Week #60 - ANITTA NINNIS CAME TO CHURCH!!!!

                                      This one is for Makaela Stebbins - still gross to call ya that!

                                                Exchanges

                                                 ANTIFA NINNIS AT CHURCH

                                               A pic the Elders made for us bc we miss the pic 😂😂😂

                                                                                 The contract

                                            We made cookies and left them at one of our peeps door 

 

Hello!

 

This is like my 4th try on trying to write this email right now. At one-point sister Frank's was doing all of her emailing and I sat on the floor and watch Mormon messages instead. I literally have no motivation right now email, but I love my mother. That is the only reason why I'm doing this.

 

This week was boss though! Anita came to church, we had exchanges, we talked to so many people, Sister Franks can just pray taxis to people, and we have a blood contract now.

 

Anita is one of the people we've been teaching for a while now and just a lot of health problems which has stopped her from coming to church. Miracles happen though, and she made it to church this Sunday!!!!! We were sitting in ward council when Sister Franks got the prompting that we need to go wake some of our peeps up. We drove to Anitta's house and she accidently fell asleep.  We helped her get ready and she was able to come to church!! It was AMAZING! Y'all don't even understand!

 

We had exchanges with the Lisbon sisters. It was a really good time! I was with Sister Pain and she is one Stellar missionary! We talked to SO many people and had such a party! She is so cool! 

 

Sister Franks goes home in about 12 weeks. Along with all my other friends that are still out here...... Anyways, she doesn't want to roll off the plane 😂 we made a contract that she wouldn't eat carbs or sugar. Then we were messing with Sister Franks diabetes poker thing and we decided to make it a blood contract (see picture)😂😂😂

 

 Last thing is this guy named Ron. He is the hot chocolate guy for any of the Sisters that served around here last winter. Y'all should know who I am talking about. 😂 We started teaching him and we gave him The Book of Mormon. A couple of days ago we went to get his thoughts about it. This is what he said about it, " I am not 100% sure on it, but it has cleared up some darkness". He also talked about how it has answered some question he had. It was amazing because he was able to see all that on his own. The Book of Mormon truly does that it takes out darkness from our lives and clears things up. The Book of Mormon is SO cool and so is Ron! 

 

That is all for this week! 

 

Love,

 

Sister Barrow 

 

 

Week #59 - Backwards ARM?!?!?!

                                                After going in the house

                                                     Heidi beating up my comp HAHAHA

                                                                 HI

                                                     Doors in Ohio are the best

                                                  Elder Wakeley's head

Sister Franks is cool

                                                  The arm.....
                                                 

Hola friends!

 

Another lit week! Being a missionary is the best thing ever! I love it! 

 

This week has been great! We have had some quality lessons and had some fun stuff happen. I just don't know how to put it in an email. It has been good though!

 

We had a cool miracle from biking the other day. It was SO hot and humid, but we felt like we need to go biking. I even changed my hair out of a messy bun. People that never happens! It was awesome! We are biking from one of our appointment to another and past a gas station. This guy honked his horn at us and it was this guy named Juan that we used to teach. We haven't been able to contact him for a couple of weeks. We were able to talk to him at the gas station and he has been reading The Book of Mormon but hasn't had time to meet with us. We are going to see him again in a couple of days. All because we rode bike. #blessup 

 

Another cool thing from this week is a lesson we had with a guy named Ed. He is SO cool. He saw an ad for a Book of Mormon on Facebook and ordered it. We have been teaching him for a while and we planned to teach The Word of Wisdom. Which we weren't too excited for because we notice he had an ash tray. We had the best lesson! He was so cool with it and he said he doesn't smoke! He just said as long as we don't take away his lemonade then he is good 😂😂😂 

 

We also had a boss lesson with Heidi and Kimmy. We walked out and the vacant house next door was open, so they called the landlord and he told us to check to make sure no one was in there and then lock it. Kimmy, Sister Franks (with her bike helmet), and I walk in with pepper spray and a taser and check it. It was empty, but we were a sight 😂😂😂 Heidi and Kimmy are the best! Oh man! I love them so much!!!! 

 

Missions are so fun! We met this cool less active family, The Buncic, and their neighbor, John. They are both so cool! Brother Buncic is the FUNNIEST person I have ever met!!! He tried to trick us and tell us he wasn't a member and we couldn't check because all the apps on our phones were deleted #thanksmaas360 Their neighbor, John, is funny too! He has two dogs that are super cute! John randomly as we were leaving just flips his arm around!! He apparently had bone cancer when he was young and now doesn't have a shoulder and can just flip his arm around 😂😂😂 I'll see if I can send the video on this. It is so funny! 

 

Miracles are happening, and the fun time are continuing. I love my mission and I love Ohio! 

 

Hope all is well with y'all!

 

Love,

 

Sister Barrow 🦆

 

Sister Barrow Week #58 - Drunk guy and bangs

                                                          Karen

                                                   Exchanges in the blessed land of Alliance

                                                     The car we fixed

                                                  Cool member of our ward, Ginny

                                                     My Comp and I

                                                   At our district activity today

 

Hello everyone!

 

I'm trying to type up my weekly and making tacos at the same time. This might not turn out well. I didn't just throw meat all over the place though. This week is really good!!! We had stake conference and had exchanges with the Alliance Sisters. I don't know what else happened, but it's just been a quality week!

 

Before I go on update the tacos taste really great.

 

It was fun this week I actually got to go back into Alliance and teach the people that I taught there. I got to teach Karen who was baptized while I was there. It was really fun to see how both of us have grown over the past year since we have been together. Her testimony is so much stronger now and it was fun cuz we taught the Plan of Salvation and she was able to teach us a lot of it. I remember when Sister Boren and I taught her we didn't know what we were doing, and she didn't know what we were talking about 😂😂😂 Now she is SO solid and totally gets it! It was amazing to teach her again! 

 

 Now for the quality funnies because missions are FULL of them! This week a drunk guy pushed back my bangs... So, Sister Franks and I were going to stop by this guy and we park the car and say a prayer and get out and go. As we are walking out we see a guy and of course we go over and talk to him. And we're chatting with him for a little bit and then he just pauses and tells me not to move. I am thinking it just a bug that he is going to get, but no he takes his pointer finger and then moves my bangs out of my eyes 😂😂😂 we ended up leaving him with a Book of Mormon. We will see if anything comes out of it. One last funny thing was that Sister Franks as I was driving saw this lady who's having car trouble and so she was like punches me and tells me to stop! We go pull over and help the lady. That's right we fixed a car. Dad all your car lessons weren't wasted and yes Sister Franks and I both got on the ground in skirts 😂😂😂

 

I want to eat the rest of my tacos, so peace out!

 

Love, 

 

Sister Barrow 

Sister Barrow Week #57 - Let Go, Let God

                                                  Sleep over with Akron Sisters

                                                 Don't even have to say, but my fav people!

                                                 Road Trip

                                                       Sister Cox and Elder Brooke in background

                                               Rando Pic of the Week

                                        Sister Tobler's skirt after Brownies

                                                       Heidi got to see us in real clothes

Hola!

 

This is been a bomb week! So much has happened, but also nothing at the same time. We had Mission Leadership Conference this week! We got to drive down with Akron sisters! It was so much fun! We even made brownies in the car. I'll explain more later 😂

 

There are a lot of miracles happening here in Warren. It's hard to pin point just one, so we are going to go with two. We met a less active named Claudia and she is SO cool. She legit is Joyce! We got talking with her and ended up teaching the whole Plan of Salvation. It was a bomb lesson! The next is we have been trying to get in contact with. We just drop by and they all are home. The dad comes up is like glad you are here we want our daughter to get baptized! Wait what!?! We chat with them some more and yep their youngest daughter who is 10 wants to get baptized! Man I wish more people came up to us and just were like I want to get baptized. Maybe one day! 

 

Now to explain brownies in the car. So, like I was saying we got to drive down to MLC with Akron sisters. It was so much fun! It was Sister Warren and Sister Tobler. They both are really cool Sister Warren was actually Companions of Sister Boren couple transfers ago! Was so much fun riding on with them though no problem. On the way back, we have all gotten a little stir crazy. We were in MLC for like 6 hours sitting down and just learning so much, we all kind of went crazy. At one point sister Frank's wanted some chocolate. There just happened to be a ton of boxes of brownie mix in the back of Akron sister's car and we randomly happen to have eggs…. So we decided to make some brownies. Got a little crazy doing it in the bag and skirt, but they apparently  tasted really good I obviously couldn't eat any of them but it was really funny to watch. So yes I made brownies in a car so fun time. 

Also my subject line is from a bumper sticker that we saw.

 

That's all Folks!

 

Love,

 

Sister Barrow 

Sister Barrow Week # 56- Make Love not Hate Featuring Al the Crazy Guy????

 

                                                      Sister Skeen and I

                                                     Exchanges

                                                          Making the CAKE

                                                       More Exchanges

                                                               BYU does exist

                                                       Cool Sky

 

Hello Everyone!

 

This week has been kind of a blur. We had our interviews with President and Sister Stratford (new mission president) and they are so cool. It's been fun to get to know them better especially since Sister Frank's like loves them to death. We got them ice cream and stuff it is really funny cuz neither of us knew which one they would like and so we just had the lady from Cold Stone help us out. If you find an Alexis from Cold Stone on Twitter or Facebook hit her up she's pretty lit.

 

It's been a pretty fun week we went on exchanges again this week. And we did other things that I can't remember. It's been a really good time though! Sister Frank's is so cool and we're working hard to get all the things done here in Warren. It also was Miya's birthday this week!! Happy birthday Miya!!!!!! I promise I will get your bottles of glue next year for your birthday 😂😂😂

 

I got to go on with sister Skeen. She's really cool she is from Weber Utah. She's been out for about 10 months now and is a stellar missionary. She was in Columbus her whole mission so it's kind of fun to get to know her over the exchange and to see how she worked as a missionary.

 

Some funny things for this week is that Sister Frank's I made a cake. We promised one of the people were working with that if she did her reading we would get her a cake and we asked her what her favorite cake was. She told us that it was a marble cake with whipped frosting. We told her that we could do that and then we went to Walmart.... and there wasn't one. However, there was a white cake and a chocolate cake that both had whipped icing…. So we were geniuses and decided just to make our own marble cake. We just stacked the two cakes together and made a makeshift marble cake. Ended up turning out great. I of course couldn't try it, but Heidi and Kimmy said it was good so it all worked out.  Another funny from this week is Sister Stratford! She has a dog named Biscuit that she brings with her like everywhere. She even comes to interviews. Our interviews where in the Youngstown building while we were there, they happen to have like a ton of meetings today. She ends up like hiding him in this teeny little room that we were in that's like the foldable walls things that come out and we had to go in and out. Then we ended up having to like sneak out of the room, so Biscuit wouldn't be seen 😂😂😂 It was a good time! 

That's all I can remember from this week! Also y'all should send me letters. I have a lot more time to response to those then emails. 😁 

Love ya,
Sister Barrow