Hey everybody,
I hope things are going well at home. That's awesome that
Emma and Jared moved back home. I hope everything goes well for them and that
Jared can have a lot of success with his new job.
That's crazy that Ryan is going to Texas. One of my
companions in the MTC is from San Antonio and he said Texas is great. I'm not
sure it's as cool as Colombia but still.
This week has been fairly interesting. On Wednesday we had a
giant training meeting with all of the missionaries in the city of Barranquilla
where we were able to hear from the Assistants and President and Sister Searle.
The day later we had to go to the mission office for interviews with President
Searle (nothing's wrong, I promise) and that took all morning on Thursday. And
we had a few more meetings with our district and our zone so I feel very
trained.
Yesterday we had a multi stake conference broadcast for all
of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. It was very good because we got to hear
from Elder Oaks, Elder Hales, Sister McConkie and one of the members of the
Presiding Bishopric. And Elder Oaks tried to share part of his talk in Spanish,
but he doesn't know Spanish so that was interesting. It's crazy to see how
human the apostles really are and that they have difficulties too, but he
made a great effort and I was very inspired.
So about the pictures. The past two P'days I have brought my
camera but I have always forgotten to charge it so I don't have very many
pictures. I just charged my camera though so next week I'll be sure to have
more.
Everything is going pretty well here with the work. Our investigators
right now are not progressing too well but we are working on fellowshipping
more and receiving references from the members to talk with. But yesterday was
pretty bad because we only had 4 regular active members attend the conference.
And none of our converts or less actives attended. So that's been a little
stressful but we are working on changing the attitude of the members here.
I'm pretty sure that you guys found our church building. It
is really small and doesn't really stand out too much, especially because of
the graffiti, but it's nice inside. And has air conditioning. Our house right
now is about two blocks away from the church. We are currently living in a
house that the patriarch is renting out to us but he is asking for the house so
we will be moving in the next couple of weeks.
Dad, thanks for sending the mission goals. The work back
home sounds like it is really progressing. Here our goals for lessons and new
investigators are a little higher, but we still have so many investigators that
end up not progressing. It's really sad and I wish there was something more
that we can do. So these
past few days I have been thinking a lot about what more we can do to help with retaining investigators. If you have any ideas, they would be appreciated.
I still have plenty of money here. There really isn't that
big of a need for personal money because we have enough with what we receive
every two weeks. And I am fine on clothes too. I have had to fix a few shirts
and pairs of pants but they still work just fine. And I am still fine without a
suit.
It's been great hearing about what's going on at home. I
can't wait to hear from you guys in a few weeks at mother's day.
Elder Parker
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| With Elder Condori by church in Soledad |
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| At the apartment |
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