Elder Parker Enger Mission Letters

Hello! It's been a good past couple of weeks. For one, Elder Gella and I are now covering Almaguer as well as the Bambang 2nd Branch (long story short: the missionaries that were assigned there had to be pulled out, and there weren't any missionaries there for nearly a month; with us being the closest missionaries, plus with my previous knowledge of the area, we became the missionaries for that area as well as our own until the next transfer in a couple of weeks), so it's been fun to be meeting people that I used to work with and teach last year haha. Our goal is basically to nurture the area and the people that the past missionaries were preparing for baptism, as well as those that were recently baptized, so that the next missionaries aren't left with nothing when they arrive at the end of May. We also got bikes as a result that we're sharing with the Bambang 1st Elders, and it's a bit refreshing to have bikes again and not needing to walk everywhere or worryi...

Hello! It's been a good few weeks here in Bambang. I'm slowly but surely getting adjusted to the area and getting to know the members and people we're teaching here. We have a lot of dinner appointments, so we're definitely getting fed haha, and we've been able to have our branch mission leader, branch president, and a few other members join us in some of our visits, which has been a great help, and we really appreciate it. Alyssa (the young daughter of a family who are all members except for her, but they haven't been active in coming to church for a while) keeps continuing to prepare for her baptism on May 13, and she and her parents continue to come every week to church and become more active members, which is great. We also met another part-member family in a similar situation; the youngest daughter, Zyla, is also not baptized since her family stopped coming to church a few years ago as well, but they came to church this week, and we're continuing to m...