Last week on Wednesday we received a package of goodies from Elder Barlow. He sent some fun stuff from Mexico. There were ties for all the boys, Key chains and coin purses, and bags. Some pesos and other fun stuff. In his letter he said told us that he and his companion had been given a lot of responsibility to try and start a Spanish branch from scratch. He mentioned it in last weeks email, but the letter was a little more specific and stressed how important it was. And a HUGE task. He said he had seen many miracles at work already!
Here is yesterday's e-mail to us with a few random pictures he sent, and I will update any more news when we get a letter later this week!!
Remember any mail or packages send to the mission home!
Elder Austin O'Neil Barlow
California Ventura Mission
3301 West Gonzales Road
Oxnard, CA 93036
Hey Family!!!
Everything has gone pretty good this week! Its pretty fun to go around and
talk about god with everyone you meet! Church yesterday was pretty fun too! me
and my comp taught a primary class! they were really crazy they would not sit
still! luckly i had four pieces of candy in my backpack so that calmed them down
a little bit! Im glad everything is going good at home! this past week i was
able to go on exchanges with another elder in our district his name is elder
fridal! he is from malta idaho and he is really funny we stayed over in his part
of the area called pismo beach! it is the coolest little town ever! its just
like a tiny little beach town! everywhere i go i can see the ocean! it is
awesome! for the past couple of days i have had a really bad sore throat it
sucked i think it is starting to get better so i hope it does! Me and my comp
were driving around some of our areas trying to find little pockets of hispanic
people! and there are some really good key indicators of that hispanic people
live in certian houses! some of those are they always have christmas lights on!
they have a mop by the door! they have lots of cars outside of thier house! ands
thats really it! But on saturday we went up to these four guys some of them were
drinking and we just started talking to them its pretty hard to understand the
spanish but i could get some bits and pieces of it! they all seemed really
interested! one guy named martin said something really cool that i didnt
understand so after my comp told me what he said! he said to us if you guys need
a place to stay or have some dinner my door is always open to you!! it was so
cool! it is so awesome when you talk to spanish! when you say hello in english
they are really shy! but when you start speaking spanish it is so cool to see
there face light up and they are so willing to talk to you!! So thats all that
really happened this week! i am glad everythings going good at home! Did you
guys get my package i sent! i hope so I will try and send some pics if i
can!
I Love You all so much thanks for all the support! if i think of stuff i
need i will send it in a letter i will be writing later today! and always just
send everything to the mission home address thats what the rule is then they
will send it to us!
You are in my prayers everyday!
Again I Love You all!!
Elder Barlow
Sure Love this crazy Elder!!
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