Hi Family,
It's Monday night, and I just got your
letter that you wrote on Friday night. I still haven't gotten the
camera card or the card reader or anything. Maybe they just mail more
slowly. I put a letter to Grandma and Grandpa (Brown) in the same
envelope thanking them for sending me cookies. I know I just sent you
a couple of emails today; I like to write. I am going to tell you
about my district. My companion is Elder Day. He played football and
baseball and loves BYU. He is from Fillmore and is confident in his
abilities. The other companionship in our room is Elder Harrington
and Elder Callen. Elder Callen is from Idaho and Elder Harrington is
from Washington. They are good guys. In the other room there are four
more guys from our district. One of them is Elder Scheibler, and he
is from Indiana. His companion is Elder Fullmer, and he is from
Magna, Utah. Then there is Elder Dalrymple from West Bountiful He is
pretty fun to be around. His companion is Elder Jensen and he is from
Salina. He is really smart. In all of our companionships, we have one
person that is more outgoing and another that is more introverted.
That is probably for the best as far as productivity goes. I told you
we're all going to Monterrey West, right? I guess it is weird for
that to happen, and also we don't have any hermanas in our district
and that is weird too. We saw a map the other day of the new
Monterrey West Mission, and I guess that it is a lot smaller. It
doesn't cover very much of Coahuila, and apparently it will depend on
what my first area is on which mission I end up in for the rest of
the time.
(It is Tuesday night now, and I just
got a letter that you wrote on Monday.) I'm going to go ahead and
write my schedule for tomorrow. We wake up at 6:30. 6:35-7:50 Service
Assignment. 7:50-8:20 Prepare for Next Activity. 8:20-8:50 Breakfast.
8:50-11:50 Teaching Resource Center and Classroom Instruction.
11:55-1:00 PM Personal Study Time. 1:00 Lunch. 1:45-2:55 Language
Study. 2:55-3:55 TALL (It's a computer program that teaches Spanish.)
4:00-4:30 Daily Planning 4:40-5:30 Gym Time. 5:30-6:00 Prepare for
Next Activity. 6:00 Dinner. 6:30-9:30 Classroom Instruction. During
this last classtime we will teach our investigator Luis. He lives in
Argentina. Then after that we come home and have an hour of time to
read/write letters and write in our journal.
Today we just got back from choir
practice. We had a Tuesday night devotional with a member of the
Quorum of the Seventy, Elder Corbridge. It was good. Then we
practiced a song based on Psalms 23. We are going to sing it this
Sacrament meeting on Easter. I guess there will be a General
Authority there, but we don't know who. I realized today that you
guys won't get this letter until you get home from Coronado. So I
might just go ahead and keep adding on to this letter for a few more
days. Today in the choir I sat in the first row right next to the
piano player lady, and I thought she was going to make fun of me for
my crappy singing but she didn't.
I just got the package full of candy
that you sent. Thank you very much. I especially like the little
photo book. I'm sorry you guys aren't getting my letters but you kind
of left the mailbox for a whole week! Also, and I don't want to
offend you, but you are sending me a ton of packages. I love them,
but it might make the other Elders sad if I get so many more
packages than they do. Today is Wednesday, and we all felt cool
because we weren't the new missionaries anymore. Everybody is always
talking about how fast the time here flies, and it does seem like a
short time we've been here. I'm mailing this letter to you on
Thursday morning, so it should be there for you when you get home. I
still haven't gotten those Amazon packages, but I did get the gummy
worms (Thanks). I love you guys, and I want you to know that I'm
having a good time, and I hope you had a good vacation.
Love, Elder Parkes
Note to Grandparents,
Dear Grandma and Grandpa,
Thank you for sending me those cookies.
My roommates and I all really enjoyed them. It was very nice to get
them. I would also like to thank you for all of the times you took me
to the temple. I really enjoyed our trips. Thank you for being such
great grandparents. I love you guys!
Love, Elder Parkes
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