Week #42 - Temple!!!!

 

Hello Everyone!

Sorry this is going to be short. We went to the temple today and what a blessing it was. I loved being back there and feeling the peace that is felt there. The temple is truly the house of God! I am grateful that we have temples and that we can go to such a holy place to worship. Now all you that are in Utah GO to the temple! You have them so close to you! Go and enjoy the blessings that come from the temple. Make time to go!

Funnies and cool things:

• A bird pooped on me
• We knocked on a wrong door. We thought it was a member’s house and it defs wasn't.... she helped us out though.
• I held a chameleon
• I was in a tree house with the Basaldua kids
• I ate cactus this week

That's it for this week! Sorry not that great! Missionary work is awesome! I love it out here! The Church is true, and the book is blue.

Hope all y'all have a great week!

Love,

Sister Barrow 

 

Week # 41 - The Shot Heard Around the World.....

 

 

Hello people of the sane world!

Okay so first off if you think your week has been crazy just hold up and you probs will change your mind. This is start of my second week in Sandusky…. Which means we are two weeks into the transfer and I now have a new companion.....Sister Ramsay went home because of personal issues. We were planning on her leaving at the end of the transfer, but God had other ideas. She fully decided on Thursday that it was best she went home and she was home on Saturday. We didn't know she was leaving until Friday afternoon. It was a mess and super stressful and it's been all around just stressful. I have a new companion, Sister Golden. She is great! It has been a crazy week! We are basically whitewashing an area. Which means we both are new to the area. It is fun time! God is good too because I get to drive! What a blessing!

Just some tender mercies of this week is that I got to see Sister Wadley! On Saturday Sister Golden and I took some investigators up to Kirtland. It was a party! Sister Wadley was able to give us a tour which was a bonus. It was really great to see her. Another one is with social media now we were able to chat with past sisters to help us get some background on the area. Social Media is such a blessing! We also have some amazing STL's who give us some quality pep talks. One example of this is Sister Larsen made us go to a mirror and look at ourselves and tell ourselves that are buns are hot and then wink at ourselves 😂😂😂 missions are a quality time! Wouldn't trade it for the world. 

Hope y'all have a great week!

Love ya!

Sister Barrow 

Ps y'all should send me some mail 😊

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Norwalk OH 44857

 

Week # 40 - Tangy Pee?

 Sister Ramsay Sister Barrow and Sister Wadley

 Leaving Youngstown

 Y Town all packed up

UMMMMMM

 

Hello friends!

This week has been a crazy. Sister Ramsay is cool. She reminds me of my little sister Keaton which is fun. She is about as sassy and sarcastic. It is a good time. 

This week has just been weird. It's always kind of rough adjusting to a new place, but God looks out for us. Just a cool little story from this week is Sister Ramsay and I were out knocking on doors on a quality Sunday afternoon when we randomly get this call while we are at a door. On accident Sister Ramsay answered the call then the person we knocked on opened their door. You can just hear in the background as we talk to the guy at the door a British man saying hello, slightly awkward. 😂😂😂 We called the British man back and learned that his name was Elder Cook. He is a senior missionary from the SLC mission. He called us to ask about a guy we were meeting. We talked with him for a bit and he asked where we were from and all of that. I randomly asked him if he knew my mom. He did! He says that he sees her quite often. He was able to tell me how she was doing and that she has lost a ton of weight. Just how great she is! It was such a tender mercy because it is a bit rough adjusting and it just help me to feel at peace that my mom was all good. God is amazing and let that happen. God loves us and will do anything for us even if it is just a simple phone call who happens to know your mom.

Other funny things that happened this week was that Sister Ramsay got a UTI. Legit my first day here in Sandusky. She is like I have to pee, and the closest bathroom was our apartment, so we go back there. As she is in the bathroom she yells out to me, "is it natural if it burns as I pee" 😂😂😂 We call doctor Lewis (mission doc). He tells her she has a UTI basically and that she needs to go to the doctor. Luckily however we have a doctor in the ward and we were able to get her some meds to fix everything, but they make her pee a tangy orange. 

Oh, we also met this super cool lady named Teressa and she has Celiac. It was fun talking with her she was so cool! We were instant BFF like go to Claire's and get some matching necklaces. We were able to share Alma 7:11 with her. Which explains how Christ knows us and all the struggles we go through. I was able to connect with her about Celiac and how Christ understands that and the pain that comes from it. God is good, and it was amazing to be able to share that with her.

That's it for this week.

Love ya!

Sister Barrow

 

 

Week #39 - God Rest Everyone

 

 

Hello!

 

Once again A LOT has changed. Conference was BOMB all of those changes are awesome! Then President Brown decided to take a leaf out of President Nelson book and do a ton of changes. One of them being that he is shutting down the Youngstown East area….. There will no longer be Sisters in the area that I am in! Right now there are us the Sisters and the Elders in the ward. As of tomorrow there will just be Elders that cover the whole ward. With that being said Sister Wadley and I both are leaving. Sister Wadley is going up to Shaker Heights aka going back to the Kirtland sites. I am going to miss her she is an amazing human being and I love her lots! Then I am going to Sandusky, which is right dab in the middle of the mission. It also is in the Cleveland stake, so I am breaking free of the Youngstown stake and going straight to Cleveland! My new comp will be Sister Ramsay. She has been in my zone before, so I know who she is, but I don't really know her though. I am excited to be companions with her! She also is a site sister so I am going for round two on the site sister, so it definitely will be a party!

Honestly, I can't think of anything else besides conference and transfer calls that happened this week. Since Sunday we have been working on saying bye to people and transferring all the people we are teaching over to the Elders, cleaning our apartment. It has been crazy! I love the mission though! I wouldn't want to be doing anything else!

This week we have been working on data entry. Which means we are just putting the records we have into our phones. One thing that we use to make it go faster is voice text, but you have say all the punctuation. For example if you are saying the sentence, "Our lesson with Kyle went well, we talked about the Plan of Salvation." You would have to say, "our lesson with Kyle went well comma we talked about the plan of Salvation period" we have been doing that bunch. Yesterday we were doing some calls and we called Sister Pander to change our appointment, so we could see more people. She didn't answer and Sister Wadley left a message and this is word for word what she said, "Hi Sister Pander it's the Sisters comma (long pause realizing what she said) we were wondering..." hahahahahahahahaha 😂😂😂😂 man I am going to miss Sister Wadley.

Sorry this email is sub-par, but got a lot to get done today!

Love all y'all

Sister Barrow