Week 49

I made a concentrated effort to take more pictures this week!

Illinois, I've decided, is seriously like Egypt with the plagues. Last week, we discovered crickets, this week: the locusts. yup, no joke. WHAT IS GOING ON. Plus my legs will never be the same after being eaten alive by mosquitoes. COME WINTER! COME AND KILL ALL THE MOSQUITOES!

​We also took some photos yesterday because our P-Day was a little longer. It was very windy, so that was kind of a bummer. But let's see: abandoned railroad that looked cool, a plaque in the town square about how Zion's Camp passed through this town, and the courthouse.

Big events this week:

We did a "Wilford Woodruff Day" where we tracted for most of the day. We haven't been doing much tracting here, so we decided to change it up for a day. We discovered that we really aren't used to that much walking, and that you can have some really strange experiences while tracting. Like having an 80 year old man open the door in his underwear (AWKWARD). Or like running into a less active who moved and didn't give us her address (SMALL TOWN). It was fun though. We gave away two copies of the Book of Mormon, several pamphlets, and placed almost 100 pass along cards. Fun fun fun!

The woman who has committed to baptism came to church this week, and her husband! It was awesome. We are so excited for her. She is already living the Word of Wisdom, and has so much faith. She loved church, even though she was a little too tired to stay for the potluck lunch linger longer afterwards.

I taught Young Women's on Sunday too! Being a missionary means being able to step in and help out, right? And teach kind of on the spot. I think it went alright, we talked about how the things we say affect the people around us. It made me realize how long it's been since I was in Young Women's... I forgot to have them say the YW Theme until they reminded me.

A lot of craziness... I'll have lots of good stories to send you all when I have the recorder :) Let's just say that they involve drunk people, DNA tests, witches... It really seemed like all the crazy things happened this week. It keeps life interesting though! 

We also started teaching another wife in a part-member family. She reminds me a lot of a woman in my first area. She is way excited about church, but she didn't come this week, so we don't know what happened there... We're going to help her pack this week (she's moving somewhere else in town) so hopefully that goes well!!! Part-member families are excellent because they have that built in support.

For my personal study I've been highlighting Conference talks from the apostles: one color for principles, warnings, blessings, and invitations. I love conference!!!

Getting kicked off. Love you all!! Hope your week is great, that school's going well too!

Love

Sister Barret