Remember to study the scriptures!
No Way! Alyse Erickson!! Juarez? Awesome!! We're going to party it up!!!! I am so excited to see someone I know down here! Odds are that I´ll be in a completely different stake, but I might see her a few times! She'll be getting here in February, so we´ll be in the mission for a cycle together (month and a halfish). Odds are she´ll spent the majority of her mission in the north, colonia Dublan, or Colonia Juarez stakes. They are awesome stakes and fairly safe. I am seriously pumped to hear that someone else I know will be coming here!
And Carson and Emma look utterly adorable together!
This week my companion asked a girl on the bus for her facebook... you can just Imagine my facepalm. He´s a great elder, but he´s still got his mind on the ladies. He works really hard and is great at contacting people too. The hardest thing lately for us was knocking doors. Under the Reign of Prez. Derbez, we were strongly advised against knocking doors. But down here, there aren´t people in the streets to talk to. So my first day here (we had few investigators and 1 appointment) I decided to break the paradigm and start knocking. It was a learning experience, full of rejections and failures. But one never progresses without falling/failing a few times. We are here to make history!! I personally want to leave my mark on Ascension. On sunday we had several less active families come back to church and 6 investigators. The branch is looking bad. It has been shrinking over the past year or two, sop we have to work doubly hard to get it back up.
Mexican independance day came up! We took pictures of the parade too! It was super fun!
However: I learned a valuable lesson. You should not fire off confetti cannons during a horse parade.
I would show you why, but believe it or not out here we have a lot of technical dificulties and i am unable to upload photos. So let me explain what happened. The horsemen rode by super profesh and everything, but right as they got in front of us they fired off a confetti cannon. The horses got spooked and bolted. 1 of them ran straight for the crowd and probably would´ve hurt somebody, but the rider pulled the reigns to the side to try to steer it away. The horse fell down and almost crushed the rider. Fortunately, nobody got too badly hurt, but it was a freightening moment for several in the crowd.
So Happy independance day Mexico!
I Love you mom! Tell the girls I love them all too! Enjoy the chili covered watermelon candies 😜
Elder Phillips
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