This week, we had a mission tour
with Elder Malm of the Seventy! I wish I
had time to tell you everything I learned... but I don’t, so you better just
repent and be better, ok? :)
Saturday, two girls that the sister missionaries in my district
have been teaching got baptized. I did the interview and they asked me to say a
prayer at their baptism. The English Santa Paula elders baptized them, so we
spent all week teaching them how to say the baptismal prayer in Spanish. it made
me feel better about my language abilities for sure. :) They did it pretty good
at the baptism though, slowly but surely. The girls are super cool, super sassy too, so we took a sassy pic.
Fillmore has been so good
to me. I’ve loved every minute serving here. We had 8 investigators at
church yesterday! And we set the P---
Family with a baptismal date for Oct 18 in between Sunday School and Priesthood!
All day at church I was just thinking about what date would be good to set them
with later that night after church. Then after Gospel principles, we couldn’t
wait any longer, so I asked him what he was thinking about. He said how much more "precise"
this church is than his Catholic Church and the Christian church his sister
attends, and how he thinks it’s time to make a "change". We
testified how his "think" can turn into a "know," and that
change starts with baptism. We asked if they would follow the example of Jesus
Christ by being baptized by someone holding the proper priesthood authority of
God. Then they accepted the date of
October 18!! No better way to leave Fillmore than by setting a family of 4 with
a date :) I know they are in good hands with Elder Mackay and Elder
Moreno.
I’m really going to miss
my companion, Elder Mackay. 3 transfers is a great amount of time to become
best friends. He has taught me that "more important than speaking, is
LISTENING" and that to show love first is always the best idea.
So I got to mow a lawn this
week in my shirt and tie :) of one of our very Catholic investigators who
is currently at the hospital waiting on a heart transplant. This simple service
that we have done for him while he is gone, has led to him and his wife seeking
out the missionaries and receiving priesthood blessings from them! What a
miracle!
Oh and L--, the one who was
inactive for 15 years and was desperate 3 months ago and then me and Elder MacKay
knocked on the door and have been working with her. She credits us with saving her life. Ya, she got her patriarchal blessing
yesterday!!!!!!!
Oh, and I’m getting transferred
if you didn’t get that part yet. I’m going to Oxnard in an all Spanish ward as
a zone leader. My companion is Elder Bryson, my old district leader back
in Carpenteria before I replaced him. I
am super excited to finally have a senior companion for the first time in like
a year, so I can learn how to be a good missionary and stop ruining all my
junior companions :)
Love, Elder Parrish
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ate this delicious bbq's pig ear this week. way better than chicharones. |
