Elder Parker Trey Beardall

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Monday, October 30, 2017

Week 5

I don't even know how to start so I think I'm just going to go straight out of my journal haha.

Oct. 24- Pretty great day today! We had our first biking day that went well (Except for the chain falling of every five minutes). I also got called Captain America, so that made me feel pretty good to know that I look like Captain America haha. Bro. Gibbs in our ward took us to dinner and drove us around for a couple of hours so that was super nice of him! Then he drove us to the church and took us back after that! He enjoy's being with us as he is alone in his house. He loves to talk and has no one to talk to all day.

Oct 25- Basically let's just say it was a rough day... From having a flat tire on my bike to stepping in dog poop to having a man fix your bike with spoons while your dinner appointment is waiting on you. Pretty eventful day if I say so!

Oct 26- "today was a pretty crap day," in Elder Dameus's words. We started the day by making some appointments which was pretty good. Weekly planning was long... Also our Investigator Sarah gave us near impossible questions disproving the book of Mormon to answer. Even though most of them I'm sure she got from some anti-Mormon site. We drove to Mechanicsburg to find out it was "trick-or-treat night." (On the east coast they have trick-or-treat night a couple day's before Halloween because Halloween is too dangerous). Waste of time and miles... oh well.

Oct 28- Wasted half an hour, 28 dollars, and 25 miles... all thanks to the Philadelphia turn pike. basically we had no idea where we were going and the "toll troll" made us Utahans pay 28 dollars because of it. Weirdly Scott Davis called right after that asking for $30... even though we were planning on stopping by for the first time... too bad we spent our money on the toll or we would have helped him with his drug money problem haha.

Oct 30- We had a fireside 40 miles away in Chambersburg and the only person we could have drive us was good old 73 year old Bro. Gibbs. Did I also mention that it was currently in the middle of a torrential downpour at 7 PM... I only thought I was going to die a couple of times... then Bro. Gibbs started to talk about all the people who had died on the freeway we were on... then I knew we were going to die...

Anyways, pretty crazy week this week! Taught some of my first lessons this week! A lot more eventful than last week!

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Letter from Mission President

Monday, October 23, 2017

Week 3 & 4

A lot has happen in the span of eleven days! I woke up on Tuesday morning and said my goodbyes to half of my amazing district, and then flew with the rest of my district to Baltimore.

In the airport baggage check in they forgot to give me back my boarding pass so I got to go the TSA security twice, lucky me... Once we got to Baltimore, the first thing I started to notice was the humidity. Nothing will dry here. Second thing was all of the trees. Third thing was the lack of mountains.

We stayed the first night at the mission home and had some good food and got to know each other. After that we met our new companions. My companion's name is Elder Dameus. He is from Haiti and is pretty funny. He does his daily morning yoga while I lift weights. It's hard to be his companion sometimes because of his accent.

We are both new to the area so we have no idea what's going on. Our area is very very large. It's supposed to be a car mission but it's hard to drive with one car and having to share with the sister missionaries. We also only have 1,100 miles per month. Plus the elders before us used 850 of those miles before we got there... So we have bikes but Elder Dameus will not bike. That means we usually end up walking 10 or so miles a day.

The ward is pretty awesome though! They are pretty supportive. The only down side is that we are new and the area book isn't that great so we haven't taught a single lesson yet. There's a lot of dry Mormons in our ward so we'll have to work on that. That's all for now! Sorry for the lack of pictures. Not much has happened and I don't carry my camera around often.