Sister Barrow Week #68 - Making Someone Give a Book of Mormon Back

                                                     Bowling Crew

                                                          The Pumpkin

                                                      Sister Jensen

                                               The Warren Sign

                                                         Sister Saxey took us to Johnson Farm

                                                    A cool statue of Jesus Sister Jensen and I found

Hola!

 

This was a boss week! Man can I just tell you guys for a minute how great missions are. It is really just the best thing ever. God knew what He was doing when He said He wanted 18 and 19 years old out here because it's the best time to go. Also I met some of the COOLEST people out her and made some stellar friends. There is also that cool bonus where I get to talk about Jesus ALL THE TIME. Literally this is the best thing ever!  Missions are the best! 

After that schpeel here is what actually happened in my week. We had some bomb exchanges, had a family history day, went to the Johnson farm, ate a ton of peanut butter cookies, had interviews, accidently gave out MY Book of Mormon, and had like one of the best district councils I have had on my mission. 

Oh man life is good! Start with exchanges. I went with the one and only Sister Jensen! She is the best! She is The Book of Mormon queen! We shared so many scriptures - well, she did I just testified it was great. She is a GREAT missionary man! We made a whole plan of how she is going to become my companion 😂😂😂 One funny from exchanges is that we got a pumpkin from someone and we were just going to paint it. We decided against it and craved it. The only problem was that it was a mini pumpkin, but it totally work! Hahaha we just made a cyclops. 

Okay, I am running out of time! So many things to do! Last story then I got to go. We had this family history thing and this cool lady named Martha came and all of us missionaries talked with her. She is just so cute. Well, at the end we are talking with her and explaining why we do family history and we end up giving her a Book of Mormon. I had two in my bag the one I have been studying out of and a blank copy. I accidently give her mine.... I didn't notice until we were back at our apartment... We have no way to contact this lady because she isn't a member. I was like crap what do I do that Book of Mormon has all of my stuff in it. We got it figured out though because she is coming to do family history on Thursday and Sister Johnson had her number, so they can switch it out. However, that means I have to go 2 weeks without it.... I am just going to have to read a ton when I get it back hahahaha. 

Hope y'all have a great week!

Love,

 

Sister Barrow  

Week #67 - Holy Rollers with Sister Sandy???

                                           Shooting a BB gun at the Mansfield's

                                                        Sister Holdaway

                                                      #nugsfordays

                                                                      Horse

Hola Everyone!

Well, to be honest I can't really remember what even happened this week. We had exchanges Monday and that was a party! We found some solid people named Lashawn and Dee. We convince the Ashtabula Elders not to ride their bikes for 4 hours to district council. Also Karen hit her year mark this week! What a blessing! 

 

Okay, to start off exchanges are the best! I love exchanges! I got to go with Sister Holdaway and it was a grand old time! She is super funny. She played Lacrosse at BYU before coming out and she is super chill. It was fun! Man oh man! She is such a hard working missionary! 

 

Okay, cool story from this week and then I got to go. We got this head quarter referral for this guy named Lashawn. Who is some one that we were teaching when I got to Warren. We fell out of contact with him though and to be honest he was kind of getting lame. I was like okay we will go give him The Book of Mormon he wants, but I wasn't thinking it was gonna be super promising. Oh man! Did God prove me wrong. We get there and Lashawn is like ya I stopped reading for a bit, but about a month ago I started reading it again and I wanted my girlfriend to get a copy of The Book of Mormon too. That way they could read together. It was good we taught a simple Resto. Actual, Lashawn basically taught it and we filled in the gaps. It was SO cool! Then they came to church on Sunday and LOVED IT. They are awesome! Lashawn actually went and played basketball with some of the Elder quorum yesterday. So cool! It is amazing to see just how over the course of a couple of months that he has changed and wants to take the gospel serious now! God is good my friends! 

 

Love, 

 

Sister Barrow 

Week # 66 - smacked dab 😂

 It's a great day when you get ice cream

 

My cute new comp 😂

 

Long drive to MLC 

 Watching conference with Heidi

 Just a good last on and Sister Franks and I 

 Did you know you could fly a kite with a fishing pole #thanksowen #themoreyouknow

 

Watching conference with Heidi

 

Proof that I pet the Goldberg's dog

 Ron's swing

Gave Anitta her scriptures! She loved them! Thanks to all the sisters who helped! 

Hola Everyone!

 

What a week! We had transfers on Thursday, conference Saturday and Sunday, MLC Monday, and a butt load of lesson in between. It's been a solid week!

 

First off CONFERENCE! Man after conference I was just was pumped and is President Nelson awesome! If you guys haven't watched all the sessions yet go watch them! It was a bomb time! Also President Nelson is totally a prophet and 12 new temples. Also I am pumped for 2 hours of church. Oh and the women's session was lit! I have been reading The Book of Mormon like President Nelson said and I am only in like 1 Nephi 6 and it is SO COOL! It is amazing to see how many times Christ name is used. Something I have been noticing is how Laman and Lamuel never talk about Christ. However, when Nephi and Lehi talk it's in almost every verse multiple times. It really shows how Christ centered their lives were. 

 

Second off I have an awesome new companion. Sister McElhaney she is super chill and it is a fun time here in Warren. Two things to prove she is a grand old time is she has Celiac so basically we are BFF's #glutenfreeforlife. Second, is that she legit is hilarious! Example of this is we walk in to our apartment right after transfers, so after about a 2 hour drive... We walk in Sister McElhaney puts away some of the stuff she needs to put away. We are about to leave and I am  like did you put your insulin away because she is also diabetic too and I learned a few things from Sister Franks. She is like flip! She forgot it in her last apartment. Luckily we figured out a way to get it from the Ashtabula Elders. So the next night we are driving to this place way out in the boonies #ripourmiles 😂 we are out there and our gas light turns on, but I like we should be good because we got like 30 miles... ya I was wrong. We get to the Elders and we had like no gas...  Luckily randomly in the middle of nowhere there was on gas station and it was like a 1/2 mile away #blessup. After that experience I was like man this is gonna be a bomb transfer. 

 
Okay some other funnies then I am done because I haven't even emailed my mom... #sorrymom Anyways, we met this cool lady named Michelle and her daughter Alison and we went back to talk with them and we were having this great lesson with Michelle. Eventually Alison comes out and she brings her boyfriend.... We talk with him for a sec and he is cool. They listen for a bit, but they are teenagers so they lost interest after a minute. They go and sit on the porch and start kissing.... we just keep going with our lesson with Michelle and it's going good. We get to the 1st vision and we hear this smacking noise in the background 😂😂😂 these two kids are making out as we are teaching the 1st vision. Only in Ohio 😂😂😂 it was a bomb lesson still and Michelle's son came in at the end and she taught him about what we just taught her! It was awesome! Another funny is THE SOBER HOUSE! Sister Franks and I a couple of weeks ago met all these guys and we felt like we need to go back to talk with them. Sister McElhaney and I this week did and it was SO much fun! We met a couple of new guys and they are so prepared for the gospel. We sat on the porch and we talking with them. Barry, the guy in charge, gets a call from someone and they got a complaint saying there were a bunch of women on the porch. Barry just laughed and it's like it's two missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint. The guy on the other end just laughed and was like they are good to stay 😂😂😂 Also Barry totally used the full name bc he read a while article about it and super respected it. All of them are really cool, but we just have a hard time setting up time to meet with them. Which leads us to today. Crap happened and we have been running around like chickens with our heads cut off, BUT miracles have happened today! We ran into one of our sober house friends at Walmart and totally set up a time to meet with him and all the friends! God is good my friends! 

 

Keeping doing what you are supposed to and God will bless ya!

 

Love,

 

Sister Barrow 

 

PS if someone could yell at Claire Burtenshaw for me and ask her why she didn't tell me she was in Ohio that would be great. 

Week #65 - Transfer 9 3/4

Having Ginny out with ut

We made bomb tacos #thanksgrammy

The field family who is the BEST

Ed and his squirrel

Sister Franks kissing Jesus

I could have been killed

This is from zone conference last week, enjoy

The coolest district in the OCM

Sister Hathaway

Sister Hathaway #deviceaudits

Free icecream!!!!

 

 

Hello!

 

Okay, I don't want to email and I have tried to write this like 5 time.... This week has been a blur. We had exchanges with New Castle Sisters, it straight up down pour on us, ate a giant bag of chocolate raisin in 2 day, almost died ringing a door bell, had dinner with Sister Ketterman and Sister Saunders, and a ceiling fell on one of our people.

 

 

Start off with exchanges! What a party! Sister Hathaway is SO cute! MAN she is one stellar missionary! Mom you should  text Sister Hathaway's mom and tell her that her daughter is top notch. Thanks 😘 Anyways, it was really fun and Sister Hathaway is the best!

 

Okay, funny story! We were eating dinner with the Headrick family and they told us to go stop by this family. We were like cool will do! We were gonna go a different day then our appointment cancelled, so we decided to check them out. It of course was out in the boonies and it was pitch black as it is dark here at like 5. Which is SUPER lame! We go and ring the door bell and there is a GIANG SPIDER on the door bell. I wasn’t gonna touch it! We knock on the door instead! A lady yells out the window and asked who it was and we said the missionaries. She comes down laughing and opens the door. We get in and she was like sorry I had to put my gun away 😂😂😂 I also got killed by the spider and then by a member. She was super cool and we had a good lesson with her. Also random side note, but she has THE FATTEST CAT!!! 

 

One last story then I am done. One of our people, Leetta. She is a funny one! We have been teaching her daughter for a little bit, but this week we got to meet her. We walk into their house and their wasn't a ceiling.... She tells us about how she was sitting on her couch and the ceiling just fell on her! She got some nails stuck in her arm, but luckily nothing really else. She told us about how she knows God was protecting her and her family. Man being a missionary is the best. She also told us she wants us to help her get baptized! We are like great since that is exactly what we do 😂

 

Being a missionary is the best! 

 

Love, 

 

Sister Barrow  

 

Week #64 - My Street name is Sister Barrow 😂😂😂

Found my tag

Exchanges with Alliance Sisters

My sea food pizza - it was pretty good

Man I love OHIO

The FROSTING

Riding Bikes in the Rain

The cutest Sister Missionaries around

Sister Heaton

Sister Wadley

 

 

ELLO! - name that movie 

 

Okay, I really don't want to email today. So much has happened this week and I don't even know where to start. We had Zone conference, there was a spider in the font, we apparently have street names, all my friends are dying, we biked in the rain, found a mouse in our apartment, we had the best frosting, Anitta got the BEST blessing, and there was a tornado.

 

 So to start off we had Zone conference! It was going to be at the Youngstown building, but they didn't have any water to their building...... We couldn't go there obviously, so we ended up in our tiny Chapel in Warren. We also had another Zone with us... It was a blessing though cuz it was Kirtland Zone!!! It happened to be the zone with all my friends. I got to see THE Sister Wadley, Sister Heaton, and all the other Sisters! Zone conference was a blast and I learned so much. We talked about a belief window which is SO cool! I can't really explain it over email, but y'all should look it up. It is a talk by Hyrum Smith call Belief window! Go read it!

 

We also biked in the rain this week. We could have done it on a nice and sunny day, but we decided to do it when it was pouring rain... It was so much fun though! We rode through so many puddles and my inner child came out! We also met a really drunk lady who told sister Franks she was pretty and that I was just alright😂😂😂😂 it was a really great day!

 

Okay, we have the best members! A couple of days ago  Franks and I really wanted frosting. We were talking to a member about it and we show up to their house use the bathroom like two days later and they had frosting for us!!! We were like we are totally going to eat this when we get home, but then we had spoons in the car!! Sorry we definitely ate all of frosting why we were in our car! 😂

 

Also I lost my name tag running to our car, so we could get back to our apartment in time. You guys I am SO out of shape! 😂 I totally lost my tag though and I was super bummed about it. Sister Franks is a real pal and we went back like a day later to look. We were looking and nothing. We look through a lawn we cut through and I FOUND my rag in the middle of the grass! #blessup

 

One last thing and then I am done bc I hate emailing. #sorrymom Anitta who is one of our people and is the most converted person to the gospel! Was supposed to get baptized this last Saturday, but family crap went down.... LAME! Last Wednesday night we went over with Brother Long (his wife gave us the frosting and they are THE BEST). He gave her a blessing and it was one of the most spiritual moments on my mission!!!! She is going to be baptized on day and oh man God loves her SO much! 

 

Life is AWESOME here in Ohio and miracles are happening every day! I love being a missionary!

 

Love, 

 

Sister Barrow