thanks for everything dad. ill be sure to print out his talk
and give it a read. ive been transfered and ive turned senior comp and im
opening an area. im in a city called tupã. when i say opening an area i mean
that the other two that were here both went away and me and another elder, my
comp. elder saraiva showed up with nothing. we dont know any members, where
anyone lives or where is good to proselyte. nothing. its called opening an
area. its literally the worst thing to do on a mission. especially without cars
or bikes so its just straight walking and getting to know everything. its funny
the time i turn senior comp, i get to open the area. and tupã is not known for
baptizing. its a super weak area. haha everyone told me they feel sorry for me
cause i got sent here and im opening the area, everyone was like good luck
elder. little do they know weve got 3 baptisms lined up for this saturday,
thanks to giant miracles. thanks for everything dad, love ya. although it looks
tough right now, nephi 3:7 just keeps pumping in my heart. theres no way the
Lord would throw me into an area just to fail, just gotta give it all to
him!!!!
- Elder Parker
Mom,
im in Tupã!!!! i
got transfered to Tupã! this area sucks so much!! im about to turn this whole
area around!! the members are such fubecas!!!(slackers) im going to burn
everyone until they start coming to church! i showed up this sunday and
president of the branch told me id be giving a 5 minute talk, rolled up to
church and he said he had to leave for work and that the other people to give
talks didnt come to church, elder parker can you give a 25 min-30 min talk
today? i responded yes! but at the same time i was like
fuuuuubeeecccccaaaaasssss!!!!! its crazy to think how much ive grown, i gave a
25 min. talk in portuguese and i didnt have any problems, everything just came
so fluently. i even had more to say too. crazy huh!
im opening the area also! which means the two
missionaries before were doing nothing so president tavares took both of them
out and put me and Elder Saraiva in there to clean it up. these elders did
almost nothing here. they left a paper on the desk that said, sorry we didnt
leave any investigators or anything for you, but heres some addresses of people
that you can visit. it was a guy they had taught one time, two weeks ago!!! and
the others were some less active people!! you might ask how will you baptize
sunday if you are left with no one to baptize? you hit the pavement and talk
with every living thing and ask if theyve already been to church, and if they
have, you invite them to be baptized! we
didnt even unpack our bags, dropped em off and went for it... we almost did it
also! met this 25 year old guy and his cousin who have already been to church
before and we almost baptized them sunday! only miracles in tupã! the only
reason they didnt was because they drank coffee. the only reason we didnt get
it because it was a little too late. haha everyone told me this area was a
mission hole, you cant baptize very much there if at all, haha, weve got 3 people
marked to be baptized this saturday, thats more baptisms then the missionaries
have gotten here in the last 5 months! God blessed us so much by putting them
in front of us! let us all rejoice!!!!
my new address
is for letters:
Rua Marília 3001
CEP:
17603-340
cambria wants to be
home schooled, NO she cannot.
elder
chambers and i are living together! hes my district leader! were in the zone
presidente prudente, aka the lowest baptizing zone in the mission.
and whatever
happened to alex katich!? i got an email from him 2 weeks ago saying he was in
the ctm in são paulo !?
i cant email him back cause its against mission rules! tell me where he is at
and what mission hes going to please!!!
whatever happened to logan and jenaye, its been a while since i
heard from them???
PARABÉNS
PARA MINHA IRMÃ E O MEU CUNHADO PELO SEU BEBÊ
NOVO!!! :D (translated is: CONGRATULATIONS
FOR MY SISTER AND MY BROTHER-IN-LAW FOR HIS NEW BABY!!!:D) I think this refers
to his new car??
-
Elder Parker
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