Jan 20, 2018 Oh Jeepers...

Oh Jeepers this has been an exciting week.  So its my last week in the MTC, its been jam packed with meetings, and classes!  It started on Sunday, I got a migrain or something, it was a horrible day but still went to every meeting everyone kept telling me to take meds but everyone thougtht I was going to OD....  I'm still alive!  We watched the new Meet The Mormons later that day and it was cool, we also met out Sisters who are going to Omaha!  But it was sad at the same time because our district Sisters were with us and Im already starting to miss them!  Our District has been so awesome, I love them so much, and don't want to leave them:( 

-Monday, we got new TRC investigators, Karsia and Jose, we only taught them a few times but Jose committed to Baptism!!!!  But....  We can't teach him anymore since we are flying out on Monday.  Its super sad but hopefully he will have a good experiance.  Also this week I was called as the zone leader, so hopefully my zones wont die or go missing because of me haha, they even trust me with a flip phone!  (her name is Cellin Betsy)  Better watch out I'll call the front desk if you are disobeying the rules and talk to Jennifer muhahaha.  

-Tuesday we watched the live session for President Nelson being called as the Prophet and it was a super spiritual meeting, then the world stepped in with all these questions about what the church was going to do but the new Presidentcy was so loving and kind they answered the questions with no problems it was such a good session I love it.  

-Wednesday we said goodbye to the Elders going to Texas and Tennessee, it was sad but they were ready to go.  Besides that our day was pretty normal for us missionarys.  

Thursday, God loves me and placed a John Deere 35G mini excavator with an 18'' bucket and fully enclosed cab in front of our Classroom building.  Being the nerd I am I got my Pic in front of the machine #TimpRental we walked around the MTC looking at all the Murals (big pictures) and looked up the scriptures that went with them, they are so cool, and there are so many!  I would of taken Pictures in front of the but some Elder before me got us in trouble (cough cough Gibson)  We also had a cool workshop today about working with Members and using them to find PI which is investigators or less actives, that was fun, they put on a play which was funny but also a good time to catch up on sleep haha.  During the day Elder Moon, lost his room key in a bottomless pit in front of our sisters Residence building, therefore leaving him key less, so we called Jennifer and got security to help us out, about 9PM rolled around and security met me and him outside since I'm a good zone leader.  Security helped us out by jumping into the pit and ended up dropping his keys also.  Great.  So now we have muiltable keys missing and Elders and Sisters are gathering around to watch then shortly after finding all the missing keys, a branch president kept getting mad at us since we were out past 9 but security saved us.  I also started getting a cold so Elder cloud made me a cold killer out of oils and it was the worst, my whole face was burning but it helped.

-Friday, Was our last day in class with Bro Smith and Sister Hanshaw:(  They taught a really good lesson, about commandments and planning and not stealing shoes haha, but I loved our class and I learned so much from everyone.  We also had our last gym time, which was bad, first off I already had 3 gym warnings for "diving" on the floor during Volleyball from previous times, but everyone was just not feeling it and too top it off an Elder kept trashing our team and telling us we sucked and what not.  not cool Elder.  I gave him a piece of my mind because you have respect for other players if they know how to play or not, moments after that he decided we were wasting his time and left the court.  I had to repent.  But life lesson love everyone even if they aren't the best at what your doing, and not to judge others and especially not to yell at them then show them up...  After gym time, it started snowing so we did some dancing and stuff as a district in the snow, then finished with a run.  After discovering that the Provo temple looks super beautiful while snow is flying we ran back to our room, and got our Ipads.  It might of been after 9 but it was a pretty pic of the temple...  

-Saturday, We went to the temple today, with our Sister, did initiatory's and I did sealings for the first time!  It was super spiritual and I encourage all of you to get to the temple as much as you can (cough cough Cory)  here I am on my last P-day writing all of you wounderful people, while my laundry is drying and its dumping snow outside, I love all of you!  Next stop Nebraska!  

     Love Elder Phelon