E-Mail #30

E-Mail #30

January 2nd, 2012

Hello everyone!

I hope you all had a happy new year, and all were safe.....WELCOME TO 2012!!!!!!

I made a list of things to tell you all about from this week, so I'm going to fly right through that and tell you lots of good stories. I hope you ENJOY!!!

Well on Tuesday i went on exchanges to Manhattan, that was fun, i was with sister kavea, she is from AUSTRALIA!! She is super cool. Because so many people were gone for winter break at k-state we did LOTS of tracting. The first place that we went tracting, well we prayed of course to seek where we needed to go, we found a apartment complex and went to the top. I don't know what it is with the top floors, but you always start at the top and work your way down! But the first door we knocked on, no one was there, we knocked again, no answer, just as we were going to leave someone came up the stairs. It was a young Chinese girl. We asked her if we could talk to her about Jesus, and she said she didn't know much about Jesus. We of course told her that's okay, because we are here to teach people about Jesus. so she let us in. I have never taught someone who didn't have ANY christian basic knowledge, so it was a way cool experience. We ended up teaching her the plan of salvation. It went so well and the spirit was so strong. I'm excited to hear from the sisters how her appointment last Friday went. It was a miracle....i love doing the Lords WORK!!! So amongst the tracting, its not always miracles. We went to a apartment complex and if the person WAS home.....they REJECTED US!!! BAD!!! haha, the entire apartment complex....we were laughing pretty hard at our fail. Then we went to a house that was next to the apartment complex and the lady came out, and then saw my badge and was like NO...NO!!! i don't think so!! and closed the door....hahaha. Gotta love it! But also another great story with tracting, we were at ANOTHER apartment complex, and knocking doors, doing our thing. Well we knock on one door. and just picture it with me here. The door opens slowly, but there is no one standing in front of the door, so you cant see anyone opening it, and then the tv in the background does one of those scary movies...DA DA DA!!! noise....then the guy comes out from behind the door!! HAHAHAH!!! i started laughing SO HARD!!!! it freaked us out soooo bad!! i felt like we were about the be killed. The guy was super annoyed that we started laughing and was most def. not interested in hearing about Jesus. but even at that, it was a GREAT experience!! HAHAH!! Good times! the next morning we went and did service at the zoo, which is always fun. So some other good stories from the week of people we are working with. There is a less-active family that are working on getting back active and getting to the temple before he deploys and we went to visit them and found out her husband had not smoked for 11 days!!! we were so excited for them. Then we talked about the temple and all sorts of good stuff, they were all teary-eyed. the spirit was great, i cant wait for them to be in the temple and be a eternal family! Another adventure of the week, we went out to the famous Sister Hildabrand's farm. She is actually famous, hildabrand milk is the best stuff out here! She made us lunch and then gave us a personal tour of the farm and the way they take care of the milk, and bottle it, and we saw the cows, and the BABY COWS!!! It was great!!! We also went to on of our members daughters birthday party this week. We went over early and sister fie'eiki did her hair, and her moms hair while i did some paperwork stuff that we've been putting off for so long. The party was a Hannah montanna party, and just in case you didn't know SISTER FIE'EIKI LOVES HANNAH MONTANNA!!! haha, so it was fun. we got to see some other members and some non-members. We also got to see the GREAT Shaniqua again this week. We went to lunch with her and her mom, and had a really great conversation. She is learning so much about the gospel it is great, and she always gets right down to business and asks us her questions. I love that girl! After lunch we went to go decorate the door of someone who had their baby. The guy and girl that had their baby, he was our baptism over thanksgiving, and they had the baby! So we go over there, well OF COURSE family is in town seeing the baby, blah blah blah. Well we go to put the sign on the door and the door handle moved to be opened, so we RAN, and then we went around back of the apartment to go the other way to the door and 2 more times people came out, so we juts kept hiding. WELL THEN....we heard the dogs come out....and the new daddy talking to the dogs, and we knew he was coming our way, so we just FROZE.....it was hysterical, he was like, 'hey, what you doing?' we just yelled at him and told him to act like he didn't see us. hahaCHAR's husband came home this week, on the 29th, and we had dinner with them on the 29th. We didn't talk much about if he wanted to learn about the church, but char mentioned to him a few times that he was going to start the discussions soon, so we will see what happens. and he came to church yesterday, we didn't get a chance to find out what he thought, but we will be seeing them tonight! so we are way excited! and i also skipped what we did new years eve. We went to the potter family home, and the savin family was there and the whetten family was there and we ate lots of good Mexican food!!! it was a blast! THEN we went to the troncoso home, and the morgan family was there and the capron family was there, and the Hall family was there. so that was a blast, but i must admit we were the best dressed at the party. On our way from the potter's to the troncoso's we decided to go to our apartment and dress up all crazy. I will attach a picture, rather than try and explain the AWESOME-NESS THAT OCCURRED THAT EVENING!!!!

Well i think i managed to get through everything i wanted to share. This week is going to go by fast, we are heading out to great bend tomorrow after district meeting and will be out there for about a day. Then we will be back! Hopefully teaching people again now that the holidays are over!

I hope you all have a great week!

ROCK ON!!! 2012!!!!

Sister Barnum

oh and i forgot to mention my new years resolution....I'm going on a mission......TASK ACCOMPLISHED!!!

hee hee.

LOVE YOU!