Hauuuuuu houuuuuu hauuuu houuuu slurp slurp mmmmmm. Just ran to the church to send this email, pshhh it was light work granted only 3 miles but great work for the meat ball in my chest. Then we will run back... wait ha I don't run I only SPRINT. Ha. Then we are heading up to Mt. Rushmore to do some recreational speed walking and getting model shots. Oh yeah I forgot to tell y'all, I am currently spreading the word here in Belle Fourche South Dakota near the Rapid City area. It's pretty peachy to say the least. My comps are, you guessed it, ELDER KROFF and ELDER WIXOM brrr brrr br brrrrrrrrr. Actual absolute units of missionaries right here taking Belle Fourche to heights even Vin Diesel couldn't hit. It's pretty sweet here and pictures and videos will do most of the explaining for the area and comp unity. You see, Elder Wixolfo loves to capture all the spice. So thank him for the videos. We all came out together as well. Honestly I have no clue what President was thinking when he put 3 greenies in this area Ha. Anyways this is gonna be a long one so you might wanna grab a wet spaghetti noodle to chew on or something. You see, last week I forgot a lot of stuff so I'd like to start you there.
Before transfers we got to be a score table for a wrestling tournament. My old comp was a state champ and is insane at wrestling. So we got asked to score matches. Ha that was epic. There were some crazy matches. I was waiting for them to pull out chairs from nowhere and start hitting each other like on TV but that didn't happen but there were some good body slams. The heavyweight guys were the funniest. Ha. They just laid on the ground like walrus rolling around. Also we got a lot of snow and my old comp drove a lifted square body he made really nice but you could tell cause he would always run straight into the curb when parking. But in the snow we almost died hahaha. Our little mommy missile drives a little different then a lifted truck. It was an epic 8,000 miles we drove in just that transfer 😂. I had a good send off to Belle Fourche. Diane gave me an awesome blanket, and I got taken out to one of those restaurants that they cook in front of you. Man, we ate so much food. It was also my "birthday" so you know, gotta wear a baby mask and get sung to so that was epic.
The next day was transfer day which I had not been looking forward to but it was actually probably one of my favorite days on the mission. We were in Dickinson for 2 hours waiting and man that was the best two hours of my mission. Let me tell you, talking to people is addicting. I went to Dickinson state with 2 elders. One was new and didn't talk at all and the other was only out 2 transfers and was pretty shy too which was perfect cause man I was THRIVING it was sooooo fun. I was talking to so many people left and right and man like I said, the human connection even if short is necessary and addicting. I got either 6 or 7 numbers too. Apparently wasn't supposed to be getting girls ones cause there are no sister missionaries in the area or something but those where the funnest ones ha. But don't worry, I am so consecrated, I only saw floating spirits. Ha, it's great because everyone you talk to is around the same age rather than 40 or something and it makes it a lot easier.
Here in Belle Fourche we have been seeing lots of miracles after a couple rough days to get going ha. Yesterday was insane though, we were like aight time to be super concentrated. We deleted all our apostate music.. ect. You see yesterday was a zone conference and remember we are 3 greenies coming from different trainers. So it is hard sometimes but we made sacrifices to be as obedient as possible so we can have the most change we can have on the mission. We were able to talk to Pres about what we were struggling with. For me it was the waste of time on non progressing inactives and stuff. He told us forget about what the previous people in the area did. I put you 3 here for a reason and called us the sons of Mosiah and he has so much faith in us and sees the great things we can accomplish together. He told us that we need to come together with all methods so we had some serious conversations in the mom's car and made those sacrifices. And my mind was blown, I mean literally. God saw our efforts and put trust in us. That night/last night we were driving back from zone conference and we stopped to see a referral that has never answered the door. But tonight she did and she was totally interested, I whipped out the pamphlet and wrote our number down and gave it too her, we taught about the Book of Mormon and she was so down, and we are meeting with her tonight. BUT WAAAAAIT. Then a self referral says she wants to talk so we call her for the first time. BROOOOO the spirit was so strong. She literally said she was looking at a picture of Jesus in the eyes and has been praying for a different church she can get something out of (she was a catholic). She says she has been drawn to the LDS church and wants to learn more. THENNNN it gets even better. Bruvz she tells us she feels prompted so much that she wants to get baptized but isn't really sure how it works. PROCEEDS to tell us that her husband is ok with her joining our church and she has a kid too. THENNN to top it all off she goes oh and I am hoping to get this job where I won't work on Sundays so I can come to your services. Like what, THAT DOESN'T JUST HAPPEN and same day we finally got an appointment with someone on date that is actually progressing (she is 9). The Lord blessed us for our sacrifices. That night me being the fearless missionary I am said WE ARE A DOOR KNOCKING AREA NOW because really when people say there is no success in it that is an excuse, it is either too cold or they wanna sit inside wasting the Lord's time. So we did and BANG bunch of potentials and interested people. When you let the spirit guide you success will follow no matter what work you do. I just find street contacting and tracting is the easiest ways to do so and stay on task at the same time. Plus I find it a lot more fun being able to explore the town especially here where there is a decent population of 5000 unknocked houses and you meet all sorts of people ranging from witches to people who are already members but were somehow baptized when they were 6😂. Anyway, something that I have changed the most about myself on my mission and am still working hard to do is to look at others as Christ did. You know there are a lot of people in this world that are just angry. The amount of times I've been told our generation is worthless and we have no work ethic and this and that, mannnnn. As soon as I kill them with kindness and just simply say hey I appreciate and respect you and your opinion and love you for it, wish em a merry Christmas and that Jesus Christ loves them, every single time they go uhhhhhh hmmm I am acting like a 5 year old. There is enough hate in this world so no matter how you think about someone just be nice. It really sucks getting told hateful things a lot. I could argue all day but realistically all you're doing is arguing about something that someone is complaining about because they have to be angry about something. Its not worth your time and when you kill em with kindness it is funny to see people figuratively sit down and stop in their tracks.😂 Remember god loves his justice. It is not our job to push someone back after being pushed. That is for him to sort out however he seems fit. Even though it can be really really really hard sometimes and I have a lot of work to do to just instantly drop it and move on in my life, that is what our savior would want us to do, set by example.
Till the next day - Elder Parker
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