June 6, 2016

So first of all: Happy Birthday Savannah!

I love hearing about the Memorial Day Party! Great to see that loads of people showed up! I´m glad to hear that everyone had a lot of fun!

Summer is officially here! This week will be heating up to a solid 102 degrees! Good think I´ve got sunscreen! Also, we are now allowed to use hats and sunglasses as missionaries! I think I´ll have to invest or risk getting scorched. I´m pretty sure that we could cook an egg outside on the sidewalk if we wanted to! So good thing we have sun screen!

So this week we had a baptism! About 2 months back we met Veronica Gomez, an inactive member of our ward, and her two kids. After a lot of hard work, she´s now active again and her two kids got baptized! We´re going to keep working with them to strengthen their testimonies, but I´m positive that they´ll be a wonderful, strong, and active family!

So this week we´ve been working hard with an investigator named Ramona. We met her on a super hot day when we were looking for a reference (we had their address but no idea where the street was). We saw her walking towards us with her family, so we stopped them to ask for some directions. We stuck around chatting for a minute getting to know them. It was Ramona, her nephew, her husband, and her son (but they don´t talk much, so mostly we just talked with Ramona). After getting to know them a bit we asked them if we could visit them and teach them  more about Christ and his church. She accepted very enthusiastically. We taught her about the Book of Mormon, The Restoration, and Baptism. 

She accepted our invitation to get baptised without hesitation and when we asked her how she knew it was she told us: ¨I just know. I´ve met missionaries like you guys before walking in the streets, but I always gave them a fake address. But when you guys asked me, I just felt that I had to tell you the truth.¨ 

We met a christian man one day who explained that the spirit made him want to run and jump and shout. But for me, that´s not what the spirit´s like. The spirit is gentle. The spirit is peaceful. The spirit is a soothing whisper, guiding us to the truth. 

That same feeling that Ramona felt when she first met us was telling her that our message is true. That´s the SPIRIT!!

Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. --3 Nephi 14:7-8 

So go ahead, seek the spirit. 

With Love,

Elder Phillips