Week 26: January 12th 2014

Everyone has been getting sick? thats funny because i have been sick this past week. I have a sore throat and a cough, but that aint gonna stop me! its just really annoying because i can't sleep so good and i have to have a bottle of water by my bed so that i can drink in the night. ya i need to start doing better at exercising. this week has been hard because i have been sick but I have been doing really good at eating a lot better so thats one step! hahah thats awesome that you know my team mom!!! tell zach i say hi too!

Thats great that Peyton is doing good. I was at a taco bell the other day and on the tv i overheard them say that the colts were going to play the patriots ( i wasn't watching! just overheard!! hahah) when is the super bowl going to be? well i am on a mission so the broncos are going to win hahaha. ya its crazy to think that when i come home the bigelows will be gone... :( but they are going to do amazing in Brazil! does President Bigelow even speak portuguese? wow there is going to be so many missionaries from our ward!!! well good luck with the assessment i hope it goes well. it sounds like you are killing yourself for it hahaha. sometimes i wish i could work out for longer though. the work is going great! yesterday was an amazing day. As we walked into the chapel yesterday I saw one of my converts who I haven't seen in a long time. She pretty much dropped off the planet after she was baptized. We tried time and time again to get ahold of her and nothing. we have prayed many times that we would be able to get ahold of her and there was no results for a long time. I was getting pretty discouraged, but then yesterday the lord answered our prayers. She came to church and we were able to talk to her! next week we are having stake conference at a different building and she asked us where that one was so that she could go next week too! we are going to try to start finding a lot more people to teach because 1 by 1 they have been falling away. the weather is good. just some rain storms. im staying warm it like never goes below 40 here hahahah. well as of late we haven't been biking much but we are going to start more now that we have a few places that are pretty close that we can do a lot of work at. well i love you all tons and hope you are all doing great! have an amazing week!

Elder Park

Week 25: January 6th 2014

Nic!

ya im back in the old apartment and i'm still with elder mora. ya he moved to utah from mexico when he was like 13 so he knows english too. well we try to speak spanish as much as possible but with him its really hard because he knows its easier in english so a lot of the time he talks in english and then i talk to him in spanish and tell him to talk to me in spanish hahahah. we have started recently to speak a lot more in spanish. and that has helped a ton. now when the english elders are over and we want to say things to each other we do it in spanish so they don't know what we are talking about hahahaha. i think it is helping my spanish in some ways because i'm learning a lot of things that only natives would really know but they only hard thing is that he cant really help me with structure because he doesnt really know the rules. he just knows the language. its kinda like all of us in english though, for a lot of things we dont know why they are why they are we just know thats how its supposed to be. but im learning soooo much about english too! man there are so many little tricks to english that i never reallized before! trying to teach someone english and learning another language you really learn a lot! ya i went to bed on time! i follow the rules!!!
this week has been really good. a lot of the week though we have been helping the new spanish sisters out. because they are kinda lost. The trainer used to be an english sister but then she got changed but she doesn't know spanish yet. the new sister is from guatemala so she doesn't know much english but she is learning pretty fast. anytime we are with them we translate what each is saying to each other because they don't understand so idk what they do when we arent there haha. its just hard because we haven't ever had spanish sisters so all the new sisters are natives and the trainers don't know spanish so its hard for them to train them. it will all get better with time though. usually i eat tacos with beans and rice and chicken with some habeñero sauce. thats what i eat 75 % of the time hahahah well good luck! hahah well keep going britt! hahah no i wont be that big hahah im going to start loosing wieght soon! (300lbs Brandon wants him to be that big when he gets back so they can wrestle) i made some snow in the blender so i got to see some hahah. its always warm here! love you sorry its a little rushed at the end i g2g love you!

Elder Park and President and Sister Bernhisel

haha ya i saw the pic britt put on facebook! (the pic of him) hahahah i love my fish!  well the work is going great. right now we are seeing so much work with the active members so thats going great! we have been teaching some temple prep classes to a family and they are great!! they love us soo much. we have gone to their house for dinner and class for the past 4 days hahaha. one of our investigators was a jehovah witness.... man those poeple are tough!!!!! he has a wife that is a member though so he has a ton of support. he just needs to stop smoking. we dont have many people that we are teaching right now because we havent really done much work in Raeford for the past 6 weeks, but it will start picking up soon! have a great week too! good luck loosing the weight! love you!!!!

Elder Park

Week 24: December 23rd 2013

hahah how many of you took videos on your phones?  hahah well when we get to Raeford tomorrow we are going to start biking more. in Fayetteville its just hard because everyone is far away but in Raeford it will be easy. i didnt see that so i will have to look at it. hahha ya i know that it will be a lot harder to take it all off. im going to be with some other elders in Raeford and one of the other english ones loves working out so he will keep us working out hard. well good luck loosing the weight! well i didnt get a call so im going to Raeford. ooooooo man thats what im talking about!!!!! YEA BOYYY!  wow that is awesome! Peyton is getting blessings because im serving a mission hahahhahahahahahahaha. how is work going? you like it a billion times better than before? i hope you are doing great! love you!!!! have a happy new years!

Elder Park

Week 23: December 23rd 2013

thats okay i got it like the day after i told you that i wasnt getting them. I went to the post office and got it all figured out so i didnt miss out too much on them! i have gotten all the packages from you and thank you soooooo much! you didnt have to get me so much mom hahaha. when i got the box i opened it up and took all the presents out, it took everything i had not to open one hahaha especially the one that says " you said you wanted snow" ooo man that will be the first one i open on Christmas ahhahaha. but o man the stories are great! thank you for all them. every morning when i open each one up as im eating i read the story! good thing too because then my companion is in the shower and doesnt see me getting all teary eyed hahah. well yesterday at church we talked to one member and he said that we can come over and skype. he doenst know what time exactly because he is going to be talking to his sons on missions from 12 to 1. so we are thinking that somewhere between 2 and 6 of whatever time zone i am in. but i will probably call you right before to make sure that it is ready for me to call! sorry that it is a long time frame to wait for but ya! cant wait to talk to y'all! love you!

Elder Park

Week 22: December 15th 2013

his week i have been really good! the beginning of the week was a little slow because one day we had to go to the car shop and get our car checked out because it smelt weird sometimes. when we went there it took them a total of 3 and a half hours to find the problem and fix it. apparently when jiffy lube changed the oil they didn't tighten something up as much as they should have and the car was leaking oil on the exhaust so the burning smell was the oil on the exhaust. but ya the beginning of the week was slow and then by the end of the week the days were just so jam packed it was crazy. well im excited to be able to talk to y'all at least. we had a member say that we could come over but then he said that he doesn't know when they are moving to texas ( he is in the military so when he gets his orders he goes) so we will have to find another place that we can go to, we are going to ask the english missionaries if they can find someone for us if he falls through. but if all else fails then i will just call yours or moms phone. but i will do my best to find somewhere hahah. and happy late anniversary!!!! i hope it was great! i remember sitting at the apartment and going ooo man its my parents anniversary and i didn't email them happy anniversary last week! hahah sounds like it was good. oh my goodness there are so many people who are getting sick lately! sacrament was a little barren yesterday because everyone was sick, but i didn't mind because yesterday was the first week that i gave a talk completely in spanish. it was super scary but i prepared really well so it wasn't too bad haha. my companion said it was really good, but just as always i don't like talking in church hahaha plus a foreign language makes it that much more hard. wow thats great! they are doing work! hahaha a little... ahaha. 

The sweet car nic saw :)

well i havent gotten the package yet so idk. i also haven't been getting any letters from you recently, idk if thats just because you have been putting them in the boxes but probably. i looked through my mail and saw that you do have the right address because i have recieved one letter so i think they are at the main office. elder mora and i are going to ask them today. beause he said that sometimes if the packages dont fit in this little mailbox thing then they leave them at the main office. are you all doing the 12 days of christmas in the ward? well thank you so much for all that you are doing for me!! you are the best mommie! i love you both and the whole family sooooooooooooo much and am super excited to talk to y'all. hey dad check out what i saw yesterday... lets just say it was a good day hahah. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Week 21: December 9th 2013

hahaha i wish that i could have some snow, i think when i get home the first day it snows i will be on your back to go riding hahahhaa. but ya ive seen pictures of people and sweet molases i just want to see some snow! hahaha i thought about that the other day (wrestling) and i was like man i want to wrestle someone hahaha then i thought of that kid from layton that beat my twice and then i beat him in state, that was my favorite match! i was so happy!. thank you so much (for the package) im excited to get some christmas music!! after the christmas devotional last night all i want to do is listen to some christmas music haha. well thank you so much for doing that for me y'all are awesome!  man im suuuper jealous y'all have snow, i really want some. im going to go outside on christmas with a hammer and some ice and i will make snow because i refuse to have christmas without snow hahah. i love y'all so much too!!!!! i hope you are all doing great! tell everyone that i love them!
love, Elder Park