OPEN HOUSE

 so this week was a pretty good week! the hightlight you could say was that we had a open house and that went really well we had like a 150 people or so enter the church to get to know it! it is wierd a lot of people thought it was like  a school house or something like that but it is all good! we gave like 400 liahonas to all the people here it was really cool the little kids were handing them out and everything. i dont have pictures but the bishop is going to give us them so i can send them home so that you can see them. it really was a good expierenece though we have not tought any of these people still but that is okay we are going to call a ton this week so that we can teach them all!! other than that the week was a pretty tough week in latin america it is not easter sunday it is like holy week or semaña santa and so noone works or anything thursday or friday and the whole world decides to travel and take vacation so it was hard to find people in there house to be able to teach them and so it was a pretty tough week but this week will be better i hope!

          This week i had to speak in sacrament and i gave a reqlly nice talk. it is weird now i can actally talk for more than two minutes like i did when kyle got home oops. i talked for like 10 minutes and ran out of time even though i still had a ton of things to say still. i was going to talk for like 40 minutes!! okay not so much but i actually like to speak in fornt of people for some reason i want to go to a branch so that i have to speak like every week and not one time every like 4 months. 

            The mission really is something special. i have learned that the last couple weeks. well maybe i learned a long time but these last couple days i have really thought about my time in the mission (even though i have very little amout of time) and the lord really does bless me so much for the work i do here. i have learned so much about the gospel and how it can change people i have seen changes in my life and for the good. with out the mission who knows were i would be but the lord has guided me to be exactly were i need to be and has blessed me greatly for what i have done. one learns so much stuff from the gospel, to spanish , to how to do a rubics cube and all the way to how to live in the real world!!! i have really realized that 2 years is not a long time at all. the Lord gives us like 80 plus years and 2 years can be dedicated all to him. i just got to say the mission is awsome!!

     I hope that everyone has a good week and enjoys the idaho weather!! i will talk to you all later and i love you all and am so grateful to have you all in my life!! bye bye

Elder Parkinson