Another great week in KGF

hey everyone! hope all is well back home. but im still here in KGF!! im excited to have at least onother 6 weeks here. we are working with some great people right now. i cant remember if i told you about robert but its nelsons big brother. we baptized nelson a couple months back but anyways we met robert and didnt know they were brothers. they dont really talk to eachother wich is pretty common here in india. but he has great desire to take baptism. its great to see heavenly father really work with him. he has some word of wisdom problems. the usual tea coffee, but also smoking. but when we taught him he immediately stopped. he has become more than just someone im teaching, he is a great friend. he wants us to teach every day. so its been great to see him progressing daily. his baptism is on may 10th so he is really excited. we are teaching many other really good people but we are having some problem with there pastors come and give them hard time. satan is trying all he can to stop the work, but there still progressing. he can maybe slow it down but there is no stopping this work. we are teaching a sister named selvi. she is really good and has great desire. but her family makes me so sad. her mom died a few years back and her brothers just hurried and arranged her marrage. she wants to come to church but her husband is stopping her. we stopped by her the other night and she just cried and says how she doesnt love her husband and how hard it is. i hope things will work out for her. were trying to teach her husband and build a relationship between them but he speaks no english so its kind of tough. but its a verry humbling experience and makes me greatful to have this gospel and a loving family.we had a great sunday too! 14 investigators came. its crazy how some weeks there wont be any but the next week a bunch come. but the work here in kgf is looking really good. this branch really needs some help and mainly more priesthood. and all 14 who came are potential priesthood holders. :) im really loving the work here and love the people who were working with. anyways im doing great and hope all is well back home in good ol USA. Later,

Kaden week of the 22nd

whaad up? haha. im gonna start trying to talk like an american again. so you guys dont give me crap when i call next month. haha. its crazy how it just changed. thats how people understand so thats what our mind automatically does. and being with natives my whole mission doesnt help. haha. but anyways i had a great week. i got the package from sheela. thanks alot. the ties are dope. haha i dunno about the purple one?? i feel kinda wierd but i wore it twice. haha. its nice to just feel different for a change. i just got a mail from the office saying another package is on the way too. they said it had fallen apart so they had to repackage it. so dont worry it will come. the snickers are soooo tasty. haha. i had snickers in bangalore but its just not the same. so it sounds like the wedding was sweet! thats never a suprise to me but thats good you can help out the fam like you do. there were 20 deaf members that came to conf in kgf. there are like 70 or 80 deaf members in bangalore and i was telling them about mont and shauna. one guy told me to tell mont to send deaf missionaries here. but i told him mont doesnt call missionaries. haha. but it makes them happy to hear about my family also having deaf members.thats sweet nae is liking the bus. tell her its about dang time!! haha. how does she like her new room? or did you put another bed by yours. haha. its crazy she is going to be in 6th grade. i still remember those days. i kissed my first girl. yaya pimp. haha. so you better keep your eye one her and tell her to hate boys. :) i can tell you these things now that im on the other side of the world and you cant beat me. haha.so ya transfers are this next week. i think the 28 or something. i dont think ill get transfered? but you can never say. maybe sri lanka!!!!! that would be cool. but i dont make the rules. haha. oh man and lintons brought up tacos and salsa for a late b day lunch for me. mmmm. i ate so much there was beef and white chicken. haha. you dont get white meat here really. haha. but i was so happy and then we took them to some appointments and they got to teach. i was glad cuz i was so full and didnt wanna move. haha.anyways i had another really good week. and the days are flying by. 6th month mark today. haha. thats weird to think i been gone for that long. oh and i can definatly get nae a chudidar. thats what its called. haha. but when it gets closer just send me some mesurements and ill get it custom made. well ama im happy and healthy. oh and thats crazy garret and the erickson are in the same apt. and hes lost 40 lbs. haha. thats not uncommon actually. i know many who have lost 40. one of the elders here in kgf did. and thats to bad hes sick. drink coke with everything. haha. i have lost like 7 lbs but i look fat. my face and gut. oh well. haha. well i love you mom. your the best!love kaden

Kaden week of April 15th

hey, hows it going. well i had another great week. nothing too crazy or any=thing but the work is going really well. we got to watch conference on sa=t and sun. saturdays total attendance was 4. haha us 4 elders. it was rea=lly good though. i think it was the first time in my life i watched every= talk. haha. i even took notes. the mission does weird things to people. =haha. more people came on sunday so it was good. we had 5 investigators c=ome but its hard because the people here dont understand the english so w=ell and i was usually laughing alone when they would say a joke but its a=lright. i learned a lot during conference, and it sounds like there may b=e some tough times ahead for the world. but im so greatfull to know that =if we just follow this gospel we will be just fine.were teaching some really good people right now and i feel like there is so= much potential here in KGF. i hope to see the success within the coming =weeks. i dont know if i have told about Robert but we have been teaching =him the last couple of weeks and he is so good. he is reading the book of= mormon and praying. he never prayed befor because hes coming from a hind=u background basically. but he said he felt the answer that its true. so =im so excited for him.we had some fun experiences with some investigators this week also. were te=aching big groups of guys and they all like sports. if there playing we u=sually play for a bit... haha. we played a few games of volley ball and i=t was so fun. they are really good and actually put some pretty mean team=s together. they usually are betting about 5 rupees a game so i dont know= if its bad for us to play. but hey im always down to help. haha.oh and im glad the power is on so i can write you. during summer season the=re is always power shortage. they will just unexpectedly cut the power. s=o 2 days back as we got in bed the power went. thats not unusual so i was= just waiting for it to turn back on but nope. so i didnt really sleep th=at night. sweating and hiding from the mosquitos. haha. mosquito bites do=nt really bug me anymore. 5 a day is about average. anyways the power nev=er came on and even all the next day. then as we were getting in bed the =next night i came on. i was so happy. haha.well im doing great. i love what im doing and greatful to have this opportu=nity to serve the lord. as im learning so many things about the gospel i =realize that what im doing is nothing compared to what the savior did for= me. but hes still willing to bless us so much. hope your all doing good.= love youelder barr

Kaden's Birthday Party

Happy Birthday Kaden

hey! well i had a great week. thanks for all the letters i got from everyone. i had a great week this last week. i dont even know where to begin?.. we have been working with a bunch of guys they are in 3 different groups but there are probably like 25 that were teaching and on sunday elder satyadi and i had 17 of them come to church!!! a big change from the 0 we had the week before. the lord truly answered our prayers. we are working with members and have recieved more referals and having more members come on exchange. it really helps a lot when they come and i feel like the investigators have a lot more potential. we set 5 people for baptism this week also so hopefully they can go through within the coming months. so great things are happening in kgf and also in india as a whole.i had a great birthday too. haha i really almost forgot and if it wasnt for some members calling me in the morning i dont know if i would have. its crazy to think im twenty now. haha. im startting to look more and more like my dad every day. and the piles of rice i eat every day are probably why. haha just kiddin dad. but it was just a normal day finding and teaching. on the way to one appointment we had kinda a bad experience. we were just riding along and i heard some skidding and then bang. 2 guys on a motorcycle hit a little kid probably 6 years old and they went flying and the bike almost hit me. so hear i am and theres 3 people out cold on the street so i dropped my bike and ran to the kid and he was breathing so i ran to the driver and he wasnt. he had some cuts on his face. so i was trying to get him to respond and then he finally started breathing by this time some people had gathered around me and i had them help me roll him over and i saw that his head was really bad. ambulences dont really come so we stopped an auto and some people put him inside. but i dont think he made it. the bad thing is is he was drinking too. i just hope the little kid is okay.so that was kinda hard to deal with but then we were planning on teaching Vani. a sister we baptized a month or so back. when i got there they had a suprize party. the 2nd counciler and his family decorated there home and had cake. the popped balloons full of spaghetti all over me. it was pretty funny. its indian culture for whoever party it is they cut the cake so after they sang happy bday indian style. haha i gut the cake. its also custom for the people to feed you i guess it shows there love for you. i felt kinda awkward but oh well. they also rubbed the cake all over my face and they all had a good time. pres zion johns family truly are like my family away from home. they fed us chicken byriani and i think i ate more chicken in 20 min than in 2 months. they dont take no im so full for an answer. but i really had a good day. i dont like all the attention but they definatly made my day special.anyways im so happy these last weeks and have felt the lords help more than ever. hope all is well back home. im doing great and couldnt be more happylove elder barr

Kaden's Doing Great

hey everyone, well its been another good week. a lot of ups and downs. but im learning that thats how missionary work goes. we were so excited because we had set prabu, and a kid named michael for baptism but then they didnt come to church. its hard to see people be so close to the truth but just not quite grab on to it. but it has made me appreciate being born into that covenant because i dont think i could have found it on my own. so we actually didnt have anyone come to sacrament but i feel like some good things that need to happen here in kgf are starting. the branch pres lost his job is really struggling and you can see it affect the branch. so we spant a lot of time focusing on getting close with members this last couple of weeks so hopefully we can start taking them on exchanges and getting more referals. we already have had some good referals so im excited to see what happens. so if any of you know anyone who you think the elders could teach. TELL THEM! haha. and i know both you and the people you share the gospel with will be blessed.anyways so we went to bangalore for zone conf on monday morning at 430. man it sucked waking up that early but we had interviews with president nichols and then got so spend a little bit of time just going around the city. yesterday zone conference was really good we didnt get back to kgf till 11 last night so between waking up at 430 and getting home at 11 were pretty tired. when you first come ont the mission you cant sleep cuz its too early but now i im tired if i go at 11. starting to feel old. haha.but it was a good week and i love india. oh and we stayed at my first companion e singh apartment and as soon as i started talking he was laughing. i was like what and he said your talkin like an indian. haha 4 months with native elders i guess it just happens. but i hope all is well back home. i think conf is this week so enjoy cuz i wont got to see it till the week after and probably not in english. haha. love you.elder barr