An Unusually Cool Spring‏

It's been really nice here the last couple of weeks. Last year at this time it was already in the 100's but the last little bit it's barely reached above 90. This week is supposed to get up there in temperature though :(

Anyways, Sister Morris of 4th ward came up to me at church on Sunday and asked "Do your parents ride Motorcycles?" I said yes and she told me that she had met you and had a message for me. The message... "Happy Birthday Al?" When did you change my name to Al? and I thought my birthday was in December... From the dumbfounded look on my face she realized that it wasn't the right message and said that my parents had something to tell me but she couldn't remember, but she knew it was something good. So whatever it was you'll have to send me the message yourselves because that route didn't work.

As for the Work. Alexis was interviewed yesterday and she passed so she's all set for baptism this coming Friday at 5:00. We're really excited for her, it's going to be a great baptism.

We were able to teach Amy Kirkman a lot this week and she was progressing really well until her son got pink eye on Friday which transmitted itself to her on Saturday and so she didn't come to church. Which means we had to drop her date. :( To make it even more fun because of the Temple dedication there will be no normal church services on the 23rd which means we need to set her date out even farther to accommodate her being able to come to church a few more times. :( Satan is real Jerk sometimes

As for the McGee family we're not too sure whats going on there. It seems like they've been avoiding us lately. We stopped by on Saturday night and Tristan invited us in and told us the girls were gone but invited us over for steaks the next day, we called to confirm and they cancelled on us :( We're not sure whats up. We're hoping it's not the crazy church up there.

We had another interesting experience up there with Bro. Bell who is actually one of the first 8 people to settle McGee Ranch (he's like 87 but he's sharp as a man in his 50's) He's a strong member of the church who had to overcome a lot of the false teachings to get back into the church. He's served 3 missions and loves the church. Well, he took us to visit his bro-in-law Jerry, who was also one of the original 8. When we went over Jerry told us he knew who we were and there wasn't much we could do but he wanted to ask us about baptism for the remission of sins. Bro Bell and I both explained it simply and with tears in his eyes he said he "just can't join the church." It was really sad to see. These people up on the ranch would all join the church if it wasn't for the false teachings of their little church. Amazing what one mans false prophesies can do to lead astray so many people. It's another reason why I wonder if we're related to any of these people up there (there are a lot of Harris's) This might be one of the reasons I'm here in Sahuarita, not that every other missionary who has ever served here hasn't tried but who knows, we'll see. We'll be working with Bro Bell and if Jerry joins the church who knows what might happen.

Other than that, the work is kind of slow right now but we've got some good things in the works.

We'll talk to you all later!

Elder Harris