Hi!! Hope you all had a great week!

Things here in IF are going well. These next couple weeks might be some of my last here so I'm really trying to do everything I can to make them awesome! 

We started teaching a girl named J this week. Jenny is 17 years old and is one of the most incredible people I've been able to teach. She was raised going to a non-denominational Christian church with her adopted parents (who are actually her grandparents), but she started taking seminary this year in school. Her boyfriend Nathan is a member of the church and has been the one who has encouraged her to learn more. J is a very studious person and she would basically devour any study guide or scriptures that were given to her by her seminary teacher. She says she already knows that the church is true and she wants to get baptized! 

So she sounds like a golden investigator right? Lets just fill the font and get her in there! 

There's just one tiny problem... Her parents HATE the church. They think that Joseph Smith is a fraud and the Mormon church is a cult. So they WILL NOT give her permission to get baptized. It was a miracle that they even let her come to a lesson with us. So she won't be able to join the church until she's 18 but hopefully we can keep teaching her and answering her questions. 

In other news... We have 2 baptisms this weekend! J's mom finally gave permission for him to get baptized! So we quickly set the date and he is scheduled to get baptized on Sunday! K's daughter Lilli is also getting baptized this weekend on Saturday. She has been to a lot of different churches and she says she felt like the LDS church was right and she wants to get baptized! So she will get baptized on the 23rd.

Also K and C are getting married next month! We are so excited. This is taking a lot of faith for them to make this decision and to trust in God's plan for them.

Sister Bueno is almost done training! She has one more week and she will be ready to train another missionary! I'm going to be really sad to leave her. We have become best friends in the three months we've spent together. It took a lot of heart-to-hearts, tears, honesty and love to get us to the point we're at now but we are stronger and closer than ever. Perfect timing right? Now we are going to have to leave each other! :(

I love my mission. I feel more fulfilled than I've ever felt in my life. I know I'm in the right place. I know I'm doing the Lord's work. 

I love you all so much! Have a great week.

Until next time,

Sister Park