We do regular missionary work plus more! All the district leaders call us each night and then we call the assistants after that...then we also have to deal with any problems that arise and go help. Then we need to do exchanges and get around to see everyone...just lots of little running around things! Tiring but fun!
Yeah all the zone leaders have pday today because tomorrow we have zone leader training at the mission home...but yeah being a zone leader is quite the position! I have never been this consistently tired and loving my 8 hour sleeping!!! and my companion, Elder Alkonis, is the man! We have so much fun together. Infact tonight we are going to a baseball game with the Travellers and the general authority who lives close to here and his son. We call it our FHE! haha way excited! My companion played baseball at the naval academy and is SO good! we have FUN!
Wow! Kira is already married and on her way to becoming Argentine!! That is so cool and what a neat experience! Does he speak English?
Oh man way to go with the missionary work!! That is such awesome news!!!! You are such a great missionary!
Elder Ridge Alkonis is my companion and he is from LA, California and he has been out since last year's August 27, just two transfer's below me
Yeah this place is great! Elder Wilson took my place in Takayama.
WOW busy week! sounds like ours!! haha, that is so awesome too that Amanda is giving a talk on missionary work!! Let me know if I can give anything useful!
ok well have a good week! We have to go now, but love you!!
The Weekly:
Hey Family!
Well now I am here in the big city of NAGOYA!!! Literally we live right in the middle of it all and it is way fun!! Being a zone leader is quite the thing too! We have lots more nitty gritty type stuff that you have no idea about unless you have to do it!! Phone calls, stats, helping solve problems that arise....But me and my companion have such a fun time together!
He goes to the Naval Academy and is a pitcher on their baseball team! He is way awesome and a party animal!
In fact, tonight we are going to a baseball game at the Nagoya Dome with the Travellers and Elder Ishi, an area seventy, and his son! How cool! It will be way dang fun and Sister Travller is buying us Subway! Way fun party!
So yeah the reason I am on today and not tomorrow is because the first week of the transfers there is a zone leader training at the mission home on Tuesday. So our pday gets made Monday for a week. But next week will be just regular!
We are emailing above a Chinese retaurant and it is way funny!
Real quick...next week is our halloween party and we'd like ideas! Also I'd like the marshmallow popcorn ball recipe please! (Annette is that a possibility?)
Sadly because of the flu going around and Japan being way strict about that kind of stuff we won't be having apple bobbing like last year but thats ok!
For a gospel insight.....I know that God is looking out for us and truly that He loves us!We had a neat opportunity to do a lesson with some sister missionaries the other day. What happened with them is their investigator didn't really want to talk to them anymore after the other sister transferred, because he happened to have developed a crush on her!
Because he loves us elders we went and helped out for a lesson to shape him up! Also, the Japanese sister was really taking it hard on herself and we could tell she wasn't very happy.
So, during the lesson I had a huge feeling to just testify to Toshiki kun (the investigator) that these two sisters are amazing missionaries and are working to help him. I felt one of the strongest feelings of God love I ever have for these sisters, especially this Japanese one.
After I did that I could tell the one sister was shocked by what I had said. I truly could feel God's love for her and knew He wanted her to know that.
God is guiding His children. He leads us where we need to be and we can then see miracles.
I love you all tons and am so proud of your efforts!
Love
Elder Parks
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