9-14-15

Hellllllllloooooooo Team.

Sorry, time is short today but sadly there's a lot to say so I'll do my best with what I've got.

Yesterday we had a pretty crazy experience.  We were just riding to church a few hundred yards from our apartment and suddenly I see 50 feet ahead, a pillar of smoke and a small fire by the side of the road. It was just a pile of stuff in flames on the sidewalk.  I was about to just pass by but then this guy waved us down and told us someone needed to call 9-1-1.  I pulled out our phone and, for the first time in my life, I called 9-1-1.  It was terrifying.  As I was calling, this woman came out with a pot of water to pour on it.  A couple minutes later, after the lady put the fire out, this guy came out of the apartment complex.  We were just standing across the street waiting for the fire department to come and just looking.  He, apparently not happy, yelled, "What are you waiting for?! There's nothing to see!!" We quickly realized that the girl had taken this guys clothes, and lit them on fire...... yeah......we were shocked..... The fire truck came, it took less than a minute to tell them what happened and we were quickly on our way.  So yeah, that's officially the craziest thing that's happened so far on the mission!  But it definitely got my heart racing!

Spirituality time! We've had a lot of opportunities to teach members, especially at dinner appointments.  We've also been encouraged to emphasize using Family History more in our teaching. So, we've been using the dinner appointments as an opportunity to teach about Family History and to get them to do some Family History Missionary work!  Family History is so cool! I wish I had more time to do it!  Read Malichi 4:5-6 and D&C 18:10 for some inspiration but my invitation to you is awesome.  I invite you, if you have not done any family history, to go on to familysearch.org to learn more about it.  If you have done some but want to do more, I invite you to make a goal for how much you will do each week.  It is such a cool thing that we get to do and we should make the most of that opportunity! 

I love you all! Keep up the good work wherever you are and what you're doing!  You are all fantastic!

With Love,

Elder Barnett