Saturday, March 8, 2014

Santa Barbara/Los Olivos Branch Week One!!

This was Austin's last email! He sounds like it has been a good transfer so far! He gave us his actual address at the end of the email, because we are tracking all of his mission areas on Google earth. If you write him or send him anything please continue to do it with the mission home address!!

Elder Austin O'Neil Barlow
California Ventura Mission
3301 West Gonzales Road
Oxnard, CA 93036

Thanks for your interest/love/prayers/and support of this Awesome Missionary!! :)



HOLA B-CREW

Hey guys! it was so awesome to see your email this morning!! it has been a good week!!
 
Monday was such a great day to get ready to go to the new area in Santa Barbara!! it was so good to spend some time with our district for the last time! we went to go see a few members also to tell them that i am off to Santa Barbara!! it was very hard to leave Fillmore. i have grown so close to the people there! but it is all good!

Tuesday was great. transfer meeting was so great! it was was good to hear the testimony's of the departing missionaries this transfer! it made me have a spiritual boost for sure! then i met my new companion Elder Griffin! i like him already! we get along so great! we had dinner at our ward mission leaders house and it was good to meet a few members of the branch!

Wednesday was my first full day of work here in Santa Barbara! I got to meet a family that we are teaching that has a baptismal date for the 29th of March! it is great! they are so prepared! we also had another lesson with Alfonso he is a very nice guy and is super prepared for the gospel! 


Thursday we talked to a lot of people on the street! it was very fun! we also had a lesson with a catholic family that we are teaching! they are very nice! they are going to be feeding us on Thursday so it is great!


Friday was weekly planning which was great! it also rained a bunch too! it was crazy! we had dinner with a Hermana in the branch she was very nice! the members here feed us a bunch it is great!


Saturday was good we went and had another lesson with Maria it went great! we had a member present with us this time, we talked about reading the scriptures always, and also praying too! she liked it a lot! we even got her to say the pray at the end of the lesson!! it was great!!

Sunday was my first time at the los olivos branch!! it was great to meet so many new members and family's! Maria even came to church and she brought all of her kids with her too!! it was her 3rd time at church too!! ans she is going to come next week also!!

The rain has been crazy this week! we haven't seen the sun until today so it was so awesome to have a little river outside of our apartment!! haha 

La Rama Los Olivos is awesome!! it is all in Spanish! this whole week i have only spoke in Spanish to people it is great! i already understand so much more!! i love it!!

Last night me and Elder Griffin were driving down State. St. it is a Really busy st. in Santa Barbara! but we always see homeless guys on the st. but last night there was a crazy guy! he had a broken foot but he grabbed his crutch that he had and started to play it like a guitar!! it was funny then he tryed to stab people with it !!! it was funny!

I am so glad that you all are doing good!! i will be waiting for the little package!! and all the other stuff!

I love you guys so much!!!!!!!!!! 
 
Keep in touch!!!! i will talk to you later!

yo se que jesucristo vivi!

con amor!
Elder Barlow
 
p.s. this is the address to our apartment!
714 W. Arrellaga St. #12
Santa Barbara CA. 93101!!
nos vemos!!

 

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