August 29, 2022 - Trio Training

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 Hey Hey hey

How is everyone?? Hope it's been a good week for you guys it's been a pretty solid one here. Here's the rundown!


Lisa got baptized! It was so sick, shes the most elect person I've ever met. She's read almost the entire Book of Mormon in 2 and a half months, she studies for hours a day reading and exploring the gospel library app. She writes paragraphs and has filled up probably 2 notebooks full of notes from what she's learned. She came out of the water crying and in tears saying, "thank you Lord" over and over. The spirit was crazy strong there.

We ran some exchanges and had some fun lessons. I got to go to lunch with the family i baptized in my last area which was pretty cool. We expected like 7 people at church and literally no one showed up. It be like that sometimes. It happens and people have their agency and i love it but i hate it. Its tough working so hard and trying to help people but they just dont care or wont commit to things even if they know its good and true. What do ya do, just keep moving forward. We got transfer news and since I've been here for 4 transfer I fully expected to leave but we found out my comp and I are staying and are going to be training a new missionary! It'll be sick because this is how I was trained almost a year ago so I'm hyped for it. Life is good, it's hard but we get through it. The mission is amazing and really hard in the ways you don't expect coming out. You just do your best, trust God and focus on others and that's where I've found the most joy. Being selfless you truly find yourself. 

Love yall have a good week, send me an email if you get second I'd love to hear from everyone. I don't know everyone's emails but if you reach out I'd love to catch up. ✌️ 


Elder Barlow🦕











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