Things are GREAT!

What's up?!? Things here are great! Wasn't conference amazing?!? I loved so many especially L. Tom Perry and Pres. Uchtdorf's "Lift Where You Stand." What were y'all's favorite talks?
The work here is great! The mission sets a goal of 20-10-2 for us to meet. 20 lessons total taught, 10 hours of tracting and at least 2 lessons to a part member family. Elder Soderling and I have now hit it 3 weeks in a row.
Our investigators are doing great! We might have a baptism on October 18 for a couple of youth. Their names are C & A and they are great! They absorb knowledge like a sponge. It will be awesome for me because I have been teaching them all the way from Lesson 1. It makes me so excited because recently the area has not had many baptisms and its almost like its been in a drought. Not any more. The roller coaster looks to be on the up swing.
This last week, Many Farms Elders borrowed our truck again (theirs is broken) so we were on borrowed bikes. I rode a girls bike without shocks and we went 6 miles on a road with washboards. Can you say "bruised tailbone?" It hurt for a couple days but it is good now.
Hope all is well.
Love
Elder Brady Parkin

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Whitney said…
Missionary work has so many ups and downs. There is times when you have to work hard even when you are bruised and sore. That story makes me laugh.
How great it is to see that they are having success.
October 10, 2008 at 5:57 PM
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