With Faith In Every Footstep
Along The Mission Road
С Верой В Каждый Шаг На Дороге Миссии
August
22, 2008
There
comes a time in some people's lives when the fruits of their labors
finally blossom, ripen, and may be picked. A fruit has grown on my tree of
life and I am ready to partake of it, to taste its sweetness. This fruit
is known as "serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints".
On Thursday, August 21st, 2008, an envelope containing the call to where I
will be spending my next two years in the service of the Lord and my
fellow men was placed in my mailbox. My entire being was filled with joy
when I received the news that my call had arrived. I would like to share
this joy with all of you as I open the envelope.
I will be opening it and revealing its goodness sometime in the
afternoon/evening of SUNDAY, AUGUST 24th, 2008. The specific time will be
announced asap.
For those of you interested in attending, message me and I will give you
further information (such as my address).
For those of you interested in knowing where I will be serving but don't
necessarily feel the need to honor us all with your presence, I will be
posting the mission call here once I know.
For those of you interested in receiving some kind of award, post your
guess as to where I will be serving on this wall and the closest will
possibly receive something very nice.
For those of you interested in learning more about the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the "Mormons"), simply look for the
Elders in white shirts and black name tags and let them know. Or just tell
me and I'll find someone to share the Gospel with you. :)
I love you all.
Parker
Life
is not measured by the number of breaths we take...
...but
by the moments that take our breath away.
Elder Parker Martin Smith
Ukraine Donetsk Mission
PO Box 30150
Salt Lake City, UT 84130
This address is done through a pouch service, so do not
include anything but the following.
Postcards or Single sheet of paper written on one side,folded tri-fold (blank side out) with 2 smallpieces of
tape at seam, leaving ends open, 1 stamp. Write the address above on center,
include complete return address at top left corner
How does pouch mail work?
The Church offers a free mail delivery service called "pouch mail" for letters to missionaries serving in countries where regular mail services are not reliable. Each week, they send one box of letters to each pouch mission office, with aims for more successful, timely letter delivery.
Pouch mail is sent out every Monday, but letters must be submitted by noon the previous Thursday to get into the Monday batch.
Ukraine Donetsk Mission is a necessary part of the address
for the Church to know which box of letters to put your letter
in.
To send packages or anything of that sort use
the following address:
Elder Parker Martin Smith
Prospekt Bogdana Khmelnitskogo 67A
Donetsk, Ukraine 83087
Do Not Include the
words "Ukraine Donetsk Mission".
If you do it will be returned!!!
Also know that
most packages that are sent mid-November through mid-January will be
opened and have items stolen before they reach the mission
office. This happens often at other times of the year
but almost ALWAYS at this time of year.
Thanks To Patrick &Amy
Shipp
For Posting
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If the Restoration were a statue,
we, as members of this Church, know the view from the
front very well,” Deere says. “But every once in a
while, we come across a person or have an experience
that causes us to take a step around the statue and view
it from angles never before seen. And only then does it
start to come to life. My desire for this project has
always been for us to see these main characters of the
Restoration without judgment, with all due respect, and
with the utmost appreciation for their sacrifice and
endurance. When I began to see them this way, I began to
love them. This is our purpose. This is our testimony.
Mixing classical influences with sacred hymns,
James Conlee brings new interpretations of beloved melodies from both
worlds. At times he combines actual pieces as with 'Abide With Me /
Pachelbel's Canon', 'I Often Go Walking / Claire De Lune', and
'Beautiful Savior / Sheep May Safely Graze'. At other times classical
influences are heard more subtly in the arrangements and delivery. Born
from a desire to hear the great composer's music live on in our sacred
traditional hymns, James brings new light to music that has inspired
people for hundreds of years.
Follow Your Brethren
Follow your brethren
Your wise and righteous brethren
It will help to strengthen
Your testimony of Christ
Follow-------------------
Your wise and righteous brethren
And you will come to know him
Your Brother, Jesus Christ
Your Brother, your Savior
Your Redeemer, Jesus Christ
....Beware of false prophets
....The trouble they can raise
....Stay in tune with the Spirit
....Do not be led away
....By false prophets
....By false prophets
....Like Korihor and Nehor
....On this continent of old
....Set themselves before the world
....And did not teach from gold
....Just fool's gold
....They were selling fool's gold
Sustain our righteous prophets
And our leaders down the line
These brethren called of God
To guide us in these times
Sustain them, yes, back them
In our every word and deed
Each voice can spread the gospel
Each one can plant a seed
Of truth, of truth and Light,
Of light and Hope,
Of hope and truth in the knowledge that God lives
God lives
God lives
Parker,
aka Elder Smith, opening the envelope
containing the calling to serve as a missionary of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
With
tears of joy he reads:
Dear
Elder Smith:
You
are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the Ukraine
Donetsk Mission. It is anticipated that you will serve for a period of 24
months.
You
should report to the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah on
Wednesday, 5 November 2008. You will prepare to preach the gospel in
the Russian language. Your mission president may modify your
specific assignment according to the needs of the mission.
You
have been recommended as one worthy to minister the restored gospel.
You will be an official representative of the church. As such, you
will be expected to maintain the highest standards of conduct and
appearance by keeping the commandments, living mission rules, and
following the counsel of your mission president
.
Bishop
Rowley shaking hands with Elder Smith
And
a proud Father knows his Son will serve the Lord well...
Long,
Long,
Long
Before
Parker Left
Parker
And Mom ~ March
9, 1989
Cyd Marilyn
(Campbell) Carr-Smith
Mom
March 31,
1963 ~ April 13, 2008
~ Brett and Cyd
~
Parker's Parents
~ 1988 ~
~ Dyan,
Brett, Cyd, Parker, Justin ~
~ 1990 ~
~ Cyd ~
~ The Mother Of
Four ~
~ Two
Wonderful Children From Her First Marriage ~
~ Justin Tyler Carr ~
~ Dyan Lucile (Carr) Abbott ~
~ Two Wonderful Children From Her Second Marriage ~
~ Parker Martin Smith ~
~ Kristina Laurèn Smith ~
And Then The Cancer Came
Parker's
1st haircut and 1st haircut with a purpose
Parker and about 20 other boys
shaved there heads in support of Cyd
A favor to ask, it only takes a minute....
* I * 6 * Y
Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Breast Cancer site is having
trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota
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takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on 'donating a mammogram'
for free (pink window in the middle).
This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors /advertisers use the
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Here's the web site! Pass it along to people you know.
In Memory of Cyd Marilyn (Campbell) Carr-Smith - The mother of our children
Parker and Kristina and the mother of Justin and Dyan from a previous marriage
who I love as my own, and in Memory of her mother Vicki (Larsen) Campbell - Two
beautiful women, courageous Latter Day Saint women, who were dedicated to living
a Christ centered life, dedicated to their families and teaching them correct
principles, not only by words, but also by example. These women, these beautiful
ladies, both lost their fight with cancer within a two and a half years of each
other. Shortly after Vicki lost her battle with cancer, Cyd was diagnosed with
this same dreadful disease. Both of them fought a valiant fight, with dignity
and grace, to their very last mortal breath... But God is eternal, Life is
eternal, Love is eternal. My life is better, having been blessed by having them
in it. Thank you Cyd! Thank you mom!
Chad and Vicki Campbell
On Their Wedding Day
After Leaving The LDS Temple
Where They Were Married
For Eternity.
From THE
PROVERBS CHAPTER 31
A
virtuous woman is priced above rubies.
10 ¶ Who can
find a avirtuousbwoman?
for her price is far above rubies.
11 The heart of
her husband doth safely atrust
in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
12 She will do
him good and not evil all the days of her life.
13 She seeketh
wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her ahands.
14 She is like
the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
15 She ariseth
also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a
portion to her maidens.
16 She
considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she
planteth a vineyard.
17 She girdeth
her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
18 She perceiveth
that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by
night.
19 She layeth her
hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the adistaff.
20 She stretcheth
out her hand to the apoor;
yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
21 She is not
afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are
clothed with scarlet.
22 She maketh
herself coverings of tapestry; her aclothingis silk and purple.
23 Her husband is
known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
24 She maketh
fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the
merchant.
25 Strength and
honour are her aclothing;
and she shall rejoice in time to come.
26 She openeth
her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of akindness.
27 She looketh
well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of aidleness.
28 Her children
arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he
praiseth her.
29 Many daughters
have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
30 Favour is
deceitful, and abeautyis vain: but a woman thatbfeareth
the Lord, she shall be praised.
31 Give her of
the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the
gates.
On the same evening that Elder Smith opened his
mission call we had the pleasure of attending the fireside where this
dedicated couple shared their testimonies and pictures of serving as the
Ukraine Donetsk Mission President.
Elder Devin Shumway
March 9, 2009-May 25, 2009
Elder Kerr and Elder Shumway
Elder Tilgner is from Wulfen, Germany. He
enjoys all sports. He also enjoys auto mechanics. He has served as a
Primary teacher and a counselor in the Elders Quorum Presidency. He is
talented in organizing and motivating and is very creative. His trainer
is Elder Smith and they are serving in Petrosky.
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3 We believe that through the aAtonement
of Christ, all bmankind
may be csaved,
by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
4 We believe that the first
principles and aordinances
of the Gospel are: first, bFaith
in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, cRepentance;
third, dBaptism
by eimmersion
for the fremission
of sins; fourth, Laying on of ghands
for the hgift
of the Holy Ghost.
5 We believe that a man must be acalled
of God, by bprophecy,
and by the laying on of chands
by those who are in dauthority,
to epreach
the Gospel and administer in the fordinances
thereof.
8 We believe the aBible
to be the bword
of God as far as it is translated ccorrectly;
we also believe the dBook
of Mormon to be the word of God.
9 We believe all that God has arevealed,
all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet breveal
many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
10 We believe in the literal agathering
of Israel and in the restoration of the bTen
Tribes; that cZion
(the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that
Christ will dreign
personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be erenewed
and receive its fparadisiacalgglory.
11 We claim the aprivilege
of worshiping Almighty God according to the bdictates
of our own cconscience,
and allow all men the same privilege, let them dworship
how, where, or what they may.
12 We believe in being asubject
to bkings,
presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in cobeying,
honoring, and sustaining the dlaw.
13 aWe
believe in being bhonest,
true, cchaste,
dbenevolent,
virtuous, and in doing egood
to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of
Paul—We believe all things, we fhope
all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to gendure
all things. If there is anything hvirtuous,
ilovely,
or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.
Joseph Smith
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17 Points
of the
True Church of Christ
Christ organized the Church (Eph 4:11-14)
The true church must bear the name of Jesus Christ
(Eph 5:23)
The true church must have a foundation of Apostles
and Prophets (Eph 2:19-20)
The true church must have the same organization as
Christ’s Church (Eph 4:11-14)
The true church must claim divine authority (Heb
4:4-10)
The true church must have no paid ministry (Acts
20:33-34; John 10:11-13)
The true church must baptize by immersion (Matt
3:13-16)
The true church must bestow the gift of the Holy
Ghost by the laying on of hands (Acts 8:14-17)
The true church must practice divine healing (Mark
3:14-15)
The true church must teach that God and Jesus are
separate and distinct individuals (John 17:11; 20:17)
The true church must teach that God and Jesus have
bodies of flesh and bone (Luke 23:36-39; Acts 1:9-11; Heb 1:1-3)
The officers must be called by God (Heb 4:4; Ex
28:1; 40:13-16)
The true church must claim revelation from God
(Amos 3:7)
The true church must be a missionary church (Matt
28:19-20)
The true church must be a restored church (Acts
3:19-20)
The true church must practice baptism for the dead
(1Cor 15:16&29)
“By their fruits ye shall know them.” (Matt
7:20)
Elder Parker Martin Smith
Ukraine Donetsk Mission
PO Box 30150
Salt Lake City, UT 84130
This address is done through a pouch service, so do not include anything but the following.
Postcards or Single sheet of paper written on one side, folded tri-fold (blank side out) with 2 small pieces of tape at seam, leaving ends open, 1 stamp. Write info above on center, include complete return address at top left corner.
How does pouch mail work?
The Church offers a free mail delivery service called "pouch mail" for letters to missionaries serving in countries where regular mail services are not reliable. Each week, they send one box of letters to each pouch mission office, with aims for more successful, timely letter delivery.
Pouch mail is sent out every Monday, but letters must be submitted by noon the previous Thursday to get into the Monday batch.
Ukraine Donetsk Mission is a necessary part of the address for the Church to know which box of letters to put your letter in.
To send packages or anything of that sort use the following
address:
Elder Parker Martin Smith
Prospekt Bogdana Khmelnitskogo 67A
Donetsk, Ukraine 83087
Do Not Include the words
"Ukraine Donetsk Mission".
If you do it will be returned!!!
Also know that most packages that are sent mid-November through mid-January will be opened and have
items stolen before they reach the mission office. This happens often at other times of the year but almost ALWAYS at this time of year.
Thanks To Patrick
& Amy Shipp For Posting The Following ROXOLANA Info On
Elder Shipp's Blog:
Best Shipping Method
ROXOLANA International Trade
2200 Route 10 West, Suite 104
Parsippany NJ 07054
(973) 538-3888
(888) 725-8665
Contact ROXOLANA for instructions
and shipping labels.
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