MOTHERS DAY IS HERE!!

hey family hows it all going. so we are running super behind right now so this email is going to be super super short haha. not much updates with me this past week we went to montevideo and had a big meeting with all the zone leaders and president heaton it was super fun i learned a ton from president heaton. i also got to see elder peterson and elder harris my compps from the mtc so that was super awesome first time i have seen elder peterson in about a year haha so that was a blast. so yeah this sunday is.......mothers day!!!!!!!!! and yes we are going to skype it i am going to find a computer and i will make it a good last phone call to home haha. so i am planning to get on skype at a8 o´clok at night here so i think thats like 4 or 5 there i dont know i will call you a little before and confirm hopefully you guys have a good skype set up. so yeah im doing super good no need to worry about me here in the guay just working like a crazy mad animal me and elder nygard today had to take a 5 hour nap cause we were so whiped out haha so yeah i will see you guys on sunday!! love you all. keep it krisp. elder barton

first week in tacuarembo....and ryan martin??

hey family and friends so i am here in tacaurembo!!!!!!!!! so far things have been pretty good i got here on wednesday morning and things have been going crazy non stop ever since than, with meetings in the stake, meetings with the missionaries, teaching the investigators, meeting the members, and all that good stuff so its pretty been good but pretty dang exhausting all at the same time. so like i said last week my new comp is elder nygard he is from washington, and he is a work horse haha we are gonna work crazy hard together, we set a goal for the zone just to be the hardest workers in the whole mission and we set a companionship goal just to be the hardest working missionaries in the whole mission so its gonna be pretty exciting haha. elder nygard is awesome we get along great. so yeah tbo is definately different than deo a lot more relaxed and even though i miss allthe people i met in deo i dont really miss the city life all that much haha. umm so the biggest story of the week would be i met my bishop on wednesday night we had a meeting with him, he asked me a little bit about my self and where i was from when i told him i was from sandy he tells me that he had a companion in his mission from sandy he told me his name....yup you guessed it RYAN MARTIN haha haha haha haha i told the bishop that he lived about 2 blocks from my house and that his family and my family were really good friends i guess ryan and my bishop had a blast together and had a lot of success, later we had lunch with the bishop last saturday...yea i saw an album full of pictures of ryan martin on his mission haha it was a little funny to see. other than that all is normal down here just chilin working hard trying to get use to the life as a zone leader even though its not that much more different its still the same work but there are a little few changes i had to make in myself to be a better zone leader. so yeah i hope all is good over there that the weather is treatin ya good and that everyone is getting excited for school to end. sorry this email isnt very long i dont really know what to write haha but i love you all. talk to you soon in about 2 weeks!! keep it gangsta. elder barton