This week has went crazy fast it was the last week of the transfer and it has been the hottest it has been in a couple years here so it has been fun.. It is interesting to talk to the member and just local people here, they keep telling us how they had the worst winter in a long time and know the worst summer and they are all expecting to have a really bad hurricane. I kinda hope it happens while i am here and i get to go help people clean up and stuff.
It has been a pretty good week though we started to teach a girl named Ashlee Johnson she is friend of Ricky Jarman, the story with her is that She wanted to learn but not quite ready for the lessons so Ricky gave her a gospel principles book and she read the first like fourteen chapters of it and then had a question on the Priesthood so we started teaching her on Wednesday and she has came to church three times now. We are hoping to set a baptismal date this Wednesday with her, so that will be really cool if that turns out.
Then on Saturday we had a pioneer day with the ward and we got to play old fashion baseball and checkers and stuff like that, so it was fun and we got to talk with everyone in the ward. Then on Sunday i spoke in Sacrament meeting with the high council on repentance, it went well i think i really did it all of the top of my head except for a few scriptures here and there and a section from a conference talk by Elder Uctdorf and i basically called everyone out to repentance so it was pretty good, i just hope the young women of the ward get it, because it is pretty sad when the members are way immodest and our recent convert is more modest then them all it drives me nuts. But the talk was fun to call people to repentance in a loving manner.
So sorry there isn't more to report on but i love you all.
Love Elder Phillips
Monday, July 26, 2010
bEaUtiFuL liFe~
Hi family! I can’t believe how fast the weeks keep going… It was a good week as always. As a missionary idk if there is ever a very bad day J We did a lot of tracting this week and actually found some good ppl. We are plannin on droppin by to see them this week so we’ll see how it goes. Patrice is catholic, Kerry is Lutheran and Audrey never had a religion. She was awesome tho. When we got to her door she was just steppin out. We ended up teachin her right there on her porch. We were centering our message on families and she said, “Well if you have a structure of families and Jesus Christ that is great!” She explained that she was raised believe in Jesus but that was it. No church or anything. She wanted to change that for her family but didn’t know where to go or how to go about it. Now her children are grown but we shared our unique message and it was all very new to her, of course. She loved to read things from other pastors bc they uplift her. So we gave her a pamphlet and she said she’d have to think about it. Her husband came out and saw us and said, “I LOVE your commercials!” J He was so nice. A very nice family that we really hope we can bring into the gospel. We also taught a 21 yr old boy. He isn’t interested in the gospel at all…. He was amazed at the fact that we don’t drink at all. He believes in Jesus Christ but doesn’t practice or anything. I wish so bad we could get in with his family bc he has 6 older sisters who have kids. He said he’s never thought about what is gonna happen after this life. So hopefully we got him thinking. He was nice. He’s from FL but comes here every summer. His first boss was jimmy buffet lol. Sat was an ASL BBQ, so that was fun, I am learnin sign like I’ve always wanted. I love those ppl. I love the ppl here. The storms here this week were incredible. Wow I love the storms here!~ We got to watch the dark clouds filled with lightening over the ocean. My goodness it was so beautiful. It just down poured! We did some service this week with a less active and her bf in their 30’s? He is a 5 star chef and is Paris Hilton’s personal chef (lol). We got to go help prepare food bc he also caters. We got to cut food and also try it. Oh my yum! It was super neat. Well that really is just about it for now. We just keep truckin along, tryin to find those who are prepared. Have a great week and love you all!
Love,
Sister Phillips
Monday, July 19, 2010
hey
So this week has been awesome, we are really seeing the blessings of hard work and being obedient, i can't believe that it is going this well. First i will start by telling you that when i was in Apex we met a guy named Paul Gunther and Paul was in a wheel chair and couldn't walk because of an accident at work and we started to teach him, i believe we taught him 2 or 3 times before i left and i actually never thought i would see him get baptized but he did this past week that is so cool i am so happy for him.
But on Thursday we were tracting this Trailer park and it was about time to head back for the night and Elder Alexander said lets try this last one then we will go back in for the night, so we did and we met Tome who has had a rough life he has seen his brother die and his mother. So we taught a little bit of the Plan of Salvation and then set up a return appointment for Saturday. So then on saturday we were at the church all day helping with Stake Education day, we were cooking and they needed a lot of help so we started wondering if the appointment was going to go through or if he was going to bail on us like most people. SO it was time for the appiontment and so we went and he was waiting out side for us to show and he was reading the Book of Mormon, the lesson went awesome the spirit was there and he recognized the spirit and we set a baptismal date with him!! it was so cool, he even came to Erica's baptism and church the next day. The gospel is so amazing to see it change lives.
Also on Saturday we had Erica's baptism which went amazing i actually got to baptize her so that was an amazing experience, she has progressed so fast and she will make a great member, she already understands the scriptures better than any one i have met. The spirit at baptisms is incredible being able to witness someone that has changed there life around and decided to follow Christ is so amazing. So i get to talk this up coming Sunday on repentance so i am preparing for that and i love it i love learning more about the gospel and one thing that has stuck out to me this week is we need to have more faith and not only believe in Christ but believe Christ. which is so crazy because if we believe Christ then we won't sin and we will have perfect faith. but i hope all is well with you all.
Love
Elder Phillips
But on Thursday we were tracting this Trailer park and it was about time to head back for the night and Elder Alexander said lets try this last one then we will go back in for the night, so we did and we met Tome who has had a rough life he has seen his brother die and his mother. So we taught a little bit of the Plan of Salvation and then set up a return appointment for Saturday. So then on saturday we were at the church all day helping with Stake Education day, we were cooking and they needed a lot of help so we started wondering if the appointment was going to go through or if he was going to bail on us like most people. SO it was time for the appiontment and so we went and he was waiting out side for us to show and he was reading the Book of Mormon, the lesson went awesome the spirit was there and he recognized the spirit and we set a baptismal date with him!! it was so cool, he even came to Erica's baptism and church the next day. The gospel is so amazing to see it change lives.
Also on Saturday we had Erica's baptism which went amazing i actually got to baptize her so that was an amazing experience, she has progressed so fast and she will make a great member, she already understands the scriptures better than any one i have met. The spirit at baptisms is incredible being able to witness someone that has changed there life around and decided to follow Christ is so amazing. So i get to talk this up coming Sunday on repentance so i am preparing for that and i love it i love learning more about the gospel and one thing that has stuck out to me this week is we need to have more faith and not only believe in Christ but believe Christ. which is so crazy because if we believe Christ then we won't sin and we will have perfect faith. but i hope all is well with you all.
Love
Elder Phillips
tHe WiLL wiThiN~
Hello everyone J Another week down, time flies, I can’t believe it is already Monday again. This was a pretty rough week so its nice that it went fast. We had door after door shut in our faces…no one even would listen or give us a chance to say anything. Finally yesterday, our last house, an older lady answered and they were about to have dinner with their family that I think was visiting. She read our tags and asked us if we could come back J We are hoping and praying that she is the reason we were out there. It is hard to come from the city, teaching a ton bc you are surrounded with ppl) to the Island where it is very slow and feel like you aren’t teaching anyone. I know there is a reason that we are here in Riverhead, I know there are ppl here that need us…and we just have to remember that. It is hard not to get discouraged and not focus on numbers as well as keep the faith as we go from house to house especting each one to gladly say, “We’d love to hear your message!” Sister Winterton and I work really well together. It is as if we are living here as friends. We get along great and laugh a lot, and that really helps when the work is slow. Opening an area is hard stuff, but I know that this experience is really going to push me and make me stronger. We are praying lots and hard, as well as tracting and teaching every person we meet. If we see a family we will find a place to pull over and share a card. Yesterday we got doors shut and blinds snapped shut lol…its rather sad, I wish ppl weren’t so scared and hard toward us. But its ok. We moved into our new apt on Saturday. Wow, I feel yet again so spoiled. We live in a beautiful apt. It’s huge. We have nothing to fill it with. I wish we had a couch lol. I wish I would’ve gotten pics but I guess that will have to wait for next week. We have a dishwasher and brand new carpet, huge closets each and more closets. Laundry is right on the campus which is nice. I feel so spoiled and idk…like I’m not a missionary bc I am not living in a broken down ghetto apt with the cocroaches J It is so beautiful here. The ppl here they have all these things that they fill their lives with, trying to fill the whole they have with things that only bring them temporary happiness…. We are so blessed to have that whole filled with everlasting peace and happiness. Anywho, we are looking up a lot of inactives and are doing really quite well there. We have gotten in with quite a few and I feel pretty good about them. I think that we will be able to help some if not all of them to come back J We are doing our best to be creative and think of diff ways to find ppl and also help them and serve. It is kinda hard lol. But life is good. I love it here and I love being a disciple of the one who died for us all. I feel Him lifting me and guiding me every step of the way. And I know that He is always there. How rich in blessings we are just for knowing that. I love you all so much and hope you have a beautiful and blessed week. J
Love,
Sister Phillips
Love,
Sister Phillips
Monday, July 12, 2010
liViN iT uP~
Holla familia!!!!!
I finally have news and of course when I do I really have a lot! Last Thursday we missed a call from pres. So I am going to the voicemail all laughin at sis. Bartschi bc we are sure she is training….well it came back at me when pres asked for me to call him back. He told me to sit down (haha) and told me that I was going to open an area on the Island for sisters. I am pretty excited yet was really sad to be goin back to the Island (car=weight gain and not the city.) Sunday was hard. Things were crazy getting stuff ready for the baptism. We found out at church that she was leavin on wed for Haiti till Sept. So we were all callin prez tryin to figure out if we could have her confirmed that night or they could do it in Haiti. We we got it approved for that night and then it was a mess trying to figure out how we were gonna get everyone to Richmond Hill where the font is. We finally got it all figured out (we hoped) and the ZL’s said they’d give us a ride. We go to pull away and we got a flat! So we got to quickly throw everything outta the trunk and change the tire. It was such a crazy stressful day and the baptism of course left me sobbing. Afterwards, Anne asked us over for dinner. It was so nice and there were fireworks all around her house. It was beautiful. One of the best 4th of Julys! Monday after the ward bbq I was rollin my clothes and getting rid of quite a bit tryin to make everything fit. LOL. I have accumulated quite a bit haha. I will be workin on that the next 4 months. Luckily I will be leavin a lot of these ugly sister missionary clothes and never so them again! MUAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Alright so it was way funny bc when they announced in transfer mtg the new area and that I and sister winterton were going there, the elders were so funny! All the gasps and such. A whole bunch came up to me afterwards and told me how lucky I was and how it turns out to be everyones favorite that serves there. Oh ya. We are in Riverhead. As far as you can go on the Island till you hit water. We got a nice chevy Malibu (now I really have to watch what I eat lol) and it took us 11/2 hours to get here at least. It takes us that to get to some of the members. We cover all the Hamptons and also shelter island, which we have to take a ferri to get there. We are also living in the Hamptons. Hampton Bays. We aren’t there yet tho bc for now we are living with the sr couple in their nice house J For the first time in a year I have been able to read on a couch and have carpet. We have a nice room in the back surrounded with windows and it is right on the churchs property=next door J We even get to eat whatever we want lol. So I feel completely spoiled…. No “we lived in a shaq with the ghetto ppl with rats nibbling our ears and toes.” Lol. We are doing a lot of tracting trying to find ppl. We fearlessed at walmart the other day. One of us would take their cart and the other would teach. Haha, we haven’t met a mean white person yet! They have all been pretty nice. We know where Billy Joel and Calvin Clein live so we are thinking that will be our next stop hahaha. A family just got baptized and they seem like they’ve always been members. She even taught the lesson is RS yesterday! But their 2 daughters (16, 14) got baptized first then came the parents and now the brother whos almost 8 is on his way. J They are incredible. The dad actually is the one who started going. It is so amazing to listen to him. He was so concerned about his family and his daughters having the high standards, they even searched through churches and couldn’t find what they were looking for. When they came to the LDS it felt right at home and it was everthing they were lookin for J so amazing, they are white too! Lol. We are feeling really good about this area. The ward is so sweet and are so excited to have sisters! For the first time! It feels so nice when they are so excited J Well I think that is all for now. I hope everyone is doing well and has fun at the reunion! Love you sosoosososos muchess! Take care, be safe, KEEP THE FAITH~
Love,
Sister Phillips
I finally have news and of course when I do I really have a lot! Last Thursday we missed a call from pres. So I am going to the voicemail all laughin at sis. Bartschi bc we are sure she is training….well it came back at me when pres asked for me to call him back. He told me to sit down (haha) and told me that I was going to open an area on the Island for sisters. I am pretty excited yet was really sad to be goin back to the Island (car=weight gain and not the city.) Sunday was hard. Things were crazy getting stuff ready for the baptism. We found out at church that she was leavin on wed for Haiti till Sept. So we were all callin prez tryin to figure out if we could have her confirmed that night or they could do it in Haiti. We we got it approved for that night and then it was a mess trying to figure out how we were gonna get everyone to Richmond Hill where the font is. We finally got it all figured out (we hoped) and the ZL’s said they’d give us a ride. We go to pull away and we got a flat! So we got to quickly throw everything outta the trunk and change the tire. It was such a crazy stressful day and the baptism of course left me sobbing. Afterwards, Anne asked us over for dinner. It was so nice and there were fireworks all around her house. It was beautiful. One of the best 4th of Julys! Monday after the ward bbq I was rollin my clothes and getting rid of quite a bit tryin to make everything fit. LOL. I have accumulated quite a bit haha. I will be workin on that the next 4 months. Luckily I will be leavin a lot of these ugly sister missionary clothes and never so them again! MUAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Alright so it was way funny bc when they announced in transfer mtg the new area and that I and sister winterton were going there, the elders were so funny! All the gasps and such. A whole bunch came up to me afterwards and told me how lucky I was and how it turns out to be everyones favorite that serves there. Oh ya. We are in Riverhead. As far as you can go on the Island till you hit water. We got a nice chevy Malibu (now I really have to watch what I eat lol) and it took us 11/2 hours to get here at least. It takes us that to get to some of the members. We cover all the Hamptons and also shelter island, which we have to take a ferri to get there. We are also living in the Hamptons. Hampton Bays. We aren’t there yet tho bc for now we are living with the sr couple in their nice house J For the first time in a year I have been able to read on a couch and have carpet. We have a nice room in the back surrounded with windows and it is right on the churchs property=next door J We even get to eat whatever we want lol. So I feel completely spoiled…. No “we lived in a shaq with the ghetto ppl with rats nibbling our ears and toes.” Lol. We are doing a lot of tracting trying to find ppl. We fearlessed at walmart the other day. One of us would take their cart and the other would teach. Haha, we haven’t met a mean white person yet! They have all been pretty nice. We know where Billy Joel and Calvin Clein live so we are thinking that will be our next stop hahaha. A family just got baptized and they seem like they’ve always been members. She even taught the lesson is RS yesterday! But their 2 daughters (16, 14) got baptized first then came the parents and now the brother whos almost 8 is on his way. J They are incredible. The dad actually is the one who started going. It is so amazing to listen to him. He was so concerned about his family and his daughters having the high standards, they even searched through churches and couldn’t find what they were looking for. When they came to the LDS it felt right at home and it was everthing they were lookin for J so amazing, they are white too! Lol. We are feeling really good about this area. The ward is so sweet and are so excited to have sisters! For the first time! It feels so nice when they are so excited J Well I think that is all for now. I hope everyone is doing well and has fun at the reunion! Love you sosoosososos muchess! Take care, be safe, KEEP THE FAITH~
Love,
Sister Phillips
sorry really short.
Hey
so this week has been a very hot week and we have been doing a lot of trying to find people to teach and it hasn't been to great i don't think we found any body that has potential so it has been hot to help us out and nobody want to step outside. But with all the biking we have done i have biked about half way home, i am like a few miles away from a thousand and i have to rotate my tires but it has been fun. So this week we have a baptism which is awesome i am excited because she is so ready that will take place on Saturday night. Nothing to exciting happened this week other than we had interviews on Wednesday and while we were there two different people came into the church looking for help and wanted to meet with the missionaries but the only problem was they were in the other wards boundaries, then we all went to a little Mexican restaurant and there were 13 of us missionaries and some guy drove by and yelled Mormons and flipped us off and we laughed. Then on Friday we biked to Snow Hill which is about 17 miles from our house and as soon as we got there a freak storm hit and it was like a monsoon so we quickly took shelter at a gas station but we still got soaked. So we realized it wasn't going to let up anytime soon we called the Browns who live in Snow Hill and they came and picked us up, so we chilled at there house tell it was time to go to dinner then they gave us a ride to our house we changed and then went to a missionary homecoming party, it was funny to see him because he wasn't ready to come home so he just came and talked to us about missionary work and then he spoke in sacrament the next day. So basically it has been a pretty hot long week with no income, but that is alright because it is fun just going out and trying to share the gospel is fun i like it a lot. the gospel is such an amazing thing that as we start to understand it we can't help but want to share it. anyway.
Love you lots
Love
Elder Phillips
so this week has been a very hot week and we have been doing a lot of trying to find people to teach and it hasn't been to great i don't think we found any body that has potential so it has been hot to help us out and nobody want to step outside. But with all the biking we have done i have biked about half way home, i am like a few miles away from a thousand and i have to rotate my tires but it has been fun. So this week we have a baptism which is awesome i am excited because she is so ready that will take place on Saturday night. Nothing to exciting happened this week other than we had interviews on Wednesday and while we were there two different people came into the church looking for help and wanted to meet with the missionaries but the only problem was they were in the other wards boundaries, then we all went to a little Mexican restaurant and there were 13 of us missionaries and some guy drove by and yelled Mormons and flipped us off and we laughed. Then on Friday we biked to Snow Hill which is about 17 miles from our house and as soon as we got there a freak storm hit and it was like a monsoon so we quickly took shelter at a gas station but we still got soaked. So we realized it wasn't going to let up anytime soon we called the Browns who live in Snow Hill and they came and picked us up, so we chilled at there house tell it was time to go to dinner then they gave us a ride to our house we changed and then went to a missionary homecoming party, it was funny to see him because he wasn't ready to come home so he just came and talked to us about missionary work and then he spoke in sacrament the next day. So basically it has been a pretty hot long week with no income, but that is alright because it is fun just going out and trying to share the gospel is fun i like it a lot. the gospel is such an amazing thing that as we start to understand it we can't help but want to share it. anyway.
Love you lots
Love
Elder Phillips
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
hey
Hey
So it has been a really fast week this one i don't know where it went. time is flying I hit my four month mark which means i am 1/6 the way done, that makes it seem so short! but it has been so fun i love seening people light up as they come to a realization that this makes sense and that it is true it is a truly remarkable experience. So basically missionary work is all through the members tracting is kinda unproductive, everyone has a friend that is nt a member and everyone that isn't a member knows a member. So guess what the good thing is, the zone leaders banned the zombie game hurray now we get to play ping pong and basketball i am so happy... So a crazy thing happened this week, so we just got done setting up a family mission plan and we had to get up to the church for a lesson with Erica, the church is about 20 minutes away from where we were. So we are biing up the bypass when a flash of lightning and the sky fell! it was just dumping buckets of water and the wind was blowing way hard, with in a few minutes the streets were flooded and we were drenched it was a lot of fun.. i don't think that i have ever been that wet in my life and ihave never seen it ran that hard, we couldn't see like 20 feet in front of us. so we get to the church with ten minutes before the lesson and luckly bishop was there and had two towels in his office so we dried off the best we could and taught the lesson all wet so that was fun. I was wearing a really crappy tie and it is totally ruined now because it was a silk tie. A member came and gave us a bag of 50 ties and they were the ugliest thing ever so that was what i was wearing.
So then on saturday we went to a really southern pig pickin and it was so good, the barbeque here is not what we think of in the west, so when i get home we will have a real southern bbq. Also they deep fry everything, hen the fair and other event like that happen and they have the stands you wouldn't believe teh stuff they have, fried butter fried dr. pepper and all sorts of stuff like that.
Anyway i am doing good i hope everything is good with you.
Love you lots
Love
Elder Phillips
So it has been a really fast week this one i don't know where it went. time is flying I hit my four month mark which means i am 1/6 the way done, that makes it seem so short! but it has been so fun i love seening people light up as they come to a realization that this makes sense and that it is true it is a truly remarkable experience. So basically missionary work is all through the members tracting is kinda unproductive, everyone has a friend that is nt a member and everyone that isn't a member knows a member. So guess what the good thing is, the zone leaders banned the zombie game hurray now we get to play ping pong and basketball i am so happy... So a crazy thing happened this week, so we just got done setting up a family mission plan and we had to get up to the church for a lesson with Erica, the church is about 20 minutes away from where we were. So we are biing up the bypass when a flash of lightning and the sky fell! it was just dumping buckets of water and the wind was blowing way hard, with in a few minutes the streets were flooded and we were drenched it was a lot of fun.. i don't think that i have ever been that wet in my life and ihave never seen it ran that hard, we couldn't see like 20 feet in front of us. so we get to the church with ten minutes before the lesson and luckly bishop was there and had two towels in his office so we dried off the best we could and taught the lesson all wet so that was fun. I was wearing a really crappy tie and it is totally ruined now because it was a silk tie. A member came and gave us a bag of 50 ties and they were the ugliest thing ever so that was what i was wearing.
So then on saturday we went to a really southern pig pickin and it was so good, the barbeque here is not what we think of in the west, so when i get home we will have a real southern bbq. Also they deep fry everything, hen the fair and other event like that happen and they have the stands you wouldn't believe teh stuff they have, fried butter fried dr. pepper and all sorts of stuff like that.
Anyway i am doing good i hope everything is good with you.
Love you lots
Love
Elder Phillips
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