March 6, 2023 - 1 full Sister Mission Complete

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 I hit 18 months as a missionary today! It's crazy time is flying, sometimes I feel like I've been here for a couple weeks and sometimes I feel like I've been here for 9 years haha. I love it though it's a good time. Gotta make these last 6 months a grind!


This week was pretty solid and fast so here's the highlights!


We were teaching Henry and I asked him if we wanted to set a date for baptism or wait until he got a more solid answer and he said, "Well Jesus didn't wait to get baptized when he went to John the Baptist so let's set a date." We were so hyped and then we were in Elko for Zone Conference and he texted saying he wants to be Baptist actually so we're gonna try and convince him otherwise. 


I was teaching our friend David this week and he told us he believes the Book of Mormon and he'd studied with missionaries in Vegas years ago so we started talking about baptism. At one point I was testifying of baptism, the blessings of it, what it was about and I was feeling the spirit, feeling pretty good about the situation so I said, " David will you pray about being baptized into the church of Jesus Christ?" And then a small pause and he says, "Did you know they don't teach cursive in elementary schools anymore!?" And I was just like oh my you've gotta be kidding me hahah I was instantly deflated, he didn't pick up anything I just said the last 30 seconds and I thought the spirit was strong and it was going great haha. He got the message at the end so it all worked out!


Church got canceled this week because of the snow so that was some bum. It's like the 3rd or 4th time this year and we had a lot of people planning on coming but we got out and shoveled snow and made the most of it! We got to see the Elko temple site so that was super cool too this week!

And I bowled a 209 today so I'm feeling pretty good about it

John 20:29

"Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."

Elder Barlow🫡
















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