Feb 21-27

Mum,
...I love you...Please respond?...Hahaha...OH wait...you're on your cruise...Well Respond if you can. I'll be back on email to check in a few hours. I hope you and Dad and Chunga are having fun! GET A PIC WITH CHUNGA! That'd be legal!(Lee-Gal-Portuguese for Cool)!

PS. Have you by chance gotten my Patriarichal blessing? I think about it everyday...I'm so anxious to read it, since i don't remeber that much from the actual blessing...Hmm...I trust that you will send it when you get it. Hopefully before i get sent to BRA.(still no word on the Visa...although it is for sure coming sooner than later...i think)...

Okay, Tchou for now! Paz e Amar! Peace and Love!
-pa'ka


When we got home from the cruise Jill said the Parker had called, his visa came in and he was going to the MTC in Brazil!! He left on Monday March 1st and got there the next morning. We got an email from the MTC in Brazil saying that Parker got there safe and was all setteled in and "Your very important young person is about to make an eternal difference in the lives of others. We hope you will be encouraged and comforted by this quote by President Lorenzo Snow: “There is no mortal man that is so much interested in the success of an elder [sister] when he is preaching the gospel as the Lord that sent him to preach to the people who are the Lord’s children.”

A few days later we got an email from the Branch President in Sao Paulo.
Dear Parents,

Your sons arrived into our branch at the MTC in São Paulo safely and in good spirits. We took this Thursday night when we first met with them. My husband is their branch president and we look forward to working with your son while he is here.

Sincerely,
Sister Brinton