Elder Tyler Christopher Park: February 11, 2013

Well family I’m still here in Jojulta. On Saturday Elder Vega and I had a birthday and it went really well. Agustine and Reyna were baptized and it was really special because we worked with him for about two months and he had struggles with smoking. But now he is on the right track and was baptized along with his wife. Now we are trying to work with his family but none of them are married so it will be pretty hard to work with that but we are going to do our best. This past Friday we had a Zone Conference and it was really good. I learned a lot of things about the work and how we should work with the members and why it’s important to work with them. Right now we are working with a non-active family but that has a daughter that is 9 years old and isn’t baptized. That’s where Elder Vega and Elder Park come in to teach her and then have her Dad baptized her so that they can come back to church active.

Well this change is a little bit different if you don’t know...a change is every 6 weeks but because of the rule change from 19 to 18 and we are going to receive a lot more missionaries here in Mexico. I believe that we will get 30 new missionaries in this next change...crazy huh. So in this change instead of 6 weeks I’ll be with Elder Vega for 8 weeks. So really I will serve 2 years and 2 weeks in my mission. I’m pretty excited about it...that I can serve two weeks more. Also we had special changes again with me. The Elder Fuertes will be with Elder Vega and I for 2 days because he is going to end his mission on the 13 so he is going to stay with us for a short amount of time. So I will have killed two Elders in the mission so it looks like I’m going to be a killer in the mission haha. But everything is going good here in Jojutla. I hope that everything is going great in Texas and that y’all are safe and sound in TX and AZ for Tom haha. If I’m right in two weeks I will have completed 9 months in the mission. The mission is going by super super fast and its scary but awesome at the same time.

Espero que todo de ustedes esten bien en Texas. Quiero decir unas cositas acercade la obra misional y la razón porque la obra misonal es importante. Primero es un mandamiento jajaja y por medio de la obediencia vamos a recibir muchismas bendiciones en nuestras vidas. Se que la obra misional no es solomente con los Misioneros de tiempo completo pero es con los miembros tambien. Está iglesia es una iglesia de misioneros no con misioneros. Recuérden que ustedes son misioneros tambien y deben ayudar a los demás. Les amo con todo de mi corazón. Se que estas cosas en lo que creemos es la verdad y no hay otro camino o otro nombre que podemos sequir para ser salvo. Esta es la verdad

Les Amo

Elder Park Parque)

Translation:

I hope that all of you are well in Texas. I would like to say a few things about missionary work and why the labor of missionary work is important. First is a commandment, lol and through obedience we are going to receive very much blessings in our lives. I know that the missionary work is not only with the full-time missionaries but it is also with the members. This church is a church of missionaries not with missionaries.

Remember that you are also missionaries and should help others. I love y’all with all of my heart. I know that these things in what we believe are the truth and there is no other way or another name that can order to be saved. This is the truth only with the full-time missionaries but it is also with the members. This church is a church of missionaries not with missionaries. Remember that you are also missionaries and should help others. I love y’all with all of my heart.