January 16, 2017

That is such a great story that he shared! And so true! (Kat shared a story from Elder Renlund about a man who by a miracle was alive, and when the Doc went to see him he was complaining about the cold oatmeal and warm milk he had)

I would have to agree, The spirit is an extremely important companion that can bless our lives if we let him. (I have a talk on the Sacrament this Sunday and asked him to share a story) A sacrament story... Well... I'm not sure if this applies...

Down here (it may be the same up there) If you're not inside the sacrament room when they finish the hymn, you don't get the sacrament. They don't bring it out to the halls to pass it around. And every time people still show up late. To me this is extremely sad and i can help but feel that they dont understand the importance of the sacrament. Its like a game to them, the ¨lets-see-who-can-show-up-latest-to-sacrament-meeting-game¨

But it isn't and shouldn't be a game. The sacrament is sacred, the single most important moment of our week.

This week we brought an inactive member to church, he'd been going through some rough times and needed help. When he was there he could fel the spirit helping him to change, and even though he wasn't worthy to partake of the sacrament, God was there whispering encouragement in his ear. 

Last week we were walking down the street when all of a sudden we stopped, turned, and knocked a door. My companion asked me why and I simply responded ¨No se(I don't know)¨. Out came a woman whom we had met once before, several weeks earlier. She told us that one of her friends is about to get baptised in our church and that she wants to learn more about it too. I know that the spirit was guiding us to find her, and that if we werent worthy, or hadn't taken the sacrament that week, it wouldn'tve been possible.

This week went well, the Gas strikes have all calmed down and people have stopped threatening the local governors (more or less at least).

Karla's getting baptised this saturday

Toni, Feb 4th

Ruth, Feb 18th

The work is moving along well here in the Villa. Have to plan the bap program now, but please share this with the fambam.

I Love you!

Elder Phillips

(To Dave)

Oh dear, I remember those activities!  Who are the priests nowadays? _How many are there?

I heard of a place called Castle Rocks that might be cool. Or Craters of the moon. I dont really know but ive heard that they're cool places. Just make the food good and Everyone{ll be happy! When are you planning it for? will I be home in time?

Do you get many opportunities to share the gospel with people back home? Looking back on it I had several oportunities but i rarely took advabntage of them

Pic of my companion, He's from Tropical Chiapas (we should totally go some day, its beautiful down there)