WHOA

Well what a crazy start to the field.

Tuesday: our bus was supposed to leave at 3:30 and we were planning on waking up at 2:30 to finish up some stuff. All night I was like I wish we had a second alarm and I asked my comp is the alarm set and he kept saying yes so we all went to bed. I wake up in the middle of the night look at the clock and wasn’t sure what it said I looked like 3 so I got up and looked for reals and it was 3:22 ahahha I was like elders we got to go ahahh we threw everything on and got our stuff and ran as fast as we could to the travel office we made it on time. Hahahah. The lord has a sense of humor doesn’t he? Well we made it to the airport and got on our plane. I slept the whole time so that was nice. We got to Atlanta and met up with the other missionaries from the Mexico mtc. We had me and 2 other elders, and had 4 sisters. We finally got to okc and it was sooo flat humid and rainy. We met the mission pres and he is sooo cool, funny and a giant. We then went to the church got our bikes had dinner and pres talked to us about stuff. I instantly got home sick was like what did I get myself into hahah. We slept at pres's house and he has a really nice house. We woke up early and went to the church for a little more info and stuff and to get out comps. I met my comp his name is elder Barry. He is from Vegas but was born in New Zealand. He is a cool guy but kinda strange im learning to love him. We went back to the apartment which is in ghetto part of town. I’m in the city and its kinda ghetto. My apartment smells like cigs ahahh. We then had dinner and stuff with members. I don’t remember much. It rained all day and was hard. Tons of churches here ahahha.

Wednesday-Monday: I honestly don’t remember anything so I’ll tell all the stuff I do remember. We get fed every night by members and that is just the greatest they make some amazing food and I love it all. They are all so kind and funny. I met cecilio this guy who is waiting for divorce papers to get baptized. We talk to people on the streets and stuff and they talk sooooo much they never stop talking ahahh. We went to visit this lady who had started taking the lesson in Mexico but then her sons got murdered so she stopped. We taught the restoration and that was awesome. We have sports Monday Wednesday and Friday Saturday mornings so we wake up early and play sports with the other missionaries. It is way fun and stuff. Church on Sunday was just awesome we had some less actives come out and that was awesome. The bishopric is just awesome and stuff we have the greatest members that do so much for us. I’m in okc south branch we have a big area and it’s all Spanish so everything we do is in Spanish ahhaha. It’s hard for me because I don’t know much Spanish so I just bare my testimony and say stuff I know how to say ahhaha. we were riding bikes yesterday and started talking to this guy then all of a sudden these two people started freaking out at each other and started swearing ahha we gave the guy a book of Mormon and left. We went to a less actives house but they weren’t home so we talked to their neighbor who was way nice. He saw and said you are Mormons. My sister and mom are Mormon. He started talking and saying how he has so much respect for us. He told us about his son had just got murdered and how god won’t put us through anything we can’t handle. God knew this man could handle it and he was strong even though that’s sad the man was awesome. We referred him to the English sisters in that area. We helped at youth conference on Friday so that was fun. There was a lot of youth who came out. It was at an English ward so only a couple of the Spanish youth came they all speak English and Spanish. There are these huge water canal things all over the place for storm and stuff and there is a church on every corner and tons of birds ahhaha. The members here are so good and help so much. there is junior who is convert that drives us to sports every day we have it and then there is Raymundo who served here a year ago and comes to dinner with us and takes us places but he is moving so that’s sad.

love elder barrett