week.

Well what a weeks it has been, really crazy and busy. It is fun though already i love being a Zone Leader, just the fact that you are busy, and we get to serve the missionaries around us. So this week we saw President Cotterell 4 times, that was neat, First transfers, then interviews, then we had a meeting with the Stake Presidency and all the bishops and Ward mission leaders, then we had Zone Leader Council. So we haven't had an Opportunity to relax yet which is great Just go go go, one thing to the Next. So my companion is Elder Wightman from Rexburg, I like so far, i think this will be a great last transfer for me. we work extremely hard just leaving it all out there. Plus i like having a companion that works hard cause that is how i like to work. And New Bern is great the work is good, they had two baptisms last week and we set a baptism up for this saturday as well. So we are just going to keep finding new investigators. We have two others that we are working with one is really sad, It is like the same situation that we had with Kayla, and a member has taken her in for a little bit. She said it is the most support that she has ever had in her life, and this week she said she feels that the book of Mormon is true.. I know that the Gospel will change her life and she is starting to see it aswell. Also we have been teaching this girl who is staying with a member for a few months, she has a lot of questions and doesn't believe what we tell her a lot of the time, so on saturday we taught her and HOly Cow talk about a spiritual experience!! At first we were trying to teach the Plan of Salvation and we could not get past the earth life plus we had a lady there that was teaching all the wrong things so finally i was like you have got to read and pray about the book of Mormon. I bore my testimony and it was intense next thing you know is that the spirit was so strong and lead us to some very inspired questions and the spirit hit her so hard. Incredible and then she came to church the next day. The spirit and truth can change someone and can make a deep abiding impact it is amazing, I love it.

So now the funny story so we pull up to the street that we live on and it is blocked off lots of police officers and everybody else keeps pulling up so we cant get to our appartment. So we ask an officer what is up, he says there is a bomb threat!! Ha ha i feel safe at night now knowing my neighbors are insane or that there is a bomb threat in our neighborhood.

But over all our week has been great i love it and time is just going to fly by, working hard makes the days short.

Love yall,

Elder Phillips