Happy birthday this week,
Hil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone´s just growin up all around
me! I love you sooo much and miss being with you nearly 24/7 lolol we were the
weirdest but I love you anyways :) Happy birthday!
This week on Wednesday
was Sister Alvarado´s birthday!! She turned 21! We made pancakes in the morning
and eggs but it was weird to eat pancakes without maple syrup! They don´t have
it here! But it was still good :) I made her a little sign and put it on her
desk along with a pack of skittles and sour patch!
We also had a baptism
yesterday!!!! Which apparently you guys found a picture of! So cool! His name
is Eleonardo, and he´s the guy standing next to me. He´s been a miracle! He´s
had a drinking problem for over 20 years but has been turning his life
around and has come to church the past 3 weeks and was baptized yesterday! The
ward has been great in welcoming and helping him, and there were lots of people
at his baptism which reminded me of Mom and Dad’s conversion story where they
were shocked at how many people were at their baptism that they didn´t even
know! Wards are truly families :)
We also started
teaching this awesome kid, Cleberson, who´s just the sweetest and is accepting
everything we teach! Unfortunately, he went out of town yesterday but you bet
we´ll get him to church next week!
Tuesday we got a call
from the second counselor and he asked to talk to me and what does he ask?? If
I can give a 15-minute talk on Sunday!!!!! I then responded, “I can´t talk in
Portuguese for 15 minutes!! Haha kidding of course!” So in my limited time
during the week I wrote my talk - the gospel of Jesus Christ and the two very
important people who made it possible that we have the restored gospel of Jesus
Christ - Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith! So Sunday comes along and I´m a little
nervous because I don´t think it´s long enough but I get up and talk and when I
sit back down, I look at the clock and realized I talked for 15 minutes!!!!!!!
I was very happy and
people were very nice afterwards and said that I speak very well for only being
here 3 months and that I didn´t look nervous at all! WOOH!
Today we´re going to
have lunch with one of our favorite families and then go to another family to
make Mom´s chocolate chip cookies!! Their son is leaving on a mission next
month to Argentina and he´s super awesome!
Love you
guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Sister Parks
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