Hey Mom, thats great
that you took those two girls to church. baptize them. im not gonna lie i dont
have much time again. those chicks wanna be baptized so bad, they got a hold of
us and called, saying they wanted to be baptized. but the step dad (from last
week) said hed beat them if he found out they were baptized. i aint got time to
play around with this drama! theres other people to be baptized!
school again
huh...
so long elder
pierce smith, i love you!
last sunday i was
livid. i cannot describe the feelings of anger that i had for that step dad.
mainly being because im a representative of Jesus Christ, so there is nothing i
can do. so i went to bed early and was sitting in pure anger. guy stole 3
baptisms from Jesus, that dont happen. but while i was sitting in there super
duper mad, the argentinian, Elder Altamirano came in and said teach me english
please. so he handed me a book of mormon in english. he started reading in
helaman 5 and he sucks at english haha. so then he said lets read in
portuguese. i then realized he wasnt doing this to learn english. he read
helaman 5 the first six verses when it talks about how nephi got dissapointed
and leaves the town because no one recieved him. for the verse when God says to
him blessed are you nephi, elder altamirano switched it and said blessed are
you elder parker. but when he was reading it, HE started crying. cried he did.
indeed he did cry. and then he said blessed are you elder parker for all you
did for those kids. it was a very nice moment and it made the anger slowly
leave. you cannot expect to baptize people with anger in your heart. upon
further studying of this chapter i noticed one verse i like when God says to
nephi that his tongue is loosed and that whatever he says will happen to other
people. i feel that through my trials, the Lord is loosening my tongue. this
week, one of my recent converts took a friend to church. we passed by there
talked to him about being baptized this sunday, he was a definite NO that he
would not be baptized. 3 scriptures and 15 minutes later and a whole lot of the
Spirit testifying, he was telling me hed be baptized this sunday, and telling
me what hour he could be baptized. lets go!!
- Elder Parker
wait i dont know if i was transferred, dont send anything.
they havent sent the email out, terds.
Dad,
Yes, i took that
money out, i had some stuff that i needed to buy, so i could baptize more
people.
haha the clovis
north parking lot, remember how i thought you just push the brake and it stops
slowly for you haha. (remembering driving lessons)
no i will not be
missing the vineyard.
actually me and
elder luchmun had a cool opportunity to go out and see a farm close to the
city. we baptized this couples kids and there also preparing to be baptized .
they just need to stop smoking, drinking, coffee and get married. its a long
road for them but ill have them baptized in 3 weeks. anyways, they took us to
this farm that he works at. it was super cool! the best part though was that
they had wheat there, really really white wheat. so as we were driving i
started thinking about D and C 4 and how we should teach them a lesson. so i
asked him to pull the car over and then we had a lesson on the side of a dirt
road and read D and C 4 and explained to them how right now there green, but we
want to prepare them so they can be white, and then after, us the farmers in
the Lords farm want to harvest them through baptism. it was a really cool
lesson and they both accepted to be baptized and begin now with working on
there addictions. one of my funnest lessons here in brazil .
awesome to hear
that so many missionaries are going out all over the world. i dont know how
young men dont serve missions. i cant wait to hear where some of my other
friends wil be serving like cameron malan and addison parker. i really hope
they serve a mission, it will haunt them for all of eternity if they do not.
things are going
great here in the arapongas, i didnt get an email so im pretty sure im going to
stay one more transfer, so nothing changes until now. im almost baptizing
weekly, im so close to baptizing weekly. so dang close. anyways love you a ton,
hope everythings going well and family nights are a regular at the benett
house. o ya a cool thing, my first week
i was here in arapongas i baptized this 18 year old kid that was going
no where in life, and this sunday he baptized his friend/ next door neighbor
that we have been teaching. all because him and another recent convert took him
to church. you take em to church and ill baptize em!!!
- Elder Parker
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