October 19, 2009

Dear Family,

What a week. It has been filled with Joy and success. Let me tell you a little bit about it.

Wednesday, Elder Gift, my old mission companion came into town and took me and my companion out to lunch. It was really good to see him. He also brought his girlfriend from Arkansas. Don’t worry, it’s a good thing. It was good to see both of them again. We had a nice visit.

Probably the biggest event of the week was when Darius Gray came into town from SLC. He is a black man that does genealogy for African Americans and others. He gave a great talk to the community and there were 187 people that attended. 60% of them were non-members so it was a huge success. We had a chance to talk to a proclaimed prophet. We in turn, taught him the first vision. We gave him our number and he said it was quite interesting so you never know.

We have been doing a lot of service for this part-member family that had come into the ward. They had moved from Trenton, TN and they just needed some help because they have a lot of physical problems. Anyway, we finally asked the husband, who is a non-member, if he would like to be taught and he said yes so that went well. So we will teach him this coming week.

Saturday we went to Brownsville, TN. It is about 30 minutes west of Jackson. There was a bunch of media that needed to be delivered so that is what we did. We met a lot of people out there and met this couple that we are coming back on Saturday to teach. They seem pretty promising.

Sunday was good. We had what they call a linger longer and everyone brought some food. It was awesome! A former investigator named Antonia that we were teaching in Brownsville showed up! I had called her to tell her that we were in town on Saturday and were wondering if we could visit with her. She didn’t call us back or anything and yet she just showed up to church. Crazy!

Natalie’s baptism is coming up on Saturday. The family is excited and hopefully more good will come from it.

That was my week. This week looks pretty busy again so I am excited! Thank you for your love, support and prayers on my behalf. May the Lord bless you for your dedication! I love y’all!

Love,

Elder Parker

Pictures Include: (Me and Darius Gray), (Me and Parker Gift)