Planning to Celebrate Thanksgiving as Best We Can

So, I signed on and I didnt have any email, it was just a tad depressing, but then mom's email popped up and I was happy again. I'm glad she had a great birthday. Yes, I knew that last Harry Potter was two parts, They have theaters here so I had seen the posters. I think I saw a copy of it earlier, but it usually takes about a week. But if you want a decent copy you wait at least a month. Yeah, learned that from members. They had a copy of Iron Man 2 two weeks after it came out.  We showed up at their house while they were watching it. The video was terrible quality, couldn't see a thing, the audio was Portuguese, and the subtitles were Chinese! It was really funny.

As far as the work goes, it is still tough, but we are working on it. Things are looking up though. We got a good list of less-actives we should visit, and received a referral that might be good. We spoke in church yesterday, we do pretty much every third sunday, and since Thanksgiving is on Thursday we decided on giving thanks as our topic. We explained to the congregation what Thanksgiving is and why it was our topic. Yeah, told them that Americans have a day devoted to stuffing ourselves with soooo much food and playing football. But we added that the whole family gets together and we give thanks. Our talks went really well.

We are planning to celebrate Thanksgiving as best we can here in the Philippines and on missionary support allowance, so it's gonna be tough.  But we will have fun doing it. We found an instant Cheesecake mix, so that is going to be our pie and we are going to buy a rotisserie chicken for our turkey. Still trying find a way to do the mashed potatoes, we actually want to eat no rice for our Thanksgiving. I'll let you know how it goes next week.

To answer your question about using a cell phone when we were locked out, yeah, in our mission the only people that have cell phones are the office staff, zone leaders, and sisters. There have been too many missionaries abuse the cell phone to let everyone in the mission have one. It's different in each mission, but we get along just fine without cell phones, we just ask to borrow a members cell when we need to text.

Now I got Dad's email too. Pretty much the same stuff, just different focuses. Yeah, I have been out for over 11 months now, I hit my year in just under a month, which also means that Stuart will be home in less than a month. Man, I feel like I haven't seen that guy for two years or something, but I still have to wait another year to see him. No, I havent seen Bishop Cardall yet, maybe sometime this week or next. I'm keeping my eye out for them.

Oh, funny thing, Elder Whitman's former best friend's name is Jordan Dean. That's his first and last name, so I thought that was funny. When I told him that my middle name was Dean we both thought it was funny. That was a while ago though, just thought I'd tell you all that.

Well, that's all for this week!

Elder Jordan D. Phelps