Week 67

BIG HOUSE

Well hello there outside world!  Its me, Hermana Parry with a really big weekly update.  So last weeks email was a cliff hanger, as I had no idea what would be happening with transfers.  Well on Monday night we got our transfer calls....and Sister Allred and I were both staying in San Tan together.  I must admit that I was a tad bit bummed to be staying in english, but as I thought of all the people I was serving with there I was spiritually apeased. 

      Well, that peaceful apeasement didnt last...Wednesday morning we woke up and we did our studies and then got ready to go to transfer meeting (it was a big transfer full of new news, so all the missionaries in the valley were invited).  Well at 1005 we get a text message from the Assistants saying "Can you and your stuff be here by 11?" to which we responded "Why? Is one of us getting transfered?" and to our shock the response "Yeah, both of you actually...and you are both training."

      Well, needless to say we were a little shocked at that!  We told them we could be there, but our stuff sure wouldnt be.  And after a hug and a prayer for calmed nerves, we headed off to Tempe to meet our greenies and find out our new areas.  It is funny, my district leader later told me about the moment in which they realized I was not there.  So President annouces "Serving with Sister Parry" and Elders Hatch and Poffenbeger call out, "She doenst know she is training!" and that is when the Assistants decided to call us.  Pretty cools.  So now for the news....I am now serving in CASA GRANDE with HERMANA ADAMS!!!  She is here while she waits out a visa to Argentina.  She is sweet girl and is really enthusiastic about the work, sometimes a little overly enthusiastic, but that is ok it is good for me.

     I am excited to be in Casa Grande, but it is a little lame, I always seem to get transfered with no notice so I can never say goodbye to anyone.  So Sara and Ashley, I dont know if you are reading this...But I love you guys and I will miss you terribly!

     So this week has been a little crazy.  We whitewashed into an area that was just opened, so we had no map, no phone and no real areabook because we are splitting it with some other sisters.  So basically the area that they had for one is now for two so it is taking some time to figure out what person belongs with which missionaries.  Plus Casa Grande is HUGE and so we spent the past couple of days inside looking at the maps we finally got and figuring out how we are going to visit people with the skimpy 800 miles we have for the month.

     We are having a lot of fun though.  We live in a house with 2 other companionships so it is always just a big party.  I live with Hermanas White and Limburg and Sisters Monson and Ball.  They are all really sweet and I am liking living there.

      So in a really cool turn of events...we are in Casa Grande ward, but I cover a couple cities outside CG, Eloy and Arizona City.  Well I want you to think back to Tempe and remember Carmelita and Destiny.  The mother and daughter that I taught there.  Well I had heard that they had moved to Eloy and so I had decided that one day I was going to go and visit them.  Well on Saturday the Hermanas had a baptism of some people that will now be in our area, so we went to the baptism and as I walked in, there was Destiny, and then Simon and Adriana, next Junior and then Carmelita!!!!  The people getting baptised were the grandparents!!!  That was like the coolest thing.  I was so happy to see them and even better they were happy to see me.  Destiny told me that my picture was up in their house and all the kids remembered my name!  So sweet.  Plus they were so cute at the baptism, they all kept talking about how happy they were that their nana and tata were getting baptised and then cute little Destiny was telling her cousin how you get baptised.  She said "You go into the water and then a boy holds your hands and then he puts you under the water".  i thought that was really funny, a boy holds your hands!  But really, it was just a giant tender mercy to see them.

    Well then the week ended with mothers day, and the Skype that goes along with it.  I was just so stinking happy to chat with my family!  They are good.  I got to see my nephew Issac for the first time!  He is a fatty and I cant wait to squeeze him!  Plus Miles and Ava are so big!  I couldnt believe it.  Plus my cute little brother got his mission call this week!!!!  He is going to Seattle Washington!  Which is way fun because my MTC comp is serving there, so I already know the address.  The lame part however....he leaves the 24th of July, and well as most of you know, that is 6 days before I get home!!!  I am a little sad about that, but fortunately he will still be in the MTC when I get home and so I will call the MTC and arrange something, or maybe I will just pull an Hermana Taylor!  Who knows.

     Well that is about all I have for this week!  Send me some mail here in Casa Grande, my mailbox is lonely!

Love you all!  Until next time....Vaya Con Dios!

Love Hermana Parry