November 26, 2012

Dear Family,

  This one may be a little short today because I'm a little sick and not much happened this past week.
For thanksgiving, we successfully avoided eating with Tongans! However we still had 4 dinners so packing it all in was tough but I managed.
  Dad, for your question about housing, the vegetable drink was in my first area, and I was simply moved out to a new area. Missionaries still live there and we share experiences about the vegetable drink. The house that we moved out of, they had their daughter-in-law moving back in with them so we had to leave because of that announcement. The place we live at now is awesome. They're really nice too, they invited us over to their thanksgiving lunch which had 22 PEOPLE in attendance. I also had a 5 year old girl say that she wanted me to be her husband, it was an interesting lunch.
  With Christmas coming up, we're emphasizing a lot about mormon.org/christmas as well like Sister Parks is doing in her area. on Christmas day, we don't work at all. We go visit members or recent converts and spend time with them. In the evening we have a mission conference, and apparently this month we're having 2 members of the 12 coming! It should be a fun day. Taylor, we just received an announcement today that says we can't have tours form the sister missionaries after 5 pm at Temple square for this month. So, we'll go have a tour at 4 and stick around for a little while later! Hahaha  

  Taylor, I'm grateful for
Jesus Christ
hot showers
the scriptures
food
bed
cars
heaters
family
guns
and toothpaste!

Talk to y'all in a month!!!
Love,
Elder Parks