gosh danget my pants!!

wassss suuuuppp family feels like yesterday i was sittin here writin to you fools but here we are again! so this next week are changes but they are weird changes so i wont be emailing until next thursday is what they tell me...haha it could be a long week 10 days without a p day haha but we will see how it goes down. but yea this week was good we have a really good investigator that we found as well as found 2 incompletel families one with like 5 kids and another just his wife isnt a member so its pretty exciting thats always the best way to get baptisms is through those less active members and stuff so yea but unfortunately thats all in the 2nd branch so the 2nd branch is all stoked on missionary work and they are really supporting us and its really awesome but on branch 1 we got nooottthhhiiinnn haha so we are gonna try and get that side of town runnin a little bit more this next up coming week and we will see what goes down. but yeah it kinda sucked cause we had a really good week in terms of lessons in stuff but one lady had to go to montevideo to see her friend that has cancer so she didnt come to church nor did anyone else so we had the most lessons that i have had here in young but come sunday we failed haha but its all good we are working hard its kinda crazy that my time with elder brown is coming to a close and that it was 2 changes. looking back it feels like it was just a day haha but yeah so my pants....we went to go knock a door and something had to me that was pretty bad....a dog devoured my knee just came up and bit me nice and good shredding the pants haha so i was than forced to walk the rest of the day with my torn pants seeming as we were about a 45 minute walk from our house so i looked pretty stupid and than on top of all that i got the hick ups (dont know how you spell that) so here is this gringo walkin down the streets hickuping with torn pants haha i could have only imagined it was quite the scene and in the moment it was quite funny haha but yeah elder brown is doing super good his spanish is mad improving and he is breaking out that shell to afraid to talk to people and talking more and more which is great but yeah so im thinking my time here in young is winding down and im off to another area which is crazy cool and im pretty excited to see if i reap in some of my blessings from young in my next area it has been quite sometime that i have seen one of my investigators get baptized haha and its gonna be awesome when it does happen finally haha so yea i hope you all are doing well and that school isnt kickin everyones trash but yeah i love oyu all and i hope ya´ll be keepin it gangsta, with all my heart haha elder michael barton

POR FIN!

yo what up family, so in terms of pictures i am going to wait till the end of the change which is in 2 weeks to see if im leaving or staying young and if i leave young i will be taking lots of pictures and than i will put them on the pendrive and if i stay in young for another change i will just send the pendrive off without most the pictures from young and you will have to see them later but yeah so im waiting so that if i leave young you guys dont have to wait to see the pictures from here. ummm yeah it was probably my most successfull week here in young to be hoenst with you, we have an investigator with a bautism date!! my first one in young haha it was pretty cool she came to church with a member yesterday and i thought we would be having sacrament first but actually we show up and president changed it to the last hour but our investigator had told us previously that she could only stay for the first hour so i was pretty pist haha so after relief society she leaves and im pretty bummed but than all the sudden she comes back and just says i can actually stay a little longer..hmmmm (spirit?) haha and she turned out to stay the rest of the 2 hours haha!! it was pretty cool she is a really shy kidna timid person and she doesnt really talk a whole lot so its kinda hard to knock what she is thinking and feeling haha also after church she left immediately and i have yet to talk to her to see how church was!! haha we are gonna run over to her house tonight though. i gave a talk in sacrament meeting, just about jesuscrist and about KNOWING him not just talking about him but feeling his love and power of the atonement in our lives and i just invted everyone to look to know jesuscrist i think it turned out pretty good and i proved to my self im still the same....a baby...i cried. haha so yeah it was pretty awesome but unfortunately for me with my michael barton bad luck this change is only 5 weeks long due to some leader conference that president heaton has to go to so if i leave young i will not be able to see her get baptized...theme of my mission haha elder brown is doing super good his spanish has mad crazy gotten better haha and he is just learning to enjoy himself more and more elder brown isnt much of a talker or neither just he like to open himself up to people haha but lately he has really been opening up to people and talking it was funny last wednesday we went to go get our laundry from a member and i just said to him alright elder brown im not gonna say a word and you are gonna have to do alll the talking elder brown says 2 words to the sister clothes and thank you haha i talked to him how we gotta be a little more nicer than that as missionaries haha so than we had to go look for a member to bring to a lesson and i told him again im not gonna say a word and your gonna have to ask how her day was and all that haha it was pretty funny. we also had a pretty experience with another member we were gonna go on divisions with the branch 2 on friday so we are sittin there waiting at the church and only one member shows up....a crazy guy named barufaldi haha and we are just like oh gosh so we went and did his visiting teaching with him and just it was quite the funny experience haha me and elder brown are convinced that he will be bishop when the 2 branches combine so we always joke with each other every time we see barufaldi saying uh oh here comes bishop haha but the guy was just doing his priesthood duty it was awesome. but yeah that is really about it this change only has 2 more weeks in because of the shortness so that is pretty crazy weird, feels like it just started yesterday. and i think i will be leaving young as well, young has byfar been the toughest area for me but i have also learned a ton and have really learned to love everyone here and everything but i guess we will see what happens in 2 weeks! hope all is well with you guys and the time is going by fast for you as it is for me i feel like october just barely started, and we are already halfway done with it...crazy stuff alright fools thats all from elder barton hope you all keep it gangsta like a true barton would, love you all thank you for everything. elder barton

one year

BARTON FAMILY!!!!!! whats crackin gangstas!!! im doing suuupppeeerrr good down here in young. as we all know i hit my year mark this past week....kinda trunky i know but i am proud of my accomplishment haha.
and along with all that we have found 2 pretty dang good families to teach here in young!! we have lessons with them tonight so i am super stoked to see what happens tonight!! but yeah i hope they are the blessings we have been waiting for haha ummm yeah and i dont know its super weird i LIKED the mission but ever since i hit htat year mark i just LOVE the mission now haha one its like i have gone half way i might as well finish it now and 2 i dont know its just like a light just flicks on or something haha me and elder brown had a slight little party that included 2 cakes and a pet frog.....yeah it was pretty whack crazy haha to be hoenst i dont have a whole lot of time so this message is kinda brief i know i suck but things are just getting warmer and warmer down here in the guay as well as young i think is starting to really turn around its just the greatest to pass trials and see the fruits right away haha. i hope you all are doing good happy birthday megan what more could you ask for than a husband haha i still cant believe your married thats craazzzyy and than yeah i hope the NBA doesnt play this year so i dont miss 2 seasons haha but i hope you all have a good week i gotta run!! love ya all and keep it gangsta krispy!

Conference

what up gangstas, i hope you all enjoyed conference and found some type of counsel or advice that you all can apply to your lives I most certainly did seeing how a lot of it was on mission work and what better place to apply that than on the mission!! haha so yeah i learned a lot and i really enjoyed it. me and elder brown got the conference all to ourselves haha it was pretty funny everyone else was in the chapel listening in spanish and the chapel gets an internet connection so me and him were in the primary room listening to it alone in english haha it was pretty funny kinda cool experience. yea other than that with changes and conference this week the week flew by we actually had some second visits with some so so investigators and we were pretty pumped to finally get a second lesson with somebody that is only about the 3rd time that has happened to me and elder brown haha so yeah ummmm other than that not much happened, i was thinking of sues breakfast caseral when we had to wake up at 7 am to catch a rerun of the priesthood session haha and i wanted nothing more than a nice little bit of some breakfast caserol so i hope you all enjoyed it and ate a couple slices for me! and yeah as im sure you all know in 2 days i hit my grand year mark! the year has gone by pretty fast but looking back on all the events it definately has been a year haha just like every rm explains the time in the mission goes byfast but it has definately been the time it has been haha so im pretty pumped to start off the second year and i hear the second one goes by pretty fast so i guess we will see what happens with that i will be putting pictures on one of these pendrives pretty soon here probably send it off next week and you guys will be getting it in about 2 weeks and i know you guys love pictures but to be hoenst as my mission goes on i just am lazy and dont take a dang picture or forget my camera but you guys will enjoy the ones i have taken to see my comps a little bit of salto you guys havent seen salto yet and a little bit of young, so yeah thats just about it things i think are starting to turn around here in young i can feel it i think me and elder brown have now past our trial of faith but we will see what really happens pretty soon here!! but yeah i hope you all have a good week with studys and im sure sue is makin up a cake for thursday when ihit my year mark jaja word love you all, keep it gangsta, keep it barton status. thanks for everything!! Elder Barton

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

August is over.....WHAT

wow so this week agust is over and it feels like yesterday I said to myself wow its august 1 now it is nearly september 1st haha buuut yeah this week was fun, I am really enjoying in being a trainer and seeing the progression in elder brown, even in the last week he is speaking better spanish and his teaching is getting that much better as well. and I am just glad to know I can help on of the lords servants become a better tool, elder brown reminds me a toonnn of chase, in the sence that i will catch elder brown doing things when he is alll by himself and i will just say to myself what in the world is going through that kids head haha he is a true farmer and not to rag anything on farmers but just not the brightest tool in the shed. and its pretty awesome i kind of just wake up every morning and say to myself man what in the world is elder brown gonna do or say today, haha the funniest thing that happened this week is elder brown just forgets he is a spanish speaking world, we were in the grocery story and he was buying his groceries and he just starts talking to this lady in english for a good 30 seconds while this lady is just giving him the blankest look and as elder brown stares at her waiting for her to respond the both are just bewildered one cause elder brown is wondering why she isnt responding and 2 she doesnt understand what just happened haha. we went out of the store and i tried to hold it in but i just bursted out laughing he laughed about it too so now i kinda crack a joke whenever he goes to talk to people just saying to him now remember elder she doesnt speak english haha so yeah but in terms of the missionary work....YOUNG IS TOUGH. haha i was talking with one of the branch presidents yesterday at church and i wanted to reassure him that we were working hard for his branch i mean we have yet to have an investigator in church and he was just all yeah i know its tough and i can see you guys are working hard, so thats always good just to know that the im working for see´s that im trying my hardest haha my last 2 areas it seemed so easy to find a good 10 new investigators a week but here in young the most i have ever broken is 6 and its just been a definate change for me to having relatively good success in finding people to teach and lessons a week to having very little succes and when we find someone its just the biggest miracle haha so yeah young has been rather tough but im getting use to it and im having fun still which really is what goes down to it if i can come home at night and say i gave it my all and i feel good about myself thats all i really care about haha and so for i can say that i have given it my all haha. but anywho school started this week that is pretty freakin crazy summer is already over but not gonna lie im glad its over that means i only have one more summer to miss without boating, and doing whatever i want haha i was super nervous going into summer scared i was gonna be trunky the whole time but it flew by so thats just fantastic haha. but yeah i hope everyone is doing well with the new changes with their lives, school, moving out, the barton house is basically empty.....WEIRD. so yeah i guess my year mark here in the mission is getting closer and closer and they say that the second year goes by faster than the first but the first one has gone by pretty fast so im kinda scared to be honest with ya. but yeah thats the report from elder barton this week just working hard with my big ol idaho farmer buddy in the middle of no where in uruguay. hope you all have a good week and i will talk to ya later!!! peace, keep it krisp.

I'm 20.....

well whether you want to believe it or not....your son/younger brother/older brother/friend elder michael barton is 20 freakin years old haha. i still feel like im 15...i am not longer a teenager i think im having a quarter mid life crisis haha its suuupppper weird im 20 years old. but i guess life has to keep moving on and keep living haha but i will be hoenst i am grateful that i am barely turning 20 and i almost have 11 months on the mission i am super grateful i just left as soon as i could and the time has absolutely flown by. but updates so i am training this change...a 6 foot 7 inch farmer from idaho, elder brown. not gonna lie he isnt the brightest bulb in the bunch but he really has good desires to do good and serve the lord which is all anyone can ask. but i have loved having some type of responsibility in the mission, you really feel appreciated and it really just gives me motivations to be that much more obedient and work that much harder to know that president is trusting me with one of his new missionaries so its a pretty good feeling and im scared/excited cause it makes the time just absolutely flllyyyy by. these last couple days with us having to know a whole other side of the city have just felt like minutes and that is always good haha but yeah as for elder brown he is pretty cool everyone is just in absolute shock at how tall he is they wonder what we eat in the united states to get so big.haha but yeah as for my birthday down here in the guay i didnt really tell anyone it was my birthday a lot of people struggle here as it is to put food on the table and the last thing i wanted was to bug people with my stupid birthday to give me a cake haha maybe i will tell some people tonight. ummmm so yeah i think school starts this week i hope everyone gets off to a good start...suckas have to study haha rybart that is pretty sick about moving out and sarah im sure is off to hawaii by now. thank you all for the picture that is the first picture i have seen of you fools since i left, carly has chaned the most and looks alll grown up its kinda creepy, and ryan is rockin a sick shirt. but yeah so this past week i went to montevideo to get elder brown from the temple we ate lunch with president and just enjoyed our selves i saw elder peterson for the first time in 9 months so thats always good and also one of my other good buddies elder morris that i lived with in salto is training so i got to see him he has turned out to be one of my best friends. than after that we had to do a bunch of stuff getting the bikes and all that jazz so this week was a lot of getting to know what was going down in the other rama as well as getting elder brown from deo super busy which is good oh we also had to go up to paysandu for district meeting but all that is over so this next week is pure working and pure hard work and i know elder brown is excited and that makes me excited i really want to give elder brown his first baptism, and so yeah with all this new missionary stuff it also includes an hour of study extra which kina sucks but it has actually helped me personally a ton just to practice and study more always helps and the extra hour absolutely flys by. so yeah thats the story with me just mad chillin with elder brown in young solo and this week the change really gets going so yeah. peace out keep it real from your 20 year old son and brother and friend haha peace

a kid, a bike, oh and a city

heeelllllooooo family!! so I recieved my change last night and its definately the biggest change in my mission. the president has called me to train a missionary as long as he is taking the other 2 misisonaries out of young...yes me and my kid will be the only missionaries here in young running 2 branches out in the middle of no where haha. luckily they are giving us bikes to stomp young down with the gospel. all in all I am super super super pumped now I am gonna be out here in the middle of nowhere on a bike!! with a kid that is just gonna be so ready to work his butt off and be the farthest thing from trunky!! I am nervous whether he will be a gringo or a latin, I would love to have a latin just for the fact of practicing spanish and speaking spanish all day long but also having a gringo would just be grade A fun to see where I was, go to his homecoming help him out with the spanish and just all that jazz haha so yeah who figured my gift from president heaton would be a city, brand new comp, and a bike!! haha so i will probably be spending this next week getting to know the rama 1 and we leave tmrw morning at 3 for montevideo to pick up my kid from the temple and all that jazz so busy busy week for me and it should just be a busy change which is absolutely fantastic i have really been feeling lately i have to get more lost in the work and thats when the time goes by fast, and just this last change the desires to work werent there and when we did work i just didnt feel worthy to recieve help from the big guy up stairs so i am just stoookkkeeeddd for this next change and feel pretty lucky that president trusted me with a kid and a city haha. but this past week was really sloowww with my elder tereault finishing up his mission it was just a slow week haha but there is always something you can learn and after i have killed 2 people on my mission i have vowed never to be like that when i am finishing my mission haha so yeah thats from elder barton i am training i have 2 ramas to take care of that means 6 hours of church on sunday!! you fools could barely get me to church for 1 hour back at home haha look at me now!! but yea the rama 1 is super cool lots of coool families and nice people that i have already met a little bit but i will get to know even better now that i am actually working with them.so yeah that is absolutely crazy everyone is moving out of the house!!! hwaii, downtown, provo the little barton clan is getting all grown up but no i am super happy for you guys i know ryan has been wanting to move out and sarah going to hawaii is crazy and heather probably getting an upgrade from her ghetto pool haha and i cant believe summer is over already!! i have definately learned a lot about change on my mission since im basically just living out of a suitcase there is just always something we can pull out of change, problems and all that so yeaaaa learn and progress from these changes!! figure out what you really want in your life and who you wanna be tmrw. wow that was pretty deep someone should write that down haha. but yeah i love you all make some pumpkin pie for me for my birthday!! i cant believe im turning 20 i still feel like im 15 haha i only have one more week of teenage living.....:( little mb is growing up!! but yeah i love you all talk to you nexxt monday this week is gonna fly by for me haha take care gangstas.

changes!

welllllll nother change has come and gone!!! yes this next week i will be getting a new companion and obviously staying in young which i am slowly and slowly starting to like and learn to love the people, sa i get to know them more and more our branch president is an absolute stud. i went on divisions with him this last week and got to know him a little better it was fun. elder terault got sick this weekend...so we ended up going home early on friday saturday and sunday. this change has made me realize yea its easy to just chillin in the house but the time just flies when your working hard and it might not feel like it or be the easiest thing to do but its the best, i feel beed when we do contacts now and stuff just because i know as a companionship we are not going everything we can be doing and i dont feel worthy to have the guidance of the spirit so im excited to kinda of get a fresh new start here in young, and im thinking im gonna be senior comp this next coming change so im excited to have things a little more in my hands and we are gonna work like crazy haha. its just the best when time flies. so yea that is pretty much what is going on on my side of the world. just gotta fight through another week of a trunky companion and hopefully i can get him to work a little bit harder for his last week in his mission i guess we will see what happens to us..haha yea that is crazy austin left the mtc this week feels like he just barely got here even though im sure to him it feels like a lifetime haha and thomas is finishing up the mtc with a birthday thats pretty cool im super happy im 10 months into my mission and its just barely my mission haha starting off the mission just sucks haha! but yea tomorrow we have a branch activity and i think elder tearult is playing the guitar and im singing...solo haha i will be sure to take a video and you fools can laugh at me when i send it home in 2 months haha but to be honest latins sing terrible and anytime there here a gringo sing with the slightest potencial of music potential they love it so im thinking im gonna be a start if i throw in a little bit of michael barton magic...with out dancing. haha so yea changes and a solo singing this week thats all i have to look forward and im tryin to sneak in a chance to milk a cow with a member but every time i go over there for lunch he is at work so he cant take us to milk the dang thing. but sarah i hope your surgery goes well and i hope megan gets well soon, heather finds an apartment and suckas!!! schoool is startiinnnggg haha tht blows just one more shcool year and im home its gonna fly haha. alright take care i love you all!! have a good week. my birthday is soon coming!!! chau chau elder barton

finishing winter

family, so yeah you all got surgeries, plans for school, plans to move out. I hope all went well with megans surgery and that she doesnt have to go back in december that would suck!!! and ryan i hope you move out with friends cause that would be sick!!! but what the heck am i gonna do when i get home i got no one to live with haha. and thats crazy the realities of sarah moving to hawaii are getting realer and realer thats pretty awesome haha. my week went good. elder terault every day gets trunkier and trunkier and the desires to work get less and less but i made a little deal with him, haha that we can pass by less active members and see what we can do through them. and it actually worked really well just cause we already have the relationship with the people and its not as casual more casual. so we found quite a bit of people to teach through that. and i always knew thats the best way to get baptisms and find is through members but also knocking is necessary. so im thinking we are gonna be doin that for another 2 weeks till the change ends. than me and my next comp can hit the streets hardcore and get our knock on. see if the lord has any miracles waiting for us....but yeah thats basically how my week went just trying to get terault work just the same as all my other emails haha but thats basically the story of my change with elder terault. he said he might be getting a little sick to so i think he might try to pull some bull with me this week to stay in the house...but it aint gonna happen haha. so yeah thats about it from here winter should be ending pretty here seen in about or week 2 and you bet yo bottom dollar that its ending strong, these last couple nights have been freeeezzzziiinnngggg haha feels like every morning im camping. but its all good its all part of the experience of the mission and just more blessings...i hope haha. yeah i honestly dont really have anything to say to you all. this email is super short and super boring i know. i guess i could say to you guys please do your church callings. just for the missionaries sake if people actually did their church callings we could have a lot more baptisms and bring lots more children of christ to him through baptism so do your visit teaching cause you never know who needs you in that moment and the lord can only work through you when your out and about doing what you know your suppose to be doing. and something that i have discovered that i have a couple of experiences about is there is not a better feeling in the whole world, when someone is glad to see your face, when you make someone feel good, or just all in all your an answer to someones prayers. what an awesome feeling it is to be able to change someones life, week,day hour, doesnt matter what it is. it just feels awesome. i love you all and keep it gangsta this week......my birthday is soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just so you all know. haha

uruguay no mas

hey family, greetings from uruguay another week has just flown by here in the guay. this last week we had interviews with president so we traveled up to paysandu to have our interviews and to talk with president to see what he wants from young. its always good to talk with president hear he just has a way of getting your spirits up and getting you motivated. things with elder terault are the same...just gets trunkier and trunkier as the big date comes for him to leave. his desires to work just get lower and lower everyday and when we are out and about its kinda just him following me around. its kind of like the part in the best 2 years where the older guy is just all takin pictures while the other one is working super hard and just all by himself. its kind of how i feel just im trying to get lost in the work trying to make something happen here in young and my comp could care less and is just leaving the house to work cause he knows he is suppose to leave. so im hoping these next 3 weeks will just go by fast and i can have a new comp and we can perform miracles here in young. i really feel like its primed up for one. young has been my toughest area the people are hard to love, and so its hard to serve them haha so in that sense its been super hard for me just to love the people and be excited to serve them. I gave a talk yesterday in sacrament meeting about faith hope and patience i think it went pretty well i shared the story of abinadi and just what faith and pacience he had with everyone and because of him alma was converted which resulted into a good boatload of people converting to the church than just how with the patience at times we dont see the fruits of our labors but one day we will see them and that is just one of the best feelings ever. and than if you guys dont know....uruguay won the copa america!!! the game started at 4 here and we have church from 2 to 5 so it was pretty funny the people that showed up which were very little, where just on cell phones texting friends and neighbors tryin to find out what happened haha. after church we went to a less active members house that we are pretty good friends with and watched the 2nd half. its sooo much fun to watch games with uruguayos they are just so patient and love the sport so much it blows my mind. after the game there was a huuuuuggggggeeeeee party in downtown young we went just to see how it was, i took a couple videos and it was pretty crazy i cant wait for you guys to see them haha. people down here know how to party. and so yeah they beat paraguay 3 to 0 you best believe i will be writing a letter to carter and cam rubbing it in their faces haha. so yeah thats just about it from elder barton, trying to help time fly by and with the win of uruguay yesterday afternoon it was pretty insane haha but yeah i saw pictures from the wedding at the temple looks pretty cool!! thhat was the first time i have seen you guys in pictures since i left so that was cool to see you guys you all look older (except for the beautiful exception of sue =) ) so yeah dont be growing up to much on me barton family! but yeah im out of here! love you all! have a good week and enjoy that summer sun! chau -elder michael barton