Week 88: Inside, week 2

Hello! This week not a lot happened. We spent it all inside our apartment trying to do the best we can over the phone. 

We have been decently successful at teaching over the phone, although it is pretty awkward sometimes. I definitely miss being outside.

One of my companions got sent home this week because he had asthma and was considered to be at risk or whatever. It was pretty sad. Our apartment is a lot quieter now. But we are making things work.

Anyways, that's all for this week.

Love

Elder Parker

Letter Home

Week 87: Springtime, maybe?

Hello everyone! The last little while has been more than a little exciting. Since I've emailed last, it has snowed twice. In March. But then it was 60, so it's fine.

This last week was spent in my apartment due to some certain worldwide problems...which has led to a lot of phone calls, board games, and pajama wearing. Fun fact! If you do all your missionary work over the phone, nobody knows you're wearing pajamas!

Besides being cooped up, not a whole lot has been going on. Most of our teaching pool is hiding because of the sickness and doesn't want to talk because of it. Apparently they think phone lessons are weird or something. I kind of agree with them. Haha.

It's been taking a lot of getting used to. One of my companions decided to prepare for being trapped we needed tons of Oreos, so that may or may not be what we have been living on.

Besides feeling gross from the mass Oreo intake we all feel fine. None of us feel sick, just stir crazy is nothing else.

Hopefully everything is going well for all of you!

Love

Elder Parker

Home

Just got a call from my mission president. I am coming home April 30th.

Week 86: Staying in Lacey

I'm staying in Lacey. All my companions are staying as well. We went shopping and our Walmart today was stripped clean. 

We've got a Safeway, Target, Costco, Winco, Fred Meyer and Trader Joes so I'm going to try and find things we need. We are in good shape though because we were given a list of things to buy a couple weeks ago in case we are quarantined. It took us four stores to find powdered milk though. I guess that was a good thing to buy because there was no milk to be found. We did buy extra accidentally last week though so we are good. I have been feeling normal. Nothing too crazy in the world of me. Just the world around going nuts. I tried to get an eye doctor's appointment at Costco but it is closed due to the virus. I reached out to an eye doctor in one of my old wards to see if he can help. Brother Waggonner owns a place right here in town. He is able to get me in April 8 but said that people are cancelling a lot and I might be able to bump it forward.

We just got this text.

 This will be interesting since in our mission all we do is knock doors all day. Good thing I have collected a lot of games. I bought a new board game that we have played a couple times. It was 20% off. It is called Pandemic. Haha. 

Week 85: Daylight!

Hello! This week was good! Thanks for Saturday, it's no longer dark early! That makes missionary work a lot easier.

This week we had a baptism! It went really well. It was in the Samoan group that I am in, so we had a bunch of food and musical numbers and such. Afterwards they all played sports too. It was good.

Week 84: Winter is Back Again...Oops

It's back to cold and rainy. Spring came and went quick. Oops. Anyways, this week was a good one! This Wednesday we had interviews with our mission president! They were fun as always. We spent a good chunk of that day driving all the bike elders back and forth from their interviews. Later in the week we did exchanges! Those were a lot of fun. We had one of the Spanish elders come with us for the day. We did a bunch of tracting and then ended up going to Soccer Night with some of our investigators. It was a lot of fun. Anyways, that's all for this week. Till next time.

Love

Elder Parker