DECEMBER 23, 2013

This week has been really good. We have been pretty busy and have welcomed a new senior couple to our district, Elder and Sister McArthur. They are specifically helping the New Castle ward family with financial stuff and helping them get better jobs and education. They are great missionaries.

It’s been a fairly slow week as far as investigators and lessons go. We were dropped by one of our investigators and the other didn't hold his appointment. We found 5 new investigators. The Dunsmore family we have been working with brought a friend to church who is also going to come next week. Hopefully we can teach him soon.
Susan emailed me back. I shared a link to the nativity that she watched. She has gotten the info for the church in China and said she is going to go next week!
The weather has been pretty strange lately. Saturday and Sunday it was 70! Today it’s about 60 and it’s raining pretty hard. It feels really weird to not have snow at Christmas time. We have quite a few meal appointments this week. We are going to Bishop Fails house on Christmas eve. We are going to the Rodriguez family's house on Christmas and we are also going to the Brandt’s and we will be skyping home. As a District we are going to be caroling tomorrow at the mall which should be fun.

That’s about all we did last week. Thank you to everyone for the letters, cards and packages. If I don't respond this week, I will next week! I love you all and hope you have a Merry Christmas!
Love, Elder Parker