WOO HOOO!!!! Go japan!!!and haha, go Utah and Brigham City!!!! 5 new temples!!!!!
Way to go Dad with the weight. 60 pounds is awesome. What is your waist size now?
Thanks so much for the support and guidance! After reading all of your testimonies and notes I was really able to turn this experience into one of strength. thanks a ton!!!
The Weekly:
Hey family!!
Well I am here this week and writing the weekly! Last week we went to the zone activity so only had a little time to check and write a bit! It was way fun! we went to a park and had a Brazillian BBQ and then all played ultimate frisbee. Then after all that we went to the beach and played soccer! way good time!
Then this past Sunday President and Sister Traveller came to church here in Takayama along with the new stake president and family...we had a record breaking 35+ at church!! haha, it was way fun!!
This past week we were working with our one investigator, Ikuko, towards baptism and I really learned so much!! She called us last tuesday morning to tell us she decided she wanted to get baptized on Sunday! So we planned how to teach her everything and get her interviewed by Friday/Saturday. We got her taught and to the interview where she didn't pass and we all realized she isn't ready for that step yet and needs to grow a little more in actually believing these things and not just wanting to enter a hobby group. She is still way awesome and will grow really well with the Relief Society ladies in all their home making type things. Then, through that, she'll draw closer to a testimony of her own and baptism.
I came to understand even more that God really is guiding us and leading His children to the things they need.
Then Sunday we sang "Families Can Be Together Forever" as the closing hymn and I felt something I will never forget. Right as I began singing the first line "watashi no suteki na kazoku..." tears began to flow unceassingly. It hit me harder than it ever has that MY suteki family really CAN live forever. I have to mention, this feeling was mainly directed towards Dean.
Since Dean has made these changes lately I have felt many deep feelings of love for him and for our Savior Jesus Christ. Then as a I sang this hymn, bearing testimony of eternal families, it hit me that Dean just did something that opened up the door to his eternal family, our eternal family.
Dean, I love you.
I am giving you a hug right now, you just can't feel it. I can honestly say I have never cried so hard in my life as what I did this past Sunday. And one thing that just hit me is that when I was feeling this at church, Dean was watching the Priesthood session of conference in East Aurora. Coincidence? I think not, I know not. I am so full of love for our family.
I now know without any doubt at all that our family CAN be eternal and WILL be as we do the things we need to. Dean has set the example, lets not fall short. I love you all deeply and like I gave Dean, I am giving you all a hug right now, you just can't feel it.
The church is true. God is our loving Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ is our loving older brother Savior.
God speed.
Love ,
Elder Parks
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