Laury got Baptized!!!‏

Yay Laury got Baptized!

It was such a great baptism sevice. I'm so glad that she made the decision to join the church. She is so happy. It was great to see Kim baptise her too. He did a great job. He was so nervious he probably started the prayer 15 times before he got it right but, only one dunk so it was great. Robert, our 7th Day Adventist, was able to come and he really enjoyed it. We're excited for him to get baptized here soon too.

We also saw Jeanie last night and she's going to be gone for 2 weeks. She going to be with a friend so she can go cold turkey off her pain meds and cigarettes. Thankfully she's not abusing the pain meds but she hates being on narcotics and wants to be off them. We're praying that all goes well and afterwards she should be ready to progress and come to church and eventually get baptized!!

Funny sign &
foot massager some random lady gave me for helping her move.

Well, not much time but hope all is well

Love you all!!!

Elder Harris

Pic of Thelma's Baptism!

This last week was a lot of fun!

Laury Windsor is all set to get baptized this Saturday. Her baptism is set for 6:00 pm and her husband received the Aaronic Priesthood today and will baptize her on Saturday! We're way excited for her! She's been a lot of fun to teach. She reminds me so much of mom.

This week when we were trying to see one of our investigators, her neighbor stepped outside with a beer in his hand and asked if we were Mormons.
He then said, "Oh, you know I was almost baptized Mormon once..."
"Why weren't you?" we asked him
"Well at the time I was on Parole and they said I would have to wait... that made me kind of mad so I stopped going."
We talked a little bit about repentance and about how the policies in the church are made under the direction of a Prophet of God and if something needed to be changed the Lord would do it through his Prophet.
"That makes sense." he said.
We then set up a time to see him the next day. (When he wasn't drunk) We taught him, he came to church the next day and has a baptism date for the 13th of November. We're excited for him to progress.

Jeanie and Jarom's dates dropped because they couldn't come to church. Jeanie still is sick and Jarom hasn't been able to change his work schedule yet. We're still working with him and hopefully we'll be able to get them progressing soon.

Other than that not a lot going on. We found a few other investigators and are trying to help them gain a sincere desire.

Hope all is well back home. Love you all!

Elder Harris

We've had a great week and the best is yet to come!‏

This week was a great one!

Thelma's baptism was amazing and she was so excited to get confirmed! The ward is hoping to get her to the temple with the ward on the 23rd. She's awesome!

Right now Lorie Windsor is doing awesome. She passed her interview with President Raehl and is really excited to get baptized. She was especially grateful that President Raehl used to be Catholic and understood a lot of her frustrations and questions. She is so awesome and her baptism is on the 23rd at 6:00. She could be baptized this weekend and we invited her to do so but she's already scheduled her family around the 23rd so she wanted to stick with that date, but she was really excited that she was "ready."

Jeanie has a date for Nov. 6th and she is an awesome lady. She has a lot of health problems, (Fibro Myalsia, migranes, arthritis...) and so she's not too mobile. She has a roommate who is even less mobile than she is. They sought out the church for both financial and spiritual help. They received financial aid and we're working on the spiritual part too. Jeanie is really excited and believes everything we tell her and wants really bad to go to church and get baptized. Her roomate Rosie, has a little less faith and while she wants to learn doesn't think that she will ever get baptized. She called us Saturday night to tell us to relax on Jeanie that we were "moving too fast..." and that Jeanie needed to be "at full health" before she was going to church and getting baptized... I'm sure that some of it legitamate concern for her friend but I think most of it is abandonment issues of some kind. We're not sure whats going on...

Our last date is a man named Jarom. He's from Tanzania and he's awesome. He has a little bit of a language barrier and we're not sure how much he understands but he is willing to learn and listen. His date is also for the 6th of November. He wasn't able to come to church because of work but should be able to change his schedule and come this next week.

Ennass (enos), our muslim, investigator also came to church this week and she really enjoyed it. A member stole her away from us and took around all of church and even took her home. She's sometimes hard to get ahold of but we're plugging along with her. Because she's Muslim we need to get some high up approval to make sure she'll be safe.

Carol, Thelma's neighbor also came to church. She really enjoyed it and is planning on going to a relief society activity this Thursday night. She seems to be really enjoying the church. Now if we could get her to have faith in herself so that she has confidence to accept a date, that will be the next step.

The Lord is really pouring out blessings upon us. I attribute it all to the faith of Elder Patterson. This always seems to happen whenever I train new missionaries. They're always so excited for the work and their faith rubs off on me and we end up having a great transfer together. They just put sister missionaries to cover the spanish part of our area and they've been hooking us up with a lot of referrals. Sisters just have a way with talking to people, I don't know what it is but it's helping us out. Last night they gave us 13 referrals! We're really blessed!

I hope all is well back on the home front.

Love you all!

Elder Harris

Oct 4, 2010

This last week has been pretty good. We are teaching a part-member family called the Windsors. They are awesome! Lorie is ready to get baptized! She is drinking the gospel right up and loves every minute of it. We're able to teach her at her neighbors house most of the time which is really nice to be able to do. She's a lot of fun and I've really enjoyed teaching her.

Thelma disappeared on us again and it's quite frustrating. She calls and sets up an appointment and then isn't there. We're not sure if her baptismal date is still good for the 9th. We're hoping it is.

We also started teaching a couple of sisters who are going through a rough time right now. They're in dire straights and are working with the bishop to get their finances in order. Thanks to the testimony of a recent convert friend on the north side they are also investigating the church. Their money problems are primarily due to a lot of health concerns and so we were only able to set a date with Jeanie. Rosie dosn't think that she can go to church at all because of her health but she still wants to learn. We're trying to increase her faith so that she can come and be baptized also!

Finally one of Thelma's neighbors called us with the number we left on the sticky note of her door. She wanted to talk to us. We tried teaching her but she's not sure about God and Jesus Christ. We tried extending a baptismal date but everytime we mentioned baptism she said, "Oh I'll never get baptized, in any church." Our second lesson with her, Elder Patterson and I looked at each other and both thought "This is going no where" so we invited her to conference and never planned on seeing her again. Well... she called us Saturday morning and said she wanted to come on Sunday. We arranged a ride for her with the second councelor in the RS Presidency. She took her to conference and she liked it enough to want to go again. So Sister Moore took her to her house, fed her lunch, and brought her back. She really enjoyed it and is opening up. She still isn't too sure but she's at least willing to listen. With a lot help from the spirit, she'll come.

The Lord is really blessing us this transfer. Elder Patterson is doing awesome and we're seeing a lot of success.

Love you guys!