Thursday, June 7, 2018

Week #48 - The B-Day Celebration


George and Me at my B-Day Bash
The Eggs
Little Girl Doing My Hair......

The ELDERS.....
The District


Exchanges
with Sister Page
Hola mi amigos!

Belem is teaching me some Spanish! When we go over and read sometimes Sister Golden and I will try to read in Spanish with them. The key word is try. Sister Golden does pretty well, but I am definitely Blanco. Hahahahaha Belem is really cool! She just started radiation and chemo again this week. Luckily, she hasn't been too sick. She is awesome! She actually teaching her friend who is a JW and is reading The Book of Mormon with her! Belem is amazing!

Also I am writing this while I am eating fresh eggs. Well, now they are gone. They were good #theblessingoffarmcountry We have a less active family that we stopped by the other day and they gave us both a dozen eggs from their chickens. It was awesome!

As for the rest of the week it has been pretty good. Nothing too crazy. We had exchanges! I got to go with the fabulous Sister Page! She actually went to high school with Sister Wadley, so I got some quality blackmail pics of Sister Wadley. Just kidding, but it was a really fun exchange. Sister Page is a great missionary! At one point on the exchange we went to go talk to this guy and he was standing at the base of the hill and we were asking him about something. Then he just ran up the hill
😂😂😂 we just kept walking. We also ran into an NFL player who is a member. He plays for the Browns and is from Utah and lives there most of the year expect when he has training. He was really cool and had two really cute daughters! It was also good on exchanges because Sister Pages old comp is comps with Sister Wadley and we were talking with this one guy about Kirtland. Telling him he can go up there and get a tour because he is really into history. He was like do you know anyone they give tours up there. Both of were like yes our two good friends give tours and they can give you a tour together. Hahahaha.

The rest of the week was pretty good. We celebrated my birthday early with some members because they are going to be out of town the week of my birthday. Their son Max made me some blue berry cupcakes and they were delicious! I ate like 5 of them! Oh man! It was great!

Miracle of this week is that we set a goal of finding two new investigators this week. We weren't having any success. It was Sunday the last day to get any before the week ended. We were sitting in Relief Society having a good ole time. When our phone buzzes. We got a referral for a gal who wanted a Book of Mormon. We stopped by her house later that day and her husband was home. We taught them the Restoration and picked them both up as new. We saw them early this week too and they have been reading! It was such a blessing! God is good!

I already shared some funniest, but a couple more never hurt anybody. We were contacting at park near our apartment. There is water and stuff around it's great. Well, we were just walking and out of nowhere there was a BEAVER! I didn't even know there were beavers here. Yes, I tried to get a pic, but it ran away so it wasn't quality. Last one is that the Elders stole my phone and took some pics you guys get to enjoy them
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One more funny is that we went over to a part members house and they have a little girl and she is ALWAYS crazy. She was wanted to do my hair, so I let her do it and we could get a lesson in. After a while she wanted her hair done so I was doing it. I just did some simple French braids and as I was doing it her mom was like if you see lice let us know at school it's been going around and she had some in her hair like a couple of days ago..... this is after she had been playing with my hair and brushing it with her brush! Luckily, I didn't see lice and I have yet to see any on me, but I will keep you updated. 

Hope yizn have a good week!

Love,

Sister Barrow


Saturday, June 2, 2018

Week #47- The Death of Toad


 
 
1. Your girl killing in the tennis shoes 
 
 
2 and 3. The ugly feet
 

 
4 and 5. I made some of Joyces potato salad and I have to say it turned out pretty good #wifemeup 😂😂😂😂 jk not read for that 
 

 
6. Taught young womens 
 

 
Hello Everybody!

It has gotten HOT over here in Ohio! It was so hot a toad got scorched to death. I wanted to take a picture, but then we got talking to peeps. We tried to go back the next day and it wasn't there anymore. I was a little sad.... RIP the toad on the side of the road. This has been good though we had a strawberry festival like right down the street from us, so there was a lot of people walking around it was a blessing! The only down side to it was that it blocked Main Street and we live on Main Street.... It was inconvenient to drive around it. Also with the HOT weather means that snow cones places have opened up which means happy Sister Barrow! There is this really cool one in our area that's right by our house! It like Lanis, but they don't have ice cream in the bottom.... It was really good though. We got some and went contacting. IT WAS THE BEST THING!!!!! Mine legit tasted like butterbeer. I was one happy camper! I could die and be happy! I got to eat a snow cone and preach the gospel how could life get better!

One cool experience from this week is that I had to go to the doctor for my dumb foot. I have plantar fasciitis and some other stuff. It's no big deal I am just wearing some awesome tennis from now on
😎 I am a cool kid. Hahahaha. Back to my story. I had to get X-rays and I was talking with the tech and asking her stuff. We got talking and she was saying how she lives in Norwalk. Which is crazy because that's where we live and we were in Lorain for the doc. Lorain is about an hour from us. Anyways, we talked about how both of us ended up in Norwalk and I was able to talk about a mission call and living prophets. It was really cool because it would have been really hard to meet her any other way then her giving me X-rays. She isn't home that often and gets home after our bed time. God works in funny ways!

A couple funnies from this week! We went over to a members for a BBQ on memorial day and it was awesome! It was two families in the ward and us. There were about 7 or 8 kids there. It was a party. Anyways we were all sitting down getting ready to eat and Brother Miles was grill and his son Camden came up to him and asked him for something and Brother Miles was busy, so he told him to go to his mom and he came up to Sister Golden and I
😂😂😂 okay this one isn't a funny, but it is still good. We were walking one morning and this guy in a truck came roaring down the street, mind you it's like 7 in the morning, he is blasting Don't Stop Believin! I was so happy and I started jammin with him! What a blessing it was! One last funny is that we met this guy named John at the library and to say the least he wasn't all mentally there. At one point during our conversation he pulled up the shelve on his shirt and said, " I am strong boy" hahaha. Then he was telling us that he was walking more and eating health so he could get rid of this and pointed to his stomach hahahahaha he was a funny guy. The great people if Ohio always cracking me up!

Hope yinz have a great week!

Love,

Sister Barrow
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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Week #46 - Michigan Detroit Mission???

The Tic                                                                        A quality picture of yours truly
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  1. Hello Everyone!
    I really don't feel like typing an email..... I do love all y'all, but typing things out sucks. This week has been good though! Almost got eaten by a land shark and swallowed up by lava. JK we did learn that the mission is getting spilt up differently then what we thought. Where I am at now will be part of the Detroit mission, so there's that. I also had a tic land on me this week! Oh and we had Elder Snow of the 70 come on Monday. We also helped the Bader’s with Family History.

    Cool story with helping the Bader’s. I haven't really messed around too much with family history especially in the last like 10 months. I only really know the basics and that's thanks to Chayston Woods. Anyways, we were helping them and I was helping Brother Bader. We got stuck at his grandpa. Like we couldn't find anything past him. It was cool though because the Holy Ghost reminded me of something Sister Flannery did in ancestry and it was so cool. Which totally helped and we were able to get to his great grandfather. It was awesome! It just a simple little thing, but God cares about these people and He wants their work done just as much and they do. It was great!

    Funnies:
    • Got a tic on me
    • Sister Golden had a bug down her shirt

    That's all I can think of right now because I don't have my journal with me.

    Hope y'all have a great week!

    Love,

    Sister Barrow
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Week #45 - the tides have turned I am now the spider killer! VICTORY!


1 and 2. Sister Larsen and I doing service and yes I did climb a tree

 

3. Belem! The coolest Mexican lady around!

 

4. The damage from killing the spider

 

5. When you thought it was on a timer but, it wasn't so you don't have a comp in the district pic

 

6. Can't figure out timer so, you just take a selfie 👍



Hello Everybody!

This has been a busy week! We had exchanges, zone conference, and we got to talk to our fams! What a blessed week this has been.

Exchanges were awesome! I went with Sister Larsen and she is a fantastic unicorn! She has such a strong testimony of Christ and His Atonement and how because of Him we can make it through a the junk that is in our lives! With her we did a lot of service. We cut down some trees and that was a party! Oh funny story with her real quick is that we were walking in a park talkin to our brothers and sisters and this guy was running we waved at him. Then realized he was wear a PARK CITY shirt! Sister Larsen and I said something about his shirt and he stopped running and started talking to us. He was like speed walking bc he was just running. We are like speed walking with this guy and teaching the Restoration of the gospel. Hahahaha I was slightly out of breath once we finished, but it was a good time.

We also had Zone Conference and that was a party! Got to see some of friends! Sister Maples, Sister Stratford, Sister Gravin, Sister Larsen, Sister Heaton, Sister Page, and Sister Wadley. Oh and President and Sister Brown, so it was a top notch party. Zone Conference was good! I learned a lot the spirit was super strong! President Brown talked about how he has been picking our new missions for us and it was so sad. Him and Sister Brown said, " It's like picking new parents for your kids." I love President and Sister Brown! I am sad that this is there last transfer. I know that I will end up in the right mission and that they will have fun being back home. They are amazing people and I love them!

This week we also got to call our fams! What a blessing that was! I got to see Forrest ginger beard and his long locks. Got to talk to Keats on her bday and now she is an adult - barf sauce! Got to see Kenz and Carson. Talk about mission stuff with Carson and work with Kenz. I also got to see all of the doggos! What a blessing! Then of course I got to talk to my wonderful parents. My dad wiggled his finger for me and my mom gave me a tour of the house. I even got to see outside! It was a such a blessing! My family is really awesome! I love them!

Okay now onto some funnies. So with the warmer weather here means bugs have started to come out and play. However, I do not like bugs and I really don't like spiders.... right now though we have a giant web sitting just outside our door. We both just duck around it. Hahahahaha. Sister Golden took a snow shovel to it the other day, but the spiders just rebuilt. Hahahaha. I believe that one of those spiders came into our house. Sister Golden went to go up stairs to grab something and screamed and stop at the step and yelled that there was a spider. I went and checked it out and it was a big guy! It was sitting in a place that you couldn't kill it on the steps, so we decide to gas it out. Our choice weapon was air fresher. We sprayed him, but he was a fighter and I screamed a lot. We got him to the surface and then I stepped on him and killed him. We both don't want to pick him up though hahahaha. He is still just sitting on the steps with a paper towel over him and the air fresher next to him. Hahahahaha. Another funny is that we had like 15 minutes before we had to head home for the night on Saturday and we needed to get gas, so we were going to get gas and we wanted to talk with a lot of people while we were there and there is this gas station that is always busy. We were like let's go there, so we can talk with all the peeps. We get there and it is a full service gas station....so we didn't even get out of our car hahahahaha. There went that plan. It was good though we talked with the guy that filled our car and gave him a pass along card and invited him to go check
mormon.org out.

It's been a quality week! Hope y'all have a great week!

Love,

Sister Barrow 

Monday, May 14, 2018

Week #44 - Sorry I Want to Play Games


1. The plates on the U haul - Utah where we are working together 

2. A cute little girl braiding my hair - What a blessing!

3. A bug that I KILLED!

4.  Milan a quality place to be and Edison is pretty cool  

5. Our wall of General Authorities

 
 
Hello Everyone!

It's zone activity so.... I want to go play volleyball and not email so, this email is going to be junk. I am doing good! Sandusky is top notch! Sister Golden is quality. Life is solid and God is good!

Cool thing from this is our investigator Rob came to church! Everyone in the ward came and helped him out it was awesome! That was defs the highlight of my week.

Sorry I can't think of any funnies this week. We did help like 50 people move it felt like. Well, really just like 2. One lady, Sister Carroll, she is moving back to Kentucky and she has the coolest accent ever!

Well, I hope you have a great week! Party hard my friends!

Love,

Sister Barrow 

 

 

 





 

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Week #43 - Ronald McDonald


The cat in our car and it ate some of the cookies      Playing at a park

Good ole service 
 A cute little place by our apartment that I want to take all my friends to. Hailey Barker defs has  

The Flowers we got for May Day
In a field with another cat                                                                The Ronald head 
 Hello Friends!

This week has been quality! We had exchanges, talked to a hippie man, got flowers, it was 80 degrees out, ate ice cream, msf refilled, and so much more that I can't remember.

Exchanges were a party! I got to go with Sister Gravin, who was my STL back in when I was in Alliance. It was great to be back with her! She is such a solid missionary! She also love Pooh bear so you know we are like BFFS! Like we should go to Claires and buy necklace. On exchanges we were able to pick up an old investigators and we are going to get the old Elders that taught her in on lessons. Technology is amazing man!

Funnies! We were contacting down main st in good ole Norwalk and we saw this lady with flowers and we are like we want some. She told us to go into this shop to get some. We walk in to this cute like store and this guy comes up with the coolest glasses I have seen and gave us some flowers. It was great, but then we still had like a bit of time. We just contacted with flowers on our way, there was this abandoned flower shop with a ton of cats in it. We asked a random person what it was about and they just were like oh it's been that way for years. Hahahahaha. Another time while we were contacting down main st on the other side we were walking down and randomly Sister Golden jumped and screamed a little. It was because of this creepy Ronald McDonald head in a shop. Hahahahaha the head is creepy! Oh one more! We had a cat get in our car. We were at a members house and we were about to leave, but then we forgot something. We accidentally left the car door open and one of their cats got in the car. I went to go back up and I just hear meowing. Hahahaha don't worry we got the cat out!

That's it for this week bc am gonna go play basketball
🤗

Love,

Sister Barrow 
 
Enjoy 😃

Thursday, April 26, 2018

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