We Visit to Help Them Keep the Commandments

March 7, 2011
Okay, this last week was pretty good. We got a bunch of good lessons! We have nine investigators with a date for baptism, all within this transfer. So, Elder Reidhead and I are still happy that we are together. We are doing great stuff in this area. We keep getting compliments from our leaders. Elder Newman (the zone leader and my batch) and Elder Phelps (his comp) stayed at our house Saturday night so that they could steal the extra matresses for having the other zone leader over at their house sunday night. We were talking about our work and he is way impressed with it. We are making great progress, and our area is the least populated in the whole zone! That so far hasn't become a problem, there are still plenty of people.

Our investigators continue to do well. The youth and YSA (Michael Tilanas) had a youth camp at the church Friday to Saturday. That went really well. We stopped by to see how their cookfest went. Yeah, free food. They told us to come so it wasn't like we were just showing up.  Then we took Michael to visit a stubborn investigator that we had been trying to get to come to church. Well, it helped, just not quite in the way I wanted. We told him at the end of the lesson that we visit him to help him keep the commandments.  He was so firm in his promise to himself that he would never attend church anywhere ever again. We told him that if he changed his mind he knows where to find us, at the church. After that they had a closing devotional for the youth camp, and we were the speakers. And we found that out the night before. Either way, it still went pretty well and we are able to get some lessons after that.

Man, with all the changes you are making to the house I am starting to know how Elder LeCheminant felt when he talked to me about how his house was pretty much totally different. The house may look different when I get home, but it will still feel like home.

Answers to your questions: I got the package last Tuesday, the day after I told you that I hadn't gotten it yet. It was good. Elder Reidhead was happy that the card said that one of the Reeses was specifically for him.
Oh, so Katee sent me an email about her going on a mission and my incredible ability to remember birthdays told my about Brandt's bday.

Oh, sometimes packages get here in good time, its the missionoffice sometimes that takes for ever to send stuff to us.

That's cool that Nat is working a bunch.That should be good for her.


Well, looking forward to another good week! Love from the Philippines!

Elder Phelps
PS I love ll of you so much!