JULY 28, 2014

Dear Family,

Well this week was another great one here in South Philly! Now the
challenge is to see if I can remember everything and then put it down
in a way to make it as awesome as it was...

Monday! Well, it was a great day full of nothing, other than a really
fun lesson with a less active named Jessie. Then we got like halfway to the church and realized Elder
Cottle didn't have his SEPTA pass.... So ya, we tried various ways to
get another and it just didn't make fiscal sense and so we have been
walking this last week. Lots of walking. Tuesday we had to go to
center city, and probably walked 55 blocks, Wednesday was about 60 blocks and
Thursday was about 75-80 blocks. My feet are gonna be like rocks! Calves of
steel! It's been fun.

Tuesday was a pretty busy day, taught the Marinellis, Carmen, Phatsala
and Ron. It was pretty awesome.

Wednesday, another busy day. Taught Mimi, Jessie again, brother
McDowel, Wayne and Sharon and Marlene. Marlene's lesson was awesome.
Brother Mounelasy came (high priests group leader) and bore great
testimony, we taught the restoration and she had great questions and
seemed to understand fairly well, we will be following up this week on
her reading and prayers. She could progress quickly if she gets an
answer.

Thursday, meetings, then walking all the way to center city, pretty
much as far south to as far north, for a dinner with the Steffens.
Which was awkward, they live in this super nice building with one of
those door guys downstairs that doesn't really think you are welcome... Ya.
It worked out though, then we did our home teaching of the Degeners.
It was good.

Friday, went to the Ronald McDonald house and did service with the
Spanish Elders. It was fun and then picked up your package. It was
great. Then we did exchanges, I went to the east side. Had some fun
with Elder Pead. They live with the Spanish elders in a house, pretty awesome.
Oh, we named all the rooms in the house and their basement bathroom is
called Scranton lol. It's pretty secluded.

Saturday we had a Pioneer branch activity. Not too many people came and
we (missionaries) started doing double Dutch in the assembly room. It
was pretty awesome, Elder Pead and Elder Mask are pretty great at it.
Then all our appointments fell through for the day (5) and we did some
walking and calls and finding. Pretty uneventful.

Sunday  we went to church and had dinner and a lesson with the Tomlins.
It was crazy, felt like a marriage class.

It was an awesome week, went by really fast! Crazy to think the
transfer is half over already! Thanks for all that you do, love you
all!

Love,
Elder Parker