Every Member a Missionary

Mom,

did you make me a facebook or no? pleaaaaseeee

dang riley weighs 145 right now, gulp...

ya well next time that lady at the market asks riley if hes a swimmer because his muscles are growing, you can tell her youve got a son thats a swimmer, hes swimming in baptismal fonts all throughout brazil, working out his Priesthood. cause my priesthoods fat son. uh!

 no i havent recieved anything yet, but there postal service doesnt work on saturday or sunday, so probably sometime this week i will. thanks mom. ya im in arapongas, a city right next to apucarana. but my zone is apucarana and we rock!

ya fasting works, my seventh week in the mission, we didnt have a baptism, it was saturday and i was like i need to baptize. fasted, went to this old investigators house, i was like, ay will you be baptized tomorrow, he said what time tomorrow. chuch is true, fasting is powerful.

actually i fasted if we could take 25 people to church this sunday. so did elder zioli, we brought 17, thats pretty dang good i think, lets baptize 5 of em for DIA BRANCO this sunday. i cant waith till you see the picture. gonna be like 40 people dressed in white, baptizers and people going to be baptized.

 man i was thinking about that the other day, koty will have graduated, ill be twenty one and riley will be a junior. im gettin old. elder zioli turns 20 this month. yikes! thats me in september.

i cant wait till someday my daughter brings me breakfast in bed. the only times i get trunky on the mission is when i see and joke around with little kids, i just want a family. but the mission is a fair trade.

my health is fairly good, if i eat stuff thats high in fats, then theres a pretty high possibility ill throw it up and have a lot of pain. but im learning my limits. like this week, the argentinian made some food for us, i didnt know what it was, i just ate, i woke up that night throwing up. im learning. learning to never trust argentinians.

    i liked those stories of kayson, haha thanks for making me trunky knowing that lindsey and jared are living what i want most in my life. youre the best mom ever. haha im joking, the stories were really funny. haha kayson is funny. thanks for everything mom, love you a ton. send my love to the rest of the family.

   -Elder Parker

HAPPY FATHERS DAY DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!

 i think fathers day here is in july.

ya if you could send me an update every week thatd be great. i didnt know it was costing me money just to check.

no we didnt baptize anyone this week but we almost had a miracle. we just coulndt get a ride from a member to get to his house, so we didnt have a chance to talk to him. would have been a miracle, but thats how miracles happen, its not just faith but works. the member didnt give us a ride, so he didnt show his works, therefore not showing his faith. but as of now for next week weve got 3 possibilites to baptize. one being a man so thats good. hes firm too, he thanks God in his prayers for the opportunity to be baptized again by someone that has the authority when he prays with us, so i think hes pretty firm on his baptism this sunday. crazy to think, last thursday, he was just a guy we talked to on the street who had never heard of the true church. 5 days later and he cant wait to be baptized. so weere pretty excited right now.

 did you know that elder clevelands mission is the highest baptizing mission in south america. considering the fact also that south american missions baptize the most, im guessing its the highest baptizing misson in the world. crazy huh, hes probably already baptized around 50 or 60. they have the highest percentage of teaching with membres also. the members are really really strong in sao paulo, the church is growing so fast there. honestly, every part of missionary work is through the members. thats why prophets preach every member a missionary, because without help, its basically just knocking doors, which is very very difficult to find people to baptize. share the gospel with everyone!

i liked that picture of cambria, man shes almost gonna be  a beehive when i get back. crazy stuff. did you know ill be 21 when i get back. crazy stuff.

   LOVE YOU A TON DAD, HAPPY FATHERS DAY

                - Elder Parker