Week 2!!
This week was pretty great! I got to baptize 3 people. 2 of them were for the Hermana´s, and the other was our investigator! He left before we could get a picture, so I´ll try to get one when we visit him again. His name is Sajid. He´s a pretty big guy and I nearly dropped him when I baptized him. The water in the font was FREEZING. I felt bad for Sajid. I´ll cut to the chase, the food is getting to me. haha. I did have a very good meal though. It is called Ceviche (say-bee-chee) you have chips and you dip them in it. Other than that, I have choked down pretty much every meal. Some of them are spicy and they burn my lips and mouth. I´m always grateful when I see chicken come out. Members feed us lunch everyday. We have a schedule and we just go to the assigned family´s house. The people are so nice here. They won´t let us clear our plates when we are done. They either take them for us or dump on another round of food. I have stayed away from beans for the most part. Whenever I have had to eat them, I have a really bad stomach ache afterwards. On a separate note, here are some really cool/scary things happen to us. Last night, we got done with the baptismal services around 8:30 pm. We have to start heading back to our house at 9. So we tried to get one lesson in with a less active famly near our house. We got to the house and knocked on the gate. Most people here have gates surrounding their yard so you need to knock on the gate with your pen. Nobody came to the door. There was another place that someone could be about 40 yards inside the gate, and we noticed it was unlocked. So we walked inside the gate and started to walk past the driveway. The house was on the right, and the driveway went for another 40 yards or so. So we walked in the gate and went to see if anyone was in the other place. It looked like a garage thing made out of some wood and sheets. All of a sudden, my companion and I stop on a dime. We both looked at each other and said, ``we need to go.`` I just had this terrible feeling that we needed to leave. When we turned around to walk away, I realized I was walking as fast as I could without meaning to. We got out of there fast and went home. I have no idea why we felt that, but it was a bad feeling there. We both recognized it, and left fast. I can´t describe the feeling that I had, but it came all of a sudden to me and Elder Woodbury. So we went home and prayed in thanks for the Spirit guiding us. We had a similar experience a few nights ago. We were in a more dangerous pueblo after dark. We needed to find an investigator before heading back home. We were talking to her on the phone and she was giving us directions. My companion hung up and we started looking. We got to the house she told us, and noboby answered. We called her again multiple times and she didn´t answer. And the same thing happened. We had a feeling that we needed to go. It wasn´t as urgent and the one last night, but we still needed to go. We got home safe. It´s so great to have the spirit with us always. It´s just motivation to strive to have it with us. On other matters, washing clothes by hand is terrible. haha. After email, we are going to eat then go wash our clothes. Not looking forward to it. Another thing, you need to make a skype account for me and give me the login info. before Christmas. We can skype for an hour or talk on the phone for an hour. I assumed you would want to skype. It´ll be on Christmas day probably in the morning, but I´ll find out for sure. Another thing is that I need American stamps sent to me. That´s how I get mail to you from the pouch. The pouch takes it to Salt Lake, and they mail it from there. So if I could get a package of a lot of stamps that would be great, because I can´t send handwritten letters without american stamps. Another thing to be grateful for back in the states is a drain in the baptismal font. My companion and I emptied it by buckets yesterday. That was fun....sorry this is so out of order, but I´m just trying to type as fast as I can and remember what I want to say. But a couple times in the last 2 weeks, I have felt the presence of Grandpa Rees with me. We will be walking down the street, and I´ll feel him or other angels with us. It is one of the most comforting feelings I have felt. I love you all so much. You are in my prayers and I can feel your prayers here. Thank you for all the love and support. Hopefully the computer will let me send pictures this week. I love you!!
Elder Barton
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