2 Months and 1,200 Movies!

Hello Everyone! It's been a long week and I am just glad it is PDay. But here is what we did this week! Tuesday we went to Newport, per usual, and had an extremely full day planned. Literally everything we had planned fell through, except our dinner appointment. Satan works really hard on some people to keep them from hearing the gospel. That is for sure. But, God provided! We were able to have a lot of experiences we wouldn't have had if we didn't have our plans drop. Probably my highlight of the day was we went to Brother Himes and he came out with his guitar and started playing tunes for us, it was awesome! While we were talking to him, his nonmember granddaughter, Asia, came out because it was smoky in the trailer from her burning her grilled cheese. She never comes out! We taught a lesson and she stayed out the whole time and said at the end she wanted us to come back and teach her the lessons, so we are going back tomorrow! Talk about a tender mercy, and it all started with a grilled cheese! Also, I hit my two month mark! Time flies on the mission haha. Wednesday, again, every plan and lesson we had fell through, so we didn't have anything to do again. So, we just decided to go out and do some finding. Literally no one was home that we tried to contact, and if they were, they looked through the window and didn't answer the door. So we decided to go to this one apartment building and knock a little. Again, no one answered, and as we were about to head home and call it a day, a lady came out of her door to smoke. Both sister roper and I felt really nagged by the spirit to go over and talk to her. So we did, and it turns out she was taught by missionaries before and lost contact with them when she had moved. Her Name is Angie, and she is very nice, and listened intently to our message and said she would like us to come back. Tender Mercy number 2! We also got to go to Kayla's On Friday and Saturday we went to the Boothe's and did a ton of service for them. Joan, the grandma, is really awesome at painting, and she was painting vases and jars to sell for a fundraiser to help her church build a new building. So both days we were in there arranging fake flower bouquets and wrapping lights to put inside the glass. The whole time we joked about us building the wrong church. It was pretty funny haha. We also helped clean their basement. Sister and brother Boothe are huge movie watchers, and by huge movie watchers I mean they own about 1,250 movies! So we spent about an hour and a half arranging all the movies in alphabetical order. Did I mention Sister Boothe is a bit OCD? 😂😂. Gotta love her though. She said if after my mission I am ever back in Pennsylvania that she will let me stay in the spare bedroom and watch movies to my hearts content. It's just awesome to be around them and to help them build back up. Every time I go over there I wish more and more I had known Dawn, their daughter, cause she sounds amazing. Sunday we had a lesson with a couple named the Specks, who three years ago lost their 19 year old daughter to cancer. We shared the Plan of Salvation with them and they loved it. They are very strong in their own faith, but it was so refreshing to be around people who love Jesus Christ as much as I do. They are so awesome at just rejoicing their daughters life, even though God took her back so soon. I have no doubt in my mind where she is. Unfortunately, Sunday I got hit really hard with some sort of physical ailment. I thought I was going to hurl everywhere and I felt weak, and experienced what I think was my first migraine. I hurt so much I was in tears, and Elder Thompson took us to Bishop Coopers home so That I could receive a blessing. I didn't feel better immediately, but I felt comforted and maybe that was the thing I really needed most. Sister Cooper was very motherly and fussy over me, and helped nurse me back to health I guess you'd say haha. I felt pretty useless and upset with myself for not being at full capacity, but I think it's important to slow down when you need to and to know when you need help. I definitely learned that. I am just so thankful for loving leaders and for men all around me who are worthy of the priesthood and can exercise it when called upon. I love you all and I am so thankful for the love you guys have shown me and the thoughtful emails, they mean a lot. Please keep them coming, I love to hear how people are doing and what you are up to. I hope everything is well and you are always in my prayers! Sister Parry 418 West Main Street Unit C New Bloomfield, PA 17068