Yo yo yo, how's it hanging everyone! Another couple weeks gone by here in the good old Dominican. I didn't send an email last week, so I got two weeks to catch up on, wish me luck.
Alright so last week, as in two Mondays ago to last Monday, was probably the longest week on my mission so far. I have no idea why. I remember we got to Thursday, and it felt like it should be Sunday night. We taught a lot of people and dropped a bunch, too, (as in we stopped teaching a lot of people because they weren't progressing). We met a bunch of new cool people, like Manuel, who's this old guy we would pass by almost every day and wave to. One day we decided let's just teach him already. He's super cool, got a lot of cool family, too. I hope he progresses. We've been led by the Spirit a lot, like I would randomly remember a specific house or place then we would go there, and we would end up teaching somebody there. It's great.
This week was way way faster, thank goodness. I remember yesterday sitting in church and just feeling weird that we were at church on a Saturday- but wait it's not Saturday lol. Lots of cool lessons happened this week, some cool new people, too.
The past couple weeks have been a little rough, too. We had to drop a lot of our favorite people because they weren't coming to church or reading the scriptures. We had some days where literally every single one of our lessons we had planned fell through, so tons of walking, which is discouraging. I'm really learning to put my trust in the Lord, and when I do that, I can see things being put in place- for good, even great things to happen in the future. I remember last Thursday was a day like that, all of our lessons fell through, and it was just a hard day with not much progression at all. I was walking home and I was trying so hard not to be sad about it, but I was too tired for that. I just thought this is the Lord's work, not mine. If he wants me to convert 100 people this week, it'll happen. And if it doesn't happen, well that's fine too. I need to be more grateful for the good things I have, for the blessings I have seen.
I've been picking up some new hobbies in my free time, too. I've been playing some chess (I really want to be good at chess), I learned how to solve a Rubix cube (actually easier than you think), play the guitar a bit, and recently I picked up widdling, or wood carving. Also, this Thursday, me and Elder Winkle are planning to do our "Wilford Woodruff day," which is named after one of the first missionaries of the church who was famous for serving from sunrise to sunset. So yeah, Thursday we'll wake up, have breakfast, go out at 9am and not come back to the house until 9pm. Crazy stuff. Anyway, I think that's about it for these couple weeks. I wish I had more to add, but whenever I start writing my emails, that's when all the cool stuff that happened flies out of my head, and I forget it all. But yeah, thanks everyone for your prayers and concerns, God bless you, and nos vemos ahorita!
I must go -Elder Barlow
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