Week 9

Turkey Day!

This week has been pretty good! It has to be! It's the one week I can finally eat enough food!

Not much has actually happened missionary work wise! Thanksgiving day we had the day off. So we went to a members house and ate food for days. I ate all the mashed potatoes like usual! I also introduced Elder Dameus to sweet potatoes with marshmallows and Thanksgiving itself! Afterwards we played some spoons and other card games!

On Sunday the missionaries gave a presentation in sacrament meeting about light the world. It was awesome! The video is sweet and I suggest ya'll go check it out! Light the World is going to hopefully be even bigger than last year!

I'm trying to upload my pictures but it says the file corrupted so I'm going to send a selfie instead for this week.

Week 8

One word...Life.

Where do I even start.. I guess I'll start with the good stuff. 

I finally taught my first lesson to a family! It was even a family that I found! It was awesome and the Lord really does prepare people! 

I've gotten really good at cooking bacon as well.  

Watched a baptism and got to be one of the witnesses!

Watched the Face to Face yesterday with a random person that we didn't know! It was a pretty funny story actually. We stopped by this members house and his roommate answered the door saying that he didn't know where he was. Then we got a text about the face to face thing and we straight up just asked if he wanted to watch it with us and he agreed! It was pretty awesome! I recommend it!

I ate palm hearts and had macadamia nut milk for dinner which was pretty interesting!

Now for the bad stuff... 

We had our GPS die one night and so ended up walking five miles in the wrong direction and ended up getting to our house after walking 12 miles. 

It has also rained basically everyday and Elder Dameus's shoes got mold in them because they couldn't dry haha. 

We got dogs sicked on us! We knocked on a door and a light turned on but no one came so we started to leave. So I started to back up Elder Dameus because it was a super long driveway. Then around the corner of the house two big boxers came running at me. So I ran around and jumped in the car before they got to us.

Fun stuff this week! A lot happened! Hopefully more will happen next week!

Maryland Baltimore Mission Updates Facebook page

The Carlisle Ward loves their missionaries! We are so blessed for their service and their hard work in this part of the Lord's vineyard. (Christine Keasling posted this on the MARYLAND BALTIMORE MISSION UPDATES Facebook page.)

Week 7

Well this week has been interesting! Lot's of things have happened! I had exchanges on Tuesday, so me and Elder Lartey (Pronounced Late) were companions for the day. We knocked on doors all day and all night! It was pretty intimidating just because I've never knocked on doors before! We knocked on a door and a lady answered it. She wasn't interested but she asked her husband if he wanted a "Mormon lesson." To her response he said, "If they want to teach me naked." So we almost taught a naked man this week. 

We had a meeting all the way in Walkersville, Maryland the next day. So me and Elder Lartey had to wake up early to meet back up and exchange back then drive two hours to the meeting. Not too fun..

We taught some lessons this week with brother Gibbs. He help teach Carros about priesthood authority. We also taught a lesson to one of our eternigators. I'll try to get a picture with him this week so you can see the legendary Brother Gibbs.

We also got a pass for the War college next to our house. So now I can enter into the barracks with my own ID!

More car troubles. We were pulling into a steep driveway and the driveway caught the bumper and long story short we get to now replace the bumper as well haha. Oh well! 

My mom has created a blog at Elderparkerbeardall.blogspot.com go check it out I guess! That's all for this week!

Correction, my mom said that the blog was created by Callie Winters even though she would love  to take credit for it.

Week 6

Pretty interesting week to say the least! 

Halloween night we had zone sports. So we drove an hour to Chambersburg and we got there to luckily have our bike rack break with our bikes on it... so our bikes are still stuck in Chambersburg... that's where the fun begins... 

We picked a new investigator Carros who is from Liberia. He's pretty awesome! 

We had MLC on Friday. We needed to leave by six to make it on time but the sisters had the car... so we called them the night before and they didn't answer. Which means we woke up at 3:30 and walked for 4 miles to their place to knock for twenty minutes and get the car just in time.. Then on our way there was a bunch of hills and I got car sick out of nowhere and threw up everywhere, sorry TMI. 

I gave my first blessing to a guy who had a stroke! That was pretty awesome tho!

Then the sisters were driving the car and the tire popped so they called a member to help them change the tire.. needless to say the car fell of the jack twice and now the car needs to go the the body shop this week.. so we're out of bikes and a car. 

Saturday and Sunday it down poured. That's all that there is to it!

Today we went to get the car checked out and then went to Ross and Olive Garden. Pretty good day so far!

Pictures; I made some muffins this week, Elder Dameus was trying to learn how to play Apples to Apples

That's it for this week! Learned lots this week, especially patience haha.

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