E-Mail #34

E-Mail #34

January 30th, 2012

Hello from Missouri!!!

 

 

Hey everyone, i hope you all had a great last week of January. I know i did, we still haven't gotten SNOW!!!! OH YEA!!!! how about that for a Missouri winter?! I know, amazing right?!?! Well technically we got a little snow, but it was gone by the next day, so it didn't count as a Missouri snow storm. But i guess we will start my update for the week, i got lots to tell you! Last Monday after emailing and shopping we went with the member we live with to go to Jamesport, which is the local Amish community that is less than a half hour away. We went and looked around. we went to their grocery store and bought some stuff, i bought some home made jam, it was yummy, and we went to their furniture store, oh man....they make amazing furniture!!! So that was way cool. I loved seeing the Amish on their buggies, and in their cute clothes. Because lots of members here know Amish people i asked our member if there was a way i could get a Amish dress made, and i would pay them. She said she would ask the people she knows if they would do it. I am so excited to own and authentic Amish dress! it will be way cool! Tuesday was fun, during the day much didn't happen, but we had an amazing night. That evening we went to AOA.....(adam-ohndi-ahman) The missionaries had signed up to feed us out there. So we went out there, well we went early so we could look around AOA before dinner. We went out to tower hill, and took lots of cool pictures. It was amazing to be on AOA....AMAZING....you can literally feel that you are on sacred ground when you are there. I am so excited to go back and to really take it in. We rushed off to dinner after looking around. Elder and Sister Christensen of the 70 came to dinner, they watch over the AOA missionaries and come to dinner every other month, and have dinner with them, and then give a talk basically. So we got to meet them, and listen to the wonderful things they had to say. We were looking at the map of AOA and showed the missionaries where we went before dinner, and asked them if they knew where preachers rock was.....well it turns out we were at where preachers rock is.....but we didn't know it was just down the hill....so we were like 100 feet away from preachers rock and had NO IDEA!! I was totally bummed! but it was still cool. It was just cool all around to be on AOA. Wednesday we had to drive out the Cameron Missouri to go to our district meeting, which is an hour drive away. We get there and realize, well confirm the fact that we are the only sisters in the district. So there are 6 elders and 2 sisters.....we are super out numbered. 2 of the elders are greenies, they are super funny. i like greenies, they are hysterical. Wednesday was awesome also, because after district meeting when we got back to Chillicothe we went to work, and we found 3 new investigators that day. We were so excited to meet these people and are excited to continue to teach them and see what happens. Thursday was possibly the best day ever as far as commercial stuff goes.....so i have a story for YOU! Well....our dinner appointment was out in the middle of no-where. So we head to dinner and realize we are going to be earlier than expected, well in Missouri they have these big round hay bells, that like weigh a ton i believe. Sister Larson said how her previous companion had a picture on top of one and how she wanted one, so we pulled over, and went to these hay bells to get a picture. Well they are basically taller than you, so i had to help her up there, i let her use my hands as a step to climb up, so she gets up, gets her picture, good stuff. Well.....then its my turn! which is where things just start going wrong. First off, i was freaking out because i had no idea how i was going to get up on top of this hug hay bell. But sister Larson did the same thing and used her hands as a step up. The first time i freaked out so i didn't climb up, but we tried again. We were climbing up between this row of hay bells, so there was one on each side of me. Sister Larson pushes me up on top of them, and I'm straddling between the two hay bells, one knee and one and one on the other. I started screaming because i was stuck and didn't know how to get on top of the one so i could get a picture. She was laughing SUPER HARD, as I'm stuck there and laughing super hard. Finally she pushed me and helped me get on the hay bell. We got a picture and it was all good. So we get in the car....and this is where it gets good. She tells me how she hit her face on the hay when she pushed me up on the hay bell, and how it hurt. She kept touching her face for like a few minutes and i was like uhhhhhahahaha, i started laughing even harder, i had no idea a school bus drove by, because i wasn't facing the road......oh man, we were laughing pretty hard. We got to the members home, told them the story and asked if they had any itch cream for sister Larson's face from breaking out because of the hay. It was pretty much the best day ever since being out here, comedy wise. Friday wasn't nearly as funny, but we went to one of our members home for dinner Friday, and they are SO FUNNY!!! we were laughing the whole time. The father of the family is going to school for theater and stuff like that, so he basically is an actor anyways which just made it even funnier, and they were telling stories of their dating life, which was even better. We were pretty much laughing the whole night. Saturday things got interesting though. We went to an appointment with one of our investigators, and while we were there, she had to go outside to handle some stuff with her aunt, and she left for a minute and all the sudden her boyfriend comes in and he is bleeding from the neck!!! We were like, what the....what happened, he grabbed he phone and was like, i have to go to the hospital and left. Well so the lesson was over at the point. We called him later and made sure he was okay, and he was. So that was good. Sunday comes and he is the only one that comes to church for our investigators, the guy who stabbed himself in the face the day before comes to church, even in pain. So we found out what happened after church. He works at a frozen meat packing place, and they move these hugs things of meat, and you use two knifes to move it around, well he was working away, and one of the side of the meat slid off his knife, so the weight of it sliding off made the knife come up and jab him in the neck. he said to his co-workers, oh man, i think i got myself, because he didn't feel any pain yet, and he was like bleeding all over, they all were like, OH MAN....and like got him stuff to hold pressure on his neck until he got to the hospital. So he got stitches and all is well. But i couldn't believe he came to church, he is amazing! Last night we had dinner with our family that we live with, their son was in town with his kids and came to have dinner with them. It was so fun. During dinner i was sitting next to his daughter, and she told me how she had pins in her elbow because she broke it, i was like NO WAY, and showed her the scars on my arm, from breaking my arm, she thought that was pretty cool, then she was talking about how she is saving up money and she has 50 dollars, and she is saving to buy an American girl doll, i was like NO WAY...i love American girl dolls, and we talked about our favorite ones, and all that good stuff. I told her how we are twins and we just kept laughing, she was so cute. Then she saw my tow-mater pillow on my bed and told me how she LOVES mater too!!! So i found myself a 8 year old twin! She is way cute, she gave me like 4 hugs before she left and kept saying goodbye twin! It was so fun. But that basically ended my week. So it was good. I am excited for another fun filled week. We will see what crazy stuff happens now!

Love you all!!

Sister Barnum

 

 

PS feel free to write me.....solo diego!

 

 

PSS.....KRISTEN LYNN COX.....YOU STILL HAVE NOT WRITTEN ME!!!!!! STOP PLANNING A WEDDING AND WRITE ME!!!!!!