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Hey fam

hows everything going this week? My week has been intense a lot more teaching then past weeks and a lot more biking! We really only had maybe 3 or 4 full days of biking but we biked over 100 miles in those days it was exhausting, on Saturday alone we biked 40 miles i was wasted after that and because that day we didn't teach at all, and to make it better it was 92 degrees all day and humidity didn't help, but wait that isn't all either we laid sod for two hours that morning. Other than that it has been a good week. The teaching has been really good we have three that are really close one of them is a Muslim and that only hold back is that he couldn't go back to his country again or see his family he is from Iran, the other two, one is Alice she just has to find a different work schedule and her friend Jose actually asked what he needs to do to be baptized. So really close!
So i will tell you something crazy that i would never expect and never expect to do, one is we are biking down the side of the highway on our way to lunch and a lady stops us and asks us to meet her at the stake center for a blessing so we did, then later that night we get a call from sister smith asking us to come give her husband a blessing because he is really sick and has no strength, he has already had four heart attacks. Well guess what Brother Smith is a Seventy, he was ordained a high priest by Spencer W. Kimble and ordained a Seventy by President Ezra Taft Benson, so we placed our hands where they have placed there hands and now he is starting to get a little better. The Priesthood is an amazing power and we don't take advantage of it like we should. Also we got to hear from another area seventy in church Elder Giddons i loved how he said the Hollowing brings the Hallowing, You have to go in empty to come out full.
It has been a very exciting week, i love doing the work especially because there is so much work to do. the church is true and this is the best thing we could be doing with our time, and time is flying it will be over before you know it.
Love Elder Phillips