Mom, ya i know those people. just add them to my
facebook, you dont have to ask me when i
get home ill be able to see who i want and who not.
bryce pass is the
man!
haha dakota
sounds like hes turning into the man that everyone wants him to be. im super
excited for his future! why is riley getting bigger then me?!
ya pres. tavares
and sis. tavares came to my district conference. i baptized that little dude,
his family was innactive and theyre reactivating! :) the baptism of there son
has only excited them even more! sister tavares bore her testimony at the
baptism, shes is my brazilian mom.
ya i got the
package, haha i got it 10 days before my actual birthday. im not 20 yet family.
20 years old, im getting so old. i fell
like im an old man. 9 boxes of reeses pieces and two bags of mangos? ya! but
you can put a little variety in what you do. a yoyo? ill probably just give it
to some random brazilian kid on the street...
sounds like
chads doing good in prison, cause tupã is the worst city on this planet. i was
talking to this lady thats left the church and i invited her to come to church,
she said no, then i told her if she doesnt come to church then shes breaking a
commandment and she doesnt love Jesus. she said, " i dont love
Jesus." these people are so prideful here! there hearts are stone! i feel
like im trying to invite souless people to return to church. the district
president gave us a list of the less actives in my branch, there is twelve
pages of 600 less active people! he asked us to meet everyone of them and see
what we can do. (1 Nephi 3:7 please)
this city
is so apostate. these are by far the most prideful people ive ever met in my
life. strong members also, they dont care that there neighbors arent coming to
church. theres over a thousand people baptized in this city, i did the math, 1
out of every 65 people is a member. and i had 57 in the church yesterday. do
you see what im working with here!? and elder saraiva keeps having deja vu and
he says he thinks God is talking to him telling him this is where he will die.
hes not even joking either.
i
decided im just gonna go on a rampage and start baptizing the rest of this
city. this city is in the state são paulo. my mission cover the state of paraná
and a little bit of são paulo .
i think maybe thats why i got your package a little faster then usual. it only
took 10 days.
im very
grateful for our trials that we face in our lives. without our trials, how
could we grow. we need to have the hard times so that we can recognize the good
times. but we need to face these trials with humility, or we cannot grow. pride
is the stumbling block to everything in this life. every sin is a branch of our
pride. i want to make a difference in this city but i need a lot more help from
my Heavenly Father do do His work here. i need a lot more humility in my life.
-
Elder Parker
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Dad, i dont think ive ever met the pittams before? shes
probable from paraná, minas gerais or rio
de janeiro though.(Dad’s home teaching family just got
a foreign exchange student)
ya elder cleveland is doing really
well, we write each other about every other month.
when is pierce
going to go into the field. the field is so much better then the mtc. the mtc
is terrible.
cambria is
gonna be 10 right? man dad im turning 20 next week. never thought id say that.
its a whole new world of responsibility.
thats cool that
riley went to a fresno
state game with the parkers. i really hope that addison and cameron parker make
the decision serve a mission. not someday, but really soon. they say that you
gain enough wisdom and knowledge in these two years then someone else will
recieve in a whole life as a member of the church. its so true also. im doing
things i never thought id ever do. my humility has reached a peak that i used
to see as foolish. the pride of a heart cannot see the joys of humility. the
older i get as a missionary the more older i feel. i feel as if my soul, has
been growing years and years in the last couple months. this week i had two
baptisms that fell. they dont want anymore to do with the church. for now they
say. but the great enemy through a little trial in there way that they just
couldnt get over. it happened friday night. i worked all week with them, and a
lot of last week also. i gave them everything i had. but just as it is, every
baptism must have a period of opposition. opposition in all things. without
opposition how will we grow. when i got home that night of friday, i was filled
with a mix of emotions. i knew i gave all i had, i had no more to do for them.
the rest was just to get in the water. but that friday night, i knelt down and
i gave thanks to my Heavenly Father for the opposition that He put into there
lives right now and the opportunity that He gave them to make this choice. it
was a tender prayer, i never thought in a million years that i would give
thanks to Heavenly Father for my baptisms falling. generally i feel feelings of
dissapointment, anger, or lacks of faith. but this time it was different, it is
His Work, He directs it, He sculpts it, He decides what is best, i just give it
all to Him. but its not easy, but its very worth it.
-
Elder Parker
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