Hey everybody,
Things seem to be going great back at home. Things here are
going okay. We are really struggling to get people to attend church. On
Saturday we had almost everyone saying that they would attend, but in reality
only two of our investigators did. It's really stressful but we are trying to
do our best here.
Everybody is getting ready for Christmas! I'm sad that I
missed the ward Christmas party, but our ward will have a Christmas dinner in
about two weeks, so we are pretty excited for that. The same day as the dinner
we are hoping to have the baptism of German, so we'll see how that goes.
Unfortunately, the baptism for Berta isn't going to happen for a while because
she started working every day from 8 am to 8 pm, so we never have a chance to
talk to her. Her schedule will be better in January so we are hoping that
things will start to improve then.
I finally received a letter! This week at our Zone meeting I
got the very first letter you sent to me in September when I was still in the
CCM. Hopefully that means that any other letters will get here soon. I also got
a call from one of the Secretaries that my packages arrived at the office and
that they will get here in about two weeks, so hopefully right before
Christmas. I do have to pay a customs fee so that is pretty lame but I still
have plenty of American money so I am doing fine for right now.
Right now I am studying in Mosiah at the part when Abinadi
is talking to the wicked priests. I love it because the priests are trying to
trick Abinadi but he always has just these solid answers so none of the priests
can accuse him of anything. It is really cool for me as a missionary to think
about this because Satan wants so badly for me to slip up, so I just have to
focus so much on the Spirit and what it's telling me to say.
One last thing. Today we were in the mall doing some
shopping when the song "I'll be home for Christmas" started playing.
That was really weird because they used to always play it on the radio with the
messages from the soldiers, but it applies here too. Even though I'm lots of
miles away, I'm still thinking about you guys and trying every day to do the
things to make you proud.There is nothing I would rather do this Christmas than
spend my time in the service of the Savior.
I love you guys and can't wait to see you in a few weeks.
Elder Parker
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