Hello!

 

I hope you all are having a great day. I love Mondays! This week has been good as well. The rain hasn't stopped for a good three days straight and It's not just misting is pouring rain all the time. Got to love Washington!

 

This week we went to Anderson Island to meet Jason and Angela. I had been a little nervous all day (don't know why) but I was just so excited to teach someone on the Island. There hasn't been anyone taught there for about a year in a half and before that years. This was a really big deal to the little branch members. Jason and Angela were so welcoming. We started teaching them the restoration and Jason just soaked it all in like a sponge. They had a lot of questions and we used a lot of scripture. I was really fun teaching them. But Jason left his church about a year ago because he was told that animals or nature don't have spirits (typical Washingtonians). That preacher should know better if he wants to keep people! But we explained to him that God created everything spiritually before physically. Concern 1, Resolved!

 

At the end of the lesson when we were teaching the first vision, Angela left the room in tears. She said when we came to her house she had a lot of judgments and that Jason actually made her listen. But when we were teaching she was sent back to when she was a little girl when her grandpa taught her about Jesus Christ, and until now she hadn't heard anyone preach the same doctrine that he did. Her Grandpa was an inspired man! :)

 

They were excited to come to church and on Sunday they came! The branch was so excited to see new people it was so cute. These people are so special. Our branch ward mission leader is in his 80's and he goes over there to DPC them almost every other day,haha. He is so excited to have someone to teach. The field is white and already to harvest, even on Anderson Island!

 

This week I have tried to focus my thoughts on everything I was thankful for. I was humbled and was reminded when I ready Alma 34:38 and Amulek teaches us that we need to have thanksgiving within our hearts EVERYDAY! I am in the war chapters this week in Alma and was so drawn to the humility and thankfulness of the Nephites. These people are fighting with all there strength and might to save there wives and children, but after everything they do weather it be successful or not, they give thanks to God. They taught me that we always need to remember who gave us all we have. God! We have no need not to be grateful this time of year and everyday.

 

Thanks be to God for sending his only begotten Son to die for us. Thanks be to God for sending us families to teach us and help us become the son or daughter we ought to be to return to our Father. Thanks be to God for sending us the gospel to preach and to live by!

 

I am thankful for all of you,

I love you very much

Sister Phillips