A Wedding and a Baptism!

October 24, 2011

Wow, I can't believe you got that letter (mission travel home letter). I haven't yet. Maybe tomorrow or next week. Or maybe forever from now, just so it isn't distracting. We saw another Elder from my batch today, and he asked if I had gotten the letter telling me to get my chest x-rays done. Haven't gotten that yet either. But those two letters are BIG signs that the end is near. It's so close...


Today we went to a tailoring place to get a suit made. Picked out some good fabric from a cheaper store and then went to the nice place for the actual tailoring. It should turn out good.

So, I'll just skip to the most exciting event of the week. We had a wedding and baptism!! It was way awesome. Maninoy na ako! It's kinda the equivalent of godfather, because I was one of the witnesses. It was just such a happy experience. Pretty well attended, great support from the members, the speaker could have been better though. It was some lady from a different ward. The overall idea of her talk was good, but just some of the things she said were way strange.

The baptism followed shortly after the wedding, and it was great. The speakers were good and it was just good. These two will never leave.

The sad news is that we haven't been able to find good progressing investigators fast enough to replace the ones we have baptized. So that is a big focus for us this week. Our current investigators are... alright... Some have potential and use to be progressing, but now have stopped moving forward, and are slowly sliding backward, because they aren't moving forward. Others have never really been progressing, but we have pretty much given up on them, just stopping by sometimes.

I guess it's not too weird that people back in the ward can't believe that it has been two years, I can hardly believe it myself. As for my homecoming talk, I don't really care when it is. If it's on Christmas, people don't need to come and visit. But it can be when ever, I'm flexible.

There was something I learned about myself this week, and now I forgot... Not really just something learned about myself, but some change in my personality, or how I handle some things has changed. There was something more specific, but I don't remember. Oh well...

Next Wednesday is Zone Conference. I'm excited for that. Some of the people left in La Carlota Zone are still there so it will be nice to see them. I admit I'm not looking forward to the trainings as much as I used to, but that's because instead of just receiving and contributing, I am giving one of the trainings.

Mom, don't bother with my room. I can take care of it when I get home. As long as I can get to my bed. I don't know what will fit me either, because my size has changed.


I was looking through my family photo album this week and Elder Johnson said, "Soon you wont have to look at pictures, you'll see the real thing." It was just one of those moments where it hit me that it really was so close. I've just gotten used to thinking of coming home as being far away, as if it never really got closer, but now it's almost here. Weird.
 
Well, until next week! Love you all!!
Elder Phelps