change 11

hello family and friends so elder barton is now going into change 11 in this crazy adventure down in uruguay and his new companion is......elder morales from puerto rico ha little strange but ay i am excited he is another really young missionary here in the mission going into his 3rd change haha but i am excited to get to meet him and see how he is elder peterson told me he is a little desanimated and missin home a little bit...nothing a little bit of hard work cant fix haha, but yeah i am staying here in 17 and i am stoked i love it here so much i want to finish my mission here haha i could honestly do 6 more changes here haha so as of right now i am stoked for my change me and elder huaracha didnt really get along the best haha but we will see if i wanna be back with huaracha when i meet elder morales haha but my week was good some of our investigatores went to church this week and it looks like we are going to be having some baptisms here in the month of february january absolutely fly by and seeming as how february is even shorter i imagine that february is gonna go by fast as well haha. but yeah i hope everyone else is doing good doesnt really sound like there has been much change just the same old same old sports, school and work . isnt life just full of that kind of stuff haha its pretty crazy i am finishing up my 2nd summer here in uruguay and not gonna lie its a pretty relieving feeling thats its my last and i dont have to do anther one haha man it gets freakin hot down here with very little resources to escape the bloody heat haha buts its still hot it wont start to cool down until about mid febuary but yeah i am doing super good just doing my thing down here in the guay i really dont know what to say this week was just typical work week and elder huaracha is leaving and elder morales is coming on down to kick it with me in cerro haha well i love you all so much hope you have a good week and i will be talking to you all next monday!! peace out gangsters, elder barton

changes

hey fam, hope all is well with you guys and i hope you just had a fantastic week in the freezing cold. even though it doesnt really sound like its that cold out there. my week to be honest wasnt anything spectacular just kinda the normal day to day stuff me and elder huaracha had a lovely nice long talk the other dayfor about 1 hour about how we can get along better and we resolved a lot of things and we are getting along better now so thats nice haha changes are this coming week, this change went by relativelyquick and i cant believe im going into my eleventh change out here in the mission field im started to think im stuck here forever and there is no end haha but january has already flown by!! thats awesome that carter is doing good we write every once and a while but its been quite some time, about 6 months since i last heard from him, i need to write him ASAP. we found really cool investigator this week her name is micaela her mom is a member and her mom is really super supportive of her listening to us and really wants micaela to get baptized she didnt come to church this last week cause it rained and when it rains here the whole country shuts down everyone takes it for a legit excuse not to get up and go to work...how beautiful is that right? but she basically is already baptized haha she has friends in the church, whole family is members, she asked us about the clothes yesterday and how that al works haha so she is basically baptized haha. and obviously i am staying here for transfers and elder huaracha is leaving, thats how it should go atleast. ya never know with president heaton haha i love this area and its HUGE as well i honestly good finish my mission here so im planning on staying here for much much longer haha i decided i dont really like to move i hard starting things all over again, with the members, memorizing streets, bus routes and all that jazz haha its nice to have a set routine and have people know your name and know who you are and stuff its super nice. its notreally cool to be hopping around no one knows who you are and your personality haha so yeah thats where im at super stoked to stay another change here just hope i get a better comp, latin. i love speaking spanish all day haha but yeah i dont really know what else to say it is crazzzyy hot down here definately in the middle of summer and it is just suupppeerrr humid haha but in about 2 weeks or so it should al start to calm down and we will be in fall!!!! fal is fantastic here haha but yeah thats about it from elder barton. love you all. keep it nice and krispy, have a good week, enjoy this wonderful life that god has given us its just a beautiful one haha
peace out elder michael j barton

a mexican and facebook

hey family and friends. hope you all had a great week filled with snowed, being cold and everything else to do with winter haha my week was full of the complete opposite it has beennn hooootttt here 45 degrees celcious i dont know what that is in farenheit and humid like no body´s business. we havent been sleeping good the last couple nights just cause its so miserably hot i took a shower in my garments and laid on the cold floor and tried to sleep like that the other night haha i was dying. but our week was fine we found some pretty good couple and had some pretty good lessons...but we also had a complete miracle happen to us haha now here is where you will understand the title of this email, a mexican and facebook. we were sitting in the chapel about the 2nd hour just hangin out ya know and all the sudden the doorbell of the chapel rings hmmm interesting we go and answer it to see whats up, its some guy named julio who wants permission to take a picture of the church of course we gave him permission and he took about 8 pictures of the church and just loved it haha i thought this dude was super weird but as he keeps talking to us he goes on to say that he has a friend on facebook from mexico that told him about the church and sent him the video of jose smith and julio said he just loved everysingle minute of it and has watched it like 4 times since haha and than he goes on to say that later this mexican on facebook tells him about what we do in the temples, baptisms for the dead. and he just thought that was the most absolute brilliant idea on this planet earth haha so we set a cita to go over to his house in the afternoon and he accepts it with open arms.so we go over to his house that afternoon and he explains more of the story of what his friend had told him and they had been talkin for a couple months now so we gave him a book of mormon which he already knew what it was and everything and he accepted to get baptized on the 12th of febuary straight it was a cool miracle. i remember ryan tellin me that the lord will just people right in your lap that get baptized all i have to do as a missionary is be there and that has been so true in my mission so far all my baptisms were just handed to me just cause i was out and about doing the right thing haha. so yeah that pretty much was the big highlight of my week it was super cool. we truly do have an amazing blessing of being in this beautiful gospel, i have no idea why the lord chose me to know the gospel cause i really sometimes dont feel worthy but all i can do is just be grateful that he made it happen and take advantage of every blessing i can recieve. so i invite you all to look for chances to share the gospel with friends and neighbors whether it be on facebook, msn, work, school this is now the second person i have come in contact with that knew the church threw facebook haha so the lord is up to date on things haha. but yea so look for chances they are out there. help the lord build his kingdom here on the earth cause its a sure darn beautiful kingdom. so i love you all hope you have a good week, and everything goes well with school, work, boyfriends,girlfriends, and everything else there is. peace ouuuuttttt. elder barton

oh ps thomas looks like a super oro missionary in his pictures haha

Dia De Reyes

family barton and anyone else who finds themselves reading this email. well another week out here in the ´guay has come and gone pretty crazy its 2012 i will be coming home this year haha as well as i completed 15 months out here so i am now down to single digits in terms of months haha. This week was pretty normal me and elder hauracha are on the hunt for new investigators haha we have NO ONE to teach right now. so the week was full of just talking to random people on the street and knocking doors. contacting truly isnt very fun for me as well as its the least affect way to go about the work but ya gotta do it. but its always interesting to contact some where along the line you run into some crazy people that have had some crazy experiences or just have weird ideas about god and just stuff like that and i swear thats really what this week was, just listening to some weeeeiiiirrrrdddd people talk about their lives and what they think about god and what not haha so even though we didnt find anyone this week all that good we definately talked to some weird people haha also this week was the dia de reyes its a tradition they have here in the guay that we as north americans do not have. its basically a second christmas haha in fact i think everyone gets bigger gifts the dia de reyes than they do on christmas haha. and because of this holiday the city was dead!! do you remember in the movie you me and depree when owen wilson says "i went to argentina for a week and everyone was just sitting around, and it was the most beautiful thing" thats exactly what goes down but unfortunately its a missionaries worst enemy because noooo one wants to hear from you people just wanna sleep and take full advantage of the free day off of work. haha so that went down on friday and saturday here and the city was literaly a ghost town. but its all good this week is gonna be a fantastic week i am going on divisions with an elder named elder lopez from el salvador and so its gonna be nice to get away from huaracha for a little bit haha and than there is a super stud member here named noemi and she is literally a walking area book she always comes out and works with us she is a stud. and on saturday she is going out with us all day and she is taking us to every x investigator that has been in this area for the past 4 years haha so im pretty excited and grateful for her. but yeah the ward is really growing on me i like it a loootttt there is a ton of families and its definately the biggest ward i have had my whole mission we had about 100 people in sacrament yesterday!! and i dont know if you guys remember my x comp elder lopez, well he is now living in the ward with his wife and its super weird to see my x comp kissing his wife and stuff haha it kinda makes me feel like wow i have been here forever haha he was my comp a year ago and i still have so much more to go haha but its all good, i am gonna make him work pretty hard with us! so yeah the area is good im nice and safe there are definately some sketchy parts that we have to be careful in but other than that its good. as soon as i get a new comp i will be looking fantastic haha. i hope you all are going back to your normal routine now that the holidays are over and its time to get back to work. have a great week!! be good, be obedient. love you all. con mucho cariño -elder barton

Feliz ano nuevo

family and friends happy new years!!!! i cant believe its 2012..i go home this year!!! haha how trunky was that haha i really cant believe that 2011 is over it is incredible how fast it went by no more christmas or new years as a missionary for elder barton thats kinda sucky haha. so apparently i left out some details of the baptism last week, her name is mary and i literally think i was called to uruguay just to find her she is absolutely fantastic super awesome and accepted the gospel sooo easy and fast and apart from it all it was the easiest baptism i ahve ever had haha i met her one saturday and 2 weeks later she was baptized haah pretty awesome president heaton and hermana heaton came to the baptism as well as the counselor in the temple gave us a suprise visit haha mary in the end gave her testimony and cried and said after she just felt the biggest feeling of peace come over her it was something very nice to hear and i felt like i was really completing my objective as a missionary, we didnt have the best member show up like 8 members showed up but only about 12 were in sacrament so i guess it was a good show up haha. i heard from tim loomis which totally made my week i was super happy to hear from him and all the loomis are doing good they are truly a second family to me. so yeah my new years was good we had a barbeque at the bishops house and it was super good and than we watched fireworks and it felt like i was in a war zone just explosions on all sides of me and really loud haha it was pretty hilarious.ummm so yeah this week was actually a pretty bad one haha me and elder huaracha dont really get along that well he is really weird and seeming as i dont know the area i kind of have to follow him around until i know it but he has the weirdest ideas to do and i kinda get mad at him haha and apart from it all we have NO investigatores and its either i am getting to know members or knocking doors haha just one of those many weeks out here in the guay, we are basically opening the area elder huarahca doesnt know it worth jack haha and he has definately been my hardest comp until this point in my mission...peruvians haha but yeah thats really about it im glad you all had a good new years and that it all turned out good and hope you all ajust back to REAL life with work and school and all that jazz haha suckas. but yeah i dont really know what to say to be honest with you guys hah i love you all so much thanks for everything you have done for me and for your testimonies and examples. everyone of you has helped me so much. a little prayer for me could be nice this week so that i can know my area and elder huaracha follows me and i dont knoww him haah cause when i get to know this place we are gonna do some serious beyond serious work haha alright well im out peace keep it krisp.



ps i know im writing early these days elder huaracha likes to come to the cyber early so just plan on me writing this early from now on haha

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

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

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