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
Monday, August 16, 2010
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
Love Elder Phillips
Monday, July 26, 2010
Its short
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
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
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
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