I have a testimony in Jesus Christ and in Heavenly Father. I know that they love me so much they established a plan that allows me to return to live with them. I have a testimony of the Book of Mormon and of Joseph Smith, I know Heavenly Father restored the gospel through him. The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ and his love for me. I have a testimony of Thomas S. Monson. I know he is a living prophet and through him we receive guidance from our Father in Heaven. I know going on my mission is the right thing to do, I want to become a tool in the hands of the Lord. I know that Fort Lauderdale is the place I am supposed to go and the Lord will help me on my path. I know families can be together forever, that I will be able to see my grandmother and other relatives that have passed on when I too leave this world and return to Him.

In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Elder Park

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Week 66 In Ft. Lauderdale....

Well I feel like there is not a lot to tell you because we have already spoken, but I will tell you I have met the craziest woman of my life... She goes by Doc Na because she used to go by Doctor Nancy but then she went bowling and that's what was on the board and she thought it was perfect. She says she is writing a book and because of the information in the Book she is in hiding from her family who are out to cut her hair off, and she immediately starts telling us about her terrible childhood and promises that she will gift a book to the Church. Then she stops suddenly and snidely asks E. Hunt " Why do you have your arms crossed like that? that's a closed posture, you are threatening me right now. I am scared can't you see? and what are you doing wearing that tie you look like a bad TV dad, you need to wear a purple paisley tie it would suit your complexion." then we ask if she would like to pray she says "Yes to Jesus, I am a Pagan, I only pray to Jesus though because the bible says so, but this guy standing behind us doesn't like prayer so we are going to go over there" so we walk 5 feet and she immediately says I will start. And she includes this, "help these boys know that the world is changing like country western music, I don't like that stuff but its changing, take Taylor Swift for example a whole lot less twang and a lot more soul." then she tells E. Hunt to go... he says a prayer, and she stops him and says that sounds memorized, can you please say something from the soul my friend make it real, add some humor God doesn't get Humor, so he says another line, then its my turn... So I say a prayer real slow with pauses to make it obvious that I am thinking of my next line and as soon as it is over she throws her hands up and says "Perfect... Duces!... And you (me) think about starting your own church... you could cause people to jump off a cliff if you wanted" turns around and walks away into the darkness, leaving us confused and worried.

This week was a little bit rough due to Christmas, I thought that it would soften hearts but we ran into quite a few hard ones, most of our success this week came through working on the Less-Active/ Part-member Families that the Bishop wanted us to contact and wish a Merry Christmas. As we did that we were able to meet a lot of people that we would otherwise never found home because they were not working for the Holidays. Currently our most promising investigator, Jose, has made a decent amount of progress, he actually took this week off form work and told us that he wants us to come by everyday to help him get baptized. He told us to come by twice in one day if that was necessary. He has a date for the 10th because we aren't sure if he has a Word of Wisdom problem, but we do know that he has been taught about it by multiple members and that he has said he is willing to do it, we just need to find out went he actually stopped, if it was yesterday then we will wait until the 10th, but if it was last Thursday like our member thinks then we are going to push his date up to the 3rd. He was worked with by missionaries in the past, but then due to his work he had to move, now that he is back he contacted a few of the members that he remembered and started coming back, the difficult thing that we had with him was that he was only available on Sundays, but know that he has taken time off we can meet with him way more frequently.

Other than that not much has really happened this week due to Christmas, there was alack of people in town they were all on the awful land of "Orlando" But we still kept busy and were having fun meeting people who were here, we got a job offer with a lady that is selling some big product that she designed for the "government" that she couldn't really explain to us. 

Any way I wish you all a "Happy New Year" 

Stay Strong Push On


ELDER PARQUE

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