The Promised Land of Parlier

Hello, Parlier is Mexico. Rhyme time.

We had a neat experience with inspired planning. Elder Arebalo and Elder Peterson told Elder Oliver and I about a slightly crazy person  named Tony who lived in Parlier that had met with a lot of missionaries in the past. They met with Tony and decided that he was more English than Spanish, and that he was also to crazy to be worth teaching. Elder Oliver and I felt inspired to go to Parlier to try and visit this man, and to also visit all of the Less active members that live over there. We don't go to Parlier very much because almost everyone speaks Spanish. We planned to go in the afternoon with Brother Smeaton. 

We went and visited Tony. He was slightly crazy, but not as crazy as advertised. We were able to have a good lesson with him, and then better, we were able to receive his sister as a referral from him. We went around the corner and visited his sister Yared or Yari. We had a fantastic lesson with her, and were able to receive another referral from her. She was very prepared, and felt the spirit strongly. 

The miracles in Parlier didn't end there though, we visited the first L.A member that we had planned to see, Veronica Bell. We found her at an apartment that didn't match the number one on the ward directory, the first apartment that we tried. Miraculously, her visiting teacher was there for the first time in two months. She had just had a change in her life, and she was planning to come to church. 

Finally, we tried one more LA. They didn't live at the house anymore, but we got a potential investigator.

This week Elder Oliver also got the opportunity to go out on a team up with the one and only President Clark. He came in his really fancy BMW and we took him to some of the more Ghetto parts of Selma to visit our investigators. It was an Awesome experience. We were able to find a family of new investigators, and teaching them with President Clark is a good start.

Elder Oliver and I were able to find 8 new investigators this week. Whenever we have to drop some investigators we are able to find even more prepared ones.

 We had Kim and her daughter Marissa come to church on Sunday. It's lots of fun to have investigators come to church. 

We are giving updates to the president every night in preperation for a big MCM meeting on Thursday. it's pretty fun.

We also met with the Zamoras this week and they committed to be baptized! The day they chose was in June, when Max moves in with his dad full time. It's still great news for the future.

Everything is goinmg pretty well. I'm always happy and tired as a missionary.

Love,

Elder Keeley

I messed with more affects. 
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