Well, this week has been great. We have found a lot of new people to teach and have had a lot of success. My new companion and I are doing great. We have totally differents views but we make it work. Well I've been out about 9 months now and I woke up the other morning and it all hit me. It is going by so fast ...it is kind of sad. We had a combined service for testimony on Sunday with the spanish ward. The spirit was very strong even though I couldn't understand them. I have had real Mexican food now...holy cow it puts Taco Bell to shame. We share dinners with the Spanish missionaries. This week was eventful week. On Sunday we had a young couple just walk into our meeting house and we will be teaching them tonight. The same thing happened last Sunday. We also had a baptism on Saturday. Sorry I forgot to tell you about it before now. I love the quote you sent me Mom about living our testimonies. I have run into lots of people on my mission that tell me that most Christians just talk the talk but everytime they had said that the Mormons they know walk the walk. We live what we teach and we live what we learn from the scriptures. Plain and simple. My miracle for this week was we were out tracting last Thursday and we knocked on this guys door. No one answers..we see his car pull up and he gets out and asks if he can help us? He was not happy to see us, so we explained who we were and why we were there. And he totally just threw up a wall between us and was not at all interested. Typical....so we keep tracting because we are missionaries and we don't get discouraged. So we just finished knocking on a door and this was like a half hour later and we see him leaving the neighborhood so I was going to wave because I still love the guy. He stops and rolls down is window and asks if we have a number he can contact us at...his attitude was totally different. The Lord really can soften the hearts of his children. This is the first experience that I have had like this. It was pretty cool. Being a district leader is hard at times but it is okay. The Lord is doing this for a reason to shape me into what he wants m e to become. Well, I love and miss y'all. Have a great week.
Justin included some new pictures with his email this week.
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| The baptism |
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| Elder Phillips in the Jonesboro apartment |
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| Elder Phillips at Sanford Stadium, yes!! (Athens) |
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| My shoes after 8 months |
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| Elder Phillips and Elder Keliikoa studying...Sort of |
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| Elder Phillips with an investigators wig on (Monroe) |
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