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