March 10th 2014

wow that sounds pretty crazy! (ragnar)  the other day i ran 2 miles hahaha. I have been trying to get my companion to start running some more but its been hard. but im going to get on him some more and we are going to start running all the time, its starting to really warm up here so i think it will be better now. the only thing is that now with the hour change its dark again in the morn. so was that another ragnar? haha one of the only 3 songs i can play on the piano (my dad heard viva la vida which nic can play on the piano while he was running)  haha, well im glad that that helped you out! awe man!!! i wish we could play uno!!! our mission president said that we couldn't play board or card games here which is a bummer but thats okay. hahah wow Duchesne is starting to grow! (because they have a gym) well i hope you are having fun at the gym! Have a great day and week! and tell Grandpa Feliz Cumpleaños! Things have been going really amazing out here! we have been finding a lot of people to teach and we are seeing so many miracles! This week we are going to be focusing on baptismal dates for everyone for the 12th of Aprill! so i hope we will have a really big service then! we have a few families that we are teaching so I hope it all goes well. We also have this super great family that we started to teach who said that they are married civilly because they know that that is right but they havent been married in any church because they havent found the right one yet, and my companion and I were just like well this is the one! hahah it was great! things are going great! love you and have a great day! drive safe too!

Elder Park 

March 3rd 2014

 ooo man you will be boating exactly 1 year since when i left...wow its flying by... well good luck with the long bike ride hahaha. so when is that triathalon y'all are doing? isnt it not this saturday but the next?  well just yesterday as we were fasting to be able to find a family to teach, we found one! We were knocking doors around a house where our dinner appointment was in about 30 minutes and trying to be effective as we could instead of just sitting at the members home for another 30 minutes. We knocked on this door and this really nice lady let us in.  We then taught her and her husband and man are they some elect people! fasting is so powerful! so ya we are finding a lot of people and we have a ton of potential it is great! things are really picking up! i love it! and i love y'all! 

Elder Park 

February 24th 2014

 the people in my new area are great! they are so nice and funny. Its weird talking with people in english, especially at church! the apartment is nice but i liked having a pond and a big yard better haha. He speaks a lot of english he had to learn in on the mission so its not like perfect but he is really good, its only little things that he gets wrong. hahah no i haven't played on it (swing set in his back yard) , i have done pull ups on it though! and to the other email hahah 60? it was 80 here!!!!! its crazy how hot it is here! and nice job on the bike! did you get a big gold medal? speaking of that how are the olympics going? ya its getting warm out here too. wow you sound like you are too busy for your own good hahah. wow im so proud of you! you are going to do great in the triathlon! HAHHAHAHAHAA he will never pass me up!!! (zach going to dances) when he goes to 3 proms in the same month like me then he can come and talk to me! he will be catching up on me for the next 2 years but when i get home im going to blow him out of the water hahaha. tell him to have fun at the dance! I have been trying to keep putting up pictures every once and a while so that y'all can see how im doing but i cant always do that because i like taking funny pics too! and i cant put those up on facebook until i get home haha. well i love y'all soooooo much and i hope you are all doing great! tell everyone hi and that i love them a ton!

February 17th 2014

 I just got transferred and I am now in a place called Silar city. my address is 402 Carolina Ave #B Silar City, NC 27344. my new companion is named Elder Sosa he is from Honduras, and he is crazy we have a ton of fun! he likes to challenge me all the time kinda like zach did and I tell him if he throws that at me im going to punch him, and then he does it and go and punch him. hahaha its really funny. its not bad fighting at all its really fun. the past few days have been really good weather but a few days before that we got like 6 inches of snow!!! it was great!! I loved it, but Elder Sosa being from Honduras isn't used to the snow and he really wanted to build his first snowman. So we went outside and made snowmen... big mistake! he got super sick and for the past few days we didn't leave the house! we didn't even go to church! the members are great out here though and we got a ton of soup that we have been eating and now he is feeling better but wow it was a crazy week! We did however get to do some work earlier in the week so that was good. Its crazy how many crazy things people can come up with about the Book of Mormon. One man said that it had to be false because Laban's sword couldn't have been made

 out of steel because they didn't have that back then in Jerusalem. The people out here are so crazy but at the same time I love it and it is super fun!!! but ya its pretty crazy out here! do get to district meeting we drive through the UNC campus and wow its crazy going through there, i feel so weird haha. so in my new area there is a man named Brother Oakley and he reminds me of you! he is really health conscious and he grows his own garden. Elder Sosa and I are going to help him plant and do all that probably sometime this month. isnt it crazy how they are going to start planting so early around here? So in my new area we are in a english branch with a spanish group that comes so we have to translate every sunday. its pretty weird talking with white people again haha. in this area we do all work in a certain area and then we do any spanish work that the sisters who are in our branch have so its pretty different! im going to start getting some crazy southern people now! im super excited! what was your most effective way to start teaching crazy southern people? well i hope you are doing great! i love and miss you tons!

Elder Park 

February 10th 2014

ya hahaha i remembered that i told everyone about the transfer and then i was like wait i dont think i told my family hhahahahaha so i made sure that it was in the letter. well if you can send it to my mission home address that is 6508 Falls of Neuse ste 100 Raliegh NC 27615. and i will get it. well im glad that you were comforted and im sure you did great! (Rae gave a talk saw a missionary and was comforted)  woooooowwwww no way is he old enough to go to dances!!!!! (zac) hahahaha i would call to tell you i was running late!!!!!!!! can he drive?????????????? awe mom stop crying hahhaa ya i was trying my best to just overload y'all with pictures! thats awesome that kevin is going to be a marine!!! i have seen some stuff on facebook and ya its crazy! oooo ya the snow shut down everything! they canceled our district meeting that we were going to have and instead we just had a zone conference call. ya pretty much no one wanted to leave their houses! they turned into turtles! ya it melted pretty quick! ya i have heard that the snow out there is not doing too good! i hope y'all get some snow to have fun at petersons cabin! hahaha dont let anyone who doesn't know how to ride follow you so they get stuck like last year hahaha! oooooo man you have to keep me filled in on the Olympics!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO MERICA!!!!!!! well i love y'all soooo much! and im going to be sending home a box of stuff today becuase i have no room for all this stuff!! hahahah tell everyone that i love and miss them!

Elder Park

February 2nd 2014

(to Dennis) ya the other elders came home last night and told me what the score was at halftime and i was sooooo mad!!!! hahaha ya after it gets that bad you just turn it off and do something else. WHAT??????? wow thats crazy!!! no longer calling him bishop will be really weird! hahahah thats funny what he said about President Bigelow hahaha. where do you eat dinner when you do that? well we only get to go 3 times a year, and thats only because i am a spanish elder, the english missionaries only go 2 times a year but because we are spanish we get to do a session in spanish! i think the next time we go will be in a couple of months. hahaha well that is good that it was just a little problem and you didnt need to do a whole bunch of stuff to fix the engine! i hope it will sell nice and fast! ......well i ran today!!!  I have been having better exercises recently and now its starting to warm up more and we are going to start running again. love you!

(to Rae) ya it got pretty cold here but it wasn't too bad, the only thing was tracting was pretty cold hahah but i have that big coat that we got so i was nice and warm and with those gloves and i have a scarf so i was good and it SNOWED!!!! well i havent tried calling yet but i am planning on going to this Christian Store today to get some awesome t shirts so im going to do that today! WHAT???? you a triathlete? wow thats awesome!!!! haha well you will do great at the swimming if you put your mind to it, and wear those nose plug things hahaha good luck training for that!!! love you!!!

(to Brittney) my week has been pretty good!! we have been doing a lot more tracting because we don't have that many investigators right now and we are finding a lot of really nice people, and some crazy ones hahah.  well thats good that you are getting out a lot more and doing fun things like that! that is the first movie that I am going to watch when i get home, NAAACHHHOOOOOOOOOOOO! hahaha. well if you move out i guess i will be able to have my own room, so thats good but if you move far away i will miss you too much so dont go too far!!! haha and dont get married too fast!!  I love you tons!

Elder Park

January 27th 2014

yes!!!!!!!!! i hope they win! ya last week we had a Stake Conference to change up the stake presidency here because he is moving to florida. it was an awesome meeting, i dont really remember when President Bigelow was made Stake President so it was like my first one, it was weird but good. aaaah man i would kill to get on a sled hahahaha well i hope you get the thing running good! well i hope you have a great week! i love you so much and miss you tons!

 

p.s. tell President Taylor to keep an eye on his daughter for me hahahaha

January 21st 2014

im doing great!! yes i got the package and thank you for it! i had just ran out of waffle crisp and i was soo happy to get another one, i cant find them anywhere!!! i found a cheep imitation but it wasn't as good. So i have learned to make that stuff last!!!! I did get the card (credit card he lost his) so you can activate it! thank you! the next day after getting it we went running (which was a big mistake because i was sick all last week) but when we were on our way back to the house i looked down and noticed that i had the vest inside out! i felt pretty dumb hahaha. wow thats a lot of chicken!!! Ya sorry i haven't replied to those letters, the past few preparation days have been pretty crazy, but this next one i will reply to them! tell everyone i say hi and i love them! and tell Brandon im going to rofl stomp him when i get home! thats awesome that he started school, did he just start taking a few classes down at slcc?  wow thats sounds pretty great! 1st on the bike (my dads triathlon) ! we haven't biked for a while but im going to try to get Elder Mora to bike sometime this week because then its more exercise haha. well i wish i could be there to help you out with that engine, now i wish i would have payed more attention to what i was doing when i would help you out because a lot of stuff i dont know haha. now im just kinda like well i know how to change tires and brakes hahaha. ooooo you had to say it!! (that he has hit the six month mark on his mission)  you trying to kill me?? im in denial i just barely started my mission! but it is a great motivator to work hard!!! well i love you so much and hope you are all doing great!

 last week we had to translate for some people who want to buy some land to build a pentecostal church so we were going to talk with the spanish people and the local pentecostal leader. While we were there a person asked the new spanish sister "so you all speak spanish" and she said "well im still learning but these 3 do". And it made me step back and realize, wow i actually do know spanish! it was awesome! we didnt do much translating because the minister's daughter knew spanish and she did all of that. so we were just talking to a few people and this one man Pedro just flat out said pretty much hey can i have your number? it was awesome. hopefully we will have lessons with some of the people we talked to!

have a great week y'all!

Elder Park

my week has been pretty good so far! hahah the spanish sisters are doing good, i think. hahaha something i have noticed is that because the sister who is training only speaks english, because the first 15 months of her mission has been english speaking, they really only speak english to each other. i think that is really hindering her from learning spanish. and i don't think she will let go of the fact of as spanish missionaries, we don't do white work hahaha. we have been struggling to find new people to teach for a while so recently we have just started to go to the last resort and go tracting, i don't like it but we have got some potential that i hope pans out..  i love you too! have an amazing week!!!!

Elder Park