I love my mission. I wouldn't change it for the world.

This week was sweet. Elder Berg and Elder Lopez moved in with us, so now we are in a 4 man apartment, which is fine, because our apartment is huge.  Except now I have to share a bathroom with big old Elder MacKay.  Elder Lopez was my companion in Carpinteria, so I have been companions with all three of them.  We have a blast in the apartment. It’ll be a miracle if we make it through the transfer without getting the cops called on us.  Our neighbors like to call the cops on the missionaries if the floorboard creaks the wrong way.  

So B---- is super pumped to get baptized, and he really wants to get baptized in a river like Jesus did.  Unfortunately, we are in a drought and all the rivers are bone dry.. but there is Lake Piru.  So we went to go scout it out with our ward mission leader and found an awesome little pool that would be perfect.  We took pictures and everything, and are going to try and get permission.  Odds are pretty against us getting it approved, but it is worth a shot. Bernard has really righteous desires, and his motives are simply because he wants to do it in the way closest to Christ's baptism, so we had to at least try.   We’ve done a lot of service this week.  We changed the oil on B---'s new car too.  He came to church for all three hours yesterday again. He’s awesome. He got sick because of all the perfume the women wear, but his health is seriously 20 times better since 2 weeks ago when we gave him a priesthood blessing, and he knows it. It was the missionary farewell talk of S---, who has been B---'s fellowship and coming with us to help teach him. He really enjoyed it. We have taught all the lessons to him and gone over the baptismal interview questions with him, which he passed with flying colors, and now this week we will start to review all the lessons again. He wants to come to the church this Wednesday and meet with our ward family history consultant to start his family history work too!  I have never had an investigator that was so willing and eager in every aspect of the gospel.

 E-- is still non-committal, and we don’t know if her insistence to push her baptismal date back until after her oral surgery has just been a way to avoid it and lower the pressure from her family and the ward.  Her dental work is happening next week, so we have faith that she will be ready to finally join the church with her family. She has been to church every week for over a year and has no reasons not to become a member other than she is struggling to give up her Catholic traditions.

We have done a lot of service this week as well for investigators and also for members. We have mowed lawns, changed oil, cleaned carpets, dug holes, and moved furniture.  You name it, we do it.

Missionaries and Mechanics

The district is doing great, and everyone is super excited for the miracles this transfer will bring.

Our District

I love my mission. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Every day is mind-blowing, blasting me with perspective that I know couldn’t have come any other way. 

 Love,

Elder Parrish

Elder "Pear-ish"