the baptism, the phone call, and other

hey family sorry i am writing a little early elder huaracha likes to come to the cyber early and write his family so i am writing early and i figured i talked to you all 2 days ago and it doesnt make that big of a difference anyway. you all sounded super good and sounds like life is just flyin by at the barton house it felt kind of weird like it was just like a normal chat to talk to you guys and it felt like we were just having a normal conversation as if i was at home just at a friends house or something haha but ryan man that super sucks the hair just left ya, ya gotta get some cream or something, take care of your self a little more haha mary ultimate frisbee i think thats super awesome haha sarah is just now a little hawaiin, carly just becomin miss popular in highscool and is lovin every second of it, i loved highschool haha heather lookin like your shredding it up in your new job and i am sure the principal is going to extend your contract and megan i hope christmas was fun at your....in laws haha and more than anything i hope you all ate a cinnamon roll and breakfast caserole for me i woke up on christmas morning and just thought of cinnamon rolls and breakfast caseroles haha...delicous. so yea i got to my new area yesterday right after the baptism we got in presidents car and picked up our stuff from the house and we left just like that, i was kinda mad a member invited us to have lunch with them and mari a little luncheon type deal but president couldnt and he was our ride but its ok president has given me permission to go see mari 1 or 2 a week so thats super cool!! ummm but the baptism went super well we had another visitor along with president heaton, the temple counselor showed up with his wife haha he was out of town and looking for a church to go to and found ours so he just walked right in and was there for the baptism haha super cool not a better way to spend christmas morning than with a baptism. so my new comp is elder hauracha from lima, peru. he is a cool guy really relaxed and really just is willing to work which is all i can ask for really. my area is huuuggggee maybe if you wanna look it up on google or something you would have to put paso molino and you will see some pretty good stuff i imagine haha like i said there are areas i cant go into at night as well as i have been adviced to walk around with a watch haha and a crappier tie and without money, basically i am suppose to look as bummed out as a missionary can get haha. but i was walking around it yesterday and there are some pretty nice places here thats for sure and im excited, i hope to be here for a long time i hate moving around i thought at the beginning of my mission that i wanted to move around a lot but after time its just annoying i just wanna stay in one place for a long time haha. but yeah so the baptism turned out to be a huuggge hit mari cried and it was pretty cool!! ummm i dont know what else to say haha just yeah this week is just gonna be getting to know a lot of people my comp, members, my district. so im pretty excited im just excited to get settled in and know wthe best way to work here haha. thank you for the soduku books and everything i love them as well as the candy its all good good stuff. so yeah i think thats about it thank you all so much for everything you ahve done for me and i love you all sooo much have a good new year if your going to little america hope you enjoy it!! so yeah talk to ya next week!!! -elder barton

cambios, la navidad, BAUTISMO

friends and family another change has happened. and this is probably my weirdest one yet haha so president heaton has decided to close rio de la plata for missionaries for a while he doesnt have enough missionaries and the place is a disaster haha so i have been called to cerro 17 the most dangerous area in the whole mission haha sue dont worry elder harris just got done being there for 4 changes and got out just fine haha but something pretty awesome is that me and elder hall have a baptism this sunday...christmas!! its pretty awesome she is great and really is a good person, she has asked me to baptize her and so she is getting baptized on christmas morning! so i am going to go back to rio de la plata on sunday morning and baptize her and watch her get confirmed it will be the first baptism the area has had in about 2 years...miracle and president heaton and hermana heaton have both decided to come to the baptism so that is pretty awesome!! but it also complicates things a little bit for the phone call i am gonna be pretty complicated on sunday i dont know if i will be in my house here in playa pascual or in my cerro 17 house so i am planning to call you guys at about 4 here so i think thats like 12 there unless you want me to call later??? and from there i will tell you guys the number and you guys will call me right back so i dont have to pay just like we always do :) but yeah so my week was pretty good just teachin mari everything she got an awesome revelation that the book of mormon and just smith was a prophet so its super awesome to feel like im just really doing my job as a missionary and it makes my testimony grow so much more of the church and the growth the church is having worldwide. my new comp is elder barracha i have no idea where he is from to be hoenst with you i think he is from peru but i am not completely sure i am really excited to have a latin comp i think its so much fun to speak spanish day in and day out i really love spanish and am gonna miss speaking it day in and day out. definately something i will keep up when i get home, but yeah i am super excited to talk to you fools on sunday i hope all is well hope you guys have a good dinner and santa clause comes full with presents i cant believe i am about to go through my second christmas as a missionary its a once in a lifetime thing and both mine have almost happened to me, i now know why the lord sends us kids out here to serve him you just learn so much about everything and its just so weird to see also how the lord prepares us for the people we are going to teach before the mission. mari, the lady that is getting baptized on sunday is a sheer latina twin of you sue it reminds me of you so much everytime i talk to her and she always has her kids and kids of her friends running around the house she loves singing, she has the same blunt sense of humor and everything and i really think just i was sent to teach her just cause of the mom god gave me its all pretty crazy and something really really cool to watch happen before my eyes. but yeah thats about it from me i will TALK to you guys on sunday! i will call at about 4 o´clock here and i am excited to here your guys voices and i might have a little skype connection we will see when i call i will tell you to get on skype or just call me!! :) alright fools peace!!!! -elder barton

Christmas Miracle

hey family! so not gonna lie this week was the best week of my time here in playa pascual as well as one of the best of my mission haha. it all starts with saturday, we had service with an investigator so we went and did service with him which i love service here on the mission haha and after he wanted to give us chori pan (mark maybe you remember what chori pan is i dont know how to in english) but we had a cita with an another investigator already so we told him we would be back in an hour, so we went to our next investigator who is a gourmet chef that use to live in the united states and he made us bagel sandwiches with bacon (sue you know how much i love bagel sandwiches) so we eat those and go running back to our service guy to eat chori pan, so we go we are just running on the ruta haha we were so late like an hour just me and elder hall books of mormong only in our hands running down the side of the ruta it was hilarious haha so than we eat some delicous chori pan and go to the lunch appointment we had with a member and ate milanesas (a food of uruguay that i love) so we basically just pigged ourselves out haha so walking stomaches absolutely llenisimos we get back to the house. we recieve a phone call from a member that she has a friend that wants to know the church and wants us to give her a church tour at 5...sweeeeettt. so we go give a family of 4!! a church tour and they love it! so we invite them to church and everything the next day....they came!!! so now we have a lesson with them on wednesday and we are going to invite them to get baptized and everything!!! and on top of it all the investigator we did service for came to church and a contact we made in the street came to church...haha pretty awesome stuff!! so basically to say saturday was one of the busiest days of my mission and me and elder hall came home and fell asleep while giving our pray to start planning haha but it was totally worth it and im totally stoked for this cita on wednesday. but yeah im doing pretty good anyways haha im excited to talk to you guys on the PHONE i decided i just cant do skype i think it would destroy me to see you guys haha so we are gonna keep it old school.im thinking about calling you guys here at like 3 or 4 so i thin thats like 11 in the morning there if thats a problem just let me know and we can switch it around!! sorry elder barton is a loser i know haha so yeah this family we are planning will get baptized on beautiful christmas day haha just like that talk about the lord just handing you a baptism a fruit of labor that i have needed for a while haha but yeah i hope you all are doing good the snow is treatin ya well, sarah gets to come into town thats awesome. but yeah so it was an awesome week down here in the guay for elder barton, i love you all and will talk to you next tuesday but this week are changes!! keep it krispy, love you all, un besito ;) -elder barton

some beach soccer

waaaatttttt uuuuuuppppp!!!! hey guys how are you all doin!!!!!???? hope it was a good week, sounds like its getting pretty cold up there that mega sucks but ay what can ya do right haha. my week was good, it is just getting hotter and hotter. It was a kinda of a typical week in terms of missionary work here in rio de la plata, lots and lots of knocking doors probably did about 9 hours work of just sheer contacting and knocking doors, its about the only way we can find investigators here and investigators that we desperately need haha had one really really cool experience actually, so it was saturday night and we had been contacting ALL day we had no set citas we had no set anything and we needed to find desperately new people to teach so we put down x-investigators from the area book and everything and literally everything fell. i think we did a total of 50 contacts, so its about 830 at night and im just ready to go by food for the next day and go home for the day when elder hall just being mr. talk to everyone haha says lets just get this one more house so me being exhausted and quite frankly a little bit of a bad attitude follow elder hall and we knock this door, we talk to this guy and he lets us in and we find a family of 6 people....miracle haha we had a pretty good chat with them about what we believe and they accepted the book of mormon! said they are going to read it! and soo we will see what goes down with them when we go by again. ummm also today p-day we went to the beach as a district and then these 2 guys asked us to play some soccer with them, so we played some beach soccer with them for a good hour and it super made me miss soccer and playing with my friends haha but it wwas absolutely beautiful loved every second of it after they took a picture of us they loved how we were all from different parts of the world, honduras, puerto rico, usa and everything so it was fuuunnnn!!. and yea so things are pretty welll chillin here just workin hard prayin for a baptism haha but i know im giving it my all and i hope thats all the lord can expect of me haha and i least i go to bed every night just exhausted so i dont feel to guilty haha but yeah thats all from elder barton keep it krispy peace -elder barton