Man, what a crazy awesome week! South Philly is great right now, so
much going on and so many miracles. We saw some really awesome people
this week and we were able to get a lot of members out teaching with
us, which helps a ton. We even added another super solid Chinese
investigator to our teaching pool!
First, we saw Pricilla this week, she is doing well, seems sincere, and has a baptism date for in December, but wasn't able to make it to church and hasn't answered our calls.
Hopefully everything is all right.
We saw Carmen this week and set him with a new baptismal date, for in
December. Lots of struggles but really does want to be baptized, just
need to get him there. He is loving brother Harrison at the lessons,
so that should help a ton in the near future. He also has had some
really good spiritual experiences with a blessing we gave him.
We saw Moe! Finally we saw Moe. He is in the hospital now, which is a
good thing... Now that he is in the hospital for some crazy infection
in a wound in his ankle, (Pictures were narley!) he can't get away
from us! He is stuck in a bed, lol, so we saw him Saturday and had a
great talk about baptism and what he needs to do to get there, he was
pretty excited to get baptized and wants to do it ASAP, he just needs
to be more consistent in meeting with us and actually come to church!
Really cool experience though with him. Sometimes I think that some
people are invincible or have no feelings or things like that, but I
witnessed this really really big built black man break down in tears
because of guilt he feels in his heart. It was such a tender moment
and was great to testify of how baptism and repentance can erase that
guilt. Then next day, Sunday, we took the Harrisons to see him. He was
in really high spirits and we read the Book of Mormon together and
taught about the Plan of Salvation. Moe kept telling the Harrisons how
much we helped build up his spirit and it was great to see him doing so
much better. I have very high hopes for Moe in the near future and
hope to work with him a lot more.
We also saw Thianxu and An Hua! Super awesome lesson. We had sister Su
there translating and then the Clarks. Sister Clark went to Curtis,
the school Thianxu is trying to get into, for the harp. It was such an
awesome lesson about the Plan of Salvation. So good! We were able to
answer a lot of their questions and they loved the Clarks. The best
part though was how we could feel what they were talking about in
Chinese even though we didn't understand, I felt that I could follow
the conversation pretty well, which is awesome! The spirit is amazing!
Then at the end we had Thianxu say the prayer, it’s the first prayer he
has ever said! He said it in Chinese but the sprit was so strong!! It
was awesome! Sister Su later told us he was very straight forward and
asked God to tell him if what we have taught him is true. So great for
a first time! Then An Hua came to church and really loved it. They are
both so awesome and are meeting a ton of members. So good!
We are also teaching a new Chinese woman who is a referral from Temple
Square. So I might be too emotionally attached already, because It’s
reminding me a TON of Susan. We meet with her at a park in center city
and she just asks golden questions and is so open to learning. She
wants to know how to deal with sorrow and stress and grief and wants
to know who God is. So great! And she isn't moving back to China soon!
YES!!
Also, we were able to see Meet the Mormons at a Zone Conference this
week, it you have not seen it, go, like right now. It is super
awesome! I was laughing in the first 5 minutes and was inspired by the
end!
God loves you! I love you! Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Parker
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