It was kind of a bummer ending to a great week. But we'll get ém there next week.

One reason I miss the Gila Valley though is there isn't a whole lot of places out here to go hiking. This morning we went to help some ranchers brand, de-horn, and castrate their calves. We ended up going to the wrong place and when we did get there, there were plenty of people there so I just sat back and watched. Remind me never to be a rancher. It's some pretty nasty business.

Well I miss you all and wish you a great week!

Elder Harris