We have baptisms dates.... For twins!!! #twinpower!

Remember last week we said that God was pouring us with blessings out of the bucket??? Well... There has been 2 more buckets of miracles! These two buckets represent Sandro, Dan's twin, and Matthew! It is feeling like I'm at the water park and the HUGE bucket of water is being dumped on us! I am so blessed to have all of these amazing people coming to us and asking for us to teach them! I also had a fun week with working with Aggie too!

Aggie and Us at the Temple!!

Wednesday night was such a good night! It first started off with taking Aggie to the youth temple trip to do baptisms for the dead. Aggie first gave us a heart attack because she said she didn't have her temple recommend. Well... It turned out that the bishop didn't give her one at her interview because her membership record wasn't in yet. Luckily the bishop was way on top of it and sent the 2nd councilor to come early to fill out a temple recommend for her. Phew! Aggie was so cute doing baptisms for the dead! She kept not plugging her nose, so she was coughing up water by the end. We will have to make sure next time she knows she can plug her nose! She's a tough little cookie! Confirmations was really neat because they just changed the policy that now people can wear their Sunday clothes. This way we are in the same clothing that we walked in with. It made it feel more real and personal this way. Being at the temple was an AMAZING experience. The whole time I was thinking about all youth temple trips I've been to and how blessed I was to have my mom and/ or dad to be there for almost if not all the temple trips. So many sweet memories back in the Portland temple!

Afterwards we had a lesson with Feng! He is such a funny guy. When we were asking how his day was he says, "... Oh.. I was worried you were going to ask how my praying is! Haha. My day is good." We then of course said, "Well.... How is your praying???" He said he hasn't yet, but he read the Book of Mormon for 30 sec!!! That's a miracle in of itself! Feng has a super hard time getting the courage to pray when he's not even sure if he
believes in a God. We then had a FANTASTIC lesson about the gospel of Jesus Christ. He asked a ton of questions why there is a Bible and a Book of Mormon. The spirit was so strong as we testified how much God loves us and why he wanted to give us two records testifying of His Son. Both books are a witness of Christ and those in the Bible didn't know anything about the people in America, so their testimonies are even more strong in testifying of the same Christ! And... At the end we got Feng to say the closing prayer!!! He did a fantastic job! The next task is to get him to church.... It looks like he is going to be stubborn with this too!

Ok! Now to the most exciting news of the week! So... When we met with Dan in the past, he kept saying that his twin brother joined the church 7 years ago in Las Vegas, but lost in contact with the church when he moved away. You can imagine our excitement when Dan told us that his brother, Sandro, was going to join us for the next lesson. Our lesson was at a member's home and the husband graciously offered to give the brothers a ride to his house. The VERY first thing that the member said was, "Sandro was just telling me that he met with missionaries before, but never got baptized and I told him that we could seal the deal!" Both Sister Kucharek and I were busting with excitement in our heads! We then had an amazing lesson with them and the members we had the lesson with was an amazing help! We taught about the Plan of Salvation and focused a lot on the Atonement and the Spirit World. The spirit was so strong as we and the members were working together to answer all of Sandro's and Dan's questions. At the end of the lesson we asked if they would be baptized on the 21st of May and they both accepted!!! My heart was melting the rest of that night!

Now about Matthew! Last Sunday we got a referral from the visitor center to contact Matthew. We called him up that night and set up an appointment to meet him on Friday. When we got there, Matthew told us why he was at the visitor center in the first place. He has driven on Beach Drive (it's the road off where the temple is at) multiple times and had always wondered what the HUGE white building was. So he asked his dad if they could go check it out and he said yes! So they went into the visitor center and they got taught by sister missionaries. They were even invited to go see the DC Mormon Choir and so they went down to watch them sing! Matthew is very curious about what other religions believe in and so he had some fantastic questions for us! He wanted to know how we joined the church and why are we still in the church. I got to tell about Grammy Parker's conversion story and how Grandpa got re-activated by the missionaries. It was such a sweet moment to share that with him. Matthew's sweet mom came in towards the end of the lesson trying to get us something to drink and brought a tray full of snacks! We had to tell her we had to get going, but we appreciated the offer. She then says that she would love to join us on the next lesson with Matthew next week! Also, Matthew said that he thinks his dad would like to join too!

We had our language meeting on Saturday to discuss the ASL program. All this week and even into the first 20 minutes of the meeting, I was confident that I was going back to English this next transfer. President Cooke even said at the start of the meeting, "Sister Parker, I keep forgetting that you weren't called in ASL!" Well... As we got into the meeting President Cooke says," I think we are going to flood the branch with all of the ASL missionaries and still keep a companionshipin Rockville." After the meeting my head was exploding with not
knowing what was going to happen! Luckily call outs were 4 hours later! I'm not sure what I would do if call outs were the following week! So... BIG NEWS ARE HERE! I'm am LEAVING and Sister Kucharek is STAYING! All of the ASL sisters companionships are being split up. There is a 90% possibility that I'm going to be with Sister Cosper again in the ASL branch! Soooo excited! If not, I'll be with Sister Carter in the ASL branch. Either way it's going to be an exciting transfer ahead of us! We will find out tonight where and who we will be with exactly. So
crazy!

Yesterday was another CRAZY Sunday! Maybe even more crazy than last Sunday. We had Dan and Sandro come to church. Then we had a surprise and saw Matthew after sacrament meeting. So, Sister Kucharek had to

The Jackson's Family!
Cutest baby alive!

herd them to Sunday School while I helped Aggie talk with a member in the Ward. After our meeting with the member we went over to Sunday School and it was PACKED with investigators and members! It was such a good feeling having everyone come together. Afterwards I was showing Aggie the bathroom before Relief Society started. On the way back, a man from a different Ward stopped me and asked if I could help interpret for a deaf women. I was so caught off guard that I was like, "Let me ask my companion what we can do. So I got Sister Kucharek's attention and said this man wanted us to interpret for a women. We got to outside of the chapel and we met with Sharon. She is such a sweet deaf women! We don't know her full story yet. All we know is that she is from West Virginia and a friend in the Rockville Ward told her husband that they should come to the Rockville Ward since we have a deaf group. They didn't know what time our church started, so luckily she was willing to go to Relief Society with us. It was fun to have Sister Lagos and Sharon to interpret for in Relief Society. I hope Sharon comes more! So that was our crazy Sunday!

I didn't get the chance to tell anyone that I was leaving because we were so busy with investigators and having Sharon show up! I did get to go over to the Jackson's to say goodbye. This family is my favorite! Brother Jackson is our amazing Ward missionary leader. We had what's called Tim Tam Slam. It's a chocolate covered waffer cookie, filled with choclate. You bite a small corner on the opposite corners and dip a part of it in the cup of hot
chocolate and suck through the bite! I kinda failed, but it was fun to try!

I can't believe Mother's Day is this week! I'm so so so excited to see and talk with my family! Happy Mother's day to everyone! Shout out to my cousin Sarah for getting married last Saturday! I'm so excited and 


happy for you and Kody!

Love you all!

Sister Parker