Hello All,
This week has been a blurry. I am reading my journal
to try to remember what even happened this week. We mostly have been working
with a lot of less actives and doing service. Oh, something that happened this
week was we met this lady named Katherine. Katherine is this old lady that is
very independent and lives on her own. She reminds me of Joyce. Well a couple
of weeks ago she had a stroke so, she hasn't been able to clean her house
really. She was getting frustrated with it and down on herself that she couldn’t
do thing. She started to complain to her friend about how she couldn't do
things and how her house was a mess. This friend happened to be a member and
said that we could come over and help her. Well she said yes and we could come
help her. It was great we just cleaned up her house. She was telling us
to vacuum the floors but, they calling it sweeping and I was so confused. They
also call a vacuum and sweeper. I was so lost when she was explaining what she
wanted us to. Once I figured out what she wanted us to do we started to clean.
As we were cleaning we started talking to her. Well, we are going back to visit
her this weekend and teach her a lesson. It was just a simple thing that we did
for her and I am so glad that the member thought of us and sent us over there.
Even if you have friend that just needs service done I know that the
missionaries would be more than willing to help so, send them over there. We
also visited with Brother Maxon. He is a less active. He got baptized when he
was about 12, hasn't really been to church since he was about 14. He is now 68
so it has been awhile... Anyways, we started meeting with him and teaching him
the lessons because he doesn't really remember what we believe in. He is slowly
understanding more and more. It is a process though but, he should be in church
next week!
This week I read in 1 Nephi 3. It was really good! One
thing I got out of the reading was how important the scriptures are. They are
something that they could not continue their journey without them. How can they
keep the commandments of the Lord if they don't know them? That is why it is so
important to read. How are we supposed to follow God if we don't know what He
wants us to do? That is why we need to treasure up the word and read our
scriptures. This week I am going to continue and read 1 Nephi 4 & 5. I hope
that you all will read along with me. Email me things you learn from reading
the scriptures! I love hearing about it.
Here are some funnies from this week. For some reason
we keep finding people who only speak Spanish. It is a struggle. Anyways we
have this investigator named Herminio. It was a interesting experience trying
to teach him. We started of praying and he prayed in Spanish. It was cool. Then
we started talking and he can understand us but, we can't understand him. All I
know is one minute I thought I knew what was going on then the next he was
crying. Then he was teaching us how to say fat in Spanish. hahahaha. It was a
really interesting lesson. Sister Boren and I just laugh like our whole way
home. Oh, another funny story. I can't believe I am sharing this with everyone.
Anyways, last night Sister Boren and I had a burping competition. We have been
rating each other’s burps for the pass little bit and we were both trying to
hit tens. To get all burpy we drank a ton of soda. We have ton of soda at our
apartment because these old ladies think that we like soda. We drank like a ton
and we had our burping competition. It was so funny. We both hit tens. hahahaha
The weird ways you have fun as a missionaries.
Love,
Sister Barrow
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