August 3, 2015

Another great week here in the West Virginia Charleston Mission! So this week we had some pretty awesome lessons! There is this recent convert named Rhonda that was baptized the week before I got to this area and we started teaching her the new member lessons. She is so solid and is looking for opportunities to share the gospel with her friends and family! She told us about how she is feeling the influence of the Holy Ghost more in her life and it is just amazing to see the amount of progress that she has made! She has a pretty cool conversion story. Yesterday, we went to see the family that we put on date to be baptized on the 29th. We taught them the commandments and they are so solid! They love when we come over and teach them, it is really cool to see how much different they are since we have been teaching them. They seem much more happy and eager to learn from us! Seeing them progress in the gospel makes every single hardship that I have experienced on my mission completely worth it. I know that this church is true and everyone can benefit from it. I know that diligently studying the scriptures and praying morning and night will help us all come closer to our Savior. Heavenly Father loves us so much and he wants to bless us, but he only can when we keep the commandments and do the things that we know we should do. I love you all and I hope that all is well! Be sure to email me! :)

Elder Barazoto

​If you look at one of the pictures from last week, you can see that this is on the opposite side of the street. 

​Cool government building in a place called St. Mary's, West Virginia.

​Awesome view of the river in a place called Boaz in West Virginia.

​This is a painting on a building in Marietta, Ohio.

This is one of MANY cool looking houses that I have seen. I know you will like this kind of stuff mom haha. The best houses in this area are in Marietta.

​This picture and the next one are right next to each other. I just turned a little bit to take this one.

​Awesome view from on top of a hill. This is right now the road from our church building in Marietta.

​This is just me trying to be a professional photographer haha. This picture was taken right down the road from the last 2.

This is a turtle some investigators gave to us. We arent allowed to keep pets so we boiled him up haha. Im going to keep the shell though. More pictures on that next week!