changes, birthdays, farewells

so the big news...is not so big news at all. me and elder jones are staying together. as well as elder butler and elder morris. so the house is all staying together for another 6 weeks......kinda sucks but its kinda of good. just cause as a missionary changes are about the most exciting thing that come your way and since nothing happened it just kind of feels like a huuggee big change now haha. but hey its all good i guess nothing i can do. just keep working hard. as for austin and well the rest of my friends that are leaving here soon its super weird. just about the weirdest feeling on planet earth to be seeing these guys leave and are going to experience what i have already experienced these last couple months. they have no idea what there getting into, the mornings laying in bed thinking there is no way i can get up and work, the desperate prayers for strength. the hardest 6 months of my life i have ever been through that i dont think i would pay a dime to go back. all though i look back on it and just see good times and flowers i still remember those days. im pretty sure i spent the first 3 months out here in uruguay praying to get sick and get home haha. but its something that i think all of us as members have to go through a true test of faith a true trial. im so excited to see how they all handle it. and although being a missionary is at times nerdy, it definately weeds out the men from the boys and who can really hack it. i never thought the mission would be so physically challenging but that it is haha. than birthdays. carly happy birthday wow big 16 years old i had someone ask me yesterday how old you were and i said 14 haha than i realized nope today is her birthday she is 15 nope she is 16 haha woooww to me you will always be that little carl, take of the red phantom i give it to you unvoluntarily she drives well i hope still. so yeah as for my week went well. we had a couple of spiritualy lessons. we had a couple investigators that wanted to drop us this past week just cause they didnt want to or complete some of the principles of the gospel and it was really fun to be a tool the hands of the lord and listen to the spirit and say something and they just responded saying you know what your absolutely right i can do this. and the lessons turned from i can do this principle to i want to complete this principal and i will.so that was cool.the mission is making a lot of changes here. they took away our sports on p day yeahhh its gonna be a struggle. as well as just minor things with district meetings and such but thats the big one no sports on p day for this coming change. ha haha but yeah thats it from elder barton this week staying with elder jones for another 6....happy birthday to carl.....good luck for the first 6 months of the mission to austin and michael it feels like a life time haha i love you all and youj all are always in my prayers. good luck planning the wedding peace. keep it krisp