STRESS!!!!

This is has been one of the most stressful but fun weeks of my life, but the lord is always there. He is there to support and lift us up in those hard times and he was there for me this week. Usually transfers are really hard for me and I get homesick but the lord kept me busy and helped me through it.

Monday- we just had the classic pday we didn’t do much for pday. I don’t remember anything from Monday haha

Tuesday- Today was the day for Kevin’s baptism, I was soo excited all day. All day we were just preparing stuff for the baptism and getting everything all ready. We went to the church to fill up the font but we didn’t have keys so we had to call someone to run them to us and we were already running late getting it filled, but good things hispanic time is different than our because it was supposed to start at 7 but started at 7:45so we had plenty of time to fill it up. It went really well and it was cool to see how excited he was to be baptized.

Wednesday- We had transfers today which was really fun but soooo stressful, we changed comps. My new comp is elder quinones from Las Vegas. He is awesome, we got put right to work after transfers moving people into new apartments, that’s what we did all day. We went to one of the new apartments for the sisters and it just reeked of weed it was bad ahahah. We have 6 missionaries in a 5 person car so it was really stressful trying to figure out how to get people places. We then went to the church for dinner and sports and it was awesome we got to see bladdimir and he was excited and we had his interview and he is ready. 

Thursday- we wake up to a text from bladdimir saying he can’t get baptized, so I started to freak out and he told us his dad thinks he’s too young to be baptized so we went over to try and talk to his dad but he wasn’t home. We had to call everyone and cancel the baptism it was really sad. Things happen on the lord’s time not ours and it’s been a challenge for me to except that.  We had to help move the elders’ apartment today which was also really stressful, they are a huge apartment with 3 bedrooms for only two of them. We will probs be moving in with them thought so that will be really fun. We didn’t get to do anything other than help move the elders today.

Friday- we woke up to gun shots outside the apartment last night ahahah. One of the elders heard it and just shot up and made sure the door was locked ahahha. We had our first district meeting with the new district and it went really well, we have 8 of us in the district and it’s all Spanish so we do it in Spanish. We then had to move more missionaries and that’s again what we did all day ahhaha. We haven’t been able to visit anyone so hopeful everyone is doing ok. We had to walk and hour in the dark and rain in a sketchy area but it was really fun.​​

Saturday- today we finally got to do some studies which was nice, but we still didn’t have much time to do stuff, we finally got to visit a less-active which was great, his mom who isn’t a member was there and she wants to go to church but he says she isn’t ready ahhaha. We then had to go to the church and help with a baby shower, it was pretty fun hahah.

Sunday- we had church and instead of having us go to class some lady told us we needed to help her clean out the library, we got in the and there were algebra books everywhere and all these love books and Budweiser boxes ahahah. We were at dinner and I was sitting on my chair and it slipped out from underneath me and launched across the room and knocked the family’s plants down I felt soo bad, there was dirt everywhere. We then got to visit cecilio and talk to him, he will be moving for a little which is really sad.\

Sorry this isn’t a very good email but don’t have a ton of time, still stressing ahhaha. Thanks for the love and support.

Elder Barrett