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Hi family!!! How was everyone’s easter and General Conference!!? Wasn’t it INCREDIBLE! Oh! I love general conference! It comes so fast and then is over so fast! :’( How I LOVE being on a mission during Easter!!! Sunday the streets were pretty much dead! I loved talking to people about Jesus Christ and the atonement and resurrection! It was so awesome! I wish it could’ve lasted longer! Sunday morning was so awesome! We had such great surprises! People coming that we didn’t expect! Our former investigator Amos! J Then our rcla that we’ve really been working on, Jeanine! Then the other missionaries had great surprises! A few weeks ago we had a surprise at church when a woman named Ashlyn showed up. Turns out that she has been LA for a while. She was sitting on the train when a random person handed her the new gospel principles book. She started reading it, loved it, and the Holy Ghost was just pushing her to get back to church. Within 3 weeks she got married and got a recommend for baptisms! NOW! We are teaching her husband who is loving it and wants to get baptized! :D He came to all of Saturday and Sunday’s conference! They are full throttle! I love it! Go LA work! Members seriously are KEY to missionary work! It is incredible! Her wedding was actually quite a big deal for me. Very last minute an elder came in and told us that we were singing. Um…if anyone knows me they know that I DO NOT sing and it is embarrassing to me. Very. I will sing in a choir ok, but they threw me in to a duet with my comp…which wow, if you heard us in the morning when we sing before comp study….haha, lets just say that the Spanish sisters get a kick out of it. Well I was so upset and scared and embarrassed that I was crying and there was no way out of it bc there was no one else to do it. I was SO embarrassed! This was such a big deal for me. Especially when we had to practice in front of all the elders. Oh my….well I did it and they said it sounded good. I don’t think any one realized how scary this was for me or that I have NEVER sang in anything before. Not in the shower, choir, around the house and if I was…it was in the car with Amber screaming our guts out PRETENDING that we could sing ;) and it was either country or the national anthem haha. For realz. If I ever had a tune in my head I would let it out on the piano…I AM NOT VOCAL. Ask my mother my voice is HORRID! Lol. Well it was quite eventful for me. I was kinda upset to be thrown in such a position with no practice but hey, I can now say that I have been asked to sing at a wedding lol. I think that i am going to do american idol when i get home. :)

Well I really hope everyone is doing well. I am just loving the sun. We have ultimate Frisbee today as a zone so I’m gonna get going. I can’t believe it is the end of the transfer! Transfer 8 is here! NUTS! I love you all and hope you have a great, safe, and blessed week!



Love,

Sister Phillips