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WOWOWOWOW this week and a half went by in 2 seconds. So many
crazy things happened that I don't even know where to start....
So Monday night shortly after emailing
last week, we were tracting this one slightly sketchy street. (Slightly sketchy
for Powell... it's like the rich neighborhood in Athens lol). We walk up the
driveway of this one house and both stop at the same time. I have never smelt
weed so strongly in my life. Hahaha we were convinced that this house was the
dealer for all of Powell. We got a terrible feeling about knocking on it so we
left and kinda ran haha. We didn't know what to do but a part of a lesson came
to my mind. The part about obeying and honoring the law. So, if we were to know
about this weed house and we didn't tell anyone, we were kinda disobeying the
law, right? Knowingly allowing others to disobey the law? We weren't going to
have it. So we called 911. We told them we wanted to give an anonymous tip that
a certain house at this address smelt profusely of marijuana. They said thanks
and that they'd send people over soon. We walked near and drove around the area
a bit to see the big bust. But... nothing happened. The cops came and parked
their cars and we must've missed the exciting thing cause next thing we know
they're gone. We are in this neighborhood pretty often because we have a few
less actives and investigators there and every time we're near it we joke about
knocking on it. Yesterday we finally sucked it up and knocked it. Guess what?!
Nobody answered. But when we opened the screen to knock on the door, we could
smell the strong strong smell of weed. So the problem was not resolved and we
decided to never go back haha. (K I know that was super lame but in rich
neighborhoods like Powell this amount of excitement gets me going.)
More exciting happenings on Tuesday. So
our cars have these things called a "tiwi." It basically yells
"CHECK YOUR SPEED" if you ever go more than like 5 mph over. The
vehicle coordinator gets a report of these and you are only allowed a certain
amount before you risk losing your driving privileges. So tiwis are not a
mission fave. After dinner at a member's house we got in the car to go to the
next thing and the car wouldn't move and the dash lights wouldn't turn on. We
had to call the tiwi people and we had to unplug it for the night. So we were
off the charts for a night woot woot!! Haha okay I'm making missions sound so
lame but trust me this was exciting.
Thanksgiving was so awesome! I ate more pie than I've probably
had in my whole life combined. We had a ton of invites and we went to probably
6 members houses. Only ate the real meal at one but we had all sorts of pies at
the rest... yum. I'm thankful for the many awesome member families who fed us
and support us in the work. The day after thanksgiving was so exciting. The
light the world video came out and I watched it about 5 times before we even
left the apartment for the day. We have been telling everyone about it and
showing it to everyone. (Haha even if they say they don't want to watch
sometimes we just play it anyway).
Oh yeah funny quote of the week. A lady we tracted into who was
not interested at all told us "be careful of the bucks, It's mating season
and you don't want them thinking you're a doe."
Sunday was also funny. So first place
we go is to visit this potential. He opened the door and his dog
instantly ran out. It ran and ran and ran and we could not get it. His whole
family was running around like crazy people trying to get the dang thing. We
didn't know what to do so we started chasing it too. Basically the whole
neighborhood was helping and we had to go in people's backyards and stuff to
get the stupid thing. The dad thought the dog ran off somewhere at one point
and he drove to where the thought it was. After over a half hour of chasing the
thing we finally got it and took it home to his family. Hopefully he wasn't too
angry when he got home. And hopefully it left a good impression in the neighbors
that we want to help? Haha we then went to ward council a few minutes late and
were out of breath and a little sweaty. Good times.
Monday night we received a kinda
scary call. President Daines called and told me that I have been assigned to be
a trainer. My next companion is going to be a brand new missionary and I get to
show her the ropes! It'll be quite the experience ha.. #prayforsisterbarnes.
She is arriving today and I'll meet her tomorrow at transfers! President will
decide who gets assigned to who tomorrow after he meets them and sees how we
all interact. I was in her shoes only a few short months ago. I hope to be the
best trainer and companion I can be. We had a meeting during the day yesterday
to "train the trainer" haha let's just say I'll be on my knees a lot.
Okay now for actual investigators and such. Well since it was
thanksgiving everyone was out of town or had family in town and didn't want to
talk to us. They all decided they're too busy to meet right
now and we can try back next year sometime. So we don't have anyone super solid
that we're working with, but we received a referral from the APs that they
found out is in our area. Apparently she wants to
get baptized. She has been gone but will get back later this week. I'm excited
to meet her!!
I'm sure lots of people have heard about the OSU incident. We
heard about it and it's super sad, but I guess most the people that were affected are okay. All the missionaries were close to their apartments when
they heard and are all safe too. Thanks for the prayers!!
I'm excited for the rest of the week and the exciting changes
coming. I am going to miss Sister Bohner so much! She heads home this week
after the completion of her mission. She's such an inspiration to me and I love
her to death!! I love you all and am thankful for your prayers and support.
Love, Sister Barnes
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