members of the Barton family

dear family, hi, how`re you doin? fall here in uruguay it as full swing and i love it. the trees are different colors, the weather is a tad bit cooler during the day, and startin to get respectably cold during the night. but i love it. i couldnt think of being in a better place right now. i love salto i love the ward the only thing is we dont have anyone to teach as of right now. which is kind of a struggle and we spent a lot a lot a lot a lot of time clapping doors with little to no success. i hate clapping doors haha but i did realize this week how much of a miracle it is for someone to let 2 gringos that barely speak the language into their house and alk to them openly about god. i did realize this week how much i love teaching. in rivera we were getting about 30 lessons a week and i took teaching for granted. and now me and elder jones are teaching about 15 lessons a week. and i realize how much i love teaching and just talking with people in general. so yeah this week was just a lot of nothing but im still having a blast i love the other 2 elders in our house and i have just about half the ward convinced that i am from germany and dont know how to speak a lick of english haha. as well as everyone thinks im 30 years old....everytime i ask why they just tell me "i dont know their is just something about your face" haha but yeah we spent easter with a family called the family piedad they are a really famous family in the mission. the mom is known for being a "mom" amongst the missionaries and so she cooked up a lovely meal for the holiday. but yeah fools, hows spring in utah goin? brighton soccer how they doing? nba playoffs are goin in right now i walked into the terminal the other day and celtics were playin the knicks i believe. why isnt anyone filling me in on sports (mary) but wow april flew by fast and sarah will be graduating high school before we all know it. than uhhh megans day...haha than school will be kickin back in and i will hit my year mark haha but yeah thank you all for the love and support i love you all very much. mark tenga suerte with the 42 mile bike ride. the farthest you have ridden is 21 miles?? mark you have to ride double that...get it in gear fool. but yeah i dont have to much to say. love you all elder barton

Salto 2

famiy whats up sorry about last weeks email i was super busy and so yeah. elder jones has been out for a year and a half now and this is his first time being senior comp he is from mesa arizona and like i said he is just really book smart and just really likes to study and on the side of grammar he speaks spanish perfectly., we live in a apartment with 2 other elders, elder morris who went to woods cross high school and he played soccer and we know a lot of the same people in the soccer community so thats good and elder butler from price utah he has one change less than me and he is a super good kid. its interesting to see a lot of the members say i speak really well, sometimes better than elder jones which is a nice shot to the stomach for him haha. and none of these guys have had a latin comp before and im really starting to see the blessings of living with 3 latins for the past 4 months so thats pretty cool. so yeah salto, my area reminds me a lot of logan utah, its a small residental area with 2 busy streets and its really laid back. so i definately like it a lot different from rivera, as for traveling my area has the terminal in it so i never have to pay to the terminal also our district meetings our in our chapel so i definately wont be doing much traveling in this area. and since president heaton knows me all so well your not gonna believe where my house is located....right stickin in front of a high school. every morning im trying to study and i have some high school girl waving to me. yes elder barton. haha but hey its all good. so we had 2 funny stories this week. we were teaching this lady and her kid and we were talking about profets and i just asked do you know what a profet is and the little kid responded no but i know what a prostitute is haha i had to cover my face i just about died of laughter haha. than the other story one of our investigators went to church so after we went to his house and i guess his mom is super evangelic and so he comes out and is just all hey can we go to the bus stop so we were all yeah sure why not. so we had a descently good lesson with this good and at the end he was all hey can i give the prayer and we were just all absolutely you can give the prayer that would be awesome. so before he says it he asks for our names and i was sayin to my self wow this is gonna be good. so he is praying and my eyes are all closed and head bowed not knowing what was gonna go down i feel this hand on my head.and this homeboy was blessing me and elder jones with whatever power he thinks he has and this was right there on a freakin busy road i was just hopin somebody wouldnt come by and see some mormon missionaries being blessed by some homeboy on the side of the road haha. so yeah those were my experiences for this week. and as for the homefront. i feel like i have so little on the mission and everyone is changing and im gonna get home and not know or recognize anyone. megan is gonna have some homeboy, heather probably too, rybart who knows where you will be at. sarah will be all hawaii hooked, carly will be some mega sweet babe in highschool driving the cars and boys crazy, and mary is gonna be some ripped super star along with mark and his bike ;) and so thank you sue my true friend your not gonna change :) but yeah so anywho i guess change isnt bad i guess we will just see i still just feel like im little boy michael barton and you all will be grown up haha. but yeah im outta here i will TALK to you soon only like 3 weeks away. crazy. have a good week. take care of yourselves. keep it krispy.

Sorry

hey family whats goin on?? sorry things have been a little crazy lately with transfers. i got my wish and was transferred to salto, obelisco. my new companion is elder jones from arizona, he is a good kid he reminds me a lot of mark believe it or not. he loves books and is just really a book smart guy. with everything scriptures his spanish he just really likes studying which is always a good thing. so yeah the reason i didnt email tuesday was they told me i was leaving at midnight tuesday night so i was all chillin at a barbeque with the zone and it was about 12 and my zone leaders comes up to me and goes uhhhh we told you wrong you leave at 4:30 so i had to run back to my house which was about 45 minutes away pack and say good bye to a family i really wanted to say bye to so yeah than its pretty really busy every since than. and than i asked my zone leader today if i could send you guys a quick one cause i knew SUE would be worried haha. but yeah so im salto now the ward is i guess one of the best wards in all of the mission i have only met a couple members but i guess there is quite a bit so im excited to see all the members and meet them sunday and everything so yeah thats whats goin on with elder barton i gotta run for now but yeah dont worry im all good love you all. keep it real. -elder barton

this week

hello family hey. hi. how´re ya doin? before i forget this next weekis transfers so i wont be emailing you until tuesday next week. wowthis transfer flew by fast it felt like the other day i was writingabout my new companion elder hernandez. but yeah i have one more weekin rivera im pretty dang sure im bouncing after this week its prettyuncommon for a junior companion to stay 4 changes in one area and soim thinking and wishing i get to leave. im ready to meet new members,know more of uruguay and just have more experiences in another placehaha i love rivera but to much of one thing can be bad and that is thecase here haha. so yeah we baptized part of the family were working onthis week i had the pleasure of performing both the baptisms which wasobviously a pretty cool and awesome experience the marriage we arestill working on uruguay is a little complicated and behind with thatkind of stuff so we are still working on getting the parents married.but yeah im really excited for this next change. im ready for a neweverything. new area, new companion, new missionaries to meet, newmembers. just a new plate. elder hernandez is known not to likegringos and i seem to be the exception but the little gringo crackskeep coming and after living with 3 latinos for the past 3 months ihave heard them all haha. so yeah i consider it a huge blessing tolive with 3 latinos for 2 of my first 3 changes. but there issomething about being companions with a gringo yea with a latino yourspanish improves but being with a gringo you just have more all aroundfun haha. but a some converts of elder hernandez are getting sealedthis week so we are going to montevideo tomorrow until wednesday nighti believe so that should help the week go by faster. so yeah thatskind of the report from elder barton i have to kinda grind out thisnext week but nothing a little hard work wont help fix. so yeah i loveyou all and will talk to you next tuesday!!