Hey Momma! I promise I can feel the prayers and hugs that you
are trying to send me! Missionary work is so hard! It’s way harder then I ever
thought it would be because I thought possibly every 1 in 30 people would
listen but its more like every 1 in 150 listen and then usually they don’t even
try to keep the commitments that you make with them! I’m not angry or
disappointed I just have an understanding of what Stu and dad when through when
they were on their missions and have so much respect for them because it’s not
easy at all! I love teaching though and when people do accept and keep the
commitments I have never felt so happy in my life! I can feel the spirit so
very strongly and I actually have 3 people with baptismal dates but they didn’t
attend church this week so we have to push the date back another week and I now
understand why prophets in the Book of Mormon are always asking why Heavenly
Father lets his children live such wicked lives! I will leave some lessons and
just want to cry because this work is so important and if they just try just a
little to follow our guidance they will receive peace and happiness but they
are either to stubborn or lazy to try! My companion show me a talk by president
Holland that really helped me a lot it’s an address to the mission presidents
and it’s the reason why missionary work is so hard and I understood after. I am
learning a lot and the language is coming along good, I’m excited for the day
in my mission when I’m training a new Elder and I need his help to know how to
say things in English ha ha! I love you such much and I hope you know that you
and Dad did an excellent job of teaching me the gospel.
Your Questions
1. My companion is from Costa Rica and I call
him little tico because apparently that is the South American nickname for them
its like Yankee.
2. Raised in the church
3.speaks a little English but basically knows
as much English as I do Spanish
4.send stuff to the mission home address not
to my address
5. The big meal here is almuerzo so every day
we have a scheduled lunch with one of the families in the branch with are super
good and I really like the Members here but they have a huge problem with
inactivity because members are always offending each other and everyone
works on Sunday.
I love you so much Momma!
Para Su Hijo
Elder Christopher Ryan Barlow
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