E-Mail #31

E-Mail #31

January 9th, 2012 

HELLO ALL!

 

 

Well. I hope everyone has had a great week. I know i have! I pretty much love missionary work, and hope it NEVER ENDS! The amazing flippo family that i have been teaching for about 5 months will be getting baptized on SATURDAY!!! WOOOHOOOO!!!! We started teaching her husband, who we call brother bill. The appointments we have had with him have been SO SPIRITUAL and total tear jerkers. But SOOO GREAT!!! More to come on that later though. This week we went to Great Bend to go on exchanges, but the best part was, on the way to great bend i met my cousins in SALINA!! It was so fun to see them, and to give them all hugs and talk to them for a few minutes. I am thankful they live in Kansas and that i can see them. Being in Great Bend was quite the experience, i wont go into details, but there were some mistakes mad, but thankfully no one got hurt! hahaha. We came back to junction city the next day, and had dinner with a new family in the ward, they are super cute and their kids are hysterical. I love all the little kids in our ward, they are so fun. We also got to go see our recent converts new born baby ray. He is SOO tiny and SOOO cute! I controlled myself and didn't hold him. We took a members daughter who is preparing for her mission on a team up one day, i think she kinda got freaked out, but we are going to keep taking her so she can get comfortable with missionary work. We saw the flippos like 3 times this last week, and we are going to see them everyday this week....lots to do before the baptism! Oh and we went to our new investigators which is an entire Spanish speaking family, we went there without a team up, so we had to have the daughter translate for us, but we just invited them to come to church and got to know them a little better, and the best part is....THEY CAME TO CHURCH!!! We were so excited to see them there, they are such a cute family. We taught one of their daughters in primary, and she goes to school with some of the other members kids, so she felt right at home with them. Friday Friday....oh dear Friday. What an eventful day that was.....for the stomach. We had so much food Friday i thought i was going to die. We ate a big lunch with our member that feeds us every Friday, and then we had 2 dinners....back to back. No time in between. The first dinner i had 2 hamburgers, why....because they made 2 for each of us. Then the next house we had chili....YUMMM!!! i thought i was going to die, i wanted to make myself throw up because i was so full. The food was good though. So that was nice. Yesterday was so fun. We went over to the GREAT. the AMAZING....the FLIPPOS for a bbq and there were 2 other amazing families with us. it was SUCH A BLAST!! We were all laughing and having a good time. They are such fun families to be with, i love them all! We also went to another families house where there was them and another family. So we were with a ton of our members yesterday. It was a blast, they are all so great, and its so fun to talk missionary work with them because they are ALL missionary minded people. I love it! Everyone in the church should be missionary minded, it is GREAT! There was a lot of funny stuff that happened this week, but i for some reason cant think of any of the stories to tell. So sorry that its kinda boring. But on a note to all who reads this, i just want you all to know....i don't like mail, so please stop sending me mail.....its annoying to have stuff in the mail EVERY DAY! oh wait....i haven't had mail for like over 2 weeks. COOL!! Don't worry though, all family has gotten the boot, the only pictures i have up on the wall in our bedroom is a picture of the prophet, and picture of missionaries, and a picture of the FLIPPO's....yep you all got the boot. The flippos are my family now. Speaking of them, and them being my family. This week is their baptism, they are getting baptized on Saturday, and we are SO EXCITED!!! Its going to be the worlds best baptism, Its going to be Char, Sean, and Nathan. Such cute kids! i love them! Its going to be such a great week, i cant wait. Its pretty much going to be a tear filled weekend, because they will get baptized on Saturday, get confirmed on Sunday, and that Sunday we have to speak....which really just share our testimonies, and its sister fie'eiki's last Sunday in the mission........so we will be crying ALL WEEKEND. Speaking of crying, we were crying yesterday, because the BEST thing happened! Sean Flippo, he got up and said his testimony in testimony meeting. he is only 9 and is so great. I started bawling, because when we teach the boys we teach them separate and he is the one i teach, and i worried sometimes that he wasn't understanding what i was teaching him, but after that i felt so excited because i knew he understood and that he really did have a testimony! I love him, and i love them! they are GREAT! Well i hope you all have a great week!

 

 

Love Sister Barnum