I love President Tobias

Wow, lot's of hospitals for everyone back home.

Yeah, we get caught in the rain all the time, it stinks. It happened on Tuesday too. We were standing outside the church when it started raining pretty lightly, but it started to get really strong, so we threw up our payongs, er umbrellas, and still got soaked. That's just how it goes some times.

The package was great. The M&Ms made it pretty fine; some were crushed but it was all good. The shirt is awesome! Fits perfectly!

So, the storm that hit Luzon, yeah we still got tons of rain because of it. But no flooding like up in Luzon. Saw it on the news as we are walking around, and heard from members. Flooding was pretty nuts in Luzon. But we are all just fine down here on Negros.

Last Friday was Zone Conference, it was awesome. All the trainings were just soooo cool. Learned so much. Especially the trainings about Christ-like attributes and the training the President Tobias gave about working with Stake and Ward leaders (Chapter 13 PMG). It was such a needed spiritual recharge.

I love President Tobias. Yesterday was Branch Conference and President attended. He gave some awesome trainings to the members and answered a ton of their questions. He was really funny too. There was a training video that talks about loud and annoying kids in Sacrament Meeting, he paused the video and pointed at his 5 year old son as the perfect bad example. He was quiet-ish, but he was just everywhere! Either way, President Tobias is just awesome.

The baptism of Kenjay and Helbert happened, and that is the important part. It wasnt how it was planned, but it still happened. We show up on Saturday to fill the font, and it is dirty, so we clean it and start filling. The water was soooo dirty! It was practically black! So we emptied it and let the water run for a while and tried again. This time it was a sickly green, but not black. Still way to dirty. So we decided to go for a third, then the power goes out and it's 6:30 pm, so we decide to just do it after church. I thought that President Tobias might attend the baptism, because he got out of his meeting with the branch president and walked into the RS room where is family was hanging-out with us. But they left.  All of them were really hungry. So the service was good and I baptized them both as per their request.

Now it's what we have all been waiting for; transfer announcements!!! We looked at what might happen to us and then thought about what we wanted to happen. What we thought might happen was me transfer and possibly train, because there are tons of new missionaries coming this week. And what we wanted to happen was that we both just stay here in San Enrique. and the result is.....

We are both STAYING!!! Yay!!

I hope I was able to answer your questions and tell you a bit about my week. So, until the next!

Elder Phelps