Mom,
hurray for logan and jenaye! congratulations for your
temple wedding!!! i wish i was there for the Halloween party and karaoke. . . .
. tupac anyone..., return of the Skinny...
no but seriously
though something crazy happened this week! me and elder schenewark were walking
down this street and when we turning the corner and i heard someone yelling
something. but i couldnt make out what they were saying and plus it was from
far away so i thought it was other people yelling to one another. we kept going
but whoever it was kept yelling it out, "Magro!" "ay
Magro!" "Magrinho!" then i finally realized they were yelling
out to me, so i turned around and looked and this kid just said, " e ai
Magro!" then gave me the thumbs up and went back in his house. Magro in
portuguese means SKINNY!!! that kid was
calling out to me, " ay skinny!" and when i looked he just said, "
whats up skinny!" gave me the thumbs up and left. elder schenewark said to
me, who is that kid. i told him i dont know. he said what did he want. i said,
"people recognize me anywhere i go and in whatever language." end of
the convo.
halloween
parties are fun huh, they dont celebrate halloween here. candy is a national
thing, wherever theres candy, theres gotta be halloween.
i dont know
why Gods putting so much old people in our paths. i think elder schenewarks
gonna be known as some old person baptizer. were teaching this old couple that
is going to baptize this sunday. haha this week we almost baptized this middle
aged lady but when we passed by there to get her and teach her, her aunt came
out and said, she doesnt follow anything. then i said, well shes gonna follow
Jesus Christ being baptized this weekend. then the aunt told me that this lady
we were teaching is a drunk and cant get off of pinga. pinga is a highly
addictive brazilian drink. i looked at elder schenewark and was like, dang we
almost baptized a pinga drinking drunk. got out of there and never went back.
but if she hadnt have drank pinga in the last 4 days, i still would have
baptized her that very night! só batiza!
me and elder schenewark are starting something new, operation baptize
children. were gonna carry candy in our pockets and walk around and throw them
out to all the little kids on the streets, that way they love us and its easy
to get in with the parents and we can baptize some families. were gonna be the
creepiest elders in town. " hay
kids, you like candy?" "YA!YA!YA!" " Elder Parkerll give ya some candy if
you jump in the baptismal font!" or heres my new question when i roll up
into favelas (ghettos), " goodness its hot,... who wants to go
swimming?!"
welcome to
missionary work. ;D Totally joking, calm down, don’t take
everything I say so serious! Gotta have some humor now! We will baptize anyone
the Lord puts in our path, we are just hoping for a family!
-
Elder Parker
Dad, (asked who is Gaspar that keeps appearing on Parkers
bank register)
ya gaspar is this
guy that basically owns this town. he owns the local market that we all go to.
hes also the mayor here, he basically runs everything. ya weve got everything
now except for the kitchen table.
thanks
for the words of wisdom dad. thats very surreal that logan and jenaye were sealed in the temple.
as a church we need to be more of a temple going people. im grateful that my
city has a temple. i was thinking about where im going to live when i get my
family and everything going and then the thought popped into my head, wherever
the temple is. so i dont have to leave, fresno
will have to do.
That’s
really great though that they got sealed, i feel very blessed that i have two
more older siblings that have taken upon themselves the higher covenants even
the covenants of exaltation, i hope he understands the full responsibilities
that come with everything that he’s just done, it will be pivotal for him and
his family in the coming years huh.
well, tupã
is a far far way away from zion ,
but were giving it all weve got. we did an activity that the brazil area presidency made for all branches and
wards in brazil
to do. we had the activity on saturday, we had a whole 9 members, 8 missionaries
and 3 of my investigators im teaching go to the activity. sometimes i feel like
these people actually dont want a solution to there problems cause they are
used to losing to satan so theyve just given up. weve got new missionaries here
so the work should be able to go by faster. to tell you the truth, if i was a
member here, a common brazilian person 20 years old and i lived in tupã, id
fall away from the church. but im a missionary, and i know the potential this
place has that they cannot see, so work, work, work is what we will do!
o ya
that lady we baptized last week, i confirmed her yesterday, can you believe
that im doing most of these priesthood ordinances for the first time in a
foreign land, speaking a foreign language. its crazy how far someone can come
in such short time with the help of the Lord. feels like yesterday i didnt
understand people when they asked me my name.
love ya dad!
- Elder Parker
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