Happy Thanksgiving from India

Hey, well happy thankgsgiving! well i think it will be thanksgiving for you when you get this? haha i dont know. the office couple is having us over for dinner at 3 so that will be nice. definately nothing like grandmas thanksgiving but ill take what i can get. haha. sorry i didnt get to write yesterday either. i hope you havent worried. i wasnt in jail or anything like that haha. it was cuz we had zone conference. it was really good and i learned alot. they taught a lot about studying and gave us tips on how to better study the scriptures. elder singh said it was good i liked the first one cuz he hated his. oh and a little more about my compainion. he is indian but born and raised in northern california we have more and more fun the better we get to know eachother. he is really good at football, well soccer. haha. he is a bangalore zone leader so its pretty cool cuz im learning a lot from him. we live with the other zone leader elder pulla and his jr comp. e pulla is a native from hydrabad. he is funny i laugh all the time. his accent cracks me up and he is always dancing and singing american songs. his jr comp is elder balthrop from houston. he is a paramedic so thats good. haha. it was another great week though. except for right after i e mailed last week i started to feel sick. and on thursday i felt terrible. the food definately wasnt sitting right. haha i couldnt eat for a couple days but im fine and doing great again. it definately made me miss my mommy. haha. we still went out and taught it was really cool to cuz during the lessons i felt fine. we had some great lessons this week. we got 10 new investigators and set 7 baptisimal dates. it was so good to feel some success. we also met a kid named john, his sister is a member and he took the lessons with her. we met with him and set him for baptism. here in india they have to attend all 3 hours of church for 3 weeks and then they can get baptized. but he has came to church for a while and when we set him for december he was like why not sooner. and we talked to pres and he said we can. so were going to be having a baptism!!! we teach a lot of recent convert lessons too. we need to work with the members so they will give us refferals. and it looks like that well be all well be doing for a while because i dont know if you have heard but today there was a terrorist attack in india. so the whole mission cant procelite now. they didnt give us details on the attacks but i guess its kind of seriouse? you probably know more than us. but im safe and doing great! so dont worry, we are very careful where we go and where we find. it sucks though cuz i was just starting to enjoy knocking doors. but pres just told us to let you know we are all okay.this week was one of the first times i have felt like the spirit guided me on where to go. we had been walking all day and i was starving. it was like 7. there is a noodle vendor on the street that we eat at its a huge plate for only 14rs anyways i told elder singh lets go eat. and he was like we gotta get into one more house i can feel it. and then i got the feeling too. we had no success for a while and knocked a bunch of doors. then we realized we needed to go to some people we have been teaching and they have rejected baptism. but when we went in we set this woman maria and her son mark. they have been coming to church but just not wanting to get baptized. her husband wanted nothing to do with the church but he sat through the lesson and we actually set him too!! the spirit does guide us and i just need to listen. the weather is so nice here. its cool all day. the locals say its freezing but it feels great to me. haha. it has rained off and on this week. it was funny cuz on the way here it was raining and the roads were slick our auto driver was about to rearend the car in front of us and slammed on the breaks we spun all the way around and stoped with hardly any room to spare. elder singh and i were just laughin. there is no such thing as a close call here. every second is a close call. ha halove you all and hope everthing is going great.love, elder barr