Megan
sent a few pictures this week: 2 are her last day at the MTC with her companion
and her MTC Zone, SLC airport, her at the Kirtland Temple, a sunset by her
apartment, Milcreek park next to her apartment, and a barber shop in Alliance
that she found funny and reminded her of Randy.
Sister
Barrow did say it was great to see Brother Holt at the airport! In her words,
”it is like the real world still does exist.” She also loves getting emails,
letters, and packages.
Hello
Everyone,
I
am in Ohio!!!!! It is so great here. Let's start off with my first day and
night here. We stayed at the mission home. President and Sister Brown are
amazing, they are so nice. We just basically went over some rules and ate food.
All of us were like half asleep the whole time. The next morning, we woke up
dark and early as David Cluff would say. We got going so we could make the
drive over to Kirtland. Oh man! Kirtland is awesome!!! We got a tour all in the
temple and talk about what happened there. One of my favorite parts was talking
about D&C 110 (I think that is the section, I can't really remember.)
Anyways we were reading about the Savior appearing to Joseph Smith, it was
really cool, we got to see a place where the Savior stood. It was
awesome! Something we talked about while we were there was how my mission
is one of the only places that the God said He would build up before the Second
coming, it was just such a cool experience, I can't really put words to it. If
any of you ever have a chance to go to Kirtland do it! I hope that I will be
able to serve around there.
The
area I am in right now is call Alliance. Well actually Alliance North. We have
half of a ward the Elders have the other half, we still have a really big area
though. It takes us a hour to get to church, that is something I am not used
to. My companion name is Sister Boren, she is from Meridian Idaho. She just got
done with training herself so, she has been out for about 3 months. Our ward
here is awesome, they are so willing to help us. They are great, I have gotten
a meal here like almost every night, which is so helpful. On Sunday, we ate at
the Saxey's (the Bishops house) it was really good. Sister Saxey even made a
gluten free cake for me. It was awesome! The ward is great it is small but,
they are solid. We have been working a lot with less actives which has been
fun. There is one name Brother Fink. He is a funny old man. He won't commit
fully to anything but, we have a goal of getting him to fully commit to coming
to church, it is going to be fun. We also go and visit the elderly. One lady
name Sister Stiver and she is the cutest little old lady. She is 91 years old
and she is still going strong, she is so great. She was telling us about her
life and she met her husband at this military base in Idaho. She is full of
some great stories. Sometimes just listening is the greatest service you can
give someone. So, call up your grandparent or great grandparents, they will
love to hear from you and just talk.
If
we aren't visiting people we are knocking on doors to try to find the people we
were sent here to teach. Some funny stories from this week is that this man
named Rusty answered the door in his boxers! Oh man. Sister Boren and I were a
little shocked to say the least. We talked to him still and he seem pretty
interested though. It was good and he was asking where our church was and if he
was nearby one Sunday he would come check it out. Then Sister Boren invited him
to the clothes drive that is happening this week. Yes, she invited this man
that was wearing just boxers to the clothes drive. I was trying my hardest not
to laugh at the door. It was so funny! Another funny story is that we were
talking to this lady that had a dog and the came running out of the house to
greet us and it go so excited that it peed on both of our shoes! It was a
little gross but, luckily, we had wipes in the car to clean it up. It is super
fun and always crazy here. It is great!
Hope
y'all have a great week.
Love,
Sister Barrow
Reading:
I
love Alma 32. It has been a chapter I have turned to many times already on my
mission. I just love how it says if you have a perfect knowledge then you have
no faith and if you have no faith you have no belief. I also really like verse
27. That all you need is just a desire to believe and that is where it all
really starts. Aw I just love this chapter. I encourage each one of you to experiment
on the word and read the Book of Mormon and read it and pray about it. I know
that as you do so, that you will find sooo much joy and direction in your life.
I will be reading 3 Nephi 13, I would love it if you email anything you learned
from the chapter or anything that you are learning from your reading.
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