Sister Barrow Week #24 - Can't unsee the man boobs 12-20-2017

 

Merry Christmas Everyone! 

Ohio is still great! Sister Lloyd and I are still having a party! This week has been good! We have shoveled like 3 driveways in skirts, I slipped on the ice like 50 million times, been told we were narcissistic, and had a guy answer the door with no shirt and he had some gross chest hair and man boobs. To top it all off we got Chloe our investigator on date so, basically have had the best week ever! 

This week in my reading I have been reading about King Benjamin. Which for those of you who don't know is a cool guy who was the king of the Nephites. He knew that he was about to die so, he got all of his people together. He turned the kingdom over to his son Mosiah and held like the first general conference. It is a great time! One thing I liked though was after King Benjamin does this great talk the people choose to change and repent based off of what they were just taught. It is up to us to change. We can’t force anyone to change. It reminded me of the missionary purpose in Preach My Gospel. Which says that we as missionaries are just here to invite. That is how it is with everything though. It is up to the individual to change. That is something I got from my reading this week. I would love to hear what you guys get from your reading! 

Now onto the stupid/silly things that I do through the week.... Somedays I am surprised that God still lets me be out here because this idiot can’t speak English really well and I say stupid stuff like A LOT. Example, one with the guy that had gross chest hair and man boobs. It was cold and raining and I was wearing my glass so, I could see. Anyways, we knocked on his door and we were talking with him and I was trying to grab a card but, I couldn't see because my glass were fogging up because of the warm air coming from his house. So, I said sorry my glasses are fogging up and he just looked at me with a look that said that I have that effect on women. hahahaha. Never going back to that house so, we are all good. Another funny story is yesterday night I am just sleeping away you know it is night so, I am sleeping. Well, for some reason Sister Lloyd wakes up at 11:15 pm thinking it is 11:15 am. She starts panicking that we are late to Zone Conference. In the process she wakes me up and I am trying to figure out what is going on and she just keeps saying that we are going to be late. I am just half asleep thinking my comp has gone crazy. She finally realizes that it is still dark outside, it's 11:30 at night now and not am. Good news, we weren't late to Zone Conference but, we were a little tried. hahahaha

Well, I hope you all have a great Christmas!

 
Love ya,
 
Sister Barrow

Sister Barrow #23 - Basically Summer..... JK it is like 10 degrees like ALL the time

 

 

Hello Everyone!

How is everyone doing? How is Light The World going for everyone? Light The World as a missionary is a party! For example yesterday we went over to the Tarantinos to make bread to give out to people! Then today we are trying to ask more people for service and just smiling at people. It is fun time. We actually get a lot of funny looks and there was one lady who stopped and asked if she knew us. hahahahah. Light The World is great! I would encourage each of you to do. Just start today and go to Christmas.  Other than Light The World this week has been solid. Finally, had to get the winter boots out this week. We also went tracting in like 19` weather.  Luckily there was an angel lady who let us in and warm up. Like Sister Lloyd says there are angels all around us. 

This week. I am going to share one of my favorite scriptures. Which is Alma 7:11-12. Talks about how with Christ suffered for us so, that he can succor us. Christ truly did suffer for us and more then just for our sins but, so we could have someone to understand us and to help us. 

Now onto the funnies! Woot Woot! The first one is that I fell on the ice yesterday. hahahaha. We were out knocking on doors and we were just walking down the driveway and I just slipped and fell. Second one happened yesterday too. I was cooking some hamburger and I might have set the smoke alarm off..... hahahaha. Don't worry though the food still tasted good. It wasn't even burnt. hahahah. The last funny is just the ward Christmas party. Oh my just so many good laughs! The primary and young men and women put on a nativity. It was so good!  We even had Santa there! True party here in Alliance. At one point the Relief Society president sat on Santa's lap! hahahah. There are some golden picture of Santa. 

Well I hope you all of have a great week! 

Oh also thanks to everyone who has sent me a Christmas card. I love getting them! 

Love, 

Sister Barrow

 

 

 

 

Sister Barrow Week #22 - Dying in a hole or wanting to 12-6-2017

 What happens when the headache wins..... Glad she is doing better!

 

 

Hello Everyone!

This week has been a crazy week! First off is that I have to deal with Sister Lloyd's crazy driving now. hahahah Jk she is a great driver. I guess I will let her drive though because she does have to play the piano every week because there is like no one that can or will play. This week has been a pretty good week though. Oh, and Light The World is awesome! I hope you all are having a good time doing it! 

 
Okay crazy story! So, since like last Saturday I have had a headache. Nothing too crazy until last Wednesday. I woke up and had a crazy headache. I felt like someone was crushing my head so, after some persuasion by Sister Lloyd. I called Sister Brown (Mission President's Wife). She told me just to take some meds and go back to bed. Well, I did that and I felt a little better and we had work to get done so, we went out tracting and nothing beside my head started hurting worse... We had a couple of visits we had to do but, then we went home, and I went to bed. The next day I wasn't any better so, another call to Sister Brown. She then called Doctor Lewis (He is a retired Doctor that helps us). He called me and told me to take some different meds. I went and bought the meds and a nice fuzzy blanket because that always helps when you are sick right. :) Sister Brown also told me I should get a blessing, and this is something Sister Lloyd has been telling me to do since my head started hurting so, I figured I probably should. We called Brother Tarantino up and I asked him if he would be willing to and of course he said yes. However, we had to wait until later that night because we had appointments we had to go to. Well, finally we were able to go and get a blessing and Brother Tarantino got Brother Fink to help with my blessing! It was a wonderful bless and I am feeling 10000x better! Come to find out Brother Fink hasn't given a blessing in over 39 years!!!! Brother Fink is a less active we have been working with since before I got here. Anyways, fast forward to Sunday. We had a lesson with him and we taught him the Plan of Salvation with the Tarantino's. It was the BEST LESSON ever! He opened up to us and he is a VERY closed off man about his last blessing he gave. He gave it to his dad before a heart surgery and everything in the blessing came true. They only problem was that his dad never woke up. He then gave him a final blessing asking for him to pass away without hurting. Since then he never gave a blessing because he felt like it was his fault that his dad died. We were able to explain the rest of the plan of salvation and talk about it. It was honestly amazing! Sister Lloyd had an amazing testimony that really brought the spirit! Brother Fink even started crying! It was just an amazing lesson! I wish I could explain more about but, all I can say it that it was amazing, and that God truly works in crazy ways. 

Now after that crazy story now onto some funny ones. Brother Maxon! Oh man! This guy is so funny. We have been working with him for a while. He is a funny man! He is an older single guy. Not too old only about 68 or something like that. Anyways, he was asking how to do stuff on familysearch so, we were helping him. After we get done with that he asks us if we could help him to set up an account on a dating website. hahahaha. We didn't know how to respond luckily, we had a member with us and they just took over and we left. hahahaha. Oh, funny story with Light The World. On the 2nd we were helping with a funeral. We got to serve ice cream it was like the best thing ever! At one-point Sister Lloyd is says that she is thirsty so, I go and get her some water. When I come back I asked if that could count for Light The World. Hahahahaha. 

 

That's all for this week!

 Love all y'all,

Sister Barrow