April 18, 2022 - Easter and Baptism!!

-


This week flew by and it easily had the best day of my mission so far but ill get to that later in the email! We got to go to Quincy again to visit the missionaries out there so that was pretty sweet. Had the best biscuits and gravy at a place called Morning Thunder up there. I've also pulled an absurd amount of weeds this week. I definitely enjoy it more than I did back home haha when you're doing it for someone else it's a lot easier. We took one of the Elders in our zone out with us for a day and we were doing service for this lady and she's just classic southern grandma calling us sugar and honey and she soldier. I loved it. 









I got to go back for the Dawson's baptism back in my old area! I taught their family from start to finish basically and it was by far the best day of my mission. They asked me to baptize their family and it was a really cool experience to be a part of it with them. The Spirit was really strong and you could tell how happy the whole family was. Afterwards they told me they had no doubts and that everything was confirmed today that they were doing the right thing. I'm happy for them. 


Easter was really nice! I loved being able to just focus on the Savior and really study the resurrection. There's a lot of peace and hope that comes from it. Everything we do goes back to Christ, the Atonement, and the resurrection. It's been cool to talk with other people especially not of our faith about it. To see people's devotion to Christ and their gratitude, its what its all about. Hope you all had a nice Easter and have a good week!!


Luv Elder Barlow





















Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

February 7, 2022 - Training Wheels

-
Image
  It was a good week but a hard week. Lots of ups and downs. The activity days girls heart attacked our door at the beginning of the week and we're just gonna keep it up for as long as we can.  On Wed I picked up my trainee! His name is Elder Giauque and somehow you pronounce his name like juke. He's from Arizona and he and I are pretty different but we found some common ground on Avatar the Last Airbender lol.   He's excited to do everything and wants to be obedient so that part of training makes it really easy! Ive been working him hard and he's been pretty exhausted but he tells me he likes it so we're gonna keep it up haha. Last transfer I was working on and praying for patience and then God had me become a trainer haha now I'm definitely using that patience! Missionary work can be hard and now training makes it harder but I'm enjoying it and I've learned a ton in these last 5 days. I just hope I can be a good trainer for him!  We got to play some ba...
Read more

January 17, 2022 - What It Do Family and Friends

-
Image
  It was a lovely week and I'm just gonna do some bullet points of some highlights or funny things! ~This amazing lady named Deb told us she wants to join the church so we started the discussions with her and she loves it!! ~Our door approach we tried, "Hey, we've been trying to reach you concerning your cars extended warranty... nah just kidding we're the missionaries haha" got some good laughs out of people with it  ~Met a guy who's name was Jesus and he likes to jump in the park when the moon is high in the sky lol ~Our friend Will that we've been teaching brought his wife and kids to church on Sunday! It was the coolest thing and made me so happy! Definitely the highlight of the week ~Quilted with Sister Mahoney again Quick thought, even if we have just a desire to believe and trust in God and  Christ then that's enough. There's this amazing recent convert named Dawn and she's going through some challenging health struggles and even though ...
Read more

November 29, 2021 - Elder Uchtdorf the German Shepherd

-
Image
This week flew by. We had so many meetings this week it was crazy. We district council on Tuesday, zone conference on Wednesday, Thanksgiving on Thursday, and then the mission conference with Elder Uchtdorf on Saturday. And then I spoke in church on Sunday. Definitely the busiest week of my mission so far but also probably the best.  Thanksgiving was awesome, pretty different from being home but at least this year I could taste the food because last year I had covid over Thanksgiving and couldn't taste anything. We visited 5 families, had a really good dinner, and ate a whole lot of pie. We had another lesson with Will this week and it was the best he's such a good person and literally the ideal person you want to teach.  Elder Uchtdorf was so cool. It was almost as if he had a glow to him, he truly carries the Light of Christ. He was funny and making jokes throughout his talk. His talk was amazing he spoke for about an hour and talked about so many things. One thing I really ...
Read more