Dear Family,
Well, we had a super awesome week! Even though it seems like I blinked and it was gone.
Monday we taught Paul in the morning, it’s become our Pday routine to put in numbers then go teach Paul at 10, it’s been nice. He is progressing pretty good, he came to church and is doing good. Then we had dinner at bishops, it was tons of fun.
Tuesday we had our Zone conference with Elder Katcher of the Seventy. It was really good, he focused a lot on working with the ward and individual ward council members. I feel like we finally got some solid action items to help us work better with our units. Then that day we went to the Brough's for dinner, he is the Elders Quorum President, they have 4 little kids, lots of fun.
Wednesday we went on exchanges, so I was here with Elder Gibbons from the Cape May branch. We got to teach Brother Eble, a less active man. It was really good. Then we saw Lee and Tiffany. Tiffany is a returning member and Lee is her nonmember boyfriend, it was a little weird because it was the first time I was meeting them, but it went well. Then later in the night we taught Pauline, she is doing really good. She read the first 5 chapters of the Book of Mormon and accepted a baptism date for in August. We are hoping to get her to church this week.
Friday we taught the Anderson's, it was really awesome! She is a recent convert and her 12 year old daughter is investigating. We almost had to cancel because we couldn't find a man to come with us, but we found one at the last second and then when we got there her non member sister and niece were there! It was a really really good lesson and the spirit was strong. We will be getting to meet with them again in a few weeks! After that we went and had a lesson with the down stairs neighbor of a member. His name is Sonny and he is pretty awesome. Brother Versteg also fed us Friday, we had super good crab cakes. He is awesome, he is also feeding us tonight.
Sunday was so great! We went to church and were talking with a member in the foyer, and this man walked in wearing shorts and a polo with his Wawa coffee, guessing he was a non member we walked over to him and he told us he found the church online, watched a bunch of the churches videos on YouTube and wanted to come to church and get Book of Mormon! So he came to church and stayed all three hours, we taught the restoration during gospel principles and we will be seeing him (Mark) on Wednesday again! It was great! We also had 4 other investigators come to church. We also got to see Major on Sunday and went over Abraham chapter 1, it was an interesting discussion... But it was good, he is a really deep thinker. Then we had dinner with the Subblefields, they are a great family. They moved here from Lancaster and we know a couple of common people from my time in Reading, their kids are great, they love the missionaries. After that we went with another member, Brother Bliss to teach a man I met with Elder Kofford, Vinney. We had an awesome lesson with him and his wife Robin. They live by and know Bishop Bird. It was really good and we will get to see them next Monday night.
We also saw Tyler and Linda this week, they are doing great! No concerns have really come up yet.
This week we get to have Zone Training, so it should be interesting, we have been spending a good chunk of time preparing for that, it should be good! We found a great talk that we are having everyone read beforehand, I'll forward it to you, it’s great!
That’s about all that happened this week that was exciting, I could definitely see the Lord's Hand in this week, it was truly amazing!
I hope you all have a great week! I love you all!
Love,
Elder Parker
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