Thank you all so much for the many great letters and gifts that you sent me this week for my birthday! I cannot express the gratitude and love that I have felt. I am blessed to have so many great family members and friends. I may not be able to respond to you all this week or even in the coming weeks. But I want you all to know of my gratitude for you and the sacrifices you make. Thank you!
This week has been a really great week. I have seen the miracles that come with setting goals that stretch us. Even though we did not meet all of the goals that we set this last week, we were able to rely on the Lord as he helped us to meet those goals.
We have been working with a less active family in our ward a lot recently named the Dunsmores. About two weeks ago Brother Dunsmore brought his friend Roger to church as well. He was excited to be there and committed to be baptized. He doesn't have a date to be baptized yet, but he is praying about one. This week we had an appointment with Brother Dunsmore. We had set a goal for a member present lesson that day(a lesson that a member sits in with us), and it was 8:00 at night and we didn't have a member present lesson yet. We went over to teach Brother Dunsmore and to our surprise, Roger was there. We were able to teach him the Plan of Salvation and continue to talk to him about baptism. It was a miracle provided to us by Heavenly Father because of the faith that we had as we set our goals and plans the night before.
Recently we have been praying for families that we can teach. We met a family from Nigeria that we have met with a few times. Because of their schedules, they are hard to teach all together, but they are a family that has been raised with great faith. Their mother has been out of the country so we have not had the chance to meet with her yet. On Saturday we taught two of the children in the family; Toby and Melody. Toby is 19 and Melody is around 15. We had taught Melody the Plan of Salvation, but she wasn't there when we taught the Restoration. We decided to teach her the Restoration. Once we started and explained that we lived with Heavenly Father before we came to earth, she got up to go get a pen and paper to take notes! She told us that she had been talking to a friend about the Book of Mormon and how it was another testament of Jesus Christ. During the lesson she just soaked up all the information we gave her. It was amazing to see how Heavenly Father had prepared her for the message of the Restoration. They committed to come to church next week, but they want to wait to commit to baptism until after their mother gets back and she can meet with us.
This week has been a great time for me of learning more about the Savior and about the Book of Mormon. Something I have started doing is to just read one chapter of the Book of Mormon a day, so that I can go more in depth with the scriptures and really understand what is being said in that chapter. It’s amazing the things that you can learn when you take time to ponder the scriptures.
Love,
Elder Parker
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