You know what people say time flies when you're having fun ;) the mission is full of fun in many different ways! Let me just share with you my week
Wednesday: vladimir called us and told us he doesnt want to meet with us anymore because it causes to much stress with him and his ex wife. BUT we talked him out of it and got a return appointment for the next day. Everyone pray for him!!!
We also went to Hayleys! We helped her paint one of the rooms in her appartment!! It was so fun and a great way to do service!! Quick shout out to my cutie mom for teaching me how to paint rooms :)
We went to the yw/ym activity & they made dinner and had all the ym & yw write down questions that they had for us about missionary work and everything! it was so fun and we got to know the youth so much better!! Thats one thing i LOVE about it here, the members are so missionary minded and we are basically family with them all!
Thursday: we taught Vladimir!! The lesson kinda went in circles but we decided to focus on his ex wife and see if we can serve her and maybe start teaching her so she can see for herself the blessings from the gospel.
Kyrees lesson went good this week! We taught him about the importance of going to church and i related it to how if we have a tree and we arent giving it water and the sun it wont grow any bigger and eventually die. The tree is like our spirits, if we arent giving it the things it needs like church, reading the scriptures, and praying our spirit wont grow and be able to shine as bright.
LISTENING TO THE SPIRIT!!! On the way to the church to call my brother jens for his b day we stopped at the gas station!! I got out of the car and thought nah i dont need a book of mormon this time we are just going in for a second. THEN thought wait no ill just grab one just in case! We went inside did our shopping and as we were checking out the cashier said he has seen us in here before and we told him we are missionaries and he told us he is budist and we could have some of his books and then he said he would be interested in learning more about our church. I GAVE HIM THAT BOOK OF MORMON it was amazing heavenly father told me to bring it in and it was specifically for him. Wow AND HE TEXTED US AFTER!! I was so happy that i followed that prompting.
I gave sister Trussell a haircut thursday night too so that was fun using my pre mission skills.
Friday: service at the food pantry woot woot!! Its always so fun to do service at the food pantry and the lady dona that runs it takes everyone to lunch after at this cute place called the first watch.
We taught Boakai!! We were running late to his house and got there about 20 minutes late whooopps but we knocked and his son answered and told us hes been at a meeting all day and doesnt know when he will be home ugh we were bummed cuz we texted and called him before to remind him and he didnt respond. Right as we were about to leave BOAKAI pulled into the driveway and we had such a great lesson with him!!! I was able to understand way more of what he was saying this lesson than the last (hes african with a THICK accent) but this miracle just shows that everything is on the Lords timing!
We had a lesson with anthony where we gave anthony to the ksu elders so that he can start going to the ysa there. So hopefully he progresses with them!!
We had a girl named haley message us on thursday and told us that she just moved to the acworth area and wants to come to lessons with us so she came to all of our lesson on friday.... she drove us too and on our way home she got lost and we almost ended up going to Chattanooga ya thats in Tennessee. So basically we almost got kid napped until i said hey i dont think this is the way back to the church. HAHAHA Then the next day we talked to the presidents wife at the YSA and found out she is crazy and goes around and gets baptized into every YSA ahhhh shes been baptized like 4 times already and she told us shes 23 but really shes 34 ahhhhh oh one more the old mission president in the GAM told all the missionaries to stay away from her because shes a wild card but we had no idea tbh i thought she was really funny and i had a good time! But little did I know!!
Saturday: we met a 13 yr old kid named jason so hopefully him and his family will be interested!
Sunday: we had church! My fav!! Omg we had dinner with some members and they were so cute!! I felt i was at my grandma and grandpas it was so fun and the food was so yummy so right at my true grandma and grandpas house!!
It is incredible to be apart of all these experiences and be able to recognize fully the Lords hand in my life and in missionary work. I hope all of you can notice one way the lords hand is in your life. LOVE YOU ALL!!
xoxo sister barton
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