Another Week

I figured I would start off with cool facts about okc.

-everyone is always mowing there lawn.

-they have squirrels the size of dogs.

-the weather is really a.d.d

-everyone belongs to a church.

-everyone owns at least 6 dogs

-everyone has stuff in there yard.

I ripped my pants last week on the first day so that was really disappointing but other than that my clothes have been great.

Monday- we had a great p-day we play sports with missionaries from all over so that is always way. Fun it was super hot so we played basketball inside. I had braums for the first time which was really good. We then went and got ready for the day and went to give this girl a blessing who takes care of all these little kids and they are sick and stuff and there mom doesn’t help much but she was way nice and kind. We then went to dinner at a less-actives house and she made homemade tortillas that were amazing. We then taught cecilio who is about to get baptized once his divorce papers come.

Tuesday- we have a lady in the branch who has us over every Tuesday for language study so we went and did that with here she was way cool and nice and I learned a lot. She will get mad if you say something wrong so she helps me a lot. During the lesson her dog came over to us and she grabbed it and threw it ashahhahahah. We then taught a lesson with the sisters and that was a good lesson. We got a sweet tour of our area because we got lost but then we found where we were going. We then had dinner at the church and then went to this lady Rosa who has language study with us also she is way cool. She lives with another member name Miguel who is just a little fire cracker ahah the guy is super short and funny, he read with us. 

Wednesday-every Wednesday we go and do service at the food bank. We help people bag there groceries, it’s not much but I love it. We get to talk to people and hear their stories it’s awesome. After service we had a member come out to a lesson with us. We went and taught Maria who is so strong she almost got baptized in Mexico but her two kids got murdered. She knows so much and the lesson was awesome, having the member there was great. The member that came out with us is super funny and I love the guy. We went to the church for dinner and every Wednesday everyone comes to the church for sports so that is an awesome way to get everyone out and invite investigators. We then taught cecilio and he said if he doesn’t get the divorce papers by July 2 he is going to move out so he can get baptized!!!!!! Such a big leap of faith. we got home and some lady came up to us and started talking about weird stuff and the bible and the beast and then said "666 I love you guys bye" so strange ahah.

Thursday-oh Thursday are sooo long and stuff we are inside like all day planning and stuff and its soo hard sometimes. But today we finished planning and were leaving the apartment and knocked on our neighbor’s door who used to be an investigator but dropped the elders. But we knocked his door and he was home and told us to come in so we gave him a lesson. He knows so much but forgets a lot of stuff because he broke his back. He was almost baptized but then dropped the elders. The lesson went amazing he said he would fast and pray to know the truth. we then went to knock on one of our investigators doors and started talking to these ladies one of them said we could come back to that was awesome. We had dinner with Rosa who made amazing tamales and tres leches. We went to talk to one of the less active families and their kids are my fav. We talked to the mom outside for a little and then she had to go somewhere so we went and tried another investigator but he was busy but that’s ok.

Friday- we have morning sports at 6 every Friday so we had bball today that was fun as always. We had district meeting which was good. We had an amazing lesson on repentance. We then did some lds.org stuff. We had dinner at hrma queiros house she made fish and I don’t like fish but I ate it anyways, I left some food on my plate and she got mad and said next time I need to bring a plastic back and take the rest home with me ahahahha. We then went and taught cecilio again. I love this man he is super funny. His gf is a member but is less active, she has a son out on a mission. They are my fav and are soo kind and funny. 

Saturday- we had morning sports again and played some soccer with tons of sisters and elders at the local high school. We came home and I was soo tired I made it to lunch and slept for lunch which I do most days. We then went to one of our investigators trailer parks to knock doors. Good thing everyone is always outside so we met tons of people that said we could come back and visit. we met these two guys that were way nice and they said they had to go somewhere so we left then and we were there talking to people for 30 minutes when we headed back to the car some car stopped in the middle of the rode and its was this sketchy car. Some guy gets out and it’s was one of the guys we had talked to and he had gone and gotten us gatorades. We then went and taught one of our investigators Carlos who was awesome he was asking good questions and was way interested in the lesson. We then went and taught a less-active who said he would come to church Sunday so that was just great. we then had a great dinner at the church one of the members was having a baby shower so we got to eat the food ahah and then we got taken to braums for shakes. We went to cecilios and taught him. We came home and these two people we in our parking lot freaking out the guy grabbed the girl’s keys and just threw them super far ahahha.

Sunday- church was great, we did the sacrament. We had tons of less actives at church. We gave a blessing after church to this lady who has a kid who is super funny. We then had dinner at the guerreros and that was great elder Barry put lime juice in his eye ahaha. We then taught cecilio and that was great. 

much love elder Barrett.