Sister Harris in San Jose: "I do it for the babies" October 7, 2013

Hello everyone!! How about conference this weekend!! So good.

I loved being able to watch all of conference this week with members of our ward. We really got fed so well this weekend. This week was very eventful!

We got 3 new investigators! Daniel, Greg, and Andrea. I'm so excited for each of them and I see their incredible potential! We have been working so hard this week and have been going to bed exhausted every night!

Last night, we had two dinners and they were both huge! The first was a massive meat-and-potatoes meal topped off with apple pie, and the second was authentic Mexican tamales-like 5 of them!! So I almost exploded last night. Yep, still not hungry.

So, funny story from this last week. On Saturday night, we got out of our dinner appointment and decided to go contacting in Campbell for about an hour before we went home. So we walked around and had only talked to about 5 people when I saw someone I recognized. Let's back up. I'm not sure if I told y'all this story, but a couple of months ago, Sister Ferrin and I were contacting in Campbell and we met a crazy woman named Carolyn. She blew smoke in our faces and told us about a music and gospel camp she was starting for children. Naturally, since we were wearing name tags, she enlisted our help. Totally off her rocker, though. So Saturday night. We were walking, and I saw Carolyn from the back. I tried to discreetly whisper to Sister Livingston to not contact her, but she didn't hear me and went for it. When Carolyn turned around, she immediately recognized me and said, putting her arm around me, "Heeeyyy baby!" I was terrified. Like really. I wasn't comforted in the least when she led us to a table located in a dark corner of an abandoned car dealership. It was scary. We sat down and she proceeded to tell us about the progress she'd made on the camp. Then she started blowing smoke in our faces again. She was talking really fast about the camp and then all of the sudden she was like, "Can we say a prayer? Let's say a prayer." And then she just started praying. We tried to teach her a short message from the Book of Mormon and she just wanted to keep talking about her camp. She said it was a lot of work to put it all together, but then she said, "I do it for the babies, you know?" She's crazy. So we were trying to run away, and she started crying when we couldn't give her a ride. It was actually a hilarious experience. On the bright side, she's totally going to church on Sunday. (: And we're safe, so the Lord was protecting us!

Sorry for that long story, I just thought some might get a kick out of my utter terror.

This week we had a mini-missionary! Her name was Sister Soto and she was adorable! She helped us a lot with our Spanish contacts! It was really fun to have her with us for the weekend!

Conference was amazing! It's incredible how the Lord answers prayers through the Prophet and Apostles. I went into conference with some questions and all of them were answered!! It's really a faith-building experience when you get an answer that you're not expecting. I love my Heavenly Father and I know that He will always do what's best for us even if we think differently. I just love General Conference so much and I love hearing from our inspired leaders!! So yes, long story short, it was a great week! The work is picking up and things are going well. I love you all!

God Speed!

Much Love,

Sister Julie Catherine Harris