Let us all SHINE on!!

Mom,

    ya we moved out, its been an adventure this whole week. 4 missionaries one house, and four mattresses. we have no furniture, no fridge, microwave, no nothing. no washing machine, my garments i have on right now ive been wearing for 3 days now!!! all we have is running water and we cant even drink the water from the sink. we have been sitting on the floor to eat and do everything, study, plan, dress, sleep. hahaha me and elder schenewark had to carry our mattresses to the new house which is about a mile away from the house and it was like nine fifteen at night and theres just two white mormon missionaries carrying mattresses down a busy avenue at nine fifteen at night. we walked in front of this church and the pastor looked at us like what is going on in this world. the other two are elder anderson and elder sander. there both brazilian and they both have a lot of time. one has 1 year and 8 months and the other 1 year and 4 months. they dance alot. i bought some bread, mustard, and hot sauce and someone else bought saltine crackers. mmm ive had saltine crackers with hot sauce for breakfast the last 3 days. and i just steadily munch on bread. and elder chambers lives in the other house about a fifteen minute walk away. and the guy to put the beds, desks and dressers together has marked to come here like 3 times and he never comes! its really impeded the work though cause if he comes then one set has to stay and let him in and show him where to put stuff and where to build it and just make sure that nothing goes wrong and he never comes! so this week he stole like 3 days from us, one being pday which you just dont do. but they just brought the washing machine finally, got the guys reference that brought it to us, he seems baptizable. he seemed pretty interested.

     tyler Haroldsen needs to get called to brazil londrina so i can be comps with him and we baptize everyone!

     CONGRATULATIONS TO LOGAN AND JENAYE BENNETT!!!!!!!! im so excited for them to enter the temple, they can be blessed much more in there lives because of this decision. i wish i could have been there for there REAL wedding. Dear logan and jenaye, welcome to the Big Leagues.

    kayson knows how to talk?! he probably speaks better english then me, although i do speak some mean pirate.

     well we baptized this week!!!! we baptized this really funny old lady. haha i think shes like 76 or something. her names natalina! elder schenewark put  her in the water like a pro! i was so proud! hes got a little kick in his step ever since he cleaned 76 years worth of sins. Priesthood Powerzão!!!! Natalina was telling a member about us meeting her and it almost brought me to tears. last saturday we were knocking on this guys door that we taught and he wasnt answering. then this old lady from across the street came out from her house and said hes probably not home. we said thanks! then we sat there and kept clapping at his door. he wasnt coming but the old lady was watching us from the otherside of the street. then i said to elder schenewark, what does this old lady want man?! we clapped again. nobody, but she was still there. so i said lets just talk to her then. so we went over there all excited and what not and just told her to go to church tomorrow and that wed be there to pick her up. she agreed. miracle she was there the next day waiting in the doorway, i was like, alright ill take an old lady to church then.( No disrespect just because old people usually are really hard to baptize). so we took her to church and the next day when i went to teach her with another elder, it was a division, we taught the restoration to her and at the end elder abreu said to her, sister natalina we have a very special invite for you. (invitation of baptism) but she said, " before the invite can i ask a question." we said yes. she asked us how long does she have to wait to be baptized in this church!!!!!!!!! i almost jumped out of my seat! i was like sister natalina, you can be baptized this sunday! she said you think i can be prepared for this sunday? i was like, Yes you can! you already agreed to be baptized this sunday and then i just yelled over all her doubts she had and she started laughing and it was smooth sailing from there. haha while preparing her we taught her the law of chastity. she said, " well my husband died 20 years ago. then when we invited her to live the law of chastity she said i dont know what if i meet a nice man in the church of the mormons. i was like natalina can i build a time machine and go back in  time and marry you. i love her to death. shes hilarious! shes like the grandma recent convert i always wanted! o ya but heres the best part, she was telling the member about meeting us and she said that she saw two young men knocking the door across the street and that she came out to see them. i called to them that he wasnt home but they kept knocking, so i sat there and watched them. because while i was watching them knock the door, they were shining. i saw a light illuminating from them. and when they came to talk to me, i saw that they had a light that was illuminating from them so when they invited me to go to church, i had to agree. she said, " i wanted to be a member of this church before they talked to me, because of the light that left from them and the way that made me feel." they were like two angels across the street and now i have two angels in my home with me.

thats the second person thats told me that here in Tupã. like i said to the first, im just so white that the sun is reflecting off of me that makes me appear like i shine. i shall shine on then!!!!

BLESSINGS FROM THE MISSION!

let us all SHINE on!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!

- Elder Parker

 Dad,

    man 7000 missionaries coming into the field. were makin the last serge for the second coming. VAMOS LÁ!!! ya it was super exciting when they announced that in general conference. Elder Schenewark is coming along just fine. he got his first little baptism this week. it was very special, youll see it in moms email. the works going but the members arent. i hope the Lord answers my prayers and wakes them up.

ya about Presidente Gelwixs talk he gave, one thing that we learned the other day is that they call missionaries based on there mission president. they have a picture of you, and they decide where youll go based on the revelation they get from which mission president you should be assigned to. pretty cool huh. Elder Cook of the Twelve said that, he also said its a more profound doctrine that happens in the mission choosing process that nobody knows much about. so i was assigned to serve the Lord, but i was assigned to serve with His servant Presidente Tavares. pretty cool huh.

hurraay for logan and jenaye getting sealed in the temple. thats pretty monumental to think that there getting sealed in the temple considering where logan was 3 years ago. onto the next ones, landon and chad.

tell cambria i said to get better. she still is that little baby in the stocking to me.

utah? i still havent had a comp that is from utah and i dont think ill ever be like utanians. i live with brazilians, i just forgot english so hoot is a good, mild mannered word to use for him. you dont have to worry about me, ill always be a cali boy. did i mention we got a new house, nothing else inside or anything, just a new house, with 4 mattresses.

- Elder Parker