Marietta-Week 10

Here is the latest from Justin......Well things are good here.  My clothes seem to be falling apart left and right, it must be all the hard work.  Marietta is very cold and wet.  No snow! Closest we got was a little bit of frost like Wednesday morning at like 6:00 am is when we saw it.  We were walking to the gym.  I am sorry that I did not attend the annual Aunt Patty celebration at home.  But I was out findin those lost sheep.  I'm glad to hear that Dad and Mike are teaching together.  Gives em a little taste of missionary work doesn't it?  Wait??!!  I'm talking to you on Tuesday??  Oh yeah!!  I might call home, but we will see how busy we get.  We have like 3 families that are having us over that day.  I am going to try my best to Skype with y'all but we will have to see what happens.  Well, the mission Christmas party is this week so that should be exciting.  It will be good to see my old companions if they are still in the mission.  My week has been pretty good, we are finally gettin that cold weather.  I'm doin fine.  Elder Ball is awesome, I love serving with him.  The work is picking up, the members are really getting involved in missionary work.  So this week there was a lot  of little miracles that have happened it has been pretty sweet.  One of which was we went to see a man who of course wasn't there.  So we decided to tract a little in the area and just as a side note our map in our apartment doesn't have every member on it.  It needs to be updated...we are working on it. :)  But anyway we were knocking doors and this man meets us at the door, he of course has no shirt on and says hold on a minute...and I'm thinking in my mind here we go....another great tracting story!  Yes!!  So he comes back, shirt on, and says come on in Elders.  Turns out he is a less active member, who is the only member in his family, we taught him the Plan of Salvation.  And at the end, he told us that about 2 weeks ago he was praying that God would send the missionaries to find him.  I know that God led us there for a reason...the Lord answers prayers, not always when WE want him to but he does answer.  I love the gospel and I love sharing the gospel with others.  This work is amazing.  I love my mission.  I love Georgia.  I love y'all, have a good one.
Elder Phillips