Franklin Wards, Blackstone Valley Stake, and Boston Temple Workers Setting Apart

 Franklin⁩, ⁨Massachusetts⁩ Wards, Blackstone Valley Stake, meetings and training with stake leaders.
Loved the pouring rain!

 Blackstone Valley MA Stake Center, Franklin, MA

Boston Temple Calling

July 18, 2021, were set apart as temple ordinance workers in the Boston Temple by President Lloyd Baird.

*President Baird will conclude as Temple President at the end of July 2021.  He served for three years.  The above picture was his announcement when called to this assignment.

Our new Temple President, Lee Roy LaPierre:

Incoming Temple President July 2021

July 18, 2021

Letter sent to our friends Glen taught in England as a young missionary:

We are enjoying our mission here in the Boston area.  We enjoy visiting with church leaders and sharing the vision and tools available to assist them in meeting their peoples' welfare and self-reliance needs.

The drought and extreme heatwave is the most terrible in recorded history in the West.  It is interesting that here in the Boston area we have had a great deal of rain. Part of the rain is from the tropical storm that Hurricane Elsa stirred up.  We are very concerned for the west though.  I was a young boy on our ranch/farm when we had two years of drought in a row and I know how bad it was on the animals and crops and farmers' livelihoods. I still remember kneeling with my family pleading in fasting and prayer that we, and people who were suffering more than we, would be blessed. We never went hungry and didn’t lose our farm, but it was a really hard time.  Later it was our hard work on the farm and a miracle crop of tomatoes that paid for the missions of my older brother and me.

Know that you were prepared from before this earth to hear and accept the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Teaching you was a memory that I will hold dear eternally.

I love family history research.  I still make some time for it even in busy times on our mission.  We have wonderful news, even a miracle.  We attended church last week and sat behind a man and his wife in a new ward we hadn’t attended.  We were visiting, and he indicated he worked at the Boston Temple.  We asked about how we could go to the temple as we couldn’t sign up online because our records were still in Provo.  He said, " We could just call you as ordinance workers."  He then indicated he was the temple president and that he would call our mission president and get permission.  He did call and get permission, then cleared it with our stake president and bishop at home, and we will be set apart tonight.  We are so excited to add this work to our mission responsibilities.

Elder and Sister Parker
Massachusetts Boston Mission
Welfare and Self-Reliance Services