Grateful to be a Barlow, life is busy, I'm gassed...

  I am grateful for our ancestors who believed the experience of Joseph Smith. Being a Barlow to me is something special. Barlow's are priesthood holders, missionaries, servants of the Lord. Being a Barlow to me as I look at the Barlow men in my life means honoring my wife, working hard to support my family, loving my children and serving in the community. Barlow's are educated and men full of love and compassion. Barlow's are that way because one Barlow decided to listen to missionaries and follow the example of Jesus Christ. 

  The lady we were teaching named Maritz moved to another city, in another mission, so we are going to pass the referral.  We are going to have a baptism this Saturday.  She is a young woman who is super cool! Her name is Mary Bett and she is 15 and has been coming to church for the past 2 months with a friend who is a member and she has decided that she wan ts to follow the example of Jesus Christ! 

  We have had a lot of training meetings lately and lots of traveling and planning to do during this past several weeks and days. This week we will have a zone meeting with  the president and we have to train the missionaries about how to study in an effective and simple manner that will help them receive revelation for their lives and their investigators. My new comp is pretty awesome not gonna lie. He is from Uruguay, his name is Elder Bermudez he been out for a little less then a year. He is  in super diligent. I feel a little tired not gonna lie. Physically I am fine, I have never been so physically fit in my entire life since I have lost so much weight here and well I work out every morning, but mentally I am pretty gassed. I have been praying to be able to focus and keep my cool and calm with all the things we do ahah. 

I hope I have been able to make changes in my attitude about the world and about who I am. I don´t want to be one of the missionaries that comes back the same. Obviously I am still Chris Barlow, a clown, a joker, and a relatively relaxed fun person but I also have been trying to seek maturity and more then anything spirituality that will help me cope with problems and over come them, so I can be an anchor to my family and the other people around me when the world tries to push them away from Christ. 

Elder Barlow 

Love ya dad