The Work is Going Well Here

Dad, that certainly is a lot of scouting for one week. I miss scouting a ton. Scouting fundraisers, don’t really miss those much. Aerating was fun and all… but yeah…
It must be pretty strange at the third Sunday with so many of us missing. But I guess that’s just how it goes when we are all growing up. As for calling on Mother's Day, I don’t know quite when it will actually be. But we can Skype and use webcams! It’s cheaper that way and it’s webcam!

Yes, that is Kristine’s baptism, with me, Elder Claven, and Brother Romero.

The large group picture is at a Zone CSP (Community Service Project). We have time on Friday mornings for CSP and sometimes we’ll find a big one and get the district or even the whole zone to come. Those are always fun. We went and planed mangroves. They are these trees that have really good roots and protect the shore from erosion from waves. That was fun.

The small old lady is a member, Sister Begonia (sp). She was staying with her daughter here, but they are transferring to Mindanao (southern island) and she is returning to her home up north. She’s awesome so we wanted a picture with her before she left.

To answer your question, there are three couple missionaries in the mission, but none near us. One on Panay, one in San Carlos, and a PEF couple in Bacolod.
Finally getting to be good weather there? That’s good. It’s actually been raining quite a bit here. The rain season is coming up pretty soon too. We always have trouble explaining to people here that back home our houses have heaters; they don’t exist here for obvious reasons.

The work is going well here in Cadiz. Still getting punted a bit, but that’s just part of the work. We try hard to go to less-active members when we are punted, but there are sooo many and we don’t know where many of them are. But we are fixing that by asking active members and we have a membership directory now. There are close to 1,500 members between the ward and the branch here, but only 200 come to church! The investigators that we do get to meet with are doing really well though. Like I said last week, Brother Romero has a baptismal date and he’s doing well. Kristine as a new member is doing great too. She came with us to a teaching where one of the daughters is the same age and helped us teach the word of wisdom. She’s also excited to start personal progress.
Oh man, I just have to say how awesome Elder LeCheminant is. We have awesome conversations about things from home. Like Lagoon and other things. It’s all been really good.
Well that’s all for this week.
Elder Phelps