Thank you for the barfuss funny again :) (message Mary's Mom if you want to hear 2 more funny stories from Marysa's childhood) Yeah, and i really don't know what
to do about my future life... bahhhhhhh. I don't want to think about it, but i
have to eventually. And i don't have any money and it's really expensive, so
pretty much i'm just going to let Heavenly Father help me not stress about it.
I'm going to think about the options you looked up for me (THANK YOU!!) and see
what feels right. I don't know, but recently I've been really wanting to do hair
school and live my dreams. The mission has taught me how to be more aggressive
and how to receive help from Heavenly Father, so i want to do things that He
knows I can be successful at! You know what i mean!? here we go...
And the news about the parrish family pretty much just broke my heart. i
honestly feel kind of numb right now. i have NO idea how jensen and ian are
handling all of it, because that news is horrifying. I want to do something for
them, but right now prayer is the best option. sometimes i take people and
things for granted and i don't want to be like that anymore. the only thing i
can honestly think to type right now is "In the strength of the Lord, I can do
all things."
I KNOW that jensen and ian are loved by Heavenly Father.
well this week has been the craziest week of my life BECAUSE... i got
whitewashed into a new area!! which means that my companion and i are both brand
new to the area. and just to make everything a little more crazy, my companion
(sister huang) normally serves at the mormon battalion and this is her first
transfer going full proselyting AND
she is 1 of 3 Mandarin speaking sisters in
our mission AND she's from Taiwan!!! So pretty much everything is brand new for
her and most everything is brand new for me. I think President Clayton pulled
her out for full proselyting so her English could get stronger and so she could
study for the full 3 hours everyday.
So pretty much I have become the mission's
resident English tutor :) since this is two companions in a row for me that i
got to help with english! I'm all about foreign companions and them teaching me
their language and i teach them English! So here is what is really exciting!! My
new zone was the only zone that didn't have sisters in it yet, so
we broke the
last "elders only zone"!!! :D I WAS PUMPED when President Clayton announced
us!! Everyone in the stake is excited to have some sisters since it's been 20
plus years :) so my new zone is literally called the
"San Diego Zone" because
it's right smack in downtown san diego. We serve just a tad inland, but old
town, down town, and the airport are in our zone! and check this out... SDSU IS
IN OUR AREA!!!! So basically our life is crazy. we've spent every single day
organizing our ward list, seeing who lives where, figuring out where in the
world we are (thank goodness for my GPS!!), and trying to meet people! I've felt
a little overwhelmed and sister huang is very quiet and kind, so I've had to put
on my "big girl panties" and get stuff done. Who would have ever guessed I would
be brave when i got older!!? haha Our ward name is the San Diego 8th ward. woot
woot!
FUN FACT:
1. Elder Birch from pocatello is my district dad!!! (see the picture!)
elder birch and i both were freaking out when we realized who each other were!
haha
2. Another missionary showed up to the mission! sister baker! she was in my
seminary class! so i think that means there are 5 missionaries here that went to
Highland High School! bahaha i was the first and then they just kept
coming!
3. President Clayton called two more elders that were english speaking to
learn Arabic! WHHHAAAAT!!!!?? Can yo even imagine that happening to you!? (knock
on wood)
4. i make a fruit smoothie every morning and i decided to start blending it
on the "milkshake" setting rather than the "smoothie" setting so i could feel
like i was eating a treat :) yeah buddy.
5 aunt leslie and cousin kellie are in my new ward... like seriously....
it's creepy..... they might have twins they never knew about
6 i go over on average 31 speed bumps a day. truth.
7.i slept talked the other night and made sister huang sooooooo scared.
but i remember nothing. she had to tell me. hahahahha!
8 our fleet coordinator told me that i'm going to get a new license today
from idaho!! waahoo!!
well the best story i have this week was when we went out our first night
to proselyte... we were driving in the dark trying to find the apartment of a
guy and all the sudden three or four cops coming flying up behind us and pull
over this car in front of us... well all the sudden a helicopter with a spot
light shines down on us and the cops next to us pull out a gun! well i'm
freaking out because i'm driving and i don't know what to do, but sister huang
is freaking out because she has never seen a gun!!! BAHHH!! whaaaaaaaaaat
theeeeeeeeeeeeeeee heck? so basically we just sat there and said a little prayer
and then watched it all unfold. the guy got arrested.
so cheers to another week
in san diego! :D bahaha
my life is SO not boring at all.
i love you guys. so so so much. thank you for your prayers and support, i
felt them this week.
FOR SURE.
sister barfuss
Oh my lanta I'm laughing so hard right now!! Hahaha! I would get
all mad over a bra... hehehe. PLEASE keep telling me more funnies like that,
because they make me crack up! (if you want to read the bra story you'll have to message Marysa's Mom). Are you kidding me about dad and Elder Bednar!??
Man, I would have loved to sit in on that meeting. And he was at your table!??
So if you trace the hand you shook his hand with on a piece of paper and then
send it to me in the mail and then I shake that paper hand, i technically shook
Elder Bednar's hand? NICE! let's do it ;) Moomoo is a bride!!!(Emily tried out for 7 Brides for 7 Brothers) :D GO MOO!!! She
is going to be so great :) remember when brennan missed katelyn in les mis
because he was going on his mission... same thing here. i wish i could watch it
so bad! AND KATELYN AND TODD ARE MOVING BACK TO
PROVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) OH. MY. GOODNESS. Heavenly
Father knew that i would really miss peter on my mission... but since i went on
a mission I'll still be in provo when they get there! Tender mercy. Not an
accident people.
Mom I got the strawberries! :D They were so beautiful! And yumma-lumma :)
you always make me feel special! The scented stickers, funny valentine jokes,
straw glasses, and planes were the bomb. Thank you for always helping me smile!
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! And Peter sent me a hand made valentine!!! That was the
first piece of artwork I've received from him :) i put it up on my wall! I maybe
cried a little bit okay!?
Well i got a call this morning and i'm being transferred! I'm really bummed
to leave my family here, because honestly they are. But i also know that i need
to be pushed some more and life was WAY too easy for me in Spring Valley. So
pretty much i can tell Heavenly Father has new lessons to teach me, which makes
me excited! I love the feeling of knowing that President Clayton listened to
exactly what God told him to do with me. So here we go!! Spring Valley is going
to be ticked because they all thought i would stay for sure since sister bauro
left... but a good whitewash every once in a while is good. Who ever gets
transfered here is going to LOOOOVE it. (and our apartment is DANG clean!) I
will love Spring Valley for ever and ever and ever. You better believe I'm
coming back one day! So the question is where will I go? Who is my new
companion? What in the world is going to happen to me tomorrow? i have no idea.
hehehe.
FUN FACTS:
1. The April 2011 Sunday Morning session of General Conference is the best
2 hours of noise your ears could ever listen to. Whether you are "busy" this
week or not, LISTEN TO IT! You won't regret it. Heavenly Father wants you to
listen to it too. I seriously had my mind blown 87 times.
2. One of the families we taught this week had the TV on and it was the
Spongebob Squarepants Movie (or whatever it's called). It was at the part when
the monsters help them get out of the trench and into shell city. so i laughed
really hard inside. Then later my mind started thinking of my very favorite part
when spongebob and patrick think they are never going to get to shell city and
they are crying, but then David Hasselhoff shows up and gives them a ride on his
back! Hahahaha! And then when they need to get from the surface down to the sand
and he puts them in between his pecs and launches them down! HAHA! I seriously
was laughing SO hard to myself. (pretty much only me, moo, and maybe brennan will
think this is funny :) hehehe). Good times, good times.
3. I had to go to a liquor store twice this week. My companion needed money
from the Western Union and that was the only one in our area... Talk about not
avoiding the appearance of evil. It was so sad to see everyone coming in there
and feeding their addictions. The cashier knew all of their names because they
come in everyday. Don't do it! Not even once.
4. This week I got to be "Hermana Barfuss" for 3 days! The first was on
Valentines day and Hermana Hughes (my new Spanish companion from IDAHO!!) taught
me just a few phrases. Then she said "Okay! you're in charge of praying all
day!" My response was, "Uhhhhhhh.................." And guess what!? I prayed in
Spanish 3 different times! I almost wet my skirt 3 different times too. But the
people we were teaching were so nice to me :) haha! Hermana Hughes also made me
read el libro de mormon when we read it with a part member family. BAHHHAHAHAA!
Oh man that was rough. But i learned a lot... that i should definitely be an
English missionary! :D Nothing like a little reassurance!!
Well i had an experience this week. I don't really want to talk all about
it because it just makes me mad. (like century volleyball. HAHAHAHA)(Marysa could never beat Century). But a
really rude man said some things to me that upset me. They were all complete
lies and garbage. But here is what I learned... You will NEVER know if the Book
of Mormon is true unless you read it. You have to read it. It really is that
simple. And being someone that read it with real intent to know if Nephi is a
real person, and if King Benjamin is a real person, and if Alma is a real
person, I can say that THEY ARE! I know it and I know that God knows that I
know. I'll tell anybody anywhere! it's true and i LOVE it! And the best part
about the Book of Mormon being true is that it automatically means I know Joseph
Smith is a true prophet because he translated it! Isn't that so great!? Combo
pack. When i give people a copy of the Book of Mormon I always say "hey, be
careful. if you read it, you'll absolutely love it." :) hermana hughes gave me a
copy of it in spanish and said i should read it. hehehehe. baffffffff.
We've been to the airport twice in 24 hours (that=trunky), we've slept in
other peoples' beds, we haven't exercised in 3 days because we've been getting
up so early to take people places, we don't think we've ever thrown away so much
of other people's garbage from an apartment in our whole entire life, and my
world is going to be flipped upside down tomorrow. So i would really appreciate
some prayers :) haha. And with that being said, I think Hermana Hughes and I are
going to play some sports for the next few hours :D thank stinkin goodness.
SOCCER!
I LOVE YOU. i love my life :)
sister barfuss
ps- the pictures are my reaction to katelyn coming to BYU :D
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