Week 77 Update!

 Week 77 March 4 -March 10, 2024  (Transferred to new area -Salem on 2/29/24)


Hey guys! It been a while haha 😅. Anyway to start I thought I would let you guys know that I was transferred! I sadly left the coast, and got transferred to Salem! I was kind of nervous at first because my whole mission I have been in the boonies, and now I was going to the biggest city in the mission. 

In my 1 week here Salem has already been crazy. To start we almost got hit with fireworks, that was crazy. They lit them off like 20 ft from us, and we thought it was a gunshot at first. However while they were going off we found someone new so maybe we need more fireworks...then just a couple days ago there was a shooting in a park we were walking around in just the day before it happened. Not gonna lie that was pretty scary to think about. 
The good news though is I have probably taught the Restoration here more times than I did in my last area which is nuts. We have a couple people that are kind of progressing which is really cool to see. Our friend Sharon is super awesome, she is praying about getting baptized right now!! Then our other friend Kelly told us he would read the BoM every day this week. So there is some good stuff happening here in Salem. We also have chick fil a here and Costco so it is pretty hard to complain.
That's about it for my update, one last thing we had zone conference and we talked alot about general conference and how important it is to be listening and learning from our prophets. Our President invited us to spiritually prepare for this one coming up, not sure how I'm going to do that yet, but I'm excited! Let me know if you have any ideas. 
Elder Barker 









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