saludos a abuelo barton

family barton, im sad to hear of the death of our grandpa, last night when the zone leaders called me to tell me my change the first thing they asked was have you talked to president heaton right? and i responded no why whats goin on and they said nothing told me my change and 10 minutes later i recieved the call. and president heaton broke the news haha its weird he is like the first person i had really known to die. ha but yeah he gave me the permission to call you guys for a couple minutes so i decided to do so. im glad to hear everyone is ok with the news and if their is anything i can do for anyone please let me know and i will do my best to do so. but yeah willard was a gangsta for sure mad daps mad love but we all know he needed to go and he is in a way more tight place now that for sure. all your emails said it he was a man of the lord all his life his faith never waivered and his love for the gospel never left for a second and for that he will recieve his place in the mansions of the lord and the blessing of this gospel if we all take those same decisions we can live with him in that gangsta mansion. but yeah my new comp is elder hernandez, from chile. like i said on the phone elder hernandez has a really bad rep amongst the missionaries a lot of people dont like him and they all have reason he has been caught numerous times playing video games in the cyber sleeping in, staying out late, listening to kumbya, movies and all that jazz but hey its all good. i know the lord put us together for a reason and really he is a great missionary when he puts his mind to it and is a super good teacher. i just think he needs positive influences so yeah im just gonna really focus this change on being positive and being lovingly bold and were gonna do some great things. it always helps to have a latino comp to with the spanish and so far 2 out of my 3 comps have been latino so i consider that a huge blessing. but yeah these past 4 days i have been the senor companion with hermano fontes he only has 16 years old and is well preparing for a mission i know i wasnt doing these type of things when i was 16 haha so yeah it was super fun i had a lot of fun with him and we worked super hard and i hope i set a good example for him for when he goes on his mission. thats crazy cool about thomas going to chile, thomas if your reading this you may suck at spanish but wait to you get that plaka on ya (i cant remember what its called in english) and man the power that comes with this calling is incredible your no longer thomas loomis your elder loomis and its a moment where your the closest to god and you can literally perform miracles including speaking a different language. so yeah my love to grandpa barton good luck at the funeral tomorrow. saludos to all. i love and pray for you all everyday if there is anything i can do let me know. so yeah i think thats about all good luck in all your doings