chau November

another months has come and gone! and I am currently sweating like crazy here in this cyber right now haha it is sooooo hot!!!!! and with the ocean right there it is just humid and you cannot escape the humidity haha. this week was good we really worked hard to reach our goals and just be the best missionaries we could I feel like at the end of the week in terms of reaching our goals we didnt have the best but i can honestly say I gave it all I could me and elder hall were both just drained and practically fell asleep in sacrament meeting and sunday school haha the stake presidency came in and really dropped the cane hard on the rama saying that this rama has more potencial than what its showing and that we need to fill the chapel every sunday haha so hopefully that motivated the members a little bit to get up and magnify their callings, i dont know why but the lord certainly loves giving elder barton tough little ramas to work with haha but its all good i have learned a lot and i know the will only serve me for my good in the end. december is here and that is pretty crazy i remember my last phone call last christmas that doesnt feel all that long ago and I think I will be talking to you guys before I know it haha but yeah we have zone conference this week and i will get to see elder harris there i havent seen him in like 9 months so it will be fun to see him he has exploded to be a great missionary and is really having a lot of success on his mission, and the competitve michael barton is getting nice and competitive i never thought i would get competitive during my mission but you know michael barton when the competitivie blood gets going haha its something I really need to work on but i really am happy for him he really deserves it he is a great guy and a great missionary and deserves it all. so yeah school ended this week which makes it nearly impossible to find people at home EVERYONE is at the beach and no one is home haha watching people come and go from the beach not gonna lie kinda makes me trunky haha and i cannot wait till i can go to the beach haha but its ok in time in time, so yeah thats just whats going on here SUMMER is in full strike school is out and me and elder hall our sweating/working like crazies out here in playa pascual haha but yeah i hope you all had a good week and that everyone had a good thanksgiving i love you all so much thank you for the prayers and everything they are definately needed. love you all with everything i got. -elder michael barton

the low down on playa pascual(rio de la plata)

word. so apparently i didnt give a very good update on my new area haha. i live in a house with just my companion my district is about 1 hour away from the rest of the zone...so im kinda out in the middle of no where again but not really haha my area is basically 3 little towns playa pascual, santa monica and another city about 25 minutes away called libertad. its a tiny rama that hasnt had a baptism since last march and have only had 3 baptisms here this year, all of which are inactive haha so it seems that president heaton has yet given me another challenge in terms of an area thats a really good baptizing area but its all good nothin but learning and challenges haha we are not riding bikes we are walking all of it and it is starting to get really really hot again i cant believe 2011 is over its pretty crazy to think about! haha and yes after a couple days i did finally get my voice back haha so thats always good but yeah so thats really the area but so far i like the area and the members are pretty good, my only true complaint is president, he kinda knows us as missionaries come and go and so he doesnt really show the est effort to try to get to know us or try to help us in anyways something that i never really liked on my mission just members that make you feel so temporary and so not of value haha never really thought of it like that before the mission but its true we do come and go as misionaries but he can still make somewhat of an effort to try and help/get to know us haha but yeah thats really about it from here its just getting hotter and hotter im loading the pictures on to the pendrive right now and sending it off this week so you guys will get to know salto elder jones young with elder terault and elder brown hope you enjoy them! and november is flying by ha its prettycrazy christmas is right around the corner! but yeah i hope you all are doing good and enjoying life thats something i have learned here on hte mission just to enjoy life haha and take it for what its worth i see people that just work from 6 am to 10 pm and that just does not look fun to me haha and it looks like they are miserable so yea enjoy life and live it for all its worth! have a good week talk ot ya soon! peace keep it krispy -elder barton

playa pascual

alright so I am here in my new area and so far so good I really like it a lot its just a little beach town down here in the department of san jose its not much of a beach but igual its a beach and its pretty cool I really like it a lot haha. its a little branch going on down here with about 25 to 30 people showing up every week. not a whole lot of support we have from the members but once again thats just the story of my mission haha the branch president is really cool, really rich haha he has a pool at his house he has a daughter that studied at byu for 4 years and speaks perfect english haha and his son is off to chile next month to serve his mission! there are some other families in the ward that our really cool there is a member that looks like a huge hawaiin guy and acts like one too he always says to up whattssss uuuuppp elders haha and its just about the only english he knows haha he is pretty cool, elder hall is in his third change and has just about as much excitement to speak spanish and work as anyone i have ever seen haha sometimes he doesnt have any idea what people say and he just goes off haha and gives a complete opposite answer to the persons question haha its funny so it should be a good change with elder hall. this week i had a tragedy happen. i lost my voice haha. i showed up here to playa and i literally couldnt talk so its kind of a problem when your just is to talk to everyone you can and you cant haha so i was a little frustrated the last couple days not being able to talk to anyone. also elder hall doesnt know the area quite as well as he should and we kinda walk a little lost and often walk innappropriate circles and back track a lot its a little annoying but we are both getting to know the are little by little haha i dont really like changing areas its kinda annoying i wish i just knew the area now but with time it will come i know so yeah thats just about it from me just got to the playa and working hard and its starting to get nice and humid here by the beach. but thats about it for now i will catch ya´ll later! peace

SUMMER TIIIMMMMEEEE and IM ON THE BEACH

family and friends of elder barton changes have once again come and i have the information to tell you what is now happening to me. I am headed down to MONTEVIDEO. in a area called rio de la plata or its known in the mission as playa plasqual. so its gonna be interesting to be more in the city and not have horses around me when im outside we will see how it goes! and the bonus of it all is elder peterson was just there for 5 changes haha and he informed me that the beach is about a 10 minute walk from the apartment...hmmm elder barton and the beach and summer time, it could be a good one haha my new comps name is elder hall he is in the same group as elder brown so elder brown met him in the MTC and says he is a really funny outgoing kid so it looks like i scored in the topic of companions once again i have really been blessed in my mission to have good companions obviously i get along better with some better than others but for the general i have gotten a long with them all so im excited to work with elder hall and get to know montevideo a little bit! but yeah these last couple days were just going around saying bye and giving thanks to everyone as hard as young has been for me its so bittersweet leaving here i got to really love the people and all of them have taught me something that i want to apply to my life when i get back no wonder the lords sends 19 year old kids to do his work. that god he sure is a genious. but yeah so its pretty crazy me and elder browns time is done it went by so fast and i feel like he trained me more than i trained him. he is an awesome guy and i think we will stay in touch for a long time so yeah i will send the pendrive off with pictures and you fools will have some new pictures to look at in a couple of weeks you guys will know salto, elder jones, young, elder terault elder brown and a lot more people that have changed my life for the good. umm so yeah i dont know if i look fat or skninny in the pictures you will have to tell me i have hoenstly looked over them and i think i look the same! haha so yeah thats basically all thats going on with me is im going over to deo and we will see what goes on there! i hope you all had a good week and i will be writing you fools before you know it on monday! haha word peace, keep it krisp - elder barton