December 28, 2020 - Merry Crimen

 This week has been really cool. We started off with getting a negative covid test so we could get out of quarantine on Tuesday (a missionary at zone conference tested positive so we had to quarantine). For Christmas eve we were supposed to set up a service project so some sisters reserved times for us to ring the bell for salvation army at a Walmart and I can say I was not the most thrilled to do it. But it was actually way fun, it was just 4 Elders there and here were some of the funny interactions we had

Us "merry Christmas!" 
Guy *walks past all angry
One of the Elders "he must be Jewish" lol I was dying
Lady walking in "what you guys aren't going to sing" 
Us *awkwardly sings silent night
On her way out she put money in the bucket since we sang for her, your welcome salvation army

Another guy walked up, put money in the bucket the said "if you guys stop winking at all the girls I'll give more on the way out" lol

We got Starbucks hot choco afterwards and it was disappointing, who knows maybe their coffee is better. 

Christmas didn't go as planned, the member we were going to eat with got sick so that was a bummer. So instead we took all the extra candy and treats we had, cause it was a ton, and put them in stockings and dropped at some of the people in the branch/we are teaching. It was pretty cool. That's pretty much it for me

Thank you to everyone that sent me a card or package, I really appreciate it! 

Love you all
Elder Barlow

The greatest starting 5 in the Mish

Texas Roadhouse after Zone Conference 

Elder Toolson and I









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