After 15 days (with only one day of running water)...

Letter from Phillip on October 10, 2011

I´m doing great. Loving spreading the word. We have a bunch of investigators!

The news of the week is that we have the baptismal date for this Saturday for Josefina. She´s an excellent woman and we always have such great spiritual experiences at her house. But she´s been afraid to be baptized. However, she has accepted for this Saturday, but is still partly iffy. I will let you know first thing next week if the baptism went through.

We found this one lady a few weeks ago and were sharing with her a bit. She´s 29, has a 13 year old daughter, and is super nice. We gave her a Book of Mormon and decided to pass by this past week to see how she was doing. She had read up until Jacob and knew everything. However, the biggest challenge we have is Church starts at 8 am. Siempre es un lío. It´s always a challenge to get them to Church.

We have a baptismal fecha with a woman named Angela. She´s a señora. In her 60´s, but loves us and should be getting baptized at the beginning of November.

Marino, the husband of the member is ready for baptism. He has all the desire in the world. He has only one leg, but luckily a member picked him up for Church yesterday. We have to figure out the way so that the members always pick him up, but only a few active members have cars, and they almost all have stake callings. But no worries; the Lord will provide!

Francisco now has all his papers. He should be getting married soon. He´s still fighting with cigarettes, but wants to get baptized. Hopefully soon.

After 15 days (with only one day of running water) the water is working again! It came back yesterday. I filled up the bucket with rain water and showered one day. But they fixed the electricity as well, so I should be doing some laundry tonight.

We played a ton of basketball today for the zone activity. It was great. Then our house of 4 Elders hung out with another house of 4 Elders and it made for a great P- Day.

This last week I read a lot from an Institute Manual about the Old Testament that Elder R. had been given. I learned a lot about the creation, Adam and Eve, and our purpose here in life.

Well, I love you all.

Elder Phil