September 24, 2012

Dear Family,

  Before I proceed, I feel it fair to warn you all about something that has been on my mind a while. In Terminator, Skynet in the company that builds the robots that take over the world. In our world it will be Apple and all the smart phones that will start attacking humans. Just be aware....
  So yes I got transferred again. I am now a DISTRICT LEADER and I'm training a second transfer missionary. I'm working mainly in Sandy in the Cresent 1st branch. Bleh, I have to do call in things and report all these numbers every single night. I also have to lead and plan out district meetings for Tuesdays. Eh I'm just doing whatever I think I should be doing. I have my first training meeting this week on wednesday so I'll know more then. I have my own car now! I'm driving a Ford Fusion, and it's awesome. I miss the Impreza though, it had a sport mode which was really fun to drive in.
  So Mom, usually for spanish assignments we only cover one ward/branch so I only go to one ward each sunday. For english missionaries, they usually go to the ward that has investigators coming to church and usually only stay for the first hour in that ward. However for my branch now, it's backwards. They start with Priesthood/Relief Society, then they go to sunday school then Sacrament at 10:20. It's weird.
  I'm glad y'all are doing the Book of Mormon challenge with me! Something that stuck out to me today was the last few verses in 1 nephi 11. I believe it starts in verse 17 but there was something else there that I couldn't exactly see. So, I'm going to be studying it more.
  The Temple dedication was cool, although President Packer was hard to understand. So what they did here is they has the session being broadcasted to all the Stake Centers here in Salt Lake. So I attended a stake center to watch the session. It was interesting but cool with the dedicatory prayer.
  So the events this week! On monday, a little boy drew a nice picture of me while we were having FHE with them. He didn't give it to me though. Tuesday, I did a session at the Draper Temple! That temple is HUGE. The sealing room has like 72 chairs. Also, after the temple, the zone leaders called me and confirmed my nightmares by telling me that I was going to be a district leader. Wednesday, I learned that I was pretty much white-washing the area which means that my companion and I are starting off the area because nobody stayed in that area from the last companionship, and I was DEAD TIRED. Thursday, I just wrote down that I had no clue as to what I was doing as a District Leader, and on Thursday I conducted my first baptismal interviews for converts wanting to be baptized! It was awesome to see how prepared those people were to receiving the gospel. On friday, the assistants to the president came on an exchange, which was weird. They sent a text out of the blue asking where I was then they came and met up with me. And just on sunday I went to the Temple Dedication.
Love y'all!
Elder Parks