Did they have a good time at prom?
I Loved the package! It was super clever and fun! Throwing in just half of everything was awesome! I also got the easter package! We've now hollowed out some eggs and we'll start dying them soon! I'll send you pictures when We've finished!
It's so crazy to think that Hunter's already going on the mission! Won't Megan McOmber be getting back home a little bit before Hunter goes out? Crazy!
A little bit about my week:
This week we've been praying a lot and contacting loads to find new people to teach. One of the things we did was an activity in the "Segundas", or the local yard sale, with the youth of the ward. We put our faith in the lord, put ourselves to work, and we got results! Many people are constantly searching for the truth and when we put ourselves in their paths with the gospel, they recognize it. We found a wonderful semi-old man named Antonio. He's 68ish years old and full of energy. He lives here in Mezquital nearby and really wants to find the true church. It is amazing how much the lord helps us when we need it!
Remember how in The Brady Bunch (and just about every other tv series/sitcom that has ever existed) there's an episode where Pete tries to take two different girls to the same dance? Well this week I was that guy. And I succeeded! Ok, so I didn't really go to a dance or anything, but I was faced with a similar dilema. This week we signed up to eat with a recent convert of ours named Sister Perez. She is super nice and loves to give us food to eat. She invited us to come by at 3 to eat tacos for lunch (down here lunch is a big deal) with her and her kids. Everything good up until this point, but then we ran into investigator of ours who reminded us that he was going to make us food too! And not just a bit of food, but giant Juarez burritos with 5 different types of meat! I'll admit that we panicked a little bit.
Down here when you agree to eat lunch with a family, there is an unseen but very real contract that is being signed. If you read the fine print, you'll understand that when you eat with a family down here, you MUST agree to a second helping, or at least more beans. If you do not, it is taken as an offense to the chef. So when we realized what was coming, my companion suggested calling Sister Perez to cancel our lunch appointment. Fortunately, being from the Phillips Clan, I have been trained from a very young age to eat very large portions of food. It was a rigorous and merciless training process, but here in the mission it has paid off. With some quick changes of plans (and a few secret tecniques learned from chapter 8 of Preach my Gospel), we arranged to eat at slightly different times (at 2:30 and at 3) with the two families. After eating several huge (and I mean some huge!) burritos, we ran to our second lunch appointment and had about a dozen tacos (these were a lot smaller, but really good!).
Afterwards my companion almost threw up, but he held it down like a champion. We didn't eat again until breakfast the next day.
So those are my adventures from this week, I hope you all had a great week and that this next one is even better!
Love ya
Elder Phillips (or Elder Filipo as they call me down here)
We sent him Half a shirt, half a tie, half sunglasses, half a six pack of root beer, half eaten candy bars, half a puzzle, etc etc.....
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