Hello!!!
Oh how wonderful it was to talk to my family on Christmas!!!! That was probably the best Christmas present I could have ever recieved! This Christmas was one of the best krimmas I have ever had. I am pleased that everyone said that I look "glowing" I was worried that the glow stick I ingested wouldn't work. (sorry that was such a horrible joke... I try to be funny)
On friday our friend Gerard was Baptized! It was a great service and he looked really happy, we were so excited for him and for our little branch.
This last week we spent a LOT of time finding new people to teach, I am getting quite sick of walmart, malls and the target.... I can tell you exactly where to find just about anything you want. It's almost like i work there but I think my job is a lot cooler than the walmart people... I am bringing people eternal salvation and they are just bringing them really low prices on everything you ever dreamed of having (well maybe not everything)
Our branch president is doing a lot better, he was able to be at church again after his surgery. I have gotten really close to him and his family, they are some of the best people I know! They have adopted me into their family and I feel so blessed to have them :)
Oh some good news!!! I am not being transfered!!!!! I get at least another 6 weeks in my little branch :) our goal this next transfer is to bring as many souls as we possibly can to their savior Jesus Christ! We are going to work hard and go crazy :)...... but not too crazy!
I am not really sure how my new years will look... Honestly I can't even remember what I did a year ago so I am sure this new years will be just as memorable, or more. I will probably end up going to bed at my normal 10:30 pm, that happens to be my favorite part of the day anyways.
it's weird to think that it is almost 2014... A year ago this whole process of the mission started... I can't believe how fast time is going by... I feel like I say that all the time but honestly it is racing by. The only thing that I can do is learn as much as I can while I still have all this life left in me
2013 has been a crazy year for me! It hasn't been the best year of my life but it has by far been one of the best years for my life! I have learned so much about myself and about my Savior. I feel like I am becoming the person I have always wanted to be, there is still a lot of work to do but some progress has been made! My years started with a new job working at legends grill, meeting some amazing people, dating someone who helped me learn so much, finishing another semester at BYU, spending a month before my mission doing really fun things, and then leaving on a crazy adventure! It has been a packed year and I bet next year will be even better!
Hurrah for 2013 :)
Sorry I don't have a ton to write about today! ya'll are my favorite and I really miss you but we have a lot of amazing things to look forward too :) We will be together forever!
I love you guys :)
have a blessed- awesome- rockin New Years! Stay safe and go crazy for me :)
I will talk to ya'll next year!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Sister Emzil Barnett
Monday, December 30, 2013
Monday, December 23, 2013
MEEERRRRYYY KRIMA-time
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
This is a great time of year isn't it? I love Christmas, I must be my grandmothers granddaughter :)
This week we have an amazing blessing to be able to have a baptism right after Christmas, we are so excited to be able to bring this Christmas present to the Lord!
This is a time of year that we all get to reflect and look towards the future, we are able to remember our savior Jesus Christ. It truly is Joy to the World that he came for each of us- joy that I want everyone to know and feel!
This week we spent a lot of time finding new people to teach, we haven't had a ton of success but we are working as hard as we can. I have an amazing companion who is such a hard worker and loves being a missionary! We are becoming better friends, which is making the work a lot easier!
This is a great time of year isn't it? I love Christmas, I must be my grandmothers granddaughter :)
This week we have an amazing blessing to be able to have a baptism right after Christmas, we are so excited to be able to bring this Christmas present to the Lord!
This is a time of year that we all get to reflect and look towards the future, we are able to remember our savior Jesus Christ. It truly is Joy to the World that he came for each of us- joy that I want everyone to know and feel!
This week we spent a lot of time finding new people to teach, we haven't had a ton of success but we are working as hard as we can. I have an amazing companion who is such a hard worker and loves being a missionary! We are becoming better friends, which is making the work a lot easier!
I know that the lord knows me so well and has put me into this little branch so that I can learn and grow and become exactly the person he wants me to be. I am learning how to love some, not so lovable people and I am learning to be patient and control only what I can.
This last week I went on exchanges with Sister Sullivan, the one sister I have served around the longest. It was good to be with her and learn a lot about being diligent from her. She is a very hard worker and knows how to be a great missionary, we came out about the same time and it is really cool being with her because we both know now how to be missionaries... it is cool to be able to see the people grow and change around me. Progression, change, the atonement in action!
This coming week is going to a amazing and I know it will fly by so fast! Next week is already transfers and I have no idea what is going to happen! Next week my trainer- sister markowitz will be going home. I feel like it is the end of a crazy era with her leaving, she is a great missionary and will be missed in the GAM!
The time on the mission is flying by so fast... I can't believe it is Christmas and I GET TO TALK TO MY FAMILY!!!! I am so excited! I remember when I called home from the airport and pa jokingly said that he would talk to me next week at Christmas and now it is this week!!!
Thank you to everyone for the packages and Christmas greeting :) it has been so fun to get things in the mail and they always brighten my day!
I am kind of sad that I only get one Christmas season as a missionary... maybe I will stay a little longer next year so I can experience two!!!!
(I can just imagine grandma's reaction after reading that!!! "NO!!!!!!!!!" and then she will pretend to cry :) and now she will think of all the ways to convince me to come home when I am supposed too)
I don't think they will let me stay any longer than I am supposed too.... But it was a good thought :)
Well my dearly beloved! I LOVE YOU
Talk to ya'll soon!
love,
Em
This last week I went on exchanges with Sister Sullivan, the one sister I have served around the longest. It was good to be with her and learn a lot about being diligent from her. She is a very hard worker and knows how to be a great missionary, we came out about the same time and it is really cool being with her because we both know now how to be missionaries... it is cool to be able to see the people grow and change around me. Progression, change, the atonement in action!
This coming week is going to a amazing and I know it will fly by so fast! Next week is already transfers and I have no idea what is going to happen! Next week my trainer- sister markowitz will be going home. I feel like it is the end of a crazy era with her leaving, she is a great missionary and will be missed in the GAM!
The time on the mission is flying by so fast... I can't believe it is Christmas and I GET TO TALK TO MY FAMILY!!!! I am so excited! I remember when I called home from the airport and pa jokingly said that he would talk to me next week at Christmas and now it is this week!!!
Thank you to everyone for the packages and Christmas greeting :) it has been so fun to get things in the mail and they always brighten my day!
I am kind of sad that I only get one Christmas season as a missionary... maybe I will stay a little longer next year so I can experience two!!!!
(I can just imagine grandma's reaction after reading that!!! "NO!!!!!!!!!" and then she will pretend to cry :) and now she will think of all the ways to convince me to come home when I am supposed too)
I don't think they will let me stay any longer than I am supposed too.... But it was a good thought :)
Well my dearly beloved! I LOVE YOU
Talk to ya'll soon!
love,
Em
Monday, December 16, 2013
Here we go again
Okie dokie! here we go again!
This last week went by really fast, I am not sure what to say about it but I will do my best!
I am going to send ya'll a picture along with this email of my little branch that I serve in, I sure love these people!!!
Our Branch President, President Bristol went into surgery this last week, he is doing well now! The last three months I have gotten really close to the Bristol family, I don't know what I would have done without them here in the Branch. They are the family that we will be spending Christmas with and calling from their home!
One of our investigators, Gerard has decided to be baptized! we are so so so excited for him and the great blessing this will be in his life! I was really excited when he told us this, my companion started filming me but the video is too long to send over email so I will have to show ya'll when I get home!
lilly is doing amazing! We had a new member lesson with her this last week and we were able to go and eat dinner with her and her family on Wednesday night, they are really great people! Although her brother asked me some very interesting questions regarding the church, sometimes the questions people ask make me laugh!
on Friday we had zone conference, it was a Christmas program and it was really good! they even played a Grinch song which made me so so so happy! I can't wait to watch that movie next year!!!!
Saturday we spent the vast majority of the day just trying to talk to people around stores, everyone was rushing around became of Christmas's.
Yesterday after church we went to the petitta's home (grandma sis petitta is going to come see you when they are in Utah coming up :) she is bringing a small bag of things I don't need home) Hopefully this won't be the last time I see them on my mission... they won't be back from their daughters wedding until after transfers (which are in 2 weeks! time is going fast!)
This evening the branch is having an annual branch Christmas party, we are going to have a white elephant gift exchange... Lots of people usually show up to this! I am excited :)
I hear the weather in Utah has been freezing! i am sorry ya'll have to suffer through that!!!
I want to bear my testimony to each of you about the power of prayer in our lives. I know that I have a Heavenly Father in my life who loves me and listens to my needs and desires and who helps me through the tough times which are many. I know he is there for all of you as well :) Trust in him and believe in good things to come!
Thank you for everything :)
Mail would be nice :)
Love,
Sister Emily Barnett
This last week went by really fast, I am not sure what to say about it but I will do my best!
I am going to send ya'll a picture along with this email of my little branch that I serve in, I sure love these people!!!
Our Branch President, President Bristol went into surgery this last week, he is doing well now! The last three months I have gotten really close to the Bristol family, I don't know what I would have done without them here in the Branch. They are the family that we will be spending Christmas with and calling from their home!
One of our investigators, Gerard has decided to be baptized! we are so so so excited for him and the great blessing this will be in his life! I was really excited when he told us this, my companion started filming me but the video is too long to send over email so I will have to show ya'll when I get home!
lilly is doing amazing! We had a new member lesson with her this last week and we were able to go and eat dinner with her and her family on Wednesday night, they are really great people! Although her brother asked me some very interesting questions regarding the church, sometimes the questions people ask make me laugh!
on Friday we had zone conference, it was a Christmas program and it was really good! they even played a Grinch song which made me so so so happy! I can't wait to watch that movie next year!!!!
Saturday we spent the vast majority of the day just trying to talk to people around stores, everyone was rushing around became of Christmas's.
Yesterday after church we went to the petitta's home (grandma sis petitta is going to come see you when they are in Utah coming up :) she is bringing a small bag of things I don't need home) Hopefully this won't be the last time I see them on my mission... they won't be back from their daughters wedding until after transfers (which are in 2 weeks! time is going fast!)
This evening the branch is having an annual branch Christmas party, we are going to have a white elephant gift exchange... Lots of people usually show up to this! I am excited :)
I hear the weather in Utah has been freezing! i am sorry ya'll have to suffer through that!!!
I want to bear my testimony to each of you about the power of prayer in our lives. I know that I have a Heavenly Father in my life who loves me and listens to my needs and desires and who helps me through the tough times which are many. I know he is there for all of you as well :) Trust in him and believe in good things to come!
Thank you for everything :)
Mail would be nice :)
Love,
Sister Emily Barnett
Monday, December 9, 2013
New Address and other mission things
Family!
Another week has some and gone in the life of sister barnett. It was a crazy week... but that's how it is in the life of a missionary I guess! On wednesday it will have been 28 weeks since I walked away from ya'll at the MTC. those precious weeks in the service of my Savior, weeks that have changed me forever!
Last week we moved to a new apartment! it is a lot warmer than my last one... I am thankful about that!
my new address is....
Sister Emily Barnett
151 Cleburne Pkwy
apt # 1215
Hiram, GA 30141
In the move we lost a few things.... like our dinner calendar. Also I don't have a functional desk yet... one of the legs wasn't working right so they couldn't put it together (I really don't know why I just told you about that really not important aspect of my life... my mind is everywhere today) But it is slowly feeling like a nice little home fro missionaries to live it!
Friday the baptism of Lilly went really well! I was honestly suprised at how smoothly it went... I love when things work out how they are supposed to! On sunday she was confirmed a member of the church by our Branch Mission Leader who happens to be 19- it was a really cool opportunity to be able to watch him use his preisthood keys, he has been an amazing BML and has been so patient with all of my growing pains. He is going to be a great missionary, he has and will change many peoples lives! I am going to miss that kid when I have to leave this branch.
This last week I spent a few hours on the phone talking to my mission president about a situation that happened last week with the sister training leaders in the zone. President Harding has taught me so much about faith and forgiveness truly he is an amazing inspired leader. Sometimes I feel like I was specifically sent to this mission for him- I needed his love and help in my life more than I knew I needed.
Things are going well with Sister Nielsen, she is an amazing missionary and I am so grateful for her love and example to me! We have our struggles but things are getting much better than they were before! I know she is supposed to be here in the branch and I know she is supposed to be my companion.
I have been thinking a lot about Christmas recently (I know it's an odd thought to be having around this time of year) and It is hard not being home but honestly I will never have a Christmas like this again. We celebrate this season to remember our Savior Jesus Christ who was sent to this earth for each of us. There is nothing I could be doing that could be better than focusing my life on him at this time- I feel so blessedto get this opportunity.
Thank you to all of you who support me in my mission, because I have your support I get to help others feel love that comes from God!
I hope ya'll have a great week! Remember that you can find skrength (thats how the georgians say it) in scriptures! Remember that I love ya'll!
Have a blessed week my dear family :)
Love,
Sister Emily Katherine Louise Barnett (I have a really long name....)
Another week has some and gone in the life of sister barnett. It was a crazy week... but that's how it is in the life of a missionary I guess! On wednesday it will have been 28 weeks since I walked away from ya'll at the MTC. those precious weeks in the service of my Savior, weeks that have changed me forever!
Last week we moved to a new apartment! it is a lot warmer than my last one... I am thankful about that!
my new address is....
Sister Emily Barnett
151 Cleburne Pkwy
apt # 1215
Hiram, GA 30141
In the move we lost a few things.... like our dinner calendar. Also I don't have a functional desk yet... one of the legs wasn't working right so they couldn't put it together (I really don't know why I just told you about that really not important aspect of my life... my mind is everywhere today) But it is slowly feeling like a nice little home fro missionaries to live it!
Friday the baptism of Lilly went really well! I was honestly suprised at how smoothly it went... I love when things work out how they are supposed to! On sunday she was confirmed a member of the church by our Branch Mission Leader who happens to be 19- it was a really cool opportunity to be able to watch him use his preisthood keys, he has been an amazing BML and has been so patient with all of my growing pains. He is going to be a great missionary, he has and will change many peoples lives! I am going to miss that kid when I have to leave this branch.
This last week I spent a few hours on the phone talking to my mission president about a situation that happened last week with the sister training leaders in the zone. President Harding has taught me so much about faith and forgiveness truly he is an amazing inspired leader. Sometimes I feel like I was specifically sent to this mission for him- I needed his love and help in my life more than I knew I needed.
Things are going well with Sister Nielsen, she is an amazing missionary and I am so grateful for her love and example to me! We have our struggles but things are getting much better than they were before! I know she is supposed to be here in the branch and I know she is supposed to be my companion.
I have been thinking a lot about Christmas recently (I know it's an odd thought to be having around this time of year) and It is hard not being home but honestly I will never have a Christmas like this again. We celebrate this season to remember our Savior Jesus Christ who was sent to this earth for each of us. There is nothing I could be doing that could be better than focusing my life on him at this time- I feel so blessedto get this opportunity.
Thank you to all of you who support me in my mission, because I have your support I get to help others feel love that comes from God!
I hope ya'll have a great week! Remember that you can find skrength (thats how the georgians say it) in scriptures! Remember that I love ya'll!
Have a blessed week my dear family :)
Love,
Sister Emily Katherine Louise Barnett (I have a really long name....)
Monday, December 2, 2013
DECEMBER
Hello!!!
It was a good fat thanksgiving. I ate some delicious smoked turkey (I never want any other kind of turkey ever) and had a lovely thanksamony with the bristol family, I even got to dress up as a pilgrim for a little bit. I didn't even have to purge becasue of all the members feeding us :)
I got sick this last week and had to spend some time in bed (I felt so guilty) but I am now feeling a lot better! Which is good because Sister Nielsen and I are going to tear it up this week! We are going to find more people to teach so that we can stay busy with the end of the year fast approaching!
It was interesting not being able to talk to the fam this thanksgiving but I feel special that ya'll set a place for the missionary at the table. I sure missed eating saurkraut and mashed potatoes with ya'll but I am so grateful that I was able to spend this thanksgiving doing something I love more than anything in the world- sharing my testimony with others.
This Friday lilly will be baptized, it has been an amazing privledge to be able to teach her about the restored gospel. I truly feel like the Lord placed this very prepared individual in my life as a testimony to me that this work truly is his. I realize a lot of times that I don't really need to be here- that the Lord could do this without me but he has given me the great opportunity to be here at this time in my life.
Yesterday I felt very prompted to go and bear my testimony during sacrament meeting. I didn't know what I was going to say but as I stood in front of all of the YSA's I felt and exceeding love for them, a love that I have only felt a few times in my life. They always said that on a mission you grow to love the people you serve, I guess I didn't really understand or know what that love was like until yesterday. I desire for all these people to find happiness and joy, I want them to be able to understand how far reaching the atonement is. I want these people to be okay!
I can't believe it is the month of December and that I get to be here on a mission this Christmas, this is going to be the best Christmas of my life for this reason- I am a representative of Jesus Christ!
This Tuesday we get to move to a new apartment, which is exciting and stressful... I realize I should probably get rid of some of my stuff if i am ever going to want to get it all back home... who taught me to like clothing so much? if it makes you feel any better I haven't purchased any article of clothing for more than 18$ here on my mission (other than my boots...) Next week I will know my address for sure so I will be able to let you know what it is :)
Well friends, family, country men! Thank you for all you do! I love ya'll and I am so grateful that I have such a great family :)
Keep staying amazing!
Sis Emily Barnett
It was a good fat thanksgiving. I ate some delicious smoked turkey (I never want any other kind of turkey ever) and had a lovely thanksamony with the bristol family, I even got to dress up as a pilgrim for a little bit. I didn't even have to purge becasue of all the members feeding us :)
I got sick this last week and had to spend some time in bed (I felt so guilty) but I am now feeling a lot better! Which is good because Sister Nielsen and I are going to tear it up this week! We are going to find more people to teach so that we can stay busy with the end of the year fast approaching!
It was interesting not being able to talk to the fam this thanksgiving but I feel special that ya'll set a place for the missionary at the table. I sure missed eating saurkraut and mashed potatoes with ya'll but I am so grateful that I was able to spend this thanksgiving doing something I love more than anything in the world- sharing my testimony with others.
This Friday lilly will be baptized, it has been an amazing privledge to be able to teach her about the restored gospel. I truly feel like the Lord placed this very prepared individual in my life as a testimony to me that this work truly is his. I realize a lot of times that I don't really need to be here- that the Lord could do this without me but he has given me the great opportunity to be here at this time in my life.
Yesterday I felt very prompted to go and bear my testimony during sacrament meeting. I didn't know what I was going to say but as I stood in front of all of the YSA's I felt and exceeding love for them, a love that I have only felt a few times in my life. They always said that on a mission you grow to love the people you serve, I guess I didn't really understand or know what that love was like until yesterday. I desire for all these people to find happiness and joy, I want them to be able to understand how far reaching the atonement is. I want these people to be okay!
I can't believe it is the month of December and that I get to be here on a mission this Christmas, this is going to be the best Christmas of my life for this reason- I am a representative of Jesus Christ!
This Tuesday we get to move to a new apartment, which is exciting and stressful... I realize I should probably get rid of some of my stuff if i am ever going to want to get it all back home... who taught me to like clothing so much? if it makes you feel any better I haven't purchased any article of clothing for more than 18$ here on my mission (other than my boots...) Next week I will know my address for sure so I will be able to let you know what it is :)
Well friends, family, country men! Thank you for all you do! I love ya'll and I am so grateful that I have such a great family :)
Keep staying amazing!
Sis Emily Barnett
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