Month: February 2025

On Tuesday, we had MLC on zoom, then we finished planning our week. We visited with a sweet lady, then went downtown to visit some people. Somehow we are always drawn to the crazy things happening downtown. We get close to one of the houses, but all the surrounding streets are blocked off by police. So many police. We park and are visiting some other people around there when we see an officer standing of the back of a truck with a big gun aimed at this house. It was definitely a fun experience. We always seem to run into something downtown. We had a super fun dinner that night! 

Wednesday was funny! This one member also gave us a gallon of milk so we ran over to the church to put it in the fridge for later. We ran into 4 different sets of elders there, so that was fun! We visited a few more people, then came back to the church for a meeting with the stake president. The we had dinner with the Quacks. We were there for way too long but it was so fun! We had a blast! 

On Thursday, a member taught us how to crochet! We had run to Walmart before visitinh her and grabbed crochet hooks and yarn. It is so addicting! Sister Richey and I spent any free time doing it. We joked that we had officially become old ladies. We heart attacked a bunch of doors, then we went to young womens.

We visited a ton of members on Friday! We had a blast talking with them. Then we had dinner with the Stubbs and they did a valentine's themed tea party! They had a bunch of little food, like mini heart shaped cucumber sandwiches, little cream puffs, spring rolls, some strawberry things, it was so much fun! And they gave us chocolates for valentines day. It was so sweet of them! I'm gonna miss the Stubbs!

Saturday was good! We cleaned the church, then had a lesson, then did a bunch of visits and church invites. We had dinner with a family who are newer to the church and had a good conversation. 

Its crazy that Sunday was my final Sunday in Oregon! We had a couple lessons with members and I did some packing! We also had a super fun dinner! They had 4 kids and adopted 5 more and they live on a farm. We got to hold some baby goats and they were absolutely adorable! 

Over the course of my mission, my testimony of Jesus Christ has been strengthened and I am excited to apply what I've learned at home. I will see you all on Friday!

Love,

Sister O'Barr 

On Tuesday, it was dumping snow all day. I just wanted to go play in it. We visited with a member. We then worked on cuttting out a bunch of hearts because we plan to heart attack doors next week! We had an early dinner because our members didn't want us to drive home in the dark. 

We spent so much time at interviews on Wednesday but it was fun! It was my final transfer interview with President. I'll have a departing interview right before I leave next week. We had a lesson with a returning member, then visited a bunch of people. We had dinner with some super funny members. We laughed a lot!

Thursday was pretty good. We made some cookies to drop off to people. Then we had a member message with a fun couple. They made us pumpkin bread and it was so good! We had dinner with a fun family! 

Friday was full of lessons. We had a friend lesson, then 2 member messages. We had dinner with a member. It was her birthday so we got cake! 

We spent 3 hours doing a serviceon Saturday. We cleaned this kitchen and it looked so much better when we were done! We visited with a member and she tried to teach us how to crochet. We had a fun member dinner. She always makes good food! 

Sunday was good. We went to church. We originally didn't have any lessons planned, but a member offered to have us over for dinner, then we ended up visiting with 2 other members! We also planned out our week.

I hope you all like this verse from Doctrine and Covenants section 6:36: “Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.”

Love,

Sister O'Barr 

On Tuesday, we went and visited a bunch of people. We had some fun lessons with some less engaged members. We texted a bunch of people, then had dinner with a member family! They are so fun! We did some more texting and some social media.

We had a couple member messages on Wednesday. We walked around and saw a bunch of people. This older couple took us out to dinner, which was fun! 

We were busy on Thursday! We didn't have any lessons but we made sure to use our time. We visited a bunch of people and texted a ton of people to invite them to stake conference. We went to young womans and we also went on exchanges. Sister Lefler came with me in my area.

Exchanges were fun! We had a friend lesson, then ate lunch, then had a couple member messages. We were going to bike but it was pouring rain and Sister Lefler didn't bring a rain jacket, so we drove instead. We had a super fun member dinner. Its a single mom and her 10 year old son loves to cook! So he got a cookbook from his school library and made all these fun Chinese dishes. It was good! We exchanged back!

We had a pretty good Saturday. We went to help clean the church. Then we ran home to change, then returned to the church for a lesson. We came home to do personal study, ate lunch, then invited more people to stake conference. We had a fun lesson with a member, then visited a few people. We had a good member dinner. We then went over to the adult session of stake conference. 

We had the general session of stake conference. It was good except for the hard chairs. The cool thing was that a media referral that we got pulled up to church! We had never met him before and got the referral the night before. He came, we got members to sit with him and he said he'll be back next week! We visited with some people, ate dinner, then went to bed!

It's snowing all day today and will be tomorrow as well! It's been super fun! 

I hope you all have a great week!

Love,

Sister O'Barr