Cumming-Week 1

Here is the latest from Elder Phillips.....So Mom I have been transferred to Coal Mountain, which is in the city of Cumming, Georgia.  I am pretty close to Lake Lanier.  It is a super nice ward.  We were given a key, a phone and an address...and here we are....white washing is fun.  That is what we call it when two new Elders get put into an area.  We basically didn't know anything.  We have to drive like 40 minutes to get to church, because our church down here is still being built.  We meet in the same building as the Dahlonega Ward.  I was there like 6 months ago.  My new companion is super legit.  Elder A is my new companion, he is a funny buggar, he is sweet.  He is from Tonga, first time off the island, he has been out for 12 months.  I have to explain all kinds of words to him because he learned English on the mission.  Don't worry I am teachin him all the bad ones. :)  I am doing really well, just stressed as usual, the Mission president dropped me as a Zone leader but I guess the Lord wanted to keep me as a District leader...fun stuff, it is only a 4 man district.  Just us and another set of missionaries.  So here is a funny story, so we got here and the missionaries who were taken out here, chose not to clean out the fridge in the apartment, moldy, nasty food...gross...fun stuff.  But things are good.  The members bought us some food to get us by for the week, the feed us like every night here, it is awesome.  I love this ward already, plus there are tons of people that the ward is sharing the gospel with.  We have had some sweet experience, we were knocking doors our second day here because we had an extra 15 minutes and we got in with this lady, who allowed us to leave a blessing upon her home and the spirit was pretty strong.  And at the end we testified that she was feeling the spirit and she started to cry and said that it was weird that we came because she was just praying for everything that we blessed her with...it was amazing....I couldn't believe it!!  Miracles in the field. But that's about it.

Love ya,
Elder Phillips