Only Miracles in Tupa!!

Miracles in Tupa for sure! In just one week the Lord was able to soften Sebastiao's heart and he was baptized. AMAZING! I am so thankful that Parker was able to be a witness to this. GLORY...GLORY!!

Mom, im staying in tupã... NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

  the only area ill stay in more than 3 months and its in Tupã! NOOOO!!!!

  my address is still the same then.

      who is alec jensen, he sent me an email asking about the mtc or if im getting chick mail yet... (Help?? I have no idea)

   ya im stayin with elder schenewark. Elder Chambers got transfered to bauru haha

     is jordan patterson active again!? i could cry!

      i need socks and garments please

       Barack Obamas the man! (not a shared opinion of family!)

  it was only miracles this week in tupã! that man i was talking about last week got baptized yesterday! his names sebastião. we passed by there on tuesday with the branch president and to be honest didnt even teach him anything, just talked about the dream that he recieved and then our branch pres. told him that when hes ready, we will be here to help him get baptized. but he was not open to us at all, he kept talking about how its not his time and that God told him that he should actually stay in the church hes in. which we know is a lie cause God would not lie to someone, so i told him straight up, you changed the answer that you recieved to fit to your circunstances and that you werent doing the Lords will but yours. but with a closed heart nothing can touch him ya know. so we passed by there on thursday and just started talking regular with them and he told us that the visit with pres. fabio really touched him and that pres. fabio said something that really touched him. he told us that he couldnt sleep that whole night after we visited him and that he went into the bathroom at 3 in the morning and just started crying. he said that God said to him, " I am the Master and you are the servant, and when I show you the right path you do not take it? no, you have to take this path I have shown you cause I am the Master." he was crying when he told us the story, i was thinking haha alright! nothing like a burning from Heavenly Father to make someone obey His will. welcome to the Big Leagues Sebastião, when God gives an answer, you follow it. we immediately jumped out of our chairs and gave him big hugs of rejoicement. it was a very tender and sweet moment. everyone was happy! haha when he got baptized, he came out of the water shouting, "glory!" "Glory!" and tears fell from his cheeks. o ya, he randomly asked elder chambers who has never taught him and talked to him once in his life to baptize him, he said that God told him that Elder Chambers should baptize him. so we let elder chambers dress up in white also with elder schenewark just to make him happy haha. its only miracles happening here in tupã! the Lord is blessing us a lot here. 

        does landon live with his girlfreind?!

     did you get my birthday video yet, i sent it home about a month ago...

           LOVE YOU ALL!

           - Elder Parker     

  o ya i forgot, elder havili is in my old area in arapongas and this week he baptized two people that i got the signatures for and taught but things came up in the end with parents and stuff so they didnt get baptized and it was on the miracle of the week that they passed by there and baptized the two teenagers this week, yaaa the Lord blesses us with more baptisms!!! i loved those little skater dudes so much and now there members of the church!!!

Dad,

wow,60 missionaries in 3 months. in missions they do it by transfers (6 week intervals) so that means that in one transfer there gonna get 30 missionaries. thats a lot of missionaries. this transfer we are recieving 17, which is a really big group haha itll probably just keep on going up.

   i wish elder schenewark would have went to the stake youth musical,(it was entitled In God we Trust) hes obsessed with the united states. hes from the east coast so i think there probably really patriotic over there cause boy does he talk a lot about the u.s. and how it was divinely prepared to receive the restored gospel. he loves it.

    

i dont really know maddy cleveland but congrats to her! (going to Argentina for mission)

       ya, we won the competition! we found out right now, haha i cant believe we won, this is basically the worst place on earth. the zone covers two cities, one called presidente prudente and the other tupã where were at and both of the cities are known as the worst cities of all time for missionary work, one being because the church has been in both cities more than 30 years and they still dont have stakes( large congregations) and the second because the members struggle, which would explain why the 1st reason is there also. but its getting better, we had an attendance of 72 in sacrament meeting, thats the highest weve ever had in the last 8 months. the new missionaries are helping out alot.

    im bummed i cant go to utah with you all, i really wanna see temple square and all that since i still have never seen it in my life. i think im gonna get married in the salt lake temple. love you dad, say hi to everyone for thanksgiving.

                            - Elder Parker