April 19, 2010

Dear Family,

Hey, things are going well here in Bartlett, TN! A lot of things happened so I thought I would update you on them.

So the beginning of the week, we met a new person. We met a less active named Steven Irwin. He was really nice. He had us over for dinner on Saturday. We went to his old address and found out that it was his wife’s house and

he was fixin’ to have a divorce so he moved out. Found out that he is our next door neighbor and we never saw him or he never saw us. Really good guy and he wants to get back into church. He wants to raise his teenage kids in church and in Jesus Christ. We are willing to help but we told him he needs to start to set the example and start coming to church. So, we are working on reactivating him.

We had another meeting with the missionary squad, a group of youth in both the Bartlett 1^st and 2^nd wards. It went well, we just discussed with them friends who are non-members who they want to invite to church and give a Book of Mormon to. They are sweet!

Katie is doing good. She still plans on getting baptized this weekend. She has a Word of Wisdom problem that she is working on so hopefully she will be able to stay clean for the rest of the week. Last night we found out that she was on probation for keying someone’s car. Well, she got a call from her probation officer today and told her that she was off probation. How awesome is that! She was so happy and told us that she knows that God is there and is answering her prayers! The timing is perfect! Please pray that she won’t mess up on her word of wisdom problem. Thanks!

The Russells, a member couple in West Memphis, was in Bartlett in the hospital. Bro. Russell was getting surgery on his artery so he could get it unclogged. We gave him a blessing before his surgery and he is now home and fine!

We have been contacting a lot of places and finding more people to teach, which is good! So things are going well there!

Saturday was called the day of service. We did a service project in Memphis and cleaned up the side of the road. Enjoy the pictures. Katie was there as well, so that was good for her. She is loving church so much!

Satan is working hard on Katie but also on Karyn and Nycole. We haven’t been in contact with them for a while now. They just “Don’t have time” to meet with us. We have tried everything. We even dropped off cookies but to no avail, it didn’t work. So, this week we are going to strive to get in contact with them.

So that was my week, it was good. Thank you for your love, support and prayers in my behalf! I sure do love you! Thanks again.

Love,

Kyle

(Elder Parker)

Pictures include: (The side that we cleaned up for our service project) , (The lunch we had after the service) , (Me and a member called Charles that went out with us. It was great!)