Some people call me Murph!

Sister Kucharek and I with Elisa! 

Alright! We  had a CRAZY filled week with appointments! Having Rockville South has been our redeeming grace to keep us so busy. It has been such a huge blessing!!! We get to see some amazing people and it has been great work with the people we have been working with too. In all, we taught 23 lessons this week!!! 

Monday we had dinner with the he bishop and his family it was so much fun! We talked about how we can move the missionary work along. He gave us a new part member family to work with! We are going to teach them the missionary discussion to practice with. We met them on Saturday and they are so sweet! They are the Dugan family. We only met Bro. Dugan and his daughter who are members. His wife isn't a member and she was out of town. We didn't get to teach the 1st lesson because Bor. Dugan wanted to wait until his wife was home to give her the chance to listen to the lessons with him. It will be exciting to see what happens!!

While at the bishop's house, Sister Kucharek was trying to figure out the law that everything that could go wrong will go wrong to explain what happens to me. The bishop's wife said that was Murphy's law. So now Sister Kucharek calls me Murphy!

Then on Tuesday...  We tracked for 4 1/2 hours! It was great.... Except I for some reason thought it was summer and I didn't wear any leggings! My toes were so so so cold! So now I'm making a rule to always wear leggings until it's March! The first place we went to we chose by looking at our map. We first prayed and then chose an area and keep choosing an area until we narrow it down to a certain street. It was so awesome!!! 2 people said we could come back later... We checked up on them later that week and they weren't home. But we will keep trying to catch them again. Then we also met a man who told us to come back whenever we were in the neighborhood again. So we went back on Saturday and he was shocked to see us again. Haha. He said, "Wow! That was fast!" He let us in and we met his wife. They were extremely nice and let us share a scripture with them. They said they weren't interested, but they were super nice!

So... Wednesday we got a surprise text from one of our less actives. She has been not letting us come over for a long time now and she texted us to asks if we could come see her! It was really great to see her again!!! Hopefully we can keep meeting with her and get her and her husband back at church!!! Her ultimate goal is to be sealed to him, so let's see if we can make that happen!

Alright so we picked up an interesting investigator. He has been dropped before because he is a tad hard to get a hold of. He's homeless, so this will be interesting. He's super nice and chill. He already read our chapters we assigned to him to read and we had a good dissuasion about them. We shall see where that will take us!

Church yesterday was so good! In gospel principles we talked about the Fall of Adam and Eve. Our amazing ward missionary leader, Bro. Lee, taught it. My favorite thing he said was that in his opinion why God gave the choice to Adam and Eve when to officially start the plan in action was because he wanted to let them decide how long to be "comfortable" before having to experience the harsh world. I was so touched with that perspective... It's like God didn't want to force them to do something they weren't ready to do yet. Then in Relief Society we talked about prayer. It was super emotional hearing all these amazing stories about people's experiences with prayer.

This week has already started in an interesting way! We worked up to some more snow! It has been snowing lightly all day and now has stopped recently. We aren't allowed to leave our apartments again! This will be exciting to see what will happens tomorrow! I love you all!! Hope you have great week!

Much Love!

Sister Parker

Happy Valentine's Day!