Greetings from Los Sarabell !!! November 4, 2013

Sisters at the beach

Good morning! It's beautiful here in the Saratoga California stake!

So here's the verdict, because I know you were all dying to find out where I got transferred.

I'm helping to start up a brand new area in the Saratoga stake and I'm covering three wards! Campbell, Saratoga and Los Gatos (Hence the name, Los Sarabell. That's what the elders called us, and it stuck!). Sister Bassett and I are doing some great work here and I love the area so much! Even though I'm in generally the same geographic area, it's a lot different! Family wards are so much different than YSA wards, but I'm learning. This area is ridiculously wealthy, so it's a little bit more difficult, considering the lack of humble people.  But it's fun! Sister Bassett is so awesome! She's a Sister Training Leader, so we do a lot of exchanges and she gets to do a lot of fun stuff! We have the same sense of humor, so we have a lot of fun! It's great being in the same stake as the Monta Vista ward, because I get to see the members all the time! Basically the whole stake knows me now.

So that's the update with my new area and companion! One awesome experience I had this week was when we went out to do some drop-ins (since we're starting a brand new area, it's been hard for us to find work the last few days, so we've been begging for names and visiting anyone we can get).  We went to visit this elderly woman named Sister Sandberg.  She is a convert of a lot of years, and she hasn't been to church in forever.  So we went by to visit and we sang "I am a Child of God" for our message. During the song, she started singing along, and then toward the end, she had to stop singing because she was crying. When we got done singing, she said, "How did you know? That was one of my favorites." I feel so blessed when I'm able to bring the spirit into someone's life through music on my mission.  I'm also blessed to have yet another musical companion!

I can't even express how much love I have for this area and the people in it, even though I don't know all of them yet. The beauty of this area only adds to the love I already feel for the people! I'll send pictures this week for sure.

I'm so excited to see what this next transfer brings and to feel even more love for this area if that's even possible!

I love you all! I hope you had a wonderful Halloween!

Much Love,

Sister Julie Catherine Harris 

Marcella's baptism