Brady's Blog

My mom received a call from Brady's mission president tonight. He wanted to let her know that Brady had arrived in Arizona safely and that the first area they were sending him to was Chinle, AZ. Chinle is located on a Navajo Indian Reservation and the people there are very poor. He told her that they only send their best missionaries out there and they hardly ever send the new ones there. This will be such a good learning and humbling experience for our missionary!

. . . I have been in the MTC now for 2 weeks and I leave for Arizona next Tuesday, July 29. The MTC is crazy cool and there are a lot of good stories. On Saturday, there was a practice teaching appointment and Elder Shill and I had a lady that was a member and a gentleman that wasn't. I didn't know this until after we taught. It was really cool, they had lots of questions about the Book of Mormon and somehow I knew where to find the answers. I was just rattling them off. It was so cool and the spirit was so strong. It really helped my testimony of the Book of Mormon grow. We got the July Ensign and I highly recommend reading about Pres. Henery B. Eyring and Deiter F Uchtdorf . They are such amazing men. I want to know more about Pres. Monson . . . Hope everything continues going well. Elder Brady Blair Parkin D&C 84:88

. . . The MTC is great. I love all of the learning. Elder Shill, my comp., is awesome . . . By the way, you remember how I didn't like playing the piano in front of people? Well I did it in priesthood and at the New Missionary Fireside. Before any of that happened and without any knowledge of the past, I was called as my Branch Music Coordinator. So Cool. Here is a must read scripture: 2 Nephi 4:28-35. It makes me happy! Love, Elder Brady Blair Parkin

WOW! Day 1 and I am havin' fun. I love it here. The people are great and you learn so much. My companion, Elder Shill, and I get along great and really connect. We are rooming with Elder Stevens and Elder Landeen. Elder Shill is from Jacksonville, Florida. All three of them are going to Jamaica so I am a little bit jealous but it is great. I love you so much and appreciate your thought and prayers. Love, Elder Parkin

Here are some pictures that my parents sent me to post from the MTC today. It was actually a slow day at the MTC with only 100-150 missionaries arriving today. (They are expecting around 450 next week!)

WOW!!!! I leave in 2 days. This is crazy. This past couple of weeks has been crazy. Since returning from my sisters house, it has been a week and a half of constant preparing for the mission. It is a lot harder than i thought that it would be. You have to go through and label everything and make sure you have everything six times so that you know nothing is missing, then you have to go to the store and buy all of the things that you are missing and from there you have to worry about all of the last minute little things. WHEW. Try saying that all in one breath. Well from here on out, my sister heather will be taking over my blog because as a missionary i have extremely limited access to computers and cannot blog. I hope that she doesn't mess it up too bad. Just kidding, Heather. She will do a great job and will be posting most all of the letters and pictures that i send her. Wish me luck.