Sister Barrow Week # 27 - Peace Out Alliance 1-9-2018

 

 

Hello Peeps!

 A lot has happened this past week! First off Sister Lloyd is training again, and I am leaving Alliance. However, I am not going very far! I am actually staying in the Youngstown zone! I am going to Youngstown Area! What a blessing! I will have a part of and live in Pennsylvania so that is great! I am excited and the fact that I will be able to see Sister Lloyd on Sunday for stake conference is a bonus. God is good! The rest of the week was good! Nijah came to church and we picked her up as an investigator again so that is a blessing!

This is kind of a weird story and sad. We went to go visit Sister Flannery and no one answered which was super weird because she is an 80 year old lady who can't drive and like never goes out. Well, we tried stopping by on Saturday, so I could go say by to her and still no answer. Right then Sister Saxey texted us and told us that Sister Flannery had passed away. Tears a flowing in the car but, we had places to be. We got ourselves together and headed to our appointment with Nijah. We ended up talking about the plan of salvation and she opened up to us about her grandpa passing away and how it is still hard on her. We were able to share how we just found out about Sister Flannery and that how we find comfort in the plan of salvation and that we know exactly where Sister Flannery is and that she is with her husband and friends. As we continued to talk about the plan she just said it makes senses. It was just really good. God works in weird way and I am sad about Sister Flannery passing but, God using her passing to help His work. Which is what she would have wanted. 

Now to make this a little more upbeat again and tell you some funnies. Last week when we were setting up an appointment with Nijah she told us that she would make us lunch and I told her that I can't have wheat and that she didn't need to. She wanted to. Well, we show up and she has pasta for us........ I couldn't have it so, I was just going to say that I don't want any but, she brought me like this huge bowl. Me being my super awkward self didn't know what to do. At first, I just set it on the table and talked but, then it felt like she was staring at me like why aren't you eating this food I made for you. hahahaha so, I just started eating the meat out of it and it worked out. hahaha. 

That's all for this week! Hope you all have a great week!

Love ya, 

Sister Barrow

Sister Barrow Week #26 - Frozen Hair Don't Care 1-4-2018

 slept by the Christmas tree

 New PJs

 Apartment

 Meg in front of apartment

 Sunset

Shoveling snow can be a bit cold!!!!

 

Hello Everyone!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and a good New Year! Both of mine were great! Christmas was great talking to my fam! New Years was a party.... JK we went to bed at 10:30 hahaha. The next day though we played games with the Saxey's (Bishop’s family) so it was truly a party. Honestly the rest of the past like 2 weeks have been a blurry but, still a good time. 

Something cool thing that I read just like 2 days ago was in Doctrine and Covenants section 5. It was written back when Joseph Smith was still translating the plates and he had already lost some of the manuscript. In verse 21 it reads, "And now I command you, my servant Joseph, to repent and walk more uprightly before me, and to yield to the persuasions of men no more;" Which I think is interesting first off it just shows how even a prophet of God needs to use Christ Atonement. Which proves that even though this is Christ church the people in it aren't perfect. Heck even the prophet isn't perfect. 

I got to go here in like two minutes but, some quick funnies first.  We were shoveling driveways yesterday and every single one of them told us we were crazy first, but still let us do it. hahahah. They told us it was too cold. We did it anyways... well, they were probably right about it being too cold because my hair froze!!!! My breath froze my hair. hahahaha. It was a good time though and after each driveway we did they gave us hot coco so we are solid. I got to go, but hope y'all have a great week!

Love all y'all,

Sister Barrow

 

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 

Sister Barrow Week #21 - #lighttheworld

 

 

Hola!

Hope everyone has had a great week! Out here it has been a party! I don't really know what to say about this week. I honestly can’t remember what even happened this week. It has been a total blur with transfers being this week. Speaking of transfers, we learned that Sister Lloyd and I will be staying in Alliance for another transfer! Woot Woot! The party will continue. I am excited to stay here and be here through Christmas! Oh, and speaking of Christmas. Have all of you guys heard about #Lighttheworld? Oh man! It is SO good! It is just really how we can be Christ hands this Christmas season. I would encourage each of you to go look at mormon.org and learn more about it. 

I wanted to share with you guys something from my studies this week. I was reading Ether 12. Which is such a quality chapter! In the first part it talks a lot about faith and I really like verse 12. Which says. "For if there be no faith among the children of me God can do no miracle among them; wherefore, he showed not himself until after their faith." When I read that I thought of Polar Express. Keep with me it is great! When the main kid is standing the town - square looking at the bells and he still can't hear them. It isn't until he acts and says that he believes in Santa that he is finally able to hear the bell. Then he was able to see Santa and was given the first gift of Christmas. That is the same with us and God. God doesn't just doesn't give us things and just like the scripture says he doesn't show us himself until after are faith. We need to hear the bells then we can see how God is working in our lives. I hope that makes sense.

Now onto what people actually read, the funnies. I have learned, or semi learned how to embroider over the past couple of weeks. These two old ladies Sister Hughes and Sister Tharp gave us pillowcases a couple of weeks ago and we have been working on them. We thought it would be a good idea if we took it over and they helped us with it. Well, they were super excited about it! They taught me how to do this back stitch then and something else. hahaha so, I am basically a sewing expert now. ;) After they showed us this Christmas house! It is Christmas to the MAX! I would even go as far as comparing it to temple square. It is that great! 

Well, that is all for this week! 

Love ya,

Sister Barrow

Sister Barrow Week #20 - Kyle

 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 

 
Hope you all are having as great of a Thanksgiving that I am. We have some amazing members here that let us email on the computers and give us some great food! Karen our recent convert even made me some gluten free stuffing. Geez, It has been a great day! Sister Lloyd and I also decorated for Christmas today so, it has been a solid day so far. 

Something from my reading this week that I liked is Romans 8:26 and 27. It talks about how during prayers that God understands us and He helps us during the pray to ask for things so, He can bless us and help us. It actually reminded me of Sister Marriott talk from this past conference and how she was praying and He told her to love her. It is a great talk I would highly suggest reading it. :)

Now onto things that happened this week. It has been a crazy week! We have had so much fun this week. Funny thing happened this week. We were out walking around because it was actually warm so, we figure we would walk to things. That and it is a great time to contact people. We were walking, This, guy was sitting outside smoking, I was like we should talk to him but, how? Well, I just said the first thing that popped in my head. I told him that he would be warmer if he didn't smoke and he just laughed and said your right. hahaha. We got talking with him and ended up giving him a Book of Mormon. hahaha. Oh, and then moments before this I fell into a hole. Well, I like created a hole. We were walking along and for some reason in Ohio there are like no sidewalks. We were walking on the grass when I just fall through. hahaha I like almost fell on my face. 

Well, that was basically my week. Hope y'all have a great week!

Love ya! 

Sister Barrow