It's been over 7 months now...it's ridiculous! Time FLIES when you're servin' the Lord. And you don't have time to think about anything else for sure!!
This week has been awesome! Found 4 new investigators this week which is awesome because we've been in need of some more people to teach since our teaching pool took a hit when everyone went home for the summer! 2 of them are older gentleman. The one has owned his own lawn design and landscaping business forever and very successful. Even sought out by Bill Gates here in the Yellowstone Club to design his yard. Won't go in to details but now is struggling to get by. Truly seeking to have a relationship with God and loved meeting with us! Even had a hike planned to go on with him Saturday but was rained out.
The other is divorced with 3 kids and is one of the most sincere guys i've ever met! Called us up the other day and set up an appointment and called just before to say he had to cancel and couldn't meet at his place because his roommate had some different feelings about religion and didn't want anything to happen and he didn't have time to meet us at the church. I felt that we needed to meet with him that night and for some reason I said, "Is there a park near your house?" and he was like, "Yeah". "Let's meet there! Where is it?" and come to find out it was the same park some members pointed out to us a few days before on the way to dinner. So then I was like, "Elder, we're still meeting with him, but how in the world are we going to get over there in 20 mintues?! It will take an hour to walk there!" And then I remembered our bikes were outside the institute. With flat tires and no helmets we made our way to the park. (sorry mom for not being safe. I did stay in the bike lane though and the Lord was watching out for us) Awesome lesson and it was just what he needed :) I love how the Lord works in our lives!
The other 2 are a couple. I sent a picture home awhile back ago when we played basketball with those kids we met on the court. Well, one of them is named Eugene and over time we've been able to get to know him better and his younger siblings as well. They are 10, 7 and 4. We got to know that he is not too close with his parents, but LOVES his grandpa! Well, we had made the deal the first time we played them that if we won we got to teach his family. We tried time and time again and they were never home. Saturday we went by and Maria the 7 yr old was by the window with it open and saw us and was like, "Finally y'all come! Come in and teach us about God!" We were there for 2 hours teaching them and talking with them! They have great interest and loved everything we taught them! They are native Crow Indians and she is going to bead something for us! The gospel truly can bless families lives! The father when we first sat down to talk was kind, but watching wipe out (which I must say has some good courses this year) and didn't pay too much attention. We continued to teach and slowly the tv got more and more quite til it was off and he took the Book of Mormon from his son and started reading through it! So cool!
Basically this week has been awesome and so much fun! Had some wonderful opportunities to provide service and get out in this BEAUTIFUL Montana weather! Averages about 55-65 everyday now! AMAZING!
So President Heap, the stake president here in Bozeman, had a meeting with President Gardner and many other individuals to go over missionary work and lots of other stuff. I have a weekly call report that I call President Gardner to report how Elder Hokanson is doing and learning and such and he said that President Heap said, "Make Elder Parr's permanent address here in Bozeman. Don't let him leave!" haha So hopefully President listens to this wise counsel and lets me stay a LONG time to DO WORK here! I absolutly LOVE it here and Sunday was awesome! I feel the members are jumping on board and getting involved in the work and have a desire to help out in any way they can. It's so much fun!
I hope all is well back home and that things are going GREAT! I look forward to hopefully going home this evening and opening a package from y'all tonight! :) Thanks so much for sending a package!
It rained all day Friday and we got to get nice and soaked in it :) haha
I love all of y'all so much! Let me know what I can do for y'all!
Remember that you can't do it all. Rely on the Lord. It's a LOT easier when you do it His way ;) Just to let you know haha DO WORK!
-Elder Parr
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