Always Something Left to See

To Our Dear and Beloved Family,

Another exciting week has passed, the most significant event being the safe arrival of Brenda, Mindy and Benj on Thursday afternoon. We went through the usual motions the first part of the week though it was a holiday weekend here for Pentecost, just like it was for the rest of the family for Memorial Day.  We loved the pictures we received and we admit one of our favorites was the typical decorating of Ed and Barbara's grave with pine cones. Here in Europe they know how to holiday well with a three day holiday very insufficient. Pentecost started on Friday and although most of the stores opened on Tuesday, the school kids were still out until Wednesday. At any rate the center was closed so we didn't put on the usual Monday night meal for home evening but Institute on Wednesday was well attended for the English class though demonstrated a very poor attendance for the other classes.  We suppose people were still recovering from the long holiday but it has become a concern as many of the young adults that we used to always see seldom come around.  In justification for a few of them, weddings are pending and we suspect they have plenty to keep them busy.

     With our extra time we hauled up the extra beds from our basement cellar and pulled down the mattresses and bedding that we have stashed above our clothes closet. We were all ready for a total population of five in our little two room apartment and it has really gone quite well with the exception of one major factor. Their plane landed at about 3 PM and we have learned from all previous arrivals including our own that it takes a good hour to get pick up your luggage and get through customs.  No sign of anyone until 4:10 PM when they all walked through the gate and informed us that Benj's checked luggage hadn't made the trip.  Thus far there have been a total of 7 phone calls with Delta being the most helpful and documenting that all the luggage made it safely to Paris. From that point on we still don't know where his suitcase is with one report even indicating it may have been shipped to Atlanta. Air France has been less than efficient as they were responsible for the last leg of the trip. Anyone who has occasion to give them a bad rep has our approval. So far it has been 72 hours with no knowledge of where his stuff is. He's missing some Sunday clothes, his scriptures and a variety of other sundries but fortunately Elder Parker received his new cell phone safely (packed in Benj's carry on) and it even works! We have loaned Benj some shaving equipment etc. and we're laundering more frequently than planned.

     It has otherwise been a wonderful two and a half days thus far.  We've visited some of our favorite spots like the heights of Kahlenberg with a wonderful view of the city and the Danube, Schoenbrunn Castle (after the third trip we think we're actually starting to get all of the details down about it's inhabitants, the last of the Habsburgs), and St Stephen's cathedral.  But what was new this time was our first opportunity to see the famous Spanish Riding School with the Lippizaner Stallions and a wonderful concert in one of the original halls where Johann Strauss actually performed.  We found out that photos were forbidden in any of the places that charged money so they can encourage you to buy the book with all of the photos in it but it was possible to grab a few shots of the locations after the show was over!

Directly in front of us at the concert were about 50 Asian tourists who couldn't accept the fact that pictures were not allowed and they were waving their cameras all over in front of us until eventually threatened with ultimate bodily harm by the authorities.  

We got a kick our of a woman directly in front of us who kept tapping the man in front of her every time he elevated his camera.  But otherwise it really was a wonderful program with lots of familiar classics from Strauss, Mozart and others. We have eaten in two different restaurants with live musicians performing the old classics and are preparing today to embark right after church on the first leg of our trip to Germany to see the Neuschwanstein Castle, Salzburg and redo our visit to Hallstatt which we did last year with Andy and Ruslana and their family. 

Our other new experience yesterday was a trip to a wonderful main library room now kept strictly as a museum. It was stacked with thousands of books on multiple levels plus was featuring a wonderful exhibit on the renovation of historical Vienna when the old protective walls were torn down and replaced with the wonderful Ringstrasse which encircles the old city and has been developed with lots of impressive buildings, government and otherwise with lots of classy hotels.

  

      We're leaving in about an hour to attend the International Ward and then will return just long enough to pick up our luggage and head for the train station and an 8 hour train ride.  It will give us a nice time to rest and talk.  We may even get caught up on our scripture reading which is a couple of days behind.

   [Sister Parker] Its great to have some family here and I really appreciate all the new supplies they brought in to fill my pantry. I won't need any extras for the remainder of our mission. I have enjoyed all the family pictures of visiting the graves and appreciate you all taking time to remember and honor our family who have gone on before us. Give each other big hugs from us, especially Amelia who is sharing her mother with us.

     LOVE AND HUGS. 

Grammy, Grampa, 

Mom, Dad, 

Elder and Sister Parker

BYU Returns!

To Our Dear Family,

Well here we sit on a quiet Sunday night, listening to the Orchestra on Temple Square play their concert entitled "A Night in Vienna."  We don't know how long ago it was performed, probably at least a couple of years ago.  I think we had actually seen it once but this was the first time we noticed it on the church website.  Anyway, it's a great background to letter writing and Igor Gruppman is trying hard to keep up with the Vienna Philharmonic that we heard last week.

It was our understanding that a group from BYU was supposed to arrive in town last Wednesday but we had heard nothing from them, even at our Institute Council meeting which was Thursday morning.  We'd been up at the crack of dawn that day to get to the train station by 6:30 to say goodbye to the 4 elders leaving the Vienna Zone and then had to hightail it to the council meeting by 7:30.  That went until 9:15 AM and then it was time to hustle up to one of the apartments that needs a new floor and meet a tradesman who was going to give us a second bid on the job at 10:00.  By the time he was done we'd spent a good morning already and it was time to get some lunch and get ready for our language lessons in the afternoon.  Still no news of anyone showing up from BYU and we hoped we might see someone on Friday night at Waffle Night but still no luck.  There was a good showing of missionaries including most of the newies who came in Thursday afternoon after the oldies had left but other than 3 YSA's and one "professional" investigator, that was it.

This weekend was featuring a Sports Outing at one of the wards way out to the west in a city called Graz that we've never been to and that no doubt explained the small number of attendees but it turned out to rain all day on Saturday. That being our P day we thought about making the trek out there but elected not to and spent the day deep cleaning the apartment in preparation for the arrival in a few days of Brenda, Mindy and Benj.

      So with no enthusiasm to go any walks of Vienna this weekend we decided we'd at least go out for dinner. In our travels the last few weeks we had noticed hidden away on a remote busy intersection that we almost never get to, lo and behold! a TGI Friday's. Elder Parker was pretty sure he remembered about where it was and we decided to take an unusual combination of streetcar and bus to get there.  But as luck would have it we got out one stop too early and had to walk an extra block.  But that was not all that bad as we lucked out and walked past Beethoven Platz which included a sign indicating where a school used to stand, long ago replaced but at one time attended by none other than.....Joseph Haydn.  We knew you'd think it was Beethoven and so did we but nonetheless, there on the Platz big as life was this:  Beethoven bigger than life even though a little tarnished!

 We did finally make it to TGIF's where we relished some excellent potato skins and Elder Parker ordered some yummy BBQ'd ribs while Sister Parker was happy with some equally luscious fish and chips. We don't think we can get away with that while visitors are here expecting to sample some schnitzel and gelato but it will hold us off for a while!

       So to get back to the original story line, we went to our Stake Center for church today but attended the 2nd ward which meets in the afternoon so next week we could attend the International Ward which meets in the afternoon.  Much to our delight, there were 8 of the 18 BYU group including their leader in attendance. Virtually all of them speak pretty good German and the others may have attended the English speaking ward that morning. These guys are not the musicians we had who left last September but are all artists or language students so it will be interesting to get to know them better. Our first contact was Zach Herzog who it turned out left our mission last August but had never made it to Vienna proper. We pulled out our old mission newsletters and found his picture departing us just as our new mission president arrived. We all attended the usual YSA Sunday School class but because all the regulars were in Graz today where they had a Singles Ward experience, no teacher showed up.  To her credit, one of our newlywed sisters who hails from the US, her husband being a Brit, picked up on the lesson with plenty of help from everyone there and we had a great lesson, interestingly most of it in English even though there were about five or six Austrians there but all of them speak excellent English. It was really a little bit of this and that going back and forth from which ever language people were most comfortable in but we felt quite edified.

     So this whole weekend is a major holiday again, centering on the day of Pentecost or Pfingsten.  That was what was going on the weekend we arrived in Vienna one year ago Tuesday!  We have to admit that these religious holidays are nice once you get used to them and as the Pentecost represented the day the apostles were blessed with the Holy Ghost, it was a natural topic for Sacrament Meeting today.

We understand it is also the Memorial Day weekend so everyone gets Monday off.  We may celebrate by visiting a few more graves tomorrow but we think we've been to most we're interested in.  Mostly we'll be gearing up for the family visitors by bringing up three more beds from the cellar.

Currently we've got tickets for the Lippizaner Stallions, a great Strauss/Mozart concert, both this coming Saturday in Vienna, and a wonderful Mozart opera dinner concert in Salzburg for a week from Tuesday.  I don't know if we can tolerate all this high level of classicism!

  [Sister Parker] Not much to add this week. It has actually been quite rainy and a bit cold, so I'm hoping for a little sunshine to come our way for our visitors. I think I have mostly spent this week bolstering young adults up and saying goodbye to our endearing elders. They all seem like my grandchildren and I enjoy getting to know them and their concerns. The hard part is remembering how they all fit in and where they come from, even the YSA's come from different cities and countries. It's a great time to be a missionary.

LOVE AND HUGS,
Grammy, Grampa,
Mom, Dad,
Elder and Sister Parker  

An Anniversary with the Vienna Philharmonic

Dear Family,

It's hard to believe that we've now been on our mission for a full year, at least dating from our entry into the MTC in Provo on May the 12th of 2014.  As anniversaries go, it was nothing spectacular as we spent the day teaching German to our Hungarian member and his mother.  But otherwise, Vienna has really decked itself out for one big celebration this week, the theme of which is "Building Bridges."  As near as we can figure out from all the advertising, which we don't pay a lot of attention to, the city is really caught up in the spirit of helping others.  We get a monthly newsletter from the city district in which we live and this month's was dedicated to how much the city is involved in helping the sick and the needy all over the world.  They mentioned helping out with the Nepal earthquakes and many of the mid-east refugees who are truly suffering as a result of the political unrest going on in their home countries.  As we've mentioned before, the city is really a melting pot of many people coming here from Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc. but one of the specific emphases they are focusing on apparently are people suffering from AIDS or HPV infections.  But not to leave anyone out, they are bending over backwards to show how tolerant they are to the LGBT community.

Because our center is only two blocks away from the Rathaus or the Vienna City Hall, that seems to be a big focus location for many of their city celebrations and this week apparently launched their "Festival Week" which included a huge song contest attended by literally a hundred thousand people.  The crowds naturally spill over quite a bit though we're fortunately located behind the building with most of the action taking place on the big plaza in front.  But we noted that all of the pedestrian traffic lights around the building had been changed to include not one figure standing or walking as red changed to green but now 2 figures holding hands with a heart between them.  Naturally it was either two female figures or 2 male figures. No further comment.

On the positive side of this week was a huge celebration that centered on the palace grounds of the old Emperor's summer palace at Schoenbrunn.  The focus there was the opening concert of the Vienna Philharmonic which all of our BYU music students tell us is the best symphony orchestra they've ever heard.  And the special item was that the concert was free to anyone who wanted to attend! The palace gardens, if anyone remembers pictures from last summer, are huge and we are sure there must have been a quarter of a million people thronging about.  The program featured Scandinavian or "north-European" composers like Grieg or Sibelius and virtually all of the pieces were very familiar like the Peer Gynt Suite or Finlandia but it had wonderful camera work with big screens as well and great sound and light effects, even concluding with a light show and fireworks.  The only rub was finding a place to take it all in and we found out that any decent viewing area prohibited sitting down. This all took place on the holiday which celebrates Christ's Ascension to Heaven or Christi Himmelfahrt, 40 days after His resurrection on Easter.  No one showed up for any language classes earlier in the afternoon so we got away by about 5 PM and arrived with 2 1/2 hours to wait for the concert to begin.  We did manage to locate ourselves right next to a border fence erected to keep the crowds off the gardens where we could lean and get some support so it wasn't really as bad as it might sound but we truly loved the concert, the orchestra and the director who was the famous Zubin Mehta.  They had a piano soloist, Rudolph Buchbinder, who was fantastic and they kept playing encores which was also special.

Here's a shot of Sister Parker shortly after our arrival and before the crowds really started forming in front of us though you can see them clearly in the background.

And here's a shot taken during the concert looking toward the semi-circular orchestra dome beneath the green lights during the conclusion of Finlandia with the Gloriette way off in the distance on top of a big hill which you really can't appreciate in the picture but which was filled with people who were allowed to sit on the grass way up there. They just couldn't hear or see much from that vantage point.

The rest of the week was pretty slow as far as center work goes.  One of the regular institute teachers was occupied with family visitors and couldn't come so several opted to come into the English Book of Mormon class Elder Parker teaches which boosted the numbers to twice as many as usual.  It's amazing how much more one learns from teaching a class as opposed to merely reading the material.  Apparently it's a natural way to encourage pondering which is where the Spirit really speaks to you.

Saturday, our regular P day we spent wandering the mazes of IKEA to pick up a table and 4 chairs to better furnish a couple of our missionaries' apartments.  It took much longer than we had anticipated but we had to help assemble the items and so got home right after dark.  Two of the elders had been eating all their meals essentially on a coffee table so we think they'll enjoy having a proper place to serve breakfast and dinner!

At our last Institute Council meeting it was determined to show the Worldwide CES Devotional. So far this year there have been two and neither has ever been offered so they determined we would show the one from January with President Ridd now and the one from May at the end of the Institute year.  We were assigned to provide refreshments after Sister Parker wisely declined preparing a full meal on the Sabbath day and suggested refreshments instead.  Even so it was a nice spread of veggies and fruits with some yummy vegetable dip provided by the gracious mailings of you guys.  Sister Parker also baked some delicious banana bread which was a big hit.  At the meeting, we hadn't picked up specifically who was going to provide the equipment for the download so Elder Parker decided to bring a laptop just in case.  In took about 45 minutes to figure out how to get it all set up in German and our laptop wasn't compatible with their projection system to get good sound and a projection capability but it turned out it was better than what was provided on a notebook from one of our YSA leaders who showed up about a half hour into the refreshment time (which was supposed to precede the devotional anyway.) We had attended a ward with a strong YSA contingent and emphasized the event for that evening and of the 11 people who showed up, they provided 4.  4 others came from the ward where two of our youth leaders on the council attend and we got three other stragglers.  Three of the wards had no representatives at all, we suspect because of lack of adequate publicizing so we'll make some comments at the next council meeting about getting the water to the end of all the rows, good Utah irrigation philosophy!

8 baptisms occurred in our mission last week, everyone of them hailing from Africa.  We thought it was interesting that in our proposed list of scheduled baptisms, numbering 50 at the moment, only 2 are listed as hailing from Austria.  There are another 6 from Germany and 3 from Switzerland but that's still barely over a fifth of the total.  We suspect the blood of Israel is running thin in Europe.  The saints here are hoping for a temple in Austria some day but only about 15% of the investigators are coming from member referrals. We'll continue to see if we can't fire them up somehow.

   Always lots going on here. But on a more spiritual note the Restoration of the Priesthood was commemorated Sunday and we were studying Pres. Benson's talks on flooding the earth with Books of Mormon, and how we should be reading and teaching our families everyday from it. One sister shared that in a class ​where they were asked to share a favorite scripture one elder gave from 1Nephi, "and my father dwelt in a tent." Everyone wondered about it, but he explained," it doesn't say my father dwelt in a very large house with lots of gold and silver. It says he had what he needed and was content." It helps us focus on what really is important, and not on material things.

Then for the first time in Sacrament Meeting we sang "Oh How Lovely was the Morning" and it took me back to the first time as a child I tuned into the words of the song. It was also a warm, spring day and the windows were filled with sunshine and the doors were open, as was usually the case with need for air circulation, and I could see the green grass, blue sky and birds. I thought about Joseph kneeling there and praying and the Holy Ghost bore witness to my young soul that the Father and Son appeared to him. I felt the power of that witness then and I still feel it today. Joseph Smith is a prophet of God and was chosen to restore Christ's church. I never tire of hearing this story for it burns in my soul with truth. May you all receive or recall that witness, even the little grandchildren.
Have a great week.

LOVE AND HUGS,
Grammy, Grampa,
Mom, Dad,
Elder and Sister Parker  

Happy Mother's Day!

Dear Beloved Family,

It has been another great week as always with good interactions with several investigators. We have a young lady, a new convert from Italy who has been showing quite a bit of interest in a young man she met here in Vienna. He seems like quite a fine young man but told her he had completely lost his faith when he was 13 years old and his mother died of cancer at the young age of 39.  He has one younger brother and his father who have also been without faith for years though all were originally Catholic. He has showed real interest in the church and our activities and the spiritual thought on Monday was essentially how we deal with difficulties in our lives. Afterwards we took the opportunity to let him know we were somewhat familiar with his disappointments and told him we'd like to set up some time to tell him a bit more about the church. He was back on Wednesday for Institute but we haven't yet quite made the connection to the elders so we're working on that. 

Additional visitors to Institute were five young adults from an hour away in Wiener Neustadt including a young returned missionary from Hungary who went to England on his mission.  His English is still a lot better than his German and he would like to continue to attend our Book of Mormon class in English. He'll be a good resource for us as we had our Hungarian make up artist and her husband also come on Friday for our waffle night. It turns out this week we weren't doing waffles for a change as the YSA's decided they wanted to have a cooking contest. Several got together with some food items and they divided up into two teams. Both had to work on appetizers and desserts and they split up the work on the main course. 

It was really quite fun, we had a total of three investigators there, but we didn't get home until about 11. Fortunately, we seniors can sleep in the next day when we need to!

For our P day we decided to try something new. Sister Parker was looking for something Elder Parker could give her for Mother's day and we found two new malls to investigate.  One of them was pretty nice and were giving away free little potted plants to all motherly looking ladies walking by plus Sister Parker found a nice scarf she'd been looking for for quite a while that finally fit the bill.  Our second mall was way out in the tulies and it turned out the train we took didn't stop at that stop on the way out. So we got off and took the train back in the other direction but got wrapped up in looking at our map and bypassed it a second time.  We decided it was a good omen as glancing in the direction of the mall as we passed by made it look a long ways off and not a great idea without a car.  So we spent the rest of the day exploring interesting architecture on a power plant designed by 

​​a guy we mentioned several months ago named Friedrich Huntertwasser (his made-up name). 

We'd seen it several times from a distances but had never stopped to explore the surroundings.  Then we decided to go visit the crypt of 12 emperors and 17 empresses who made up the royalty of the great Austro-Hungarian Empire.  

Impressive caskets to say the least and a few of them we knew from visiting their various castles. Note the small casket of the stillborn baby underneath its mother's casket in the middle. It was sobering to see how many children had died amongst the nobility.   

​​Then we visited a cool Russian Orthodox Church and along the way happened to pass by a huge memorial to all the Russian soldiers who were sacrificed in freeing up Vienna from the Third Reich.

  May Day is the traditional "Day of the Worker" and May 8 being the big celebration of 70 years since Austria was freed by the Soviet Union there were people everywhere, likely of Russian descent laying literally truckloads of flowers all over the memorial and still going on.  We saw one man having his picture taken by his wife and daughter who was unmistakably the same man in a younger photo of him they placed within the flowers.

      For Mother's Day we trundled off to the same ward where our five YSA's had come from on Wednesday, We got up at 5:30 AM but still were about 5 minutes late on arriving. Sister Parker found it unique that they didn't sing "Love At Home" for their closing song, choosing "Love One Another" instead.  But they had a cute little Primary choir singing "I Often Go Walking" after which the kids distributed small goodie bags to all the mom's in the ward.  

Here she is with her mall flowering plant and the Primary treat.She really appreciated all the lovely messages from the family and the opportunity to talk face to face with all of you.

    

It's all been said, but I guess we can never express enough what a great treasure Family is to our lives. My husband, my children, and my grandchildren are my greatest joy.

Love you forever

Grammy, Grampa, 

Mom, Dad, 

Elder and Sister Parker

Workers Unite! It's May Day!

To Our Beloved Family,

Compared to last week, this one was a bit of a let down. Attendance was down at just about everything we participated in. We still had people there but from our weekly attendance highs in the 130's to 150's we were down to about 95 or so. The big event of the week as far as the city of Vienna was concerned was the big May Day celebration on Friday. Oh, we didn't forget it was the 71st anniversary of Mom and Dad, Grandpa and Grandma Parker, or Great Grandpa and Great Grandma Parker as the case may be but it was also the once great celebration of the Communist Party and it seems to have persisted as a day for the workers of the world to unite. The big political party here in Austria is the SPO or the Socialist Party of Austria and it's very clear that socialism has a big following here and throughout the European Union. So Friday was noteworthy for all kinds of demonstrations, marches, speeches, bands playing and in general wreaking havoc on the ground transportation system of anything running into the city center. Because our center is fairly near all of that it was recommended that we stick to the underground which we did. We learned that a restaurant we pass by fairly regularly, (Adam's Gasthaus interestingly) had been purchased by a man from Munich and so he was celebrating the day with lots of Bavarian music.

       So, because not too much was going on unless we decided we wanted to head into the crowds, which wasn't too appealing, we decided it was a great couple of days on Friday and Saturday to see a little more of Vienna.  We mentioned last week that Elder Parker received a great souvenir book for his birthday with lots of interesting undiscovered places in it and so we decided to try out an interesting bus route out through the Vienna Woods, taking Bus 52B.  We had a map that wasn't too old, about three years now, and it correctly guided us on another bus to the end of the line for good old 52B. We got there at 12:50 and found, according to the printed directory that it ran only once an hour, the next bus due at 1:15. So we had a 25 minute wait to look around at the fire station located on the corner, a big display map showing the Wilhelmina Castle-Hotel a couple of stops away on the bus we'd just gotten off of, a pretty, gold-domed church we saw off in the distance as we were driving up which we could never locate again and a quite expansive recreational area with trees and grass which we thought to appreciate would take us longer than our 25 minute wait. Suffice it to say that after some discussions with a couple of older women who were also waiting, and giving it to 1:25, the bus never appeared and we all gave up.  "Komisch" said the two old ladies. We thought so too.  So anyway we caught the original bus and took it up to the hotel which had some pretty views and lovely wooded walkways and eventually headed back to the center in time for Waffle Night.

After all, we were all still decked out in missionary attire as you can see from our selfie here:

The next day was our P day so we decided to get more properly attired, forget the 52B, though we did head to the other end of its line and instead headed to Stadtwanderweg (city walking trail) #4 which would take us to Silbersee (Silver Lake). This turned out to be a very lovely excursion and we even had an elderly couple walk by just as I was going to take a picture and offered to put us both in.  Here are the results and one of the pictures of our goal.

We took along some sandwiches and found a lovely flower-filled meadow with a little picnic table to eat on. We took this picture of some of the posies.

A huge reward for anyone who can see the small snail Elder Parker placed right next to the stick on the ground and under the white daisy.

We walked for awhile toward another pretty pond with a bunch of trees growing out of an island in the middle where Sister Parker noted the baby turtle on its mother's back, a duck just beyond the two.

Well,we made it home in time to enjoy our nearby Chinese restaurant to start our fast, attended the international, English-speaking ward today and got invited by their young adult leader couple, (he works for the US Embassy) to join the ward YSA's for an afternoon at their home, which was delicious, and afterwards enjoy "Meet the Mormons" which they had just acquired.  It was our second opportunity to see it, the first having been at our Christmas Zone Conference.

    Vienna has become a wonderful city full of blooming Lilac trees or bushes and spring flowers. Its no wonder that everyone here always refers to its gardens and parks. I'm looking forward to many more walks in the gardens and woods as we visit other areas of this very large city. The fact that it rains frequently on us doesn't seem to matter.

    [Sister Parker] Yesterday, in church the Relief Society and Priesthood were together so we could receive a lesson on family history. They had the cutest little boy, about 4 yrs. old helping his father give the lesson by telling the story of his great grandmother from the computer pictures in Family Search and the little booklet, "My Family." They indicated that every member of the family was suppose to have their own little book so that the children could benefit from knowing about their past grandparents etc. They also referred to a study done by Marshall Duke whose study found that children who knew about the lives of their families past and present history were more resilient in going through the struggles of life, whatever they may be. I was just wondering if all of your children have this booklet.

 I liked the way the teacher's family helped their little boy create his booklet. You can download the pages in 8x10 size from the computer and use those as a practice sheet before taking more effort on the real pages. It was also suggested that you take a few minutes each Family Home Evening and work on just one grandparent, or person at a time, so that it is not overwhelming. That way each child or member of the family will have their own little book to refer to from time to time. I believe it does help us to know the stories of our ancestors and how they grew up and the problems they overcame. Hope you will all take the time to help your children with this great project. We came from hard working, God fearing people who were adventurous in leaving their countries and following God's directions in their lives. They are an inspiration to me.            

LOVE AND HUGS,
Grammy, Grampa,
Mom, Dad,
Elder and Sister Parker