Elder Samuel Barlow - Florida Jacksonille Mission

  Yes indeed, this will be my last weekly email. I don't know how all of you are going to live without my every once in a while updates lol. This week has been awesome. It has gone by so fast, we have had so many different things to do. On Tuesday we had beers with Brother dodge (don't worry its just root beer but he likes to freak people out and have fun with it). We went with him to a recent converts place, Bob, to watch a book of Mormon video and it was wonderful until the video ended and bro dodge proceeded to tell Vietnam War stories for 2 hours. It was brutal. OK so there is a recent convert here named Grace and she is probably one of the coolest people I've met on my mission. We got to talk to her on Thurs night and hear her conversion story and it was awesome. She is one of those people that just gets it, and she is all in for the gospel. Saturday we had our basketball night and it was way fun, we had a ton of people there and some new ones that have never come befo...

  What is up everybody, this is my second to last email ever. So crazy This past week I was transferred to the Arlington area (which is literally the area above the other one) to be with Elder Shakespeare and Elder Kapele for my last 2 weeks. It has honestly been such a blessing and I couldnt be in a better situation to end my mission. I have served around both of them before and we are all good friends. It has been really great so far and the ward is awesome. We have so many great activities that we can invite people too. Kinda sad I didn't get called here earlier cause I would love to serve here. I just wanted to share a thought from my week. So back in Hendricks we were working with a couple of less active and part member families and we saw lots of success with them. They each have been through a lot recently but have also seen lots of blessings, which should push them towards the gospel and coming back to church but that hasn't happened yet. It has been a little frustratin...

Good morning day or night whenever you're reading Last Tuesday I was on a exchange with Elder Svedin, he is a funny guy so we had a good time. We also have been planning a chicken sandwich taste test and we actually did it.  A couple problems that we ran into, we had to grab 8 sandwiches from 8 different places and that took an hour so by the time we ate them they were cold. Also never go to burger King, this is the second time I've tried it, the first time it was terrible (it is BK so idk what I expected) and this week they gave us a raw sandwich bleh. Again idk what I expected when ordering a made from scratch sandwich at BK.  My ranking for the normal sandwich's is  1. Chick FIL a  2. Popeye's 3. Zaxbys/KFC  All others don't even come close Thursday we had zone conference and it was awesome. We had to do a 30 min training for our zone and we decided to do it on charity and use the tree of life as a object lesson. The tree turned out not bad considering the ti...

  What is up everyone. Here are some cool things -We are teaching a family from the Congo/Uganda and it has been awesome. We found some missionaries that speak Swahili to join over video call to teach cuz my Swahili consists of 2 words so far Asante (thank you) and Kulala (to sleep). Both have been very useful and made them laugh. One of the daughters started going to young women's and she loves it! And the teenage son is super into Fifa so I'm gonna have to humble him one of these times. -On fast Sunday literally almost all of the testimonies were on missionary work which was so cool because that has never happened, you usually get one and it is probably coming from a current missionary.  -We have helped the Kirbys (who are a senior couple in charge of housing) set up a couple new apartments and they took us for dinner and milkshakes.   -We went to Texas roadhouse and ate way too many rolls. -We have had lots of success working with members and non members and had l...