Dear Family,
Man this week has been crazy! I will see if I can remember everything that happened.
On Monday not much happened, typical P-Day stuff and we were able to see Yousef.
Tuesday we had a massive snow storm. We left our apartment and went to the church to get on Facebook and then we got a text that we couldn't drive because of the snow. So we finished up after teaching an investigator on Facebook, and we drove home. Couldn't really do much, so Elder Thomas packed all his stuff (It was a lot of stuff....) And we re-did basically the entire area book for about 4 hours.... It was crazy. They also moved transfers to Thursday.
Wednesday we weren't able to drive in the morning and it was like 5 Degrees outside, we walked about half a mile to the Morris Library (the campus library) where we discovered they have free computers! Here we were messing around with trying to get library cards for 4.5 months and the library across the street was much better and had no time limit or restrictions. So we did a few things on Facebook and eventually we were able to drive to a dinner appt. with some new members, the Grants that just moved in. It was really great. Her father is President Winn. He was the mission President for the Salt Lake City mission.
Thursday we had transfers and we got a ride up with a member from our stake. Elder Thomas got transferred to West Philly! The Hood! I am excited to hear his stories. Lol. Elder Zolman is my new companion and he is the district leader as well. He has been out for 6 months. He came here from Easton, PA. He was trained there, then trained a golden there and now is here in Newark. He is from San Diego, CA and is a super great missionary, very upbeat and positive. Knows what he is doing. It’s great to have a fresh set of ideas for the area.
Friday not much happened. We had district mtg and did weekly planning. We saw Brother Manchester and had a great lesson. He has a hard time believing in God. Or any type of greater creator. He is a Unitarian Universalist. He has been an eternal investigator for a long time... But he committed to pray to Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ every morning and night for this whole week. I am excited to talk to him about being baptized, because I know he will receive a confirmation that this is true.
Saturday was good. We were finally able to meet with Rex again. He seems to be doing well, which is good. He got the Priesthood last Sunday and is now a Priest and seems to be pretty happy/content. We also met with Brother Dunsmore, he is looking for a better job and seems to be doing well. Hopefully he will keep coming to church!
Sunday was great. The ward had a missionary return. Ben Wendt. Great Elder. Did a door approach role play in his talk with the bishop to talk about faith. It was really good. Brother Brandt came out with us in the evening and even though we had zero appointments, we met with a part member less active family and a less active family; the Woolseys and the Arnolds. Miracles happen when members come out with the missionaries.
This week was great. There were a lot of scary new experiences and a lot of trials, but having Elder Zolman here is great and I am looking forward to this transfer full of new experiences.
I love you all and hope you have a great week!
Love, Elder Parker
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