Pretty Good Here Too

Hey!

Sounds like you all had a fun week. It’s been pretty good here too. We seem to go to Bacolod every other P-day or so. SM is the best place to get all of our shopping done. Bacolod is 63 km from Cadiz, however many miles that is. If we get a 1-Stop Ceres it doesn’t take too long, fun ride. Bringing stuff back isn’t bad, usually just have two bags and just put them in the over-head storage on the bus, then trike it to the apartment. It’s fun to see a lot of the other missionaries at SM when we go down. We are heading down again after email for shopping of course and we have a zone activity in Bata, which is just north of Bacolod, this afternoon.

We don’t really do much official “sightseeing,” but everything here is a sight to see. It’s pretty crazy and there’s always something that surprises and possibly shocks me every day. When we are out of the apartment on P-day we still need to be in our white shirts and ties. In the apartment we can be in “normal” clothes. The humidity and the constant sweat are pretty bad. To accurately describe the sweat I must reference a movie. So, in “Airplane!” when he’s trying to land the plane at the end and the sweat is just pouring like a waterfall down his face, yeah, that’s what it’s like, at least once a day I’ve had that experience. It burns your eyes.

So, my week. Well, it was pretty good. We got to meet with a lot of our investigators, but we were also punted a couple of times. The ones that we did see are doing really well. They are all progressing at different speeds, but it’s good. We actually had eight of them attend sacrament yesterday! It was way cool. Brother Romero had bought a white shirt and was wearing some nice pants, huge step for him. It’ll be awesome if next week he has a tie, we are thinking of giving him one. One of our investigators that I had doubts about in the beginning is turning out to be nearly golden. We taught them the Restoration and they understood it really well, we gave them a Book of Mormon relatively early and asked them to read the Introduction, standard reading assignment. When we went back to check on them the mother had read all the way to 1 Nephi 3! Including the testimonies! She’s now on 1 Nephi 9 and has an amazing testimony of the Book of Mormon already. She’s encouraging her kids to read it. They use the time excuse with school and all, but she says that they can find time and it’ll help them. It’s just awesome.

I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of them but there’s this religion called the Iglesia Ni Cristo. It was founded by a guy who left our church. They’re interesting and some aren’t very nice. They basically copied us in a lot of ways. So, we have an investigator that’s an Iglesia member, he’s way receptive though and really thinks about it. He’s this awesome little guy, he’s pretty old. He’s progressing well too. I was shocked because I’ve heard lots of the horror stories about dealings with the Iglesia.

Well, that’s it for this last week, time to start a new one!
Love you all! Elder Phelps.