Cat has a Baptism Date!!!!!!

Ok so trying to finish from last week... 

Thursday 3/30: we got up at 5:35 am to run before sports... yay WATCH THE NEW EASTER VIDEO!!!! www.mormon.org #princeofpeace and do the really cool daily things to prepare for Easter!! I had an amazing study in chapter 2 of "Our Search for Happiness" By M. Russell Ballard! It was all about the Apostles and what happened after Christ was killed. And awesome stuff happened on Mormon.org today! A Book of Mormon referral who was really happy to reconnect with the missionaries had them over for a 2nd visit and brought some friends and they committed the guy to a baptismal date for April 29th! And I called a guy who requested a free Bible and basically taught him the last half of the restoration of the gospel and invited him to be baptized over the phone! He didn't necessarily say no, but said he's already been baptized a few times. But after hearing the half of the restoration lesson I taught, he seemed more open to meeting with missionaries. We'll see where it goes :)  Also! A guy from Vietnam asked for ward information so he could go to church! Apparently someone in the US military told him about it there :) And a recent convert came into the Visitors Center and we showed her the ‘Prince of Peace’ video and the long version of the 1st Vision movie. By the end of the movies she was sobbing. An inactive member called me at the Visitors Center and asked me to say a prayer with her over the phone for her younger daughter who isn't hanging out with the best people. It thought it was so cool how she thought to call us for that :) 

Friday: Did weekly planning and I learned one of the new Visitor Center sisters, Sister Ye who is from Taiwan, used to compete throwing the Javelin! 

I just realized I'm almost out of time! 2 min! Go!

So this week we got 2 new investigators and one on a baptismal date! She's going to get baptized on April 27th!!

I got to hold a first edition Book of Mormon and see Joseph Smith's personal pocket Bible and So many other great things because of a Bible exhibit at the Oakland Temple Visitors Center!! Also included in the exhibit was JRR Tolken's personal Bible with his signature and one of George Washington's bibles. The guy who collects and buys these is based out of Provo, Utah! Moon's rare books or something like that!

Linda, our recent convert, spoke at this past Sunday at the “Why I Believe” fireside. This is a fireside that members, recent converts and investigators can come to hear recent converts share their conversion stories :)

Lone Peak High School’s choir performed at the Visitors Center on Sunday and Cat, our investigator who set her baptismal date, came to church! I have to tell you about a miracle happened with her! We realized that we hadn't taught her about the Word of Wisdom yet. She's supposed to get baptized in 2 weeks but investigators who want to get baptized have to live the principles behind the Word of Wisdom (no smoking, alcohol or coffee) for 3 consecutive weeks. Thankfully she doesn't drink or smoke and randomly gave up drinking coffee last month!! I also met a guy on a chat session at Mormon.org. During our discussion, I set him up perfectly to learn about the Plan of Salvation using the new Prince of Peace video but I had to get off of chat, so I transferred him to someone else. I hope he's meeting with missionaries now because of it :)  

Just a short summary of the awesome things that happened this past week! We have to leave because we have a district activity :) We're eating lunch at 2:30 in Alameda and then going to see the USS Hornet which is an old aircraft carrier that picked up the first astronauts :) One of the inactive members in our ward actually served on that ship and gives tours on Fridays. he's in his 90's

Love you all!! <3

Sister Alyssa Phillips