E-Mail #35

E-Mail #35

February 7th, 2012

 

 

 

 

Hello Everyone!

 

 

Can you believe February is here already?!?! i have a feeling this year is going to go by wayyy to fast! But at the same time i cant wait to give you all big hugs, cause i miss you all a ton this week. It has been a good week. I've had a few days of i miss my family. But other than that its been really great! This last week we found a few new investigators. Its really great, they are great people and we are excited to help them learn of their heavenly fathers love and to help them come closer to him and feel of the importance and blessings of being a part of his church today. Because we have so few miles and such a big area that we live in, we have had a lot of help from members with driving us places, like to our district meetings. They are such a great and willing help. I hope that as they help us, they will continue to feel motivated to share the gospel and talk with their friends and family that haven't learned about this before. Thursday was super cool, we were at a investigators house that we've been teaching and their friend was there also. So of course he sat in on the lesson, and the spirit was so strong, and he got teary eyed a few times. He is in a really rough situation and had a really bad week, like way bad. And he was praying for help, and then we were at the same place as him. We asked him if he felt like there was a reason we were there. And he said yes, it was for him. So we continued to share with him gods love for him, and how Christ's restored church today can only bless and strengthen him in his already growing faith. It was such a cool night. I love seeing how much our heavenly father loves his children that he will put us in their path, so he can show them that he is aware of them, and he does love them and want to help them. Its one thing i love about being a missionary, i know he truly does care about everyone SO VERY MUCH! i see it everyday. But, with every good experience, comes bad experiences.....right?!!? hahaha. Wellllll.......we went to a home to teach someone, we walk in and there are fruit knats everywhere, like you didn't want to breathe because you didn't want to suck one in.....gross right, well then we go into the living room and there are bugs on the walls, on the couch, on the floor, everywhere. I was FREAKING OUT!!!!!! thankful sister Larson is super good at not being distracted by those things, for myself, i cant say i was doing to well. The entire lesson when i wasn't talking all i kept saying in my head was 'we can pray for miracles, so heavenly father give me a miracle and DO NOT LET A BUG CRAWL ON ME' i am not even kidding, they were EVERYWHERE!!!! all i could think about is those other missionaries that are in 3rd world countries and who experience this daily, and i realized why heavenly father didn't send me to a place like that, because i would NOT be able to keep my composure!! oh my goodness, when we left that house i was freaking out, i was praying that i wouldn't go to change that night for bed and find there was a bug under my skirt or something. Oh man....it was a rough experience!!! But this person that we taught has lots of crazy views on Jesus Christ, which led me to look into some of the crazy things she was saying, which i was way happy about because i learned so much about how Christ is from the line of David, and how that whole thing works. It was way cool to learn that, and spend some time digging in the scriptures for answers. I loved it! I love learning more and more every day! its so great. Saturday was a GLORIOUS DAY.... we got our TRUCK!!!! yep, we finally got the truck!!! and it is SO BEAUTIFUL!! its a brand new 2012 Chevy Colorado, and it is AWESOME!!!! The elders drove it up to us, because of course they wanted a chance to drive it, so they so kindly brought it to us.....haha. But now its OURS TO CLAIM!!! So we got that Saturday night and its just so fun to drive it, we actually got it right in time, because of the rain we got for 2 days, the road out to our house has a little stream that runs through it, but when it rains and fills up, its tough to get through, so we had to use the 4 wheel drive to make sure we made it, which was perfect, and much needed, because our little car wasn't going to cut it! hahaha. Sister Larson is the driver for the truck, for now, she has experience driving trucks, so I'm letter her take control, and plus i don't know how to drive in snow.....not that its snowed....hahasoooo cooool!!! i loved it. I hope i get to serve in one of those places before i leave, just to see what it is like. But it was such a great day. We were gone from 11 in the morning until 6 at night. It was a long day, but they were such troopers and really enjoyed the day. So because of that adventure yesterday, we switched our pday to today. So we are going to get some shopping done, some emailing, and we are getting our hair cut! its so great! I LOVE PDAY!!! Well thats all i have for this week. But i love you all and hope you are having a great week!

 

 

Sister Barnum