It's fun being back‏

It's good being back here in Casas Adobes again. The area is a little different because they added another block when they redid boundries and a lot of people have come in and a lot have left, but there are a lot of old faces that are good to see again. It's sad that they split the area though, Bro Nicodemus, the WML from Coronado ward, saw me riding around the other day, and chased me down to talk for a second, then last night at a fireside I saw a few families from Coronado that were excited to see me again but sad that I wasn't in their ward too. I'll at least see them on Sundays at church, so thats pretty kool.

The fireside last night was great. It was put on by a sister and I forget her name but she was the first of Joseph and Emma's direct descendents to join the church. She told of her experience and her and her husbands "mission" to reach out to the whole Smith line and try to bring them into the church. It really wasa great fireside. If you ever hear of it in Utah I would definitly suggest you go to it. Yesterday was also exciting because it was a regional stake conference broadcast from Salt Lake for all of Arizona. The talks were really good. Bishop Burton spoke on Gratitude, Sister Thompson spoke about the Book of Mormon, Elder Cook spoke on finding strength in the storms of life and President Monson spoke on Rescuing those who have wandered. It was a great conference.

The work in the ward is going pretty good right now. We're working with quite a few people who think they believe that the church is true but for various reasons they haven't joined the church. One is a family of 7 who have been coming for a long time. The mom and two of the kids know for sure that it's true 3 more of the kids are pretty sure, but they're all waiting for the dad. He's dragging his heels on the matter. He has no problem with the others getting baptized but they are waiting out of respect for him. It really is a great family but it's too bad that they haven't been baptized yet. They are meeting with President Walker tomorrow night so we're excited about that.

We're going to be working hard to find some more investigators so we can keep this ward rolling. It's a great ward for missionary work. I'm glad to be back.

Love you all

Elder Harris