Sister Emma Rose Barker (2023-2025)

I woke up at 630 as the obedient missionary I am, started to pray and rolled over back asleep till 930 because my nose is full of arequipa frigid air and my throat has caught a frog.  Sometimes I feel like the main character of a church movie and other days I feel like the authors got bored writing my script and they kinda got bored of me so they just put me on replay all week and went out to get fries.  That's kinda how this week was. I feel like we have just been trying and failing and trying and failing and trying and failing. And trying. Which I KNOW is part of the mission, and more than that part of LIFE in general but it doesn't make it easier haha. And to make things better I've had a sandbag brain type of headache the last few days but what can you do?  I was thinking about how cool missionary work is, how thousands of teenagers drop everything and put a piece of paper with their name on it in the mail and say "OK I'm ready to think about others for the nex...

 

Livin in an arequipa wooooorld. (Bro its so big. Like what) I miss tacna I feel like a very small pez in a very grande mar. But HEYYYY here I am, missing my Tacnanians but also livin it up up here.  I promise the words in this email aren't a lot its just the flicks.  Where to start. First of all HIII im a mom (when you get a brand new baby missionary as a comp they say you're a mom lol). Hermana de Hoyos is so cute and not Latina. She's from Alabama and it's been fun to get to watch her begin to open up. It's weird because I literally feel like I just got out of training idk. It's been absolutely wild to have to train a mew missionary at the same time as figuring out where the heck we are and who are the members and where everyone lives and if we're even still in our area. I do a little snoopy happy dance every time I figure out where we are without looking at the map (I guess I'm not as bad at directions as I thought) Happiest part of transfers is I got...

As the festive holiday-keeper i am, we made waffles for breakfast and I wore red and white and Hermana Kelsey had on a blue dress. Happy 4th.  Anywayyyys just like that its the last week of the transfers which is legit crazy. This transfer. Went. So. Fast. Like im unwell abt it but that's ok. Prez sent out our new assignments last night so.  Stanley and I have watched almost all of the district on gospel library, two brothers 2 and even a studio c face to face. Running low on movie night material, if anyone has any hype reccomendations would love it muchly.  It's been getting quite chilly here (aka I have to wear a coat at night) so we've been wearing 2 sweatshirts to bed and the dinosaur santa hat fuzzy socks I have (shoutout mady bird for the awesome Christmas present from like 6 years ago)  MARCO said yes to being baptized!! Which is so exciting. And also so sad that I won't be here to see it beeeecause.   *pause for dramatic effect* I'm leaving. I mean I kin...

Lo siento didn't get my email out in time last week but i had it written sooo you can have double the hermana barker content going on in your inbox this week.  We've had a wild week. "Its already thursday which means its saturday which means its pday" is our new saying because it fliiiiies by.  One of the jovenes we were teaching told us this week he needed to pray like 4 times before the lesson so that he could have the strength to tell me a message he had to deliver (i was not scared more just like uhhh) anyways basically he told me at some point in my life when i got home from my mission i would go through a trial, leave the light and stay in the dark side until i once again saw the light. Wanna be darth vaders struttin the streets of tacna peru.  One of our friends we're teaching who wants to get baptized and knows he wants to and in all his prayers prays to be able to get baptized but "mas adelante" *insert mega eye roll here* anyways hes been intro...