June 20, 2022 -- What a Time

-

 


Whats up everybody!! The last couple weeks have been some of the best weeks of my mission. My new comp Elder Thomson is sick and we've been having a ton of fun while working really hard. We've found a ton of new people and that lady I talked about in my last email named Lisa is the most elect person ever. She can talk forever which is long but it's almost like we don't even teach her. The spirit just teaches her. She asked us how soon she could be baptized lol so she had a few things she told us she wants to do before she sets a date but hopefully soon.


We had a cool finding experience that sounds crazy but I want you guys to know that this is like 0.01% of my finding experiences and most of them end with us getting rejected lol. We were driving down a really busy street and we saw a guy in a suit walking and I said something about his suit and then about a quarter mile up the road my comp said, "wait should we go find that homie" so I pulled over and we walked back to him and he was from Haiti looking for jobs and wanted to find a church. Wild it was really cool so we got him and his mom to church with one of our members and it was rough process on Sunday morning but we made it with Elder Thomson cramped in the trunk lol. 


I just finished the Book of Mormon today and I love the way it ends. We've met some crazy people who say some wild things about us or the Book of Mormon. But I always refer to Moroni's promise. If you read it, study it, ponder it, and ask God with a sincere heart and real intent you will get an answer and gain a testimony of its truth. So yall should give it a try, if you've done it before, do it again. If you've never done it, put it to the test and see what happens! 

Hope you all had a Great week and Happy Father's Day to my dad Big JB yesterday. The best father I could've asked for and I'm grateful for everything he does for me. Love you Dad! 


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