I am doing so well. The work here is picking up ever so slightly, but we're grateful for whatever we can get. Victoria is leaving this week for Minnesota, so that's bittersweet. It'll be so good for her! We've been making a little bit of progress with Richie. We planned this amazing lesson and we were planning on extending a baptismal date, but then he cancelled last minute. ): So we're planning on teaching him some time this week and we'll let y'all know how it goes. The teaching is going pretty well. Sister Ferrin and I have been getting a little bit better each day at teaching by the spirit. Can you believe I'm almost done with my training? So crazy.
So things are going well in the Monta Vista ward. I'm getting to know a lot of the people in the ward now, so that's good! We did splits last night with these two sisters in our ward and it went so well. I'm so glad we were on splits, because we visited a less-active and she remembered the member I was with, so they exchanged numbers and she'll be at church this week! We're doing a lot of good work with the less-actives here. Meadow was at church again yesterday and she actually made some friends this week! So we're happy she's getting to know people. This seriously is the best YSA ward on the earth. The longer I'm here, the more I realize how awesome it would be to be in the Tongan program. President now has sisters in the program so it's only a matter of time before I am in it! Haha just kidding. There are also sisters in the Chinese program so we'll just see. Honestly I would be just fine sticking with English, but you never know!
Things have been going well here! The other night, we had dinner with the Hermanas and we met this elderly lady named Santa. We walked into her apartment, and Elvis' face was everywhere. After we ate an amazing meal, she told us about her favorite Elvis album and showed us a shirt she made with him on it. It was awesome. We're pretty much best friends now. Yep. We just keep having cool experiences every day, but most of them wouldn't be the same over email.
I love California!
Love you all,
Sister Julie Catherine Harris
Oh and another funny story. Kind of sad, but funny. So we were contacting in downtown Los Gatos and we ran into this lady and her boyfriend sitting on a bench. We went up and invited them to check out our website, handing her a card, and she said, "Oh, no thanks. I'm a strong athiest." We tried not to laugh. Then her boyfriend, in all seriousness said, "yeah, me too." It was a little awkward because then we were just like "oh, okay. welp." haha and then in Saratoga yesterday, we would try to hand people cards and they would take it, look at it, gasp, and then give it back quickly and say, "OH no thanks. no. yeah. I'm fine." And they would like run away. That happened probably five times. It's a pass-along card, not a ticking bomb. So just a couple of funny stories I forgot to include in the letter. Love ya!
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