Zone Meeting - 29 June 2012
Shardae Manuirirangi & Sister Parsons
Sister Liu, Sister Parsons & Shardae
Sunrise in WA
Spoils from a bread-run by members
(Monday July 2 2012)
I’m thankful for the emails you write. I will be
trying my best this week to write a letter to both my sisters, especially as it
is India’s birthday.
We will be going to Whiteman Park today, which is a
national park between Ellenbrook and Ballajura. The last few p days have been
crappy with activities organised, so Elders Gurney and Askeroth organised with
Sister Liu and I to go to Whiteman Park on the first p day of the month as we
have fresh kms on the car. I’m not overly excited about going as I can see
kangaroos anywhere, but the elders are ecstatic. I don't mind as we like Elders
Gurney and Askeroth a lot. They are always fun and nice to us. They made us
dinner last night for our fast breaker we had together :)
I can't think in particular of anything I want
for my birthday. Don’t send me trivial stuff. Save the money. I’ve been having
mini stress attacks when I think about coming home off my mission, (I know it's
still a year away), and how I want to go to uni, but I have no money, and my
biggest fear at the moment, is I’m going to come home off my mission and go
straight back into the deli at Woolworth’s. It sounds funny, but, I cannot
describe the fear I feel in my stomach of going back into the deli ha-ha. I
don't want to "waste" any more time not going to uni. Sister Liu says
she'll help me fill out my application to BYU Hawaii. And Elder Butts told me
after the cottage evening I sang “Joseph Smith's First Prayer” at, that I
could easily get into BYU Utah on a scholarship because I can sing well, I’m a
Mormon and I’m foreign, ha-ha.
I’m so glad you had a good time at the temple. I know
when I come off my mission I would like to make temple attendance a weekly
thing. Maybe that's something we as a family can do? I’ve learnt, and feel, the
weight of my responsibility as a member soooo much more after coming on a
mission. Keep trying to fellowship RC’s and LA’s as much as possible. Even when
you don't think it’s much of a priority, God will be happy with the efforts
we've made.
Mini burgers sound sooooooooooo good right now. The
Ballajura elders and us are going grocery shopping after this, and we have
committed each other to only putting healthy things in our trolleys for the
week. I don't eat junk food a lot, it's just we don't have a lot of time to make
stuff, I get tired/lazy to make something, you're really hungry and pasta just
tastes good! I haven't put on a lot of weight or anything but I’m scared I will
pretty soon. Or maybe I already have. I’m too scared to stand on the scales.
I miss Costco. And I miss all the available shops. And
I miss effective public transport. (NSW thinks they've got it bad - come to
WA!) And I miss adventures with my family and friends. And I’m sick of seeing
sand everywhere but no water. And the sun is blinding over here! Because there
are no trees! And it's massively open and flat everywhere!
Sorry, I’m not complaining, I’m just telling what I
miss.
I also miss your food mum. As my coming home present, can you please make me my dinner? ha-ha. I’m being serious though.
We met President and Sister Lindsay at church
yesterday. They arrived on Saturday and came to our ward for church, as it is
their "home ward". They met Sister Liu and I at the door and when
they saw my nametag they exclaimed "Sister Parsons! We feel like we're
family! We’ve been following your blog your mum has been keeping for you!"
and President said "When you're mother found out I had been called, she
emailed me about you!" and President Lindsay has a connection with dad
too. But I’ll print him about that :)
You emailed President? What about and how? Sister Liu
said in amazement "You're mum knows everything!"
love Sister Parsons.
p.s Elder Iumalo in our zone (second from left sitting
on the ground) is from Blacktown Ward :)
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