Well this week i'm emailing kinda late because we went to the zoo
as soon as our day started! We have some members that can get people in free if
they go, so they took us!! YES! Saved 60 bucks baby!! 
FUN FACTS!
1. at the zoo 9 different mormon families stopped us and said hi!
2. i got the packy!! thank for the ginger snaps :) oh my lanta those are so
good. last time you sent them to me i served in the same zone as the Lao elders
and they ate like 50 of them each. so i took them some of these ones and they
said "WE LOVE MAMA BARFUSS!!!" so yeah, they say thanks too :) and my quad is
awesome too!!
3. i got to go on an exchange with sister strasser! we stayed up until like
midnight yacking in the dark! hahaha she goes home in 8 weeks! isn't that
crazy!!??
4. since our members all work at fast food places we get free food from
them every once in a while. on thursday we got free Taco Taco and free
Coldstone! HOLLAH.
5. you know the senior couple we serve with in our ward? the van alfens?
well elder van alfen told me that on fast sunday everyone has "moose breath"
hahahhahahaha could not have described that better :) heh
6. there is a girl in our ward that has cerebral palsy and she doesn't have
the function of almost anything in her body. she uses a power chair to get
around. i have become her "take the sacrament helper!" i take the bread and rip
it to the smallest little piece and put it on her tongue and then with the water
i put the cup up so it barely touches her lips. reminds me of helping out Buddy
in seminary!!! I LOVE HIM!!
7. for FHE this week we had a pool party and then we learned how to
crochet. hahahhaa. yes, i know can crochet you something for Christmas. any
requests??? it's weird how many non members come to these activities!! it's the
best place for missionary work!
8. elder christofferson is coming this next week for some Priesthood
leadership training and then he is doing an investigator/recent convert fireside
and missionaries don't get to go :( sadddddd day
9. there is a elder in my zone that went to mountain crest mamas!! i told
him that you chose the colors and mascot of all that! oh yeah.
10. there is a guy in my ward that i had a sociology class with at BYU.
it's kinda weirding me out. i haven't told him yet. i don't think he recognizes
me.
11. we only have 1 person from utah in our district. THAT'S UNHEARD
OF.
12. the Laotian elders and the Arabic elders both had a baptism last
month!! the first ones they have had since they added those languages like 9
months ago! whoa.
13. there are 5 zones assigned to street contact in down town all day since
the Book of Mormon play is out right now. they said it's been crazy!! people
think they are cast members and want their autograph!! hahaha
14. did a whole bunch of service at a horse arena again this week. we raked
and shoveled horse poopoo for like 4 hours!! i felt like a REAL woman right then.
after we were all done the owner showed us his horses and i brushed one of them!
she ended up getting all close to me and gave me a horse hug :) one of the
elders has the pictures of it so i'll have to steal them from him... but it was
tender. i've grown a tad bit more fond of animals on my mission. NOT DOGS
THOUGH. bleh.
we are having a "sisters retreat" next pday where all the sisters in the
mission go to the SDSU institute and eat lunch and then have like an hour
meeting about sister stuff. i got asked to give a talk at it that is "motivating
and uplifting" BAHHHHHHHHHH who gave someone that idea!?!?? BLAST YOU!!!! so
next week i'll probably email late again... if i don't pass out and die during
my talk!! I'll probably work in my Trafalga story ;) hhehehehe I use that one
EVERY TIME!! that's a money story.
well sister landeen and i went to the Claytons very last mission leadership
council meeting this week :( they go home in like 20 days. sad face. they gave
us all the info on how the transition is going to work and when President
Schmitt is going to bring his family to meet all of us...it's so crazy!!!
Basically President Clayton said that if you call after 11:00 am on the 28th
that President Schmitt is going to answer. whoa. i'm really excited to meet
them!! President Clayton talked to us about opposition and how satan is working
hard on our mission right now because he knows it is a time that he could get
into our hearts more than usual. i've not going to lie, the last two weeks i
have felt it and noticed it. we've been having problems with all sorts of silly
things that haven't been a problem in the past in our zone. so sister landeen
and i are trying hard to be good examples of a few specific things hahaa.
all
the missionaries in our zone say "I'm so sorry you have to serve in a YSA ward!!
that must be so hard. especially in the summer when nobody has school and they
are always hanging out and partying and dating!!" so yeah, that's been a fun
challenge for us. Basically if I'm keeping it real with you all right now,
here is my life....... Pool parties, fun FHEs, 20 something year old girls, 20
something year old guys, the summer, institute, Bible study, and yet i can DO NONE OF IT!!!!!!!!
i'm basically living in the life i
left at BYU but i can't let myself be part of it. We HAVE to go to all the
activities because that is where we meet all the members' nonmember friends!!
that is a challenge. okay i'm going to stop whining. but seriously, keeping
yourself on task and focused at all times in a YSA ward in sunny san diego is
not something i thought my mission was going to consist of..... bahhhhahahhaha
whatevs.
on the upside, our bishopric is AMAZING!!! they really take care of me
and sister landeen :) out of the 150 companionships in our mission (not counting
senior couples) there are 8 that serve in YSA wards. yay for us!!
okay my eyes hurt now. i'm not used to staring at technology for this
long..... hahaha
LOVES!!!
sister barfuss :) :)
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