(Speaking about the weather and snowpack)
It has been about the same 88 to 92 here, but it has rained a lot. I
hope
you guys get a good amount of snow this year. It's been rough the
past few
years. I bet you and mom and Ben will have some fun skiing stories
when I
get back.
Is Sarah still playing the piano? I'm sad to hear that the Grovers
are moving. I think that President Grover will be working at the same place as
Cori. I bet Bishop Walton is doing a great job. The Ramroops are doing
better. Donald, the dad, finally got to go to a good hospital, courtesy of
President Mehr and probably the church humanitarian fund. He was going to die
if he didn't get medical care. Elder Rowley and I also helped out when their
house flooded because one of the kids left a sink on. Victoria, the mom, and
the 3 oldest kids came to church this week. We had 8 investigators at church
this week, which was a nice way to end a challenging week. We did a lot of
finding this week, because we need to find some more prepared people. Our
teaching pool has gotten kind of low so we are on the hunt for some more wheat.
We had to move the Ramroops
Baptismal date because of health challenges, but they want to be
baptized!
Today we are going Christmas caroling and then we will be having thanksgiving
dinner at the mission home. Oh, and we also were able to finally motivate
another one of our investigators to come to church. One other cool story from
this week. On Wednesday morning all of our morning appointments fell through.
We decided to do some finding in an apartment complex, but we missed the turn.
Thinking we could find another entrance we kept driving. Instead of finding our
way into the apartments, we found ourselves in the middle of some farmland. Not
knowing what to do, we decided to pray. We asked Heavenly Father to provide us
with somebody to teach, since we had been tracting all morning. As soon as we
finished praying, we looked into our rear view mirror and saw a man dumping something
out of a bucket. As we started driving away he yelled out to us
"Church people?". We got out and started talking to him
and found out that he, Hablal, was a member since 1985. It was so cool to see
the Lord answer our prayer like that. It really helped to strengthen my
testimony of prayer. Hurrah for Israel!
Love, Elder Parker
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