Friday, August 27, 2010

The New School Year

This is the busy season for us. We are driving the hiways and by-ways of ND looking for students to join the on-line seminary class. There are about 30 living in small towns within our stake, and we are trying to contact and then visit them in a two week period. It's slo-o-o-w going. We have put on 1000 miles since Sunday, and we will be on the road Saturday and Sunday to round out the week. We also have some new seminary classes and teachers just being formed. We're meeting some great people. This push will soon be over and all the seminary classes will be off and running. A wonderful woman was called to teach the on-line seminary class, so she will take over that responsibility as soon as she finishes the training.

We're also working on the YSA Conference to be held in Bismarck Sep 10-12, inspecting missionary apartments and cars, and a handful of other projects. North Dakota is in the middle of the harvest time - we see combines in the fields with the wheat, the sun flowers bending over as the seeds get heavy, fields of flax, canola and soybeans. It's a beautiful time of year, and it will be our last look at the ND growing season, so we are trying to fill our minds and memories with the beauty all around us. Life is good.

Elder and Sister Harris

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Quick Update

We are "on the road again" early this morning, trying to find and sign up students for the on-line seminary class. We had three miracles yesterday - resolutions to things we have been worrying about in weeks past. A seminary teacher in Watford City has been called (he will have a class of 4 YM who were part of our on-line class last year), a Stake on-line teacher has been called who is perfect, and something for our YSA Conference was completed too. A great day for us! Yesterday the temps were almost 100 - today it's rain and 75s for a few days. Fall is coming, whether we like it or not. We'll write more when we have more time.

Elder and Sister Harris