Good Times

Well I will be staying in okc south for another 6 weeks and I’m super excited I love the south. I love the people and the members. President changed the p-day schedule so now we get an extra hour of p-day ahah so stoked. This was a very strange week, with all the exchanges and stuff I kinda got homesick again and was kinda down the first couple of days but it’s gotten much better. 

On Monday we had a fun p-day, we got to eat dinner with one of my favorite families and she makes homemade tortillas that are sooo good. we then went to an appointment but he wasn’t home so we knocked doors and met some really cool people, we met a guy name garanamo and he has 13 kids ahahah. 

Oh Tuesday what a wild day ahhah so Tuesday we were knocking doors around on of our investigators and we knocked this one and this guy came out covered in tats and we start talking to him nice guy, kinda scary, tells us he 21 has 3 kids and has been in jail since he was 11. He then starts telling us we need to be really careful because we are white, and with all the stuff going on in the world and in our neighborhood we need to be really careful. We then asked him his name and he goes "Houston" I can’t give you my real name because of what’s going on around here. He is a blood and then he goes just be glad yall didn’t meet me yesterday and we were like well looks like its time to go but pretty wild. We watched the testaments with cecilio and it was soo powerful to me id never seen it and I felt the spirit so strong, it is so cool and excited that he will come again. 

On Wednesday we went and picked up the hermanas new comp, they are in a trio now and it is soo fun having them around the new sister is way cool. We got to have a lesson with bladdimir who is progressing so much he is on track to be baptized on the 30 of this month. We can now play basketball during dinner at the church so we got to play basketball with all the youth and it was I elder Barry and the three sisters vs. the youth and we destroyed them ahahh it was soo fun. 

Thursday we were inside planning legit all day, we got to have a lesson with Sergio, he thought the sisters were our girlfriends ahahhahah. We then got to have dinner and on the way to dinner I had to sit in the trunk because there are so many of us and the member didn’t have enough seats ahahha. We got to visit the Vargas family and the dad wasn’t there but we talked to the mom and she doesn’t work or have money but wants to pay tithing so cool to see that she is changing and wants to pay tithing. 

On Friday I woke up at 1:30 in the morning to the coolest storm the thunder was so loud and legit never stopped making noise same with the lightning it was soo cool our room was constantly bright because of the lightning it legit never stopped. I was sick all Friday but pushed through, we got to meet the new zone leaders at district meeting, we had a great district meeting, we had a good day, and we saw Benjamin who is progressing which is awesome. 

Saturday we didn’t does service sad face, we did family history at the library and I traced our family line back to Adam and ever, which was way cool. We had a good day. 

Sunday was awesome church was great we had bladdimir come to church he loved it, we then got in with the Vargas family again and had a great lesson. another great week out here in okc, I love the lord and the gospel so much anything is possible through the lord. 

much love elder barrett