March 25, 2013

Dear Family,

  Well I forgot to take my camera out into the field this week, which really stinks because we found the Polygamist temple while working this week!!! It just looks like a normal big white building. No angel Moroni or nothing like that, just a big white building. We also ran into another polygamist family. They're interesting but super nice. We don't argue or anything, we just talk with them and ask questions regarding how our beliefs differ. I also got a pet a horse yesterday! We were walking down the side walk and it ran up to us and hung its MASSIVE HEAD over the fence and just stared at us.
  My trainer didn't come up this week. He's coming in more towards general conference. Speaking of General Conference, we're getting calls this week as to what session we go to. I'm shooting for Sunday Morning but who knows what'll happen.
  So my companions name is Elder Simon. He is from Melbourn and he has been out about 6 months almost. It was cool though, because the MTC takes all international missionaries to the Salt Lake Temple to do a session. To go along with that, he also did a session with all the new missionaries in this mission as well.
  The New Testament reading is going good for me. I'm glad to be in Hebrews right now, because its full of doctrine. Some of Pauls epistles are just plain confusing though. Luckly we have President Miller's notes on what we are reading.
  This week was kind of the same. We got a few referrals this past week at stake correlation meetings, and when we went to visit them, we found out that the english missionaries had tried teaching them before and spoiled the teaching opportunity! So much for that. We did a lot of tracting this past week again. Met a few weird people, including an old lady that is in a house that we though was abandoned. We were terrified when she opened up the door.
  We're still working hard though. I think President wants us to fix up the area so thats what we're going to do.
Love y'all!

Elder Parks