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| Just like old times :) this is the California i remember growing up (catching lizards) |
Sorry, I didn't even realize I didn't send a legit email last week. Oops.
AAh, it's crazy to think Mitch is home... Maddie's gotta be standing on her tippytoes in that picture, no doubt. You're all looking pasty white and cold. Tell Mitch to send me some sweet Nicaraguan ties for Christmas! (and one of the left over sweet pork burritos too.) I forwarded the rules about calling for Christmas. Everything is good.
We are seeing good progress with our investigator, J---. He has been to church 4 times in a row, and yesterday he brought both his granddaughter and his grandson with intentions to hopefully get the older other grandkids to eventually follow and come along as well. Our lessons have been improving with him, as well. At first, it was all we could do to state a truth of the Restored Gospel, because all he wanted to do was talk about everything in his life. But we have seen an interest spark, where now he is excited to learn more and read and ask questions. He especially likes to walk around with us on Sundays in between classes and look at all the paintings in the church. He wants to know the stories behind every picture. He really liked the picture of the 2000 stripling warriors, and wanted to know more about how none of them died. We have an appointment with him this Wednesday in the church house while his granddaughter is going to participate in the Activity Days with the English ward. He's great. No doubt he will be baptized...when he is ready. That's one thing that was kind of a slap in the face to me and Elder Griffin is to see J---, who I baptized a few weeks ago- kind of fall off the map and hasn't been to church in a couple weeks. We are worried about him.
We found a new senora and her daughter while knocking an apartment complex. The daughter was actually our waitress at a little taqueria we went to with a member a few weeks ago, and she remembered us. After sharing the restoration and bearing testimony that WE KNOW these things are true, she asked: How do you know?.. the perfect question :) She read Moroni 10:3-5 for us and I could feel the spirit. We have an appointment with her this Wednesday, too.
I am continually reminded of the nothingness of my self every day. I would be able to do absolutely nothing without the help of my Father in Heaven. Just like in Helaman 12:7, I truly am less than the dust of the earth, and it is so humbling and amazing to me that my Father in Heaven could have a place prepared in His kingdom for little ole me, and all I have to do is stay on the path. And on top of that, somehow I was lucky enough to be born on the path and reared in it my whole life in an amazing and righteous family with righteous parents, when I look around me and see all these people less fortunate than me and who have absolutely no idea what they are missing. I am even more humbled that the Lord would choose little ole me to be an instrument in his hands to help get them back.
Love, Elder Parrish
