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| Elder Bilal preaching to me |
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| Ice in Texas City |
My baptism, Mayra, the husband of Roy, is a super good member. Well, she goes to church every week and she is
friends with everyone. And Roy, he likes
coming to church but he still has a lot of doubts. Like he doesn’t understand
why we can play basketball but not go swimming. He says he just doesn’t agree with our Presidents
on that. He doubts a lot of other crazy
stuff like that, but we just think once he gets a testimony of the restoration,
the other doubts will just slowly disappear.
And as far as transfers, Elder Bilal is leaving me on Wednesday
and I’ll get someone new. So I’m staying
here and taking over the area.
So this week started of a little sad. Right when we started teaching Maria again (the
one who was super solid with a baptism date but then fell away a little cuz it
caused problems in her family), well right when we start teaching her again, she
says she is moving to Austin. Ugh! But
we got all her info and hopefully can send the missionaries over because she
said she wants to come back to church. But
then Ricardo, an 18-year-old member that comes to a lot of lessons with us, got
his mission call to Ecuador Quito and we were the first people he told,
haha. I’m super jealous but he will be
super good!
By the way, a police officer just busted into the church and
took all our names because he got a call of suspicious activity and thought we
broke in to steal stuff.
And this week, we also talked to the swamp lady. Her name is actually Mariana and she is this
old wrinkley lady with nasty teeth and wearing almost umbrella lady clothes. And her voice was super hissy and she had a
crackly laugh so all I can describe her as is a swamp lady that probably
controls all the gators in the bayou or something. Haha! But I really liked her and I hope we talk to
her again. To answer your question, not
everybody is crazy like this. Everybody here is just a stereotypical Mexican
but then we usually get one person a week that sticks out from the rest.
And also, on Friday and Saturday it was soooo cold! Well for Texas at least... it was 31 in
the middle of the day and everything was frozen over, which hasn’t happened in
10 yrs. It snowed for a little. And we are out of miles in the car so we
biked all day. Haha! My tires were
frozen and the straps on our bike rack snapped when we tried to put our bikes
on. And then at night the wind was so
strong that I had to lean super far to the left to keep from falling over. And to make everything more fun, the heater in
our apartment stopped working so our apartment got down to 54! And I got to scrape ice off the windshield
for the first time ever.
All in all it was a pretty fun week!
Love, Elder Parks
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