This week was wild!
So on wednesday we actually went to the airport to drop off Elder
McFarland who had to go home early for medical reasons. Let me tell
you, it was one WEIRD experience being in the airport (see photo).
Elder Dart was pretty chill though. It had been a while since I was
there and I will be back there probably before I even know it. Now his
companion, Elder Yoxtheimer, Elder Johnson, and I are left here to
cover THREE areas until transfers on Wednesday. It is going to be
stressful, but we will manage somehow. We are trying to all go out
with members during the night to visit people in our own areas. It
will be some lonely work over the next eight days, but we will be
together as a tri-panionship at nights, and we are working with the La
Joya Hermanos and the Spirit so we will be all right :) I am sitting
on the yellow couch in our apartment next to Elders Arave and Dart.
They get picked up in 20 minutes and will be eating bien rico tonight
with Mr. Steak man. They will be great. Elder Arave is going to Weber
and Elder Dart is going to USU. I actually got an email from Elder
Cardoso for the first time and he is currently at LDSBC--working to
make it in to the Y. You should try to meet him somehow! He said he
will see me at my homecoming. It is a ways away but I am excited to
see all these great friends at home and go to the temple with them and
such! There is still a lot of work to do out here. I have actually set
some goals for this new transfer and one is to dig a little deeper
into the energy I have; see what more I can pull out.
We had a meeting with Elder Foster of the Seventy this week and
President Griffin gave us zone conferences on thursday. Basically, I
love President Griffin. He is extremely inspired and exactly what our
mission needs. My testimony has grown that President Taylor was
perfect for the time he was here for this mission and now President
Griffin can do some new things. PG is not strict at all. He wants us
to use all the resources we have (cars, miles, food money, P-day time
etc.) so he is allowing us to "govern ourselves" in a lot of things.
President Taylor hit us hard with obedience so we were ready to
receive freedoms and allowances with PG. He has a lot of trust in us.
Elder Foster gave a great class on saturday! We talked about seeing
others for what they can become and inspiring them to become that. We
talked about a lot of things that have helped me to know how I can
better inspire and love others. Being a leader has probably been one
of the funnest things I have done out in the mission. Not as much
leadership assignments as the opportunities I have had here and there
to be there for someone when they need it. A lot of what Elder Foster
said President Griffin had already gone over, and a lot of that still
I felt like I was trying to apply as I look for others to serve and
look to help others draw closer to their Savior, their Father, and the
Spirit. It is all a work in progress though.
We had a great experience on Wednesday. Elder Dart and I were doing
facebook on the couch in the Stake Center foyer. A teenager walked up
to the door and asked what church this is. She then asked for Holy
water because she was too sinful to bless her own. We said a prayer
with her and called the YSA sisters. They were 30 seconds away from
the building at the time and they gave the lady a church tour. It was
a miracle. It is fun to see and recognize the miracles that we see
every day. The whole valley is getting pumped for the PHX temple open
house! I have already invited a few friends in the valley and plan to
invite a couple more so I would like to ask your help to reserve a few
tickets September the 29th because they are going to go FAST!
Well we shall see how this week goes. It will probably be crazy. Every
week has been though. It is Elder Johnson's birthday this friday and
we are eating Peruvian buffet so that will be exciting. Yesterday we
had goodbye Sopes for dinner, a meat-fest at the Waldo's (The waldos
that you met that own the taco shack actually live in La Joya so we
went there to pig out), and a gigantic El Salvadorian Omelette this
morning for breakfast. I am gaining weight and going to the bathroom a
lot haha. If I were to make a guess as to how my mission will end I
think that my companion that I meet on Wednesday is the last one. It
could be Elder Miller, Taylor, Salas, or someone else. We shall see!
It may not sound like I am having a lot of spiritual experiences out
here but I am having A LOT. Every day. I love them. They sustain me,
and they inspire me to have many more when I return home and have
different roles and responsibilities. I love it out here. I still hope
to learn LOTs lots more.
Love, Elder Parry
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