Transfers are this week. Elder Bryson is awesome, but he is off to go be assistant to the mission president! I’m staying in Oxnard with Elder GRIFFIN!! He was my follow up trainer back in Santa Barbara. I’m pumped :)) Now we actually know Spanish and are going to do everything right we should have known back in SB. I loved Elder Bryson. We never had one disagreement the whole transfer. It was so much fun and hard work.

I’m so excited to stay in Oxnard. We are on the verge of so many good things. We are making a lot of progress with our investigator, A----. This week we were able to leave him commitments from the Book of Mormon, where as when we started it was only from the Bible, and then from the Bible and the Book of Mormon, and now only the Book of Mormon. He is progressing great. We have 2 appointments set up with him this week, so we really need to get members there to help him really catch the fire and get him to attend the baptismal service in our district this weekend. We know it will open so many doors for A--- to realize this is where he needs to be.

The zone activity was a huge success! We planned it out like crazy. We conquered a bunch of cities and at the end we talked our President Felix and bishop into dressing up as Lamanites and then I owned everyone at dodgeball. It was the best :) This week we went to the Camino Del Sol park here in Oxnard with some sidewalk chalk and drew a giant Plan of Salvation diagram. We were able to have a couple good lessons as we walked people through, and even found a less active lady who wanted to start coming back to church! It was a great finding tool and we were super excited to go walk people through for a little bit each day and use it for the whole week, but then it rained the next day for the first time in six months and ruined our drawing. We need the rain, though, so it’s ok :) I’m really excited for this next transfer with Elder Griffin and the Zone and we are going to baptize in November!

Elder Bryson is the best. I’ve absolutely loved every minute of serving with and learning from him these short six weeks. His testimony is so strong and he can be so effective in everything he does. He has great mental strength and self discipline. He has a lot of life experiences at his young age, and because of it is very mature and spiritually mature as well. I know he’s going to be great in the Ventura Camarillo YSA with Elder Wallace and Elder Lee. He is very capable of doing anything the Lord asks of him.

I know that the Jesus Christ is my Savior and that He lives. I know the Book of Mormon contains the fullness of Jesus Christ's Gospel, and I know that Preach My Gospel is the way the Lord wants me to share it. This past week and especially this next transfer, I have goals to have more effective studies. I really want to give my best efforts to my investigators and really focus on receiving revelation for them in my morning studies. and simply enough, I know that really these 3 things: the Savior, the Book of Mormon, and Preach My Gospel are where I need to dedicate my studies and how I will learn God's will for my investigators.

For service this week, we did 2 hours for FoodShare! They love us and are starting to realize how dependable and effective we are! They have more and more things they are starting to trust us with.

Love, Elder Parrish******