Ya so i sang yesterday! i was so nervous i am a terrible singer i can do it for fun but i hate getting up in front of people and singing but they forced me into it and we sang nearer my god to thee i messed up but maid it sound good any way i just harmonized until i could pick back up. I guess it sounded good though i hope so.
SO this week has been crazy spiritual we had a 3 days of leadership training from 9 til 4 and i learned so much they have like changed the way missionaries will do things and they are going to start teaching it in the mtc come may. so it was way cool plus it is awesome that we even got invited, and so what we have learned we are now even teaching it to members and that is most of what we did this week was teach members the doctrine of christ and it was awesome.
Monday, August 30, 2010
siLLy SiSteRs-----
Hey there my grand family! I don’t have much for updates this week. We had a great week of tracting and are still teaching a lot of people, just workin on getting them to progress. The weather here was feeling a lot like fall and the nights are getting cooler and darker. It’s weird bc it feels too early for that. We are half way through the transfer and I’ve been thinkin about my last transfer. I said since I left the Island last time that I didn’t want to come back and I wanted to die in the city J As people here have been finding out that I only have one left, with their sad faces they add, “Well you’ll prob stay here…we sure want you to stay here…” This happened twice this week and my heart just pulled at those words and their faces. I seriously have grown to love these people so much. Course…when does that not happen right? Every area I seem to grow so attached. I love the city and would love to say good bye in the city….yet, it would be so hard to leave these people after only 2 transfers with them. I was planning on bringing up the city with President in my President’s letter…but now I’m thinkin that I will leave it all up to the Lord. I feel there is still a lot of work that needs to be done here. It feels good to be loved and it feels really good to see all the great things that are happening here. To see the fruits of our diligent labor of the first transfer is so rewarding. I will def leave a piece of my heart here in New York. But thankfully I have a good 9 weeks left to give my all! J
This week had some funny things seriously happen. Man, 3 tired girls is not a good combination….we tend to get pretty giggly and silly. I think I will withhold the one bit of hilarious news due to public humiliation haha, but you can gladly ask my mother lol. But the other part well, plainly put…we just tend to create the title “Stupid Sisters.” Haha. So we were leaving an investigators and going to go look up an inactive. The map showed that the road that brought us goes right through, right to the place we were going. So we get down about half a mile and like a few of roads in our area it turns to sand. I’m thinkin it looks pretty deep….but my comps rooted me on and insisted we continue. Haha…oh no. So we get going and about 30 maybe 40 feet in the car starts sliding all over the place and sinks. I stop and go to back up…. But the wheels spin. Now, from the many times of being stuck with Bailey and his “fun digging” I learned a few things haha. My comps are out of the car yellin at me to keep tryin and I knew that we would burry ourselves. Luckily there were some nice blocks and pieces of wood around where we were (we were stuck on a trail that looked as if it was going straight into a mountain full of trees lol) and so we gathered all we could find and did our best to stick them under the front tires (gotta love front wheel drive) . But each time we tried we sunk deeper and deeper. So on our hike back to civilization lol we called the elders who had a great laugh and were able to get a shovel from a security guy to the housing development where we were. By the time the elders got there we had shoveled a bit out and realized we were . When the elders had a look and made a go they told us to go find some ppl to recruite. When we got back they had jacked the car and shoveled it out and put boards under the wheels more. We and 4 boys pushed and we got it out. What a chore! Hhahaha, ya….we remembered the last time we had a chevy Malibu, and we got a diff car since then. Why did we get stuck? Bc we had a Ford. Haha I’m jk. So that was quite an eventful day. We continued the day with sand in our nylons and between our toes and dirty shoes and skirts. Haha, memories~
Well that is all I have for now. I hope school is going good for everyone and you have a great new week! J and Happy September! :D
Love,
Sister Phillips
This week had some funny things seriously happen. Man, 3 tired girls is not a good combination….we tend to get pretty giggly and silly. I think I will withhold the one bit of hilarious news due to public humiliation haha, but you can gladly ask my mother lol. But the other part well, plainly put…we just tend to create the title “Stupid Sisters.” Haha. So we were leaving an investigators and going to go look up an inactive. The map showed that the road that brought us goes right through, right to the place we were going. So we get down about half a mile and like a few of roads in our area it turns to sand. I’m thinkin it looks pretty deep….but my comps rooted me on and insisted we continue. Haha…oh no. So we get going and about 30 maybe 40 feet in the car starts sliding all over the place and sinks. I stop and go to back up…. But the wheels spin. Now, from the many times of being stuck with Bailey and his “fun digging” I learned a few things haha. My comps are out of the car yellin at me to keep tryin and I knew that we would burry ourselves. Luckily there were some nice blocks and pieces of wood around where we were (we were stuck on a trail that looked as if it was going straight into a mountain full of trees lol) and so we gathered all we could find and did our best to stick them under the front tires (gotta love front wheel drive) . But each time we tried we sunk deeper and deeper. So on our hike back to civilization lol we called the elders who had a great laugh and were able to get a shovel from a security guy to the housing development where we were. By the time the elders got there we had shoveled a bit out and realized we were . When the elders had a look and made a go they told us to go find some ppl to recruite. When we got back they had jacked the car and shoveled it out and put boards under the wheels more. We and 4 boys pushed and we got it out. What a chore! Hhahaha, ya….we remembered the last time we had a chevy Malibu, and we got a diff car since then. Why did we get stuck? Bc we had a Ford. Haha I’m jk. So that was quite an eventful day. We continued the day with sand in our nylons and between our toes and dirty shoes and skirts. Haha, memories~
Well that is all I have for now. I hope school is going good for everyone and you have a great new week! J and Happy September! :D
Love,
Sister Phillips
Monday, August 23, 2010
jOy iN tHe jOuRnEy~
Hey family! How is everyone? Tuesday we picked up our #3, Sister Tauteoli or “T.” J She is from Tonga and left from Cali where her fam now resides. She is great. She was a former Methodist. I lived with her for 3 transfers in Brookly so we are excited to serve together and have an extra sister to help us with our massive area :D We did a bit of tracting this week and got in to teach a spanish mother and her 2 daughters. They came to church yesterday! So that was super awesome! They really liked it :D We also went tracting to our neighbors and now have a few ppl from that, which is super awesome. We had some sad experiences with it as you always do. An old man who is an artist really let us know that we need to put our heads on straight and stop selling religion and making ppl believe what we believe. He told us to pause and think if there really is a god and got really….just not good. He also said he has tried killin himself 4 times. Crazy thing? We could see him in a baptism suit. It was sad, but hopefully his heart will soften. We are loosing one of our most active members/family. The worlds best correlator is moving and I just cried! He is the most loving/caring person I have ever met! But…..he is being a traitor!!!!! He is moving to RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA! Yup, hey it makes me rather happy he is going there to my awesome missionary brother and I really hope he gets to serve in his ward. Gosh, Idk what my deal is lately but I really don’t have much to tell….we are teaching lots and its great. We really are doing great and as I said before of how I felt this would be a great transfer, it truly will be! Our teaching pool is really starting to fill with investigators and we are doing what we are here to do. Cry repentance and bring ppl to baptism by bringing them hope through knowledge of our savior and redeemer Jesus Christ. Time flies, I got to my last zone conference next week sadly. I am doing my best to fill my days with work and doing what the Lord would have me do. I love this gospel and I do know that it is God’s church on the earth today. I can say that it is the only TRUE church, and by saying that I mean that it has ALL the ordinances and principles that Christ established. I love you all so much and hope you have a BEAUTIFUL week! Love you!
Love,
Sister Phillips
Love,
Sister Phillips
Monday, August 16, 2010
hey
Hey family
Hows everything going at home i hope you are all well and having fun with school about to start. This week has been another hard tracting week, the lord is truly testing our faith and our diligence and i payed off some. On friday we were able to set up six return appointment for this week which was awesome i really hope they are solid. some bad news is that our really cool investigator that we haven't been able to get up with, we finally did and it turns out the reason he hasn't been home is because he has been in the process of moving to Fayettville, so that is a bummer, but i am grateful for him because he was amazing i have never been in more spiritual lessons then with him i really hope he will continue to progress and go to church. This week we also did a lot of service like on tuesday we did service for two different people and it was all yard work and i was bright and wore shorts when my legs haven't seen the sun in 6 months and my neck either. so i got fried and it hurt. What another great week.
Love
Elder Phillips
Hows everything going at home i hope you are all well and having fun with school about to start. This week has been another hard tracting week, the lord is truly testing our faith and our diligence and i payed off some. On friday we were able to set up six return appointment for this week which was awesome i really hope they are solid. some bad news is that our really cool investigator that we haven't been able to get up with, we finally did and it turns out the reason he hasn't been home is because he has been in the process of moving to Fayettville, so that is a bummer, but i am grateful for him because he was amazing i have never been in more spiritual lessons then with him i really hope he will continue to progress and go to church. This week we also did a lot of service like on tuesday we did service for two different people and it was all yard work and i was bright and wore shorts when my legs haven't seen the sun in 6 months and my neck either. so i got fried and it hurt. What another great week.
Love
Elder Phillips
errand of angels~
HI FAM!
Well it’s the start of my 2nd to last transfer. I was a bit saddened to put away yet another daily planner last night as I wrote in our weeks numbers. Sister Winterton and I are staying but have to go to transfers bc…..we are getting another sister! Yeah…another trio!..... hahaha, its all good. We’ll see how this trio goes :D We ended the transfer with the best week we’ve had yet. Tracting acutally felt a bit productive this week! We taught 17 lessons which is the hightest for the transfer by over double! And got 3 new investigators!!!! Wahoo! We finally got investigators! It’s the 4th watch. :D We are really excited, and what a way to start the new transfer! Woot woot! We’re prayin hard for these new people. We went to Manhattan for a dr. appt and on our way back we had an awesome experience. As we went through the turn style (?) we saw an indian lady strugglin with groceries. (I hate groceries in the city) She gladly accepted our offer to help. We walked to her home with her which ended up being right across the mission office. She invited us in for juice and we gladly accepted :D We sat in her room on the floor (different style of lounging I guess :D ) and talked for a bit. She is from Pakistan and the only one here. A brother in TX but she is alone. We somehow got on the subject of mothers and she just had such great stuff to say about her mom and I asked if she was in TX or Pakistan. She then hung her head and was silent a bit and said that her mom was dead. We gave our apologies and she said she had just died that morning…. That is why she wasn’t at work that day. I pulled out a pos pamphlet and taught her a short lesson. She just stared at the pic of Christ for at least a minute as we sat in silence. It was sad bc the flight to pakistan is 24 hrs and they bury them there rather quickly. So she was not going to be able to say her last good-bye. As we were leaving she asked where the church was and said she would like to come with us sometime. She only wanted to if we were there…. But then we offerend to send our friends over so that she could get to know them and then go with them :D This worked. She offerred any help to the church of any sort bc her mother taught her to always serve. As we left I was so humbled. Heavenly Father is so aware of each and every one of his children. We were able to be instruments in His hands that day and be angels to a lonely aching woman and hopefully leave her with more hope than what the Muslim religion gives her. What a great lady. The Lord truly does answer our prayers through other ppl. More than we even realize. We just have to step back and reflect so that we don’t miss those answers. While tracting we came up on a man on the ground on the corner. He was squirming, holding his back, crying. I tried talking to him, he finally said he didn’t speak english. (he was hispanic) What a blessing when I guy was riding past who spoke spanish. The man had just been beaten. He tried to get up and fell again. We ran to get the car bc we had left the phone. We were gonna call the spanish elders. By the time we got back he was wobbling to the back of a house. We suspected his. We had been talking to the police dept on the phone and they were able to take care of it from there. So sad…. This world. It was all bc of racial differences too. Hatred to our fellow men. Well, as for now I think that wraps up all the good stuff. I will let you know how it goes with our new investigators next Monday J I love you all and hope you have a blessed week~
Love,
Sister Phillips
Well it’s the start of my 2nd to last transfer. I was a bit saddened to put away yet another daily planner last night as I wrote in our weeks numbers. Sister Winterton and I are staying but have to go to transfers bc…..we are getting another sister! Yeah…another trio!..... hahaha, its all good. We’ll see how this trio goes :D We ended the transfer with the best week we’ve had yet. Tracting acutally felt a bit productive this week! We taught 17 lessons which is the hightest for the transfer by over double! And got 3 new investigators!!!! Wahoo! We finally got investigators! It’s the 4th watch. :D We are really excited, and what a way to start the new transfer! Woot woot! We’re prayin hard for these new people. We went to Manhattan for a dr. appt and on our way back we had an awesome experience. As we went through the turn style (?) we saw an indian lady strugglin with groceries. (I hate groceries in the city) She gladly accepted our offer to help. We walked to her home with her which ended up being right across the mission office. She invited us in for juice and we gladly accepted :D We sat in her room on the floor (different style of lounging I guess :D ) and talked for a bit. She is from Pakistan and the only one here. A brother in TX but she is alone. We somehow got on the subject of mothers and she just had such great stuff to say about her mom and I asked if she was in TX or Pakistan. She then hung her head and was silent a bit and said that her mom was dead. We gave our apologies and she said she had just died that morning…. That is why she wasn’t at work that day. I pulled out a pos pamphlet and taught her a short lesson. She just stared at the pic of Christ for at least a minute as we sat in silence. It was sad bc the flight to pakistan is 24 hrs and they bury them there rather quickly. So she was not going to be able to say her last good-bye. As we were leaving she asked where the church was and said she would like to come with us sometime. She only wanted to if we were there…. But then we offerend to send our friends over so that she could get to know them and then go with them :D This worked. She offerred any help to the church of any sort bc her mother taught her to always serve. As we left I was so humbled. Heavenly Father is so aware of each and every one of his children. We were able to be instruments in His hands that day and be angels to a lonely aching woman and hopefully leave her with more hope than what the Muslim religion gives her. What a great lady. The Lord truly does answer our prayers through other ppl. More than we even realize. We just have to step back and reflect so that we don’t miss those answers. While tracting we came up on a man on the ground on the corner. He was squirming, holding his back, crying. I tried talking to him, he finally said he didn’t speak english. (he was hispanic) What a blessing when I guy was riding past who spoke spanish. The man had just been beaten. He tried to get up and fell again. We ran to get the car bc we had left the phone. We were gonna call the spanish elders. By the time we got back he was wobbling to the back of a house. We suspected his. We had been talking to the police dept on the phone and they were able to take care of it from there. So sad…. This world. It was all bc of racial differences too. Hatred to our fellow men. Well, as for now I think that wraps up all the good stuff. I will let you know how it goes with our new investigators next Monday J I love you all and hope you have a blessed week~
Love,
Sister Phillips
Monday, August 9, 2010
dUsK~
Hi my lovely family!
There are a few highlights of this week and I am super excited to share them! We have been working quite a bit with less actives and part-member families. I think that our efforts haven’t been wasted and this next transfer is going to be a great one. We found a sale on brownies, 10 for 10. Brownies sure bring out the love J We’ve been takin them to those we are working with. Sister W is a member I think her whole life? Or just a really long time. Brother W isn’t a member but acts like one J He is so awesome. He comes to church every week, and to all the activities and such. Last week he told his wife that testimony meeting was really good and that it really touched him. J We took them brownies and Sister W’s son from a former marriage was visiting with his big very active family. So it was a way good visit and they invited us right in to sit and have a piece of cake with them J Then we were invited to dinner with Marco (the five star chef.) Dinner was so yummy mmmm. We got a call from Sheila thanking us and told us that Marco has been talking of joining the church. J We are so ecstatic! But life is good. We’re in our last week of the transfer and I have great feelings for next transfer. It’s gonna be a good’er! J I love you all and sorry it’s short!
Love,
Sister Phillips
There are a few highlights of this week and I am super excited to share them! We have been working quite a bit with less actives and part-member families. I think that our efforts haven’t been wasted and this next transfer is going to be a great one. We found a sale on brownies, 10 for 10. Brownies sure bring out the love J We’ve been takin them to those we are working with. Sister W is a member I think her whole life? Or just a really long time. Brother W isn’t a member but acts like one J He is so awesome. He comes to church every week, and to all the activities and such. Last week he told his wife that testimony meeting was really good and that it really touched him. J We took them brownies and Sister W’s son from a former marriage was visiting with his big very active family. So it was a way good visit and they invited us right in to sit and have a piece of cake with them J Then we were invited to dinner with Marco (the five star chef.) Dinner was so yummy mmmm. We got a call from Sheila thanking us and told us that Marco has been talking of joining the church. J We are so ecstatic! But life is good. We’re in our last week of the transfer and I have great feelings for next transfer. It’s gonna be a good’er! J I love you all and sorry it’s short!
Love,
Sister Phillips
Monday, August 2, 2010
short
Sorry this is going to be short.This week has been a pretty good week a lot is going on. We started out the week with a bang, we got a referral from Salt lake some one had requested a Book of Mormon so we called and set up an appointment for that night, so we went and taught the restoration and they invited us back, the way they came in contact with the church was because one of there cousins got baptized the week before so they were kinda interested in what we believe. Then we have an investigator that has a goal of being baptized on the 14th but he has to get an interview with president because he has committed a felony and has been in the drug game. so hopefully that goes well for him, it has been amazing to see him change his life around, the gospel can change anybodies out look on life and can help them overcome any challenges. On Tuesday we had a crazy spiritual lesson with him i could hardly believe it, it is just crazy when they are open to the spirit he will testify so strong you can't help but feel it. We were able to get up with a lot of people this week and able to teach them hopefully the work keeps the speed. Oh and i have some good news and some bad news, the bad news is that North Carolina is making me fat! i have gained 25 pounds so far and half of it went to my thighs and butt, but that is mostly mussel, the other half is going to my stomach. And the good news we get to have a car for the month of August because the other elders went over on miles.. So other then that everything is going pretty good.
Love Elder Phillips
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