So first off I'm REALLY disappointed that I didn't know yesterday was National Ice Cream Day!! Probably a good thing because I would have ate a whole GALLON of Blue Bell! Man I miss that stuff! I'm sure y'all ate plenty for me though :) I think I will celebrate it tonight!!
Transfers: So this morning I said goodbye to my boy Elder Hokanson :/ Man I'm going to miss him a ton! He was such a hard worker and an awesome elder who loved those he served! We're all sad to see him leave, but I will be serving with Elder Mangelson for these next 6 weeks! He is coming from Corvallis which is right next door to Hamilton which is where I served last. So Elder Mangelson was in my district back in Hamilton and so I already know him pretty well. I'm excited to be here to tear it up some more and get Bozeman, MT on fire even more! Good news is that Elder Hokanson will be serving in HAMILTON with ELDER GOODWIN! I'm so excited for him and know that the members will absolutely LOVE him! I think I'm more excited to see what he accomplishes there than myself! haha I'm still going to work my tail off though! President has called me to be the District Leader here in the Bozeman District this transfer. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm excited to serve the Lord in any way I can! We will see what happens! Elder Mangelson will be the new Zone Leader here and eventually Bozeman 1st and University Wards will be the Zone Leaders area!
Elder Mangelson
This morning we woke up at 5:30 am and went and played a quick round of 9 holes with a member and his son who recently just got home from his mission in Italy! It was a blast and he invited us to come out again next week! I can say I'm getting better at this golfin' thing and holdin' up to my name :) When you play that early here you can enjoy a beautiful sunrise over the mountain tops and a cool 62 degrees! Hope your golfing experience is just as awesome dad! Let me know how it goes! In a little bit we will be going up to Hylite Canyon and go to the reservoir up there and do some hiking! I'm excited!
This week was wonderful and so awesome! I'll share with you a cool experience of how prayers are answered. So last week on sunday we were at a dinner appointment and earlier that day I had the brilliant idea, "Let's just tract that neighborhood after dinner!" Not really brilliant but that it could be useful, but no idea why. So after dinner we told the family we would go tract and then come back for a ride back into town. So off we went. Only knew of one family out there that we really didn't even know, just were less active and never visited before. We began walking and had no idea where to start, so we just kept walking down the street. Finally I was like, "Let's just start on this street and we will work our way down." It was the last street in the place we were in and just thought we would start there. Only one person answered their door on the whole block til we got to the very end and a guy was out working on a fence. We went up and asked if we could help him out and he said no thanks but maybe later and gave us his card. Said his wheel barrel was broken and seemed to just be having a bad day. Well, we gave him a call Friday and set up a time to do service on Saturday at 2! Well short story short, we helped him lay edging, build a shed and some other things for about 5 hours! Afterwards, we talked to him and he told us how we were an answer to his prayer. His wife is pregnant and can't help and he has been fixing this house (bought as a foreclosure) all by himself and he was at his last string. His wife was surprised when we actually called him back and said we were going to come over! After he explained how we answered his prayer, I explained how it confirmed to me that God is aware of EACH of our lives! That He directed us to his street to find him and that He answered his prayer. It was an awesome experience and helped my testimony grow in listening to the thoughts and promptings we receive, even if we have no idea why!
I love you all and think of y'all often!
LOVE ELDER PARR :)
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