Hello, all. Hope everyone's having a dandy time wherever you are. Personally, I'm doing great, there's sunshine and rainbows everywhere, and I even got to see some unicorns too.
These past couple weeks have been interesting, jokes aside. I'll start with the tropical storm we had two weeks ago. We had to stay inside all day on Tuesday and Wednesday because of the "intense tropical storm that will destroy everything, oh no." The most puny storm ever, all things considered. I've seen worse in the US. Kinda a waste of two days.
We're getting moved into the new house over time. Every week when we go shopping we add more stuff we need to the house. We're still missing some stuff that I would like to have, but that's the mission life, I guess. I'm gonna be bold and say I actually kinda miss Barahona, my last area. Things were more comfortable there. I do find myself having the "grass is always greener" type mentality, but I don't let it affect me.
I've been really getting to know the area and the people in it pretty well. Just this past week we found a lot of new people to teach, I think we got to 24. We were also able to hit our 10/10 member lessons goal again. It's been a while since we got that. We have three people on date for baptism, two sisters of Rodalfi, the guy we baptized when I got here, and another girl named Francesca. Fun people, I like being around them a lot.
I want to also mention that things have happened that are personal but have really strengthened my testimony a lot. Like, undeniably I know now that God really truthfully loves each of us and is there to help us through hard moments. My faith has really been tested after working hard for these past eight months, but sometimes a miracle happens and it's all worth it. I've learned that faith (belief + action on that belief) is extremely important and that literally everything else comes after. Faith comes first, and if we act on the beliefs we have, there's consequences, good ones. Sometimes we don't see it or recognize it, other times we do, but every time, there's consequences, or blessings, that come from having and acting on faith.
Anyway, things are overall going really well, the work is getting a little easier over time as we're constantly working to make our teaching pool bigger. I hit eight months recently, which marks me finishing the beginning (the first 3rd of my mission), and entering the middle stage. Time has been moving really fast, it's crazy. Thank you all for your support, I'm praying for you, and I hope you have a good rest of the week!
I must go -Elder Barlow
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