weekly‏

Well this week has been a little disappointing, the work seems to be slowing down, which means we must work harder. Our main investigator, Tiffany the one who had the baptismal date dropped us this week. It was because her husband came home from deployment and said he didn't want her meeting with us any more.
We also met with the The Mohr's this week and taught what we learned at zone conference with the Law of Chastity and the Word of wisdom, it was a great lesson. They are still struggling with smoking, but coming alone. They have came to church twice now in the last three weeks which is a major improvement. Sister Mohr goes in for a major surgery next week and we are hoping this will help her quit smoking, then she will be ready for baptism.
Then we tried getting up with the Boone family this week but he got a new job that has him working 80 hour weeks so that makes for some scheduling conflicts
This week we also taught a lesson to a media referral and it was great she already has a lot of the same values we do and she said she would be baptized when she found out it was true, the problem being she doesn't want to do anything until she reads the entire book of mormon! Hopefully she reads fast.
My study this week has been on Finding and having faith to find. As well as in the book of Alma with the sons of mosiah and Alma. It has been very good, i really noticed this time while reading that alot of people would not listen to The sons of Mosiah.
Love
Elder Bradley Phillips

Week‏

This week has gone by super fast and has been really good, With those first two investigators on monday, we taught them again on wednesday after district meeting, they had a lot of really good questions most referring to the plan of salvation. Then On tuesday we were out biking and we took this dirt trail and it was pretty fun so we decided to do it again and on the way back we cut through a soccer complex, well there was a girl sitting on a picinic table all alone nobody around, she is probable 16. so we went over and talked with her she said that this is what she needed right know, she has been having a hard time, her mother passed away last year due to cancer, so that was really good. Also this week we have taught The Mohr's a partmember family and it was really good she really wants to change her life and be baptized she told us she has repented of all the mistakes she has made and she fells like she has been forgiven and wants to be baptized. Then on friday morning we went and met with Charlene and taught a lesson there and set up a time to come back, but she is one of those that have commitment issues like with coming to church so we will see.. Then on Saturday we got to meet with Richard G. Scott which was pretty amazing, invoked blessings upon our mission and we also got to shake his hand.. Also he talked a ton about marrige.. Like making it our Highest and first priority when we get home, and to start observing the sisters and finding qualities in them that we want in our spouse and write them down. He was not what i expected i thought he would be like 6 foot something. No he was like 5'7 pretty small guy. It was neat.
Then on sunday it was a crazy day, we were supposed to have investigators coming to both wards so we went to the third wards sacrement meeting, well they didnt show.But some guy while bearing his testimony proposed to his girl friend!!! Then we got to go with a Staff Sargent to Camp DevilDog and 306 to do the sacrement for the Marines, that was cool only two marines did it but it was neat. Then Brother Covey who is the staff sargent set his old platoon straight about complaining about stuff like not being able to call home for a week.. He put us up front and told them what we give up and what we do. it was funny to see there reaction. So a good week.

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Elder Bradley Joseph Phillips

Tornado

The pictures are of the Elders appartment from the 3rd ward! Brad is serving in the 2nd ward! They did not recieve any damage and the 3rd ward elders will move in with them until other arrangements can be made! There are more pictures of the damage but i cant get them to upload. He is safe and well!

week‏

well this week has been a not so good week for the work all of our appointments have cancelled so we tracted a lot and had like no success, so the work has been slow, then we have had a crazy week end with conference then finding out i am transferred. we didn't get to watch the priesthood session until sunday morning because the satelite wouldn't work. then we have just been running all over trying to see people. And we went over to the cape and i huged the light house for lynette..

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Elder Bradley Joseph Phillips

i am excited for lynetttes wedding i just wish i could be there.. LIfe on the coast is good.. This week has been real good other than the weather, earlier in the week it was in the 80's and warm then by thursday night it dropped back down into the 40's and has been raining ever sense. We were going to go to the cape today but because of the weather we can't to the captin in our ward decided to take off work next monday so he could take us out. Which nest monday could possibly be my last pday on the island, so that was pretty nice of him and he is going to take us fishing also in the boat, do some salt water ocean fishing.. So today we are going to go paint our decoys we finally got the carving done. As for the work this week it has been pretty good, a few of the members are starting to really realize there importance to the work so both of our lessons this week were set up by members. It was pretty neat Brother Mikey Guthrie calls us and says I got some work for you. HE set up an appointment and brought a less avtive member to the appointment, then invited like everyone to church. So he brought one non member, and two less active families with him to church!! That is amazing..
Also this weekend we had a pretty funny experience in Davis.. Two weeks ago we met a girl about our age that when Elder Malan contacted her she started laughing and cut him off, well this week we were in Davis again and a member of the ward walks out of this house. So we walk over and start talking to him and a nother member walks out this time it is a girl of our ward. We ask what they were doing, they were helping a friend remodel there home. Then walks out this girl that laughed at Elder Malan... They were walking out to move this couch, so we offered to help, she did not waant us to help.. so first off she gets the leg of the couch stuck between the tailgate and the bed so we help lift it out. Elder Malan grabs one corner, and she grabs the one right next to him. Well when we get to the door we had to tilt the couch, so she tried to get Him out of the way by taking the entire end of the couch.. Then she couldn't handle it and dropped it. ha ha
Then Yesterday at church i asked Ashlyn the member that was there if any conversation was sparked, the only thing really said to Ashlyn was that she should go "talk" to one of us because one of us is cute, so she had to explain that we don't date and we leave our families for two year that kind of stuff.. so that was our week on the coast..

what a week‏

This week has been great and it went by so quick, i can hardly believe it is monday again. so toward the first of the week we meet with Bob Ensminger and read the Book of Mormon with him and we were fairly persistent in trying to find out concerns, well we managed to set a baptismal date with him for March 12, the hardest thing will be Word of wisdom with him but with the Lord by his side everything is possible so we are very Excited. Also this week we taught a family of Three, the Hall family, and we had one the best lessons ever it was filled with questions. That family is sincerly seeking truth so we are excited for them as well, they said if they found out it is true the would be baptized, and they would have come to church but they had to sing in the church they are going to now. I have very high hopes for them. It would seem that the work is picking up.
Also there is a woman named Dora Willis who as soon as we told the relief Society that we had seen and she was willing to have us back they jump up into action, it is amazing she has had more visits from the ward than anybody i have every heard of, just the other day we were over there setting up an appointment the President and her 1st councler walked up as we were leaving. So it is great when the ward really gets involved.
So anyway we have had a great busy week, but what is going on with you i know Lynette is getting married, how did baily Propse? Tell me all of it and your week..

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Elder Bradley Joseph Phillips

This week‏

This week has been a really good week, our numbers don't show it very well but it has been good. we have been lacking in the new investigators department, so we have tried to really work with the members and we started with the ward council. So this past week we have met with almost the entire ward council individually and taught the doctrine of Christ and have been getting them to invite there friends, and most them agreed to do it just not very many have yet. Also our main investigator Bob Ensminger has been praying on his own everyday for the past week.. which is a huge step, he hadn't prayed all of his life and he is 80 years old. It is pretty exciting, although we can't figure out why he won't agree to a baptismal date, he wants to be baptized and he wants to go to the temple and be sealed with his wife but he just says he is not ready..
Also this week i am excited for a lesson we set up with a young family that were an old potential Investigators we decided to call them and see if we could set up an appointment and they agreed. The neat thing with this family is that we the missionaries first ran into them and asked if they could come back The wife said i will first pray about it and get back with you. Well a week later they ran into her at the library and she said ya i would like to meet with you, she felt good about it. We also had some training this week which was really good, i always go away from those meetings entirely drained. The spirit is just so strong there. The funny moment of the week also took place at training, when teaching some one the Word of Wisdom some times you take all of there tobacco and alcohol, well this one Elder, who is a real trip! He asks should we take the tobacco cause then we are asking them to give us what we told them not to have? President says they know your are going to throw it away don't they, Then President asks what about alcohol? the Elder says NO thank you i am a minor!! Ha ha President says well have a beer party dump it all down the drain. So that was the highlights of my week!

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Elder Bradley Joseph Phillips