Well we just had transfer calls and Elder Tobchan and I are staying for another transfer. This is President and Sister Hansen's last transfer. We tracted into 2 teenage boys who are 19. We are starting to teach them but they aren't really solid. I hope the Lord changes their hearts. Besides that we have no investigators so we are still finding our butts off - just the average life of a English missionary I suppose. Just some days are really frustrating when it's really hot and humid and everyone just keeps saying NO! I just don't want to get rejected for once in my life but hey, life is still good just need to keep my head up high.
Well we had a fantastic rain storm this past week! The drought finally ended but Elder Tobchan and I were biking that day and it hadn't start raining yet but we see this huge wall of blackness heading our way. We were hoping that we could beat the storm and make it to someones house so we start biking. About halfway there the temperature suddenly got freezing cold and windy and Elder Tobchan asked me about the sudden change and I told him we just entered the storm. Shortly after that we were still biking when we got hammered by 20+mph winds going side ways to us so we are getting blown off the side walks and are just going every where! And Elder Tobchan looked backed at me and said "For Elder Barton's Sister!" (I told him that Deanna wants to be a storm chaser and he kept referring to that the whole ride in the storm it was so funny!) So we are snailing our way on our bikes when the rain just starts to pour buckets on us! We tried to find a place to stop at and we see a Walgreen's and decide to go there but before that is an intersection light. Just before we get there the power goes out and Texans have no idea what to do with no street lights! SO we some how manage to make it across that hectic mess and camp out at the Walgreen's. We were there for about an hour and a half trying to wait out the storm but it wasn't letting up at all so we decided to ride back to our apartment to wait out the storm which is almost 30 min away. But half way home is our chapel and we see a missionary's car there and thankfully our buddies gave us a ride home so that was exciting! I wish I could have gotten video of that but I sent my memory card home so look out for that!
Elder Barton
