November 4, 2019 - Weekly

This week was really good. We planted flowers for this lady Patt and are starting to teach her kind of but she doesn't know it yet. I am her favorite because I know how to plant flower s correctly apparently, so thanks mom. We went and played soccer again and it was super fun, I totally destroyed this old Latvian or Serbian dude, I dont know where hes from but hes old and has a think accent, but the important part is that I nutmeged him. But the downside to playing soccer in florida is that you feel like you just got out of the shower then put some clothes on. Wednesday we had zone conference so it was super good to go and see some friends. And I guess the actual conference was good too, for real it was, we learned a lot and are excited to go out and try everything we learned. We also got chick fil a but they had no bbq sauce so I had to settle for chick fil a sauce which is not my favorite still good though. Pretty exciting is that we get early access as missionaries to the light the world stuff and the new video the church is going to put out called the Christ child. It is really cool and different then other nativity videos, so we have been showing that to people here and it has been awesome. I can't believe it's almost Christmas time. 

That long dead end road.

Friday we were trying to bike to our dinner and google maps said to go down this random street for like 2 mi and then take a right and the members house is right there so we went all the way down and there was a small lake at the end and to the right was a construction site with tons of no trespassing signs so that was a no go. We found another road and it looked like we could maybe take a shortcut but it was straight forest, tons of trees and bushes so we had to bike all the way around a good 30 min. I blame Elder Dockstader but it's all good. That's what is so bad here all the neighborhoods are super close but to actually get into each separate one you have to bike all the way around and out to the main street, so it takes forever. But on the bright side we were able to get this less active's son on a baptismal date so that was really cool and everyone is super excited, basically the highlight of the week. Everything in our area moves pretty slow so it has been so good to see things start to pick up and we are working hard to keep pushing it along, we have had a tough week especially when we had a couple days where no one literally no one answered their door, we had a couple people look through the window and shake their head lol. But everything, all the work and sweat pays off and sometimes not in the way we had expected it, but the lord will bless us as we strive to be better and work hard and I know that to be true especially after this week. Anyway love you all and thanks for all the support!

Elder Barlow