This week has been crazy. Wednesday we had an exchange with Elder Stuki and Elder Stark. Elder Stuki came to our area with me and we had a good time. We have a little bit of a personality clash and he was really loud, but it was good. We found out some information about our investigators and it really stressed me out. Pray for Rex. Also pray for Mike H., our amazing story from last week. He texted us and told us he didn't want to meet with us and wouldn't respond to our messages. It was a hard day.
We had zone training on Thursday. We talked about testifying when we teach. How every sentence we say should carry our testimony in it. Then we had a really cool lesson about the atonement. We went into the gym and the zone leaders pulled out donuts. They asked who wanted one. Of course everyone raised their hand. They called out an Elder to come get his. Then they asked if Elder Sanchez would do ten push-ups so that this Elder could have his donut. He did them and the Elder got his donut. Then they called out another missionary and repeated. They did this for all the missionaries. Eventually people started saying they didn't want a donut. So they asked Elder Sanchez to do ten push-ups for them to have a donut they don't want. As we continued on we could tell that it was getting hard for Elder Sanchez to keep doing all the push-ups. Eventually everyone was doing them with him to help him along. In the end, he did around 280 push-ups. We talked about how the atonement is there for all of us. How we need to accept it because Christ did it. It was a powerful experience that I will never forget.
Later that day we had another exchange. Elder Sanchez came to our area with me and we taught some good lessons. It was stressful to be in an area that only I know, without Elder Thomas. It shows me how much work I still have to do to be ready to take over an area.
Thursday Mike texted us and told us he would still meet with us! It was so exciting! We are going to meet with him sometime this week. Sunday we had an investigator come to church named Max. He kinda fell asleep during parts of church but it was good and he wants to come back. We haven't really met with him yet. Sister Galagos came to church for the first time since I have been here (she is a less active we are working with). The Dunsmore family also came to church (also a less active family we have been working a lot with) so sacrament was great! They cancelled the rest of church because there were 3 inches of snow outside! It was a pretty crazy storm. It took us an hour and a half to get to our apartment 3 miles away because it was mostly up hill and the roads were closed. We went out to try and shovel people’s driveways but we don't have any shovels and no one would let us help. So it was frustrating but we meet some good people. We went to the church that night and watched the Christmas Devotional. I really enjoyed it.
Tomorrow are transfers and we found out that Elder Thomas and I are both staying here in Newark! We were both so shocked we yelled when we found out. This is the longest Elder Thomas has stayed in one area.
That’s all for this week.
Love ya!
Elder Parker
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