Taught a lesson that I will never forget...

Hi MOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are going to baptize the son of Veronica too! His baptismal date is set for the  5th of July.   He is progressing super well. He is kind of hard to teach because he has ADHD super bad and takes pills for it. Veronica always likes to compare me to him  and says that there is hope for him in the end! I guess we are very similar ha ha. I am going to finish my first year and have been in just 2 sectors, which is super weird and almost never happens but I am OK with it because are going to baptize a lot here in this next month.

 We will have a new mission president the first day of July and president Kahnlien will be in Argentina. I am glad that Britt and dad will be able to spend time together too. I have been thinking a lot about how when I'm home I will be able to strengthen our family. I want to be with you guys forever and if anyone thinks that they are going to skip out on our eternal family I will drag them to heaven by their nose hairs if I have to. I am obviously kidding but I am grateful for all the effort that you and dad have put into insuring our family can be together. I love you very much and here is one of the experiences I had yesterday with an investigator.

We had an awesome lesson with one of our investigators last night, her name is Karen and she is 18. She is progressing really well. She reads, prays and understands most of everything we teach and believes its all true but she still hasn't recognized her answer. She always says she feels really good when we come over and when she reads and prays. She kinda broke down yesterday and started crying. We found out she has had a lot of issues with depression and for a while she had to take medicine.  We talked to her about the atonement last night and how our brother Jesus Christ has suffered everything that we have suffered and that when we keep the commandments and read and pray, He promises to bless us with the spirit and we will never need to feel alone again. It was a lesson I will never forget.

I know Jesus is our savior and that he loves us. He promised us that we can continually have the comfort of the spirit if we are obedient to the commandments of our heavenly father.

John 14 23-28                                                                                                              

 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

 24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.

 25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.

 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom theFather will send in my name, he shall teach you all things,and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: notas the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be                                         troubled, neither let it be afraid.

 28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come                                      again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice,because I said, I go unto the Father: for                                              my Father is greater than I.

Elder Christopher Ryan Barlow