Well, let's just say things are getting WEIRD here. Just like the
family in the pictures that Dad sent me.
Let me give you a little description of Fort Pierce. Its hood. Why
does God keep sending me to places like this? I think that He is telling me
"LOOK, Elder Park! LOOK! DON'T END UP HERE!" Because you see our ward
is broken up into Ft. Pierce and Port St. Lucie. The latter (PSL) is where all
of the cool active members live... Ft. Pierce is where all of the less actives
live. But that is going to change. You see so far it has been real easy to
Bless people and Teach them, just not to get them do DO anything. But we are
changing up our teaching methods to get people to keep their commitments, by
teaching smaller lessons with simpler commitments. That way we can work them
into keeping larger and more important commitments. This week we had an
investigator that lives ACROSS the street from the church! say that he couldn't
make it to church because it was RAINING... it was barely sprinkling... Another
person told us that the scriptures say "you can't serve God and
Mormon." Mat 6:24... Look that one up... we met a man that tried to sell
us ties... WITH NAKED WOMEN ON THE BACK OF THEM... The Hood... Imma rita book.
But on the bright side L*** came to church and he will be getting
baptized this Saturday! He is the MOST solid kid I have ever met. He is a BOSS.
All he wants is to do the right thing and to start a new life here in Florida.
So that's really good.
Thanksgiving was a BLAST. We had 3 meals, the first at 1 the
second at 330 and the third at 6, ALL were amazing, we took a few pics I will
send them to you. The First was the P******'s. Sister P****** is a long time
member but her husband was only baptized about 3 months ago, and he is doing SO
WELL. He has taken tons of people to see the Meet the Mormons movie. (which did
I tell you we got to see 2 weeks ago?) Their food was AMAZIN! They added a little bacon and some mushrooms to the green bean casserole and it was off the
hook! Then we went to the G********'s they are from Pleasant Grove, Utah but
they practically own half the city down here. They are big investors down here in trailer
parks, apartments, storage center, and you name it. They had a Cajun Deep fried
turkey that was WAY good. Then we went to the "Fiesta de Gracias
Latina" Which was put on by the small Spanish Group in our ward. They
BROUGHT every one! They brought members and nonmembers and less-actives and
what have you there was easily 50 people there at this one house and there was
food left over! It was great!
But the thing was that all those meals were in the Port St. Lucie
part of the ward and basically the entire day got shot and we weren't able to
get any thing done in our area.
Anyway I thought I would end with a little spiritual thought.
""The
Savior wrought the Atonement, which provides a way for us to become clean.
Jesus Christ is the resurrected Christ. We worship and recognize Him for the
pain He suffered for us collectively and for the pain He endured for each of us
individually, both in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross. He bore all
with great humility and with an eternal understanding of His divine role and
purpose. Those who will repent and forsake sin will find that His merciful arm
is outstretched still. Those who listen to and heed His words and the words of
His chosen servants will find peace and understanding even in the midst of great
heartache and sorrow. The result of His sacrifice is to free us from the
effects of sin, that all may have guilt erased and feel hope.""
—Boyd
K. Packer, "The
Reason for Our Hope"
In John chapter 3 verse 16 is the Famous scripture:
" For God so loved the world , that he gave
his only begotten Son , that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life . "
This Christmas Season the Church has organized a motion, a
campaign, an initiative to help people remember that He is the Gift they
have produced an incredible and easy to share video that can be seen on christmas.mormon.org along with 3
simple principles to apply to our lives this Christmas season, Discover the
Gift, Embrace it, and #SharetheGift.
It is already helping us missionaries find and teach new people
who are sick of the over commercialization of Christmas, and we invite you all
do share this video and to apply it to your lives.
Stay Strong, Push on
Elder
Parque.
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