just as expected.

word. so just as expected and its almost guaranteed for every trainer. I stayed with Elder Brown here in Young for another change.they are not bringing in 2 other elders so that means that we will be running Young again. Which I am totally pumped and excited for, I feel like the trial of our faith is starting to end and we are gonna start to see some fruits of our labors here pretty soon...i hope haha it seems like week after week we just work harder and harder and we still have yet to find any real solid investigators so i guess all we have to do and all i know to do is work harder haha i dont know if the lord is tryin to test me or something but i have definately been tested it seems like my whole mission finding investigators was just easy for me and my companions we could find 10 people easily every week and now here we struggle finding 6 haha but i do know next bautism i get or anything i am not gonna take it for granted haha i am gonna love that baptism with all my heart haha i wrote andrea, the lady that we helped quit smoking in rivera this last week and she wrote me one of the best letters i have ever recievedfrom anyone in my whole life haha just saying how i am an angel to her and stuff it was pretty awesome to recieve a letter like that and it just inspired me even more to work hard. so yeah thats my change stayin in young with brown and im excited we are becomingbetter friends every day.so yeah i was up on divisions this last week with elder baugh our zone leader who is finishing his mission he is really cool we are good friends and it was just fun to talk to him about his mission he gave me some really good advice and stuff that i will always remember. ummm this next week coming we dont have to much planned just same old same old we will see if we can finally find some good investigators. so yeah josh poo hicks got his call to here that is soooooo sick!!! i hope i see him do you know if it is my mission or the other mission. remember im in the west mission. that made my day when i heard that he wrote me an email i will write him up a letter ASAP but yeah so everything is chillin down here in the guay i hope you all are doing good. oh one more thing haha it is getting freakin hot here i think i forgot how hot it really was last summer these last couple days have been killers haha but its greeat super better than the cold haha but yeah peace fools alma 13:24 preach the gospel

this week.

well folks feels like i was just saying this yesterday but another change has ended and so i will not be emailing you until next tuesday!! haha sue you can mark that off your on your trunky calender haha. so yeah this week was good, I really really really wanted to meet our goal of finding people this week and so i tried to kinda take it into my own hands haha seeming as how the members arent helping much and we just knocked about every day for 3 hours but to little success we still didnt meet our goal haha we definately cleaned out the area nice and good which i guess is good but we defiantely havent recieved the fruits of our labors yet haha but we will see what goes down this week, im staying up here in paysandu until thursday with elder baughn the zone leader just for divisions and elder brown is gonna go down to young and work see what luck divisions can bring us now haha, we had a zone conference last wednesday about faith and how faith is just what its all about not only in the mission but just in life haha than we also had stake conference this sunday and after all of young went to a park in paysandu and ate lunch it was nice to just kidna of kick it back with the 2 branches together and take a 2 hour lunch without feeling bad about it haha cause our bus to get back to young didnt leave till 230 so yea just enjoyed some nice milanesas with the branches and played ninja in the park haha, elder brown is doing good i like to think im helping him haha his spanish is getting better and better and he is starting to crack out of his shell a little bit with me and learn to enjoy himself a little bit more which is always good,, so all in all this week was good filled with lots and lots of doors getting shoved in ourfaces haha but we will just see what happens to us this week!! but i love you guys all so much thanks for everything! i miss you guys and hope you are all adjusting well to the changes life has brought the barton clan! peace elder barton

mission

hey family so yeah you better believe it another week has come and gone just feels like I was emailing all of you fools yesterday!! But I mean just another typical week here in Young, very little people wanting the message haha Young has definately been my toughest area thus far in my mission and I cant help to ask myself what I am doing wrong, but at the same time I know im trying my hardest and thats all I can ask of myself and so I guess its all good haha. Being a trainer definately makes you have to elevate your game and elevate your ability as a missionary especially when your comp cant talk to anyone yet haha but I know elder brown is tring hard and he is constantly studying its just a matter of time and he will be speaking better than me im sure. So this week I went on divisions with elder rodriguez from el salvador and it was a good time divisions are always fun just to change up the routine and see how other people work, and I got to meet elder rodriguez a little better he is a super cool kid. this week coming we have zone conference up in paysandu so i think we will go up to paysandu on tuesday night and spend the night with the zone leaders in their house and have zone conference that next morning zone conferences are alright kinda boring and long but its always nice just to see other missionries and have a nice from the hermana heaton haha ummm so yeah oh yeah the bikes also kinda got abandoned seeming as elder brown is 6 foot 7 i soon realized it might just be easier for him to walk they really dont make stuff that big down here in the guay haha so yeah we have been rockin young by foot and young has been kickin our butt i dont think i have ever been so tired my whole mission a greeny comp and a whole city bad combination for elder barton haha but its all good it makes the days go by super fast. but yeah sooo thats just about it from elder barton, i still have a full head of hair, and still relatively the same weight so mark take that im not getting fat and with summer kickin in here its just more likely that i start to lose weight here in a bit thats right i survived the winter without gaining weight haha its definately starting to get hoter and hoter here and it just seems like i tackled last summer and now here it is around the corner but hey its good haha i think christmas is gonna be here before we all know it and that will be insane. but yeah so all is relaxed from here down in the guay with a full head of hair and the same stomach i left with haha. i love you all and thanks for everything you do for me! definately could not be doing this whole mission thing without the prayers and thoughts from you guys, this has definately been quite the journey and one of the hardest things i have ever done but yet the funnest haha. so yeah peeeaaaccceeee -elder barton

happy birffffffffday....

alright everyone happy birthday to mark to start offf biigggg ol´ 5-2 haha that is crazy fool!!! happy birthday big guy. my week went well, just kinda worked liked crazy haha come saturday night and neither of us could even stay awake, we were hungry from our fast, tired from the day haha and both dying of sleep it was funny haha still not the biggest fan of fast sunday...what can i say i like to eat haha but yeah me and elder brown worked pretty hard and elder brown is starting to crack his shy shell so thats good we are getting a long better and better each day.we were invited by a family this past week to attend their church on saturday and if we went to their church they would come to ours, so saturday for about an hour we went to this church called church of god, it was a fine meeting just all normal i think a little part of me was waiting for something crazy weird but in the end it was totally normal and cool haha and i just realized how similiar our church really is to other churches, not to much different but i just realized between it all is who has the authority to do all these things, which comes from our man j-money smith (joseph smith) and how he truly was a prophet and god really did give him the priesthood so yea that was kinda of the lesson i learned this week that everyone that goes to church is sincerely trying and worship in very similar ways but just like everything else it just falls on the book of mormon and joseph smith. so yeah that was fun i guess to go to another church and just see what other people thing of god. this week i believe im going on divisions with my district leader elder rodriguez from el salvador, should be fun elder rodriguez is a super good guy and good missionary im excited to learn from him. so yeah me and elder brown are traveling up to paysandu tomorrow it will be nice to see some other missionaries it feels like i havent seen anyone but elder brown in a while and i guess it has been like 2 or 3 weeks which is quite a bit of time i dont know haha. im gonna be honest i dont really have to much to say just that same as always just working pretty hard with my new greeny comp haha and trying to help him out, make sure he is having a good time.its weird to see someone in the same position i was in just a couple of months ago which feels like yesterday but he says he is having fun which is always important just to have fun. the weather is starting to get hotter and hotter here as summer slowly comes our way...thank goodness im getting pretty dang sick of winter and waking up to a freezing cold house its actually descent weather to wake up to now days and i realized how white i am from being covered up all the time haha so im excited to get a little tan and hopefully lose some weight, i dont think i have gained any weight but i definately have lost just about all my muscle im doing pushups and stuff in the morning but i dont think its serving me much haha. but yeah i hope you all are doing well and that everyone is adapting to new things are home, you better now throw away my couch i will kill someone and so yeah keep it krispy and real gangsta talk to ya next week. elder michael barton