March 15, 2010

Dear Family,

Hello, hello! Good to hear from y’all this week. We had interesting week so let me tell you about it.

We had the chance to see Zach Taylor, one of my recent converts. We had President’s interviews and I talked to President about Zach. He is in St. Jude’s fighting cancer. Bless his heart. We went down on Tuesday and we read the Book of Mormon to him about the Stripling Warriors. Then he went to sleep. The Spirit is so strong at St. Jude’s. There are tons of kids battling cancer and so there is just a great peace and respect for the people there. You feel it as soon as you walk into the building, you feel the spirit.

Kyle is not doing so well. He is very discouraged. He doesn’t feel ready and his Brother seems to be giving him a hard time. But, we really think the problem is his Dad that he goes and visits every other week. For some reason, he has to go to his dad’s this week as well. I hope that he isn’t feeding him anti. He is such a good kid and he knows that it is true. So we will continue to work with him this week.

We have started to work with a new family. An ex-communicated member started to come back to church. Well, his wife and daughter are not members of the church so we are working with them. They are pretty solid so we are excited to see them progress in the next couple of weeks!

Saturday was a day full of service. We helped a part-member family move into a house so that was fun. Then we tried to remove a stump in a recent converts backyard. His name is Benji Sawyer. We had some fun and got really muddy.

We have also started to teach a marine dude that is interested in what we believe. We had a lesson with him on Saturday and he had a sheet of paper that was full of anti. We will see if he will go anywhere in the future.

I am saddened by the death of Alex Amundson. I did know him when we would visit with the Amundsons. My prayers go out to the Amundson family.

Thank you for all the prayers, love, and support you have given me, I love y’all! Talk to you next week.

Love

Kyle (Elder Parker)

Pictures included: (The Stump!), (Brandon Yarbrough came and visited and we all played Frisbee golf last p-day), (Elder Wilson had come back to the mission with his family and Girlfriend (I knew Elder Wilson when I was in Jackson, TN))