Marietta-Week 15

Here is the latest from Georgia and Elder Phillips.....So we have been busy out preachin' and teachin'.  We are losing our car, we drive a 2012 Chevy Cruze but we are trading some other missionaries for a Toyota Corolla.  I am stoked I don't like the Cruze it is too small and I'm a big guy.  My week has been great, we had some sweet things happen, we are workin hard and doing our best.  The weather is good, it gets dark early here so it is hard to find things to do at night so we go and see our members.  So we are staying pretty busy.  We have picked up some new gators (investigators) but not any big news, missionary work is gettin hard, it seems like the world is getting more and more wicked.  But I'm going to keep tryin and we will find someone.  I don't think I need anything, I am doing alright.  Here is some news though...Elder B and I never go out anymore.  I weigh about 180 lbs now because every morning I run about 3 miles.  It is sweet!! :)  So my little miracle this week....I was on exchanges in other areas.  I was with Elder C this week, we were tracting in a nice area, just looking for investigators and we came across a man, we did just like a regular door approach and he started to close the conversation/door and so I felt the impression to offer him a blessing upon him and his home and he said he would like that, so he let us in.  And we knelt down and said a super powerful prayer and he felt that spirit so did Elder C and I, it was awesome.  He said that Elder C and Elder P could go back to see him, to share a message.  It was awesome!!  I know that this work is true.  I love being a missionary, I love Georgia and the people here.  I know that the Gospel is true and that the Book of Mormon is the word of God.  I love y'all.  Love you bye!!

Elder Phillips

Marietta-Week 14

I am trying to get back on track and up to date with Justin's blog.  So here is the latest from him.  I love missionary work and I love the people of Georgia.  So here is a funny story...I'm fine so don't worry too much. (Not really what I wanted to hear from my son) We were tracting in the rain and the porches get really slippery here and I ended up falling down a flight of stairs....soo funny!! :) (He tells us this in the same email that I had sent telling him about his brother breaking his elbow and having to have surgery on it.)  My week has been nice and wet...lots of rain.  But I love it!!  The work is going really well right now and we are having a lot of fun and just enjoying it here.  My companion and I are getting along great.  So we were out this week and we were blessing families like going door to door.  We knocked on a door and we invited them to allow us to come in and leave the Savior's peace and blessings.  We had two incidents where they allowed  us in.  One lady that let us in was in tears and was going through a rough time, we ended up sitting and teaching her the first lesson.  So this week has been the best!!  But it was very long.  I love this work and I love y'all.  I know that the church is true and that the Book of Mormon is also true.  I am grateful for my Father in Heaven.  Alright have a good one!  Sorry so short!  Love ya bye!!

Elder Phillips

Marietta-Week 13

I am little slow updating Justin's blog this week.  It was been a really busy week. But I guess better late than never....here is the latest from Georgia. I am glad to hear that y'all are in the cold, it makes Georgia look wayy better!!  I have had a good week.  The work is great and I love this area so much.  This week is transfers and Elder B and I are staying together.  We are pretty excited.  The weather is cold and wet.  I don't think I will finish my mission in this area but you never know.  The work is going well.  We were out tracting this week lookin for people and we weren't having much luck.  But we kept pushing forward and we got to this door that had a sign in the yard that said we love our church.  So it was a little discouraging but we knocked anyway.  So we got to the door and the guy let us right in and we sat down and started teaching him.  It was sweet!!  I love this work.  The spirit is sweet.  He even wanted to read the Book of Mormon, it was awesome.  My baptismal date that talked about at Christmas has been moved.  We are working on it.  Well, love ya all very much.

Elder Phillips

Marietta-Week 12

Here is the latest update from Elder Phillips this week......Well it was good to hear from y'all on Christmas!!  Y'all looked great!  Oliver is growin up so fast.  But it is all good stuff, the rest of the day was pretty normal, except we had Colombian food for dinner, it was good.  It was weird to think that this was my last Christmas on a mission, the time just goes by so fast it seems like.  I'm glad to hear that Carole isn't totally taking over....lol.  So Tyler and Monica are buying a house?   Hmmm...where at again?  My week was alright it was kind of slow this week with the holidays, that is the bad part about holidays, missionary work slows down.  The weather is cold, it has been really cold lately, cold weather is a pain.  It has made my knee act up also...it is a sign that I'm gettin old.  I 'm looking forward to the summer too....it will be nice and warm for missionary work.  I think I'll have one more area after this, I will probably be here for like 3 more months.  Yeah, I heard that they are sending us a little early too...we are losing like 2 weeks of our mission...its not cool.  So my little miracle  is probably we were going to see a potential investigator recently and of course, they moved.  So we contacted who lived there and they were actually oddly enough really interested in hearing the gospel.  So we went back to see them and taught them the first lesson and we are going back to see them again this week.  To teach them my favorite lesson, the plan of salvation.  They are super humble and super elect.  We had this same experience happen in Jonesboro but in Jonesboro the family got baptized.  So I hope that it happens here as well.  I know that God sends us to certain houses and neighborhoods for a reason, this work is inspired.  But I hope y'all have a good New Year.  Love ya bye.

Elder Phillips

Marietta-Week 11

Here is the latest from Elder Phillips....Merry Christmas, family!! I'll talk to ya tomorrow.  So I am calling around 11:30 or 12 so hopefully y'all are together by then. The Christmas party was great.  It was good to see everyone even, Elder Astle, my trainee.  He is doing pretty well up in Commerce.  I am waiting for Christmas to start but it is difficult.  Well, I'm sorry that y'all don't great a white Christmas but we are going to have a rainy Christmas.  Elder Ball and I went shopping for food today...oh man...I do not like crowds...still don't.  So it has been super cold this week well...cold for Georgia.  But my week has been great, little slow but great none the less.  Elder Ball is doing great, he kind of looks like Tyler but not..it is kind of odd.  The work is moving forward, my clothes are just...yeah...they are just worn...it's cool though.  So my little miracle we were teaching one of our top investigators this week and we invited him to be baptized and he accepted.  But the lesson we were teaching was the Plan of Salvation, he was so shocked and he felt the spirit so strong and we invited him to pray about it and right then he started praying about it, in front of us.  It was awesome.  Alright. Love ya bye...talk with you tomorrow.
Elder Phillips