Elder Barton 2/23/2016
Ola meus amiggoooooss!
Wanted to start off giving a HUGGGGEEEE SHOUTOUT to my SISTER in law HANNAH BANANNA WHO FIGURED OUT THAT HER LITTLE BABY WILL BE A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Connnnngratsssssss flower pedal youuuu da bomb!
Also another shoutout to myyyyyyy main man JARED CHAPMAN ON THE MISHHHH CALL!!!!!!!! CONGRATS MAN YOU GONNA KILLL ITTTT!!!
Haha but anyways I am still up in dat Macedônia life and loving it!!!
This week was a little tougher, weren't able to have too many KILLER experiences, was one of those weeks that was just a tad bit harder to teach people and stuff but it is still always AWESOME!
I am liking my new area a lot, the ward is about double the size of my last area so I am trying to get to know all the members the best that I can! Also trying to memorize these roads and new streets! Haha, but I am loving it. There are tons of returned missionaries and youth in our ward so there is a ton of potential for growth I think! I feel that there is a little bit of difficulty with trust in the missionaries maybe because of others who have passed in this area. We are really trying to strengthen our relationship with the members trying to mark FHE like crazy and visiting them during the week so that we can more effectively work with the members here!
As far as investigators, we are struggling to strengthen our teaching pool a little bit as well but we have some awesome people! There is an awesome member here named Daniel who's 17 years old and was baptized about 5 months ago. He is a STUD!!!! Hes always super stoked to do visits with us and always wants to introduce us to his Friends and stuff to teach them! Haha hes super cool, and we had an awesome experience teaching one of his Friends last night!
We also had the opportunity to go to the temple today which was so great. I feel so grateful to have a temple in our mission and that we are able to go so frequently! I have more and more respect for the temple every time I go. Every time I go I am able to feel such an incredible spirit and strengthen my testimony. I am so happy to be serving and be feeling Christs love. I love testifying of him on a daily basis. Its the best thing in the world.
Hope you guys have an awesome week!!!
Elder Barton
ALO Peeps! 2/29/2016
This weeks email will be short and SWEET......
This week Elder Bartling and I truly saw some miracles and were truly blessed.
We are really starting to see some fruits come from the work we have been trying to accomplish with the members of our ward! Like I said we have been visiting the members like crazy and doing FHE to gain the trust back of the members in this ward.
This week, we were already able to see our numbers increase and able to bring a bunch of people to Church! I am loving the people in this ward, they are all super willing to help us and its awesome! Its such an essential part of missionary work to have the members help. If not, it doesn't work out. I really like what President Hinckley said about how every recent convert needs to have a responsibility/calling in the church, be nurtured by the good word of God and have a friend in the gospel that is always be there side to answer a question or help out. That is so true, especially the friend, I have seen that so much and am so grateful to be learning the importance of these things.
We are working super hard to help a guy named Filipe be baptized on Saturday, his family are members of the Church and always goes, just is scared to be baptized haha. Many missionaries have tried but have never been able to. We had a really neat lesson with him on Sunday after church with the president of the Elders quorum and his dad. It was way cool, and we are going to work and fast like crazy so that he can be baptized!
I am doing awesome, and excited that we will have a zone conference tomorrow to be able to see everyone and be trained by GRANDE PRESIDENTE DEL GUERSO who is the MAN! I love my mission and love YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU GUYSSSSS!
haha have an awesome week!
skulls n bones signing out.....
Elder B
