Mom,
if you had a loved one that was standing on train tracks and
you saw the train coming would you push them off the train tracks? but what if they
didnt want to go? what if they wanted to sit there and let the train hit them,
but you knew that you could over power them in the moment and throw them out of
the way, would you throw them out of the way or would you let them choose to
take there life away by a train right in front of your eyes?
its the same
with baptism. Jesus Christ said that people that arent baptized cannot enter
into the kingdom of heaven. with that being said, i chuck people in the water
and baptize them! people build a bridge of sins that certainly doesnt go to
Heaven, and they cant cross over that bridge alone, so i push them off the
bridge into the water below, and i baptize them!!! if you would throw someone
off train tracks to save there mortal life, then why would you not do all in
your power to throw them into the water, even if against there will, to save
there spiritual life? the mortal life will only happen for so long, but our
spiritual life will be forever.
so thats what
i did, i threw an 11 year old girl in the water this week. she didnt really
wanna be baptized nor did her mom want her to because shes only 11 but we
passed by there saturday night and God gave us a miracle. her grandma is some
crazy evangelical church lady who loves to scream and shout like crazy pastors,
i instantly connected with her. i met her that night cause shes from another
city and i just used the technique that the apostle paul uses when he preaches
to the corinthinians, adapt to who you teach. haha i was saying everything was
a miracle and that she needed to be baptized and the grandma started going
crazy about baptism. she was in the little girls face screaming, " you
will be baptized tomorrow and were gonna take pictures! in the name of Jesus
you will be baptized!" i was in the background yelling "amen!"
amen! then i started talking about how God put her here this day so she could
see her grandaughters baptism and it was a miracle. (actually we had been
praying for a miracle and this really was it!) but when the g mama heard
miracle and that she was involved in it. it was over, that little girl didnt
stand a chance, we left that house to a physcho grandma screaming " thank
you Jesus! thank you Jesus! my granbaby will be baptized tomorrow!!!" and
i baptized Danyelli the next day, thanks to the craziest evangelical grandma of
all time. if she ever comes to town again, im baptizing her also, giving her
the priesthood and im doing a division with her, and were baptizing everybody
and there moms.
took this homeboy to
church, hes got a family, do i smell a family baptism this sunday???
get me the address
to the ctm please!
its also been 6
weeks since i got a letter. thanks for the love everybody! theres brazilian
elders that have families that live in huts that have gotten letters since
then!
me and elder luchman
went to this crazy spiritualist meeting, i snapped a real quick footage of
these crazy people on my camera, your all gonna love it, and then people started
freaking out cause i was filming so we jetted out of there before they
sacrificied us to there gods. and i havent gotten the package yet. o ya my zone
baptized 47 this month, the old record was 28, we are the SHIZ. (as in Shiz the
man from the book of mormon, more specifically the book of Ether who has an
army that kills everyone in his path like our zone that baptizes everyone in
our paths. ;D) ( Ether 14:18) catholics
knees shake when we arrive!
- Elder Parker
thanks for
everything dad, the elect are hearing the words of the Lord and they are
following. things have changed for me as a missionary, its time to start
throwing people in the water and baptizing them! we met this guy last week and
he is married and has a twelve year old little girl. we took him and his
daughter to church this week and i hope we can baptize them as a family this
sunday. there really welcoming and told us they have been searching for the
true church now for a long time. he is a very nice man. he gave us a ride home
so thats a good sign that he respects us and wants to learn more. im really
excited for there family, because ive still never baptized a family as a whole
on my mission and he has a lot of potential to be a good leader here in the
church.
Keep the prayers coming!
-Elder Parker
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