Dawsonville-Week 10

Here is the weekly update from Justin......We shared with Justin this week that his grandpa had remarried and he told us that he was going to call her Carole.  He didn't think that he could ever just call her grandma.  He knows that she is going to have a huge impact on his grandpa's life and so that makes him happy.  We are letting him believe that Boise State lost to BYU but I am sure that eventually it will come up and I will tell him the truth.  LOL!!  We were also able to share with him some awesome news that one of his friends from high school had joined the church recently.  He was pretty excited about that.  So this is what he had to share.....My week has been fantastic!  We had some rough patches but it seems to be goin' alright.  The weather is cold in the mornings...not fun for working out at 6am.....we are just working on finding people, it is hard to week through those who are really ready and those who are not ready.  The Lord has really knocked me down in this area...but he will build me up eventually.  It is funny how we can either choose to be humble or the Lord will humble us.  In this area, I chose the second...ha ha rough road.  Elder Childs is a stud, he is such a good missionary.  Tyler and Monica are reading the Book of Mormon...Sweet!!  Every member needs to be fed from the word of God.  They will see a difference in their lives.  I know that for a fact.  Well, let me share with y'all one of my tiny miracles for this week.  This happened on Saturday and honestly this experience means more to me than any football game.  We were walking through a neighborhood contacting everyone we saw and as we went through we saw this little old lady on her porch.  So of course, we started walking up her driveway and she invited us on the porch and we sat down and started teaching the first lesson  to her.  Sh was super interested but the spirit was telling us that she needed to hear something else.  So we started to teach her about life after death out of Alma 40, she liked that because her husband died months ago.  At that moment she really opened up and she said, "Yes, I believe that I will be with him again, but not in this body, in spirit."  And then I read to her Alma 40:23 the we testified of the Ressurection and of Eternal families, the spirit was super strong and I knew that she needed to hear that.  She automatically accepted the Book of Mormon we offered her and invited her back.  I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God.  I know that the resurrection is possible because of Jesus Christ.  I KNOW that we can be together for Eternity.  I love y'all!!

Elder Phillips