Dear World,
Im curious how many people actually read my emails… my estimate, about 1000. AH! Anyways I am doing amazing. We had transfers this past week which means my trainer Elder Cardoso took off and left me all alone (with Elder Hiar the finiancial secretary)!! Anyone who is familiar with military terms knows what I mean when I say this week is my “hell week.” But its almost over! Yesterday we had a meeting with President and scheduled all the zone conferences, temple trips, etc. So much work ahead of me…
One “novidade” of this transfer is I was called as a district leader!! My district includes the secretaries, assistants, and another companionship next to our area. I was blown away. I figured President would let me wait a few transfers to get the hang of being the executive secretary but nooooo. So now besides doing all my office work, I have to take care of a district! I am excited 
I know that the Lord will help me with ALL this work I have to do. I had my first baptismal interview last night! The district leader does the interviews for the people in his district. So the assistants had a 13-year-old boy, he was way cool, and more importantly, he passed! Hooray for baptisms.
So this past Tuesday night I got to hang out with one of the new missionaries, his name is Elder Denis. He went to the interior so they stay the night at our house and get shipped out the next day. So he has the collest conversion story ever. He was living in Boston, and one day he was getting his hair braided (he is black.. ). Then all of the sudden a book of mormon commercial came on! His mom wanted one so they called and a week later it came, in the mail.. (normally missionaries deliver it) So he started reading it and was really liking it, THEN the missionaries showed up, and baptized the whole family! Even cooler was he has a sister that wasn’t living at home at that time and was having lots of problems, then later on he got to baptize her! So awesome… He is a straight up gangster with a boston accent, and just a way chill dude.
So last week I mentioned a book I am reading (“Drawing on the Powers of Heaven” by Grant Von Harrison). It is officially my favorite book. There are so many things that I have learned, so many thing I need to work on! One thing that really drew my attention this past week was the subject of the gifts of the spirit. Listen to the following quote from George Q. Cannon: “How many of you… are seeking for these gifts that God has promised to bestow? How many of you, when you bow before your Heavenly Father in your family circle or in your secret places, contend for these gifts to be bestowed upon you? How many of you ask the Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, to manifest himself to you through these powers and these gifts? Or do you go along day by day like a door truing on its hinges, without having any feeling upon the subject, without exercising any faith whatever; content to be baptized and be members of the Church, and to rest there, thinking that your salvation is secure because you have done this?
God is the same today as He was yesterday;… (He) is willing to bestow these gifts upon his children. I know that God is willing to heal the sick, that He is willing to bestow the gift of discerning spirits, the gift of wisdom, of knowledge and of prophecy, and other gifts that may be needed.”
How awesome is that! There are SO many gifts of the spirit we can have, all we have to do is four things:
1 Study the gift, learn all you can about it
2 DESIRE the gift (read last weeks email)
3 Ask the Lord to give you it
4 Be obedient!
“I can promise you that the spirit is a whole lot more anxious to help you than you are to be helped” – S. Dilworth Young. We need to learn to ASK, and SEEK these gifts. We all have weaknesses, none of us are perfect, but the Lord can help us with out righteous desires by blessing us with the gifts of the Holy Ghost. I hope we can all understand more the significance of these spiritual gifts, and strive to obtain them. Have a grrrreat week, I love you all!
Your fellow brother in the gospel,
Elder Parker Boyack
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