6/21/21 Red Franks and Tater Salad

 Really cool week this week! Also my literal busiest week of my life. But God is good! 

 

I'll start at the end of this week... MILEY GOT BAPTIZED! She is my first baptism and I cannot even express how proud I am of her. She is very quiet and timid but she was just glowing with excitement! My favorite thing she told me is as we had our last lesson we were talking about holy places- I asked how she can make her home a holy place and she sat and pondered and then answered "you really can make any place a holy place when it is centered on Jesus Christ"!!!! and we sat there like "WOAH MILEY YOU ARE SO COOL! She's literally 9 years old! She was confirmed in sacrament meeting on Sunday and with our crazy week we forgot to ask members of the ward to help confirm her, and our blessed elders all went up and did it for her. Her face was priceless as she saw 8 Elders walk up to her. She said she had never seen so many missionaries at once. Best day ever though! Funny story: As we were filling up the font I had to go test the water because it runs out of hot water very quickly, so I took my shoes off and gathered my dress to step in the font (because the spout is in the very middle) so the only way you can get to it is to get in and get a  little wet. Well I definitely slipped a little bit and I caught myself but not my dress so the bottom 6m inches were drenched. Sister Erdmann and I had to sit outside and let it air dry. So grateful for the hot North Dakota sun! 

 

This is pre-transfer week so a few missionaries leave a bit early just to space out who meets with President Howell and all that jazz. So being the STL's we get to house all the sisters before they leave so in the last 2 weeks we have had about 6 Sisters in and out of our apartment. It's so much fun though! I got to house Sister Baird before she left, and it was a blessing because Sister Powell was there with her so the whole gang was back together! Along with driving sisters to the airport at random times we got to house a few Sisters who are going back to their original assignment! I'm so excited for all of them! What a blessing tha more and more places are opening up! 

 

We had our Zone Conference in Dickinson on Tuesday. It's the closest Zone to us so it was fun to take a peek at the enchanted highway! It was a zone conference that was very unique to the group. The Bismarck Zone is very old, meaning, more than 75% of the missionaries in it will go home this transfer or next. So we got the big ole trunky talk (college, family, eternal marriage, jobs etc) It's really not too bad but for some of the older missionaries it was pure revelation so that was good. One of my biggest take-a-ways is to MAGNIFY YOUR CALLING NO MATTER WHAT IT IS! If you're called as a nursery leader you best become the best nursery leader the world has ever seen. I love how my mission president puts it: "You never serve upward, it's always around". I had my last interview with President Howell before he leaves next week. We had a cool conversation on how parents feel their children's pain, possibly even more than the child does. He related it to how when Christ was suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane and he "fell on his face" and cried unto the Father. We can imagine how much it hurt Heavenly Father to watch his only begotten Son suffer with all the pain and agony. Even Heavenly Mother. But it's all part of God's plan and is part of heavenly Fathers and mothers plan to help us children grow.  

 

Love you all! I have a new address! 

4720 N 19th St Apt 214

Bismarck, ND 58503

 

xoxo Sister Barlow

 

-Sister Johnson got to come and stay with us! (She came in with me!)

- ABERDEEN SISTERS UNITE before Sister Barid goes home :(

- Miley's baptism! 

- Bismarck Zone! 

- Cracking Basil jokes with Sister Howell are my favorite

- A member invited us to a BBQ and the hot dogs were RED RED RED  and it made us a bit concerned. But we ate and lived. But someone tell me why...









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