Hola Familia!!
How is everyone?! Everything
is great here!
Best news! I made it
into the Relief Society General Broadcast Choir!!! All five of my district sisters did!
It's so amazing! We are practicing every single day until Saturday when we head
to Salt Lake and the Conference Center! I am so excited to get off campus and go for a little field trip
for the night! I will be wearing a plum shirt, so look out for
me!! We're singing
some really good songs and a great one that Sally Deford wrote for this choir
and night specifically! The General RS Presidency came to our second practice
and it was so cool to see them there supporting! Also the choir director is
great! (The Relief Society Broadcast will be streamed live on lds.org on Saturday, Sept. 28th at 5:00pm Arizona time. Each time the choir sings, the camera scans the choir members, so it is possible Kendall may get some air time. We hope so!)
So gym time is probably my favorite time here! On Saturday
we played kick ball and it was super sad because I could hear the BYU game
going on!! haha All the fans were walking over there and maybe no one would even have noticed me joining in the walk over to the stadium... well, except for my missionary name tag, ; ) ...BUT Gym time was fun too! We've also been
playing a lot of soccer here and the weather is just GORGEOUS! A little chilly
at night and in the morning but other than that, it's amazing!
My companion Hermana Rust is amazing at neck cracking...
haha The other night she gave me a face
massage and cracked my neck and it was pretty much like the scene in the Hunger
Games where someone gets their head ripped off... Haha... except my head stayed
on, but you get the jist of it..
and Hermana Crump is a great back cracker! We have mini relaxing spa nights
with the 20 minutes of free time we have before bedtime. Oh, and just to
describe my companion Hermana Sleight in a nutshell... Her jokes go a little
like this..." How does Moses make his tea?? " Anyone?.. Anyone?... "Hebrews
it! "...cue pity laugh now. Oh, she
also says the most random facts like, "Cockroaches can see 600 times the diameter
of a hydrogen atom." Seriously, I learn so much
every day! hahaha And Hermana Rust has probably watched every
single " You Tube" video in the universe and quotes one every day.
It's pretty impressive!
The past couple of days I've been a little sick with congestion
and a cold and it's taken me forever to get to bed but I'm sure it will pass
soon! Lots of Emergen C and Day Quil!! My whole district went through the cold
but I'm lucky to not have gotten it too bad! Phew! ( knocking on wood)
So you may be wondering if the food has gotten better.. It
hasn't... but I'm still alive!... And I'm working on not complaining about it! :) Hermana Rupe and I eat the exact same things
and then quietly cry in the bathroom and complain to each other because some
people in my district are just a little annoyed with negativity.. haha or they
just don't understand my sarcasm... Jk
The district is still amazing though!! The guys
are like my brothers and we also just got a new district of elders that I got
to help train too! They are way sweet and one is from France and he is just so
fun to talk to! He is going back to Lyon France speaking Spanish! The rest of
his district is going to Mexico! So I'm not the only lonely one going somewhere
different than my whole district.. speaking of.. That's going to be so weird!!!
I can't think about it.
We (Hermana Rust, Rupe and Crump) got to sing in Sacrament
this Sunday!! Hermana Sleight accompanied and we sang " Nearer My God To Thee."
It was beautiful! (If she does say so herself!) We arranged it the
night before haha.. So fun! The first verse was just normal with harmonies, the
second we started out A Capella. Me
first Soprano, then Hermana Rust with Alto then Hermana Crump with Tenor and
then Hermana Rupe to join me singing Soprano! Then the last verse we sang in
Spanish and I did a descant. It was wonderful
to sing again and I'm so grateful I was given the opportunity! Great
experiences here.
So this week on is HSI (Habla Su Idioma) This language is getting
real! It's been studying on studying for a month straight!! Surrriously getting
real. It's hard but when we are speaking
it all the time it gets fun! I'm getting the accent down a bit but it'll
totally be different in Argentina! One of the sisters was told she speaks like
a gringa today (no names Hermana Rupe) haha but it's all such a challenge and
then so rewarding getting to learn it and our lessons are going so much better
each day!
Speaking of lessons! Alberto and Clara are getting baptized!
We have set the date for October 5th! The thing that was holding Alberto back
was that he just wasn't acting on his faith. He wanted to read the whole BOM
before he knew it was true and would commit to baptism. But we wouldn't take
that. We read Alberto Ether 12:6 and I taught that "faith is like a seed"
lesson.. haha The object lesson won him over! We taught him how he will not
receive his answer until after the trial of his faith. He loved it and he committed to be baptized!
So great! And Clara.. It took us a while to figure her out but this lesson we
really focused on comparing her life in her Biology major to the gospel. That
in order to do well in either you have to read, ask for help, study, listen and
we drew a little diagram for her comparing the two. We taught her abut Joseph
Smith and I think because now we are focusing so much on teaching people and
not just lessons we are just soaring!
The spirit is so strong and we have been so blessed! So just to let
those that don't know.. these investigators are fake! haha.. But they are
acting as real investigators! My teachers act like an actual investigator that
they had on their mission and at the end of our stay here we get to hear all
about their real story! It's nice to know that it was real previously and it is such good preparation learning how to relate to and love others. :)
So I guess my new favorite scripture is Romans 8:8 ??? Or so
my Missionary Plaque says? haha Seriously that is hilarious! For the record... It isn't...they put the
wrong scripture on my plaque and hopefully it is getting fixed! (it is already fixed) I don't want
everyone to think that I just LOVE that random, nothing relating to a mission
or anything really, scripture... " So
then, they that are in the flesh cannot please God...." haha .. NO. My actual scripture is Romans 8:28! "And
we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them
that are the called according to his purpose." When I read that other scripture I
just laughed. I hope you all got a good
kick out of it and glad that the whole ward thinks I'm a psycho... yay!.... (Just for the record, that same scripture was Tommy's favorite
before I (Lisa) met him. He would write Romans 8:28 on each baseball he
autographed. Kendall never knew. )
So we watched "The Ministry of Thomas S. Monson"
last night and it was amazing! I have so much love for our prophet! I hope
everyone gets a chance to watch that!! We also had the great opportunity to
hear Merrill J Bateman, an Emeritus General Authority speak at the devotional
last night. It was all about the power and authority of a missionary being
REAL. That we need Worthiness, Courage and Diligence. It's all so true and I have
seen miracles through it! Also that the STRONGEST missionaries are BUSY and
don't waste time. I am really working on
that this week! So great! He also shared the three best stories about
listening to the spirit. I wish I had time to write all about them but maybe
another day!
Since you asked, when I'm not e-mailing this chapter letter, the rest of my
P- days just include going to the Temple, Laundry, Cleaning, Eating and then
class starts at 6:30 and lot's of letter writing! It's a great relaxing day!
I'm also getting back to all of your letters today and tomorrow!
Two more weeks left and it just flies by! The days last forever but the weeks
are like a blink of an eye! Weird!!
It's hard to believe that I only have a couple more weeks here until I'm off to Argentina hopefully! They have been saying that most people assigned to Argentina are getting travel Visa's but we will start hearing about that probably next week! So weird to think about but I am so ready to get out and serve!
I love you all so so much and hope all is well! BTW, I love letters!! :) :)
Hasta la vista Loves!
Con mucho mucho mucho amor, <3
Hermana Barrett
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Sister Price
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Temple day with The District
Sisters Left to Right:
Sleight, Crump, Barrett, Rust and Rupe
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