This week has been crazy folks, always is. This week has been soo good! Numbers wise it has been the best week we have had in Bellingham. Wanted to share a quick bit. I don't know if I told y’all before, but a few weeks ago our Mission Pres told us that we don't make goals of 0. Even on baptisms for the week if we don't have anyone on deck. Because we never know what plan the Lord has or if someone is going to move into our area already to take a splash. Saturday night, we had been working all week trying to hit the standards for the mission, and the only thing left that we needed was to get 2 investigators to church. We already had one of them locked in because his son was getting blessed, so he was going to be there. Anyway we were looking at what we had on our plans for Sunday, and it was suggested that we make a goal of 0 for lessons with a member present, because we had tons of meetings and no where in our plans could a member from our little Spanish group accompany us to a lesson. But then I said no, remember we don't make goals of 0, our act of faith is going to be that we have a goal of 1 lesson with a member present, so we put it down. The next day we had studies and ward council. Then right before church we had a lesson at noon. So we skipped lunch to head up there. They flaked us, really annoying. But we were already 20 minutes from home and really close to the church, so we started doing some work in the area for the next half hour. Nothing. Then we get to church at 1, and Miguel was there looking so fresh! We had no other investigators there, even though 3 others said they would. So we did not hit standards this week. A feat which hasn't been done in this area for at least 8 months. So smackin’ close! Just come to church! Well, after church we had a couple people set up in Custer, even farther from home. They flaked us! So smackin’ annoying, so we tried a few people for the next hour and a half. Nothing. So now its 5:40, we’re starving our corn off and a bit frustrated at the moment with flakey people. Then we were looking at our plans, and we didn't have a member dinner, and it was Sunday so we can't stop anyplace, and home is 20 minutes or more away. After a little bit of weighing the options, we decided to head back home. And then as we turned on the car we got a text from Bro. Quintanilla: “hey guys we wanted to know if you'd like to come over for dinner at our house around 6? Miguel is going to be here too.” The Lord extended his arm in our time of need by the means of this brother in our ward. Who lived not 2 minutes from where we were, to give us some food. AND! They had invited Miguel and his family. AND! ANOTHER one of our investigator families ( the Torres-duce family) was there! Thus giving us the means to reach our goal of getting a lesson with a member present, and not only that, but the means to teach 3 investigators. With 5 members present (numbers excluding kids), AND give us an abundance of food that was for sure not going to be found at our apartment by any means. It was wonderful indeed to see the hand of the Lord in our work. That and the BBQ was DELICOUS! Chicken breasts, rice, beans, hot dogs wrapped in bacon, chips, soda, tons of desert! Ten fold what we could have dreamed was at the apartment. So basically, yeah. Good stuff.
We were hoping that this coming weekend would be fruitful for us in the baptism area. Since Saturday is Elder Fiala’s b-day and Sunday is mine. Baptism by water on his, baptism by fire after church on mine. However, none of our investigators are ready and have not been to church enough times for it to happen, but hey, I mean there’s always hope right.
On Saturday we had a Spanish group activity playing futbol out in the field by the church building again. I LOVE FUTBOL! that was the second time that we played soccer here, and fortunately we weren't nearly as sore as we were from the first time.
Also, after transfers our districts got a ton smaller, like cut in half, because they added a new district to our area, which is nice I guess so that Elder Fiala doesn't have to account with so many on Sunday nights. It’s just a bit different having only six people there.
Thanks for all the early b-day wishes everyone has sent me, the mail has been doing well between my companion and my birthdays back to back this weekend, its really nice; real nice. ha-ha.
Love Elder Phillips
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