Baptism and new companion

Hola!

     Last week was kind of hard to be honest. We had a lot of appointments, and a lot of them weren´t at their houses when we went. We had 16 people committed to come to church yesterday, and in the morning, we passed by most of their houses. When we got to our church, we waited at the doors and greeted people. We had absolutely nobody at church. When we passed by their houses, they told us that they were going for sure. And nobody did... My numbers also went down this week in people contacted and lessons taught. I realized I have to take an initiative on talking to people. Elder Woodbury talked to anything that moved, and he would let me do a lot of the contacts. With a new companion, I have to lead the charge and go to the houses we need to, because he doesn´t know the área. I had the chance to lead all the lessons too because he didn´t know any of our investigators. We realized that we have to do better this week, and we have set some new goals to work hard and be better. I was also sick this week. One day, I bought some juice off the Street. It seemed safe....I saw the fresh orange peels and everything. It was a mixture of orange, lime, and guayaba juice. That night, I was miserable. I couldn´t stop shaking and my stomach felt just about as bad as it has ever felt. I went to bed right after planning session, and I woke up an hour later to go empty out my stomach. I laughed on the inside as I was running to the bathroom, because I thought of Tyler saying,´´oh this is so exciting, your first puke in a foreign country.´´ hahaha. After that, I felt better but so weak. The next morning, I was dizzy until lunch, then I was good to go. Right now, I´m perfectly fine. Other stories....We were walking to an appointment and got stopped by 3 drunk guys asking to hear our message. We were just trying to walk away when one of them followed us and basically demanded that we talk to him another day. So we humored him and wrote his name down. The next day, he saw us again. But he was sober this time. He asked why we didn´t come by (the appointment wasn´t that day) and he apologized for the mistake, but took us to his house anyway. haha. We sat down, and he brought his whole family in (about 7 or 8 people) and he has a desire to change. The funny thing is, I talked to his mom in a taxi earlier that day, and she welcomed us so warmly when she saw us come in. We are hoping that he can progress. Another story is I got to baptize Arturo Dias Islas for the Hermanas. He´s an awesome guy. The wáter in the font was FREEZING cold again. I´m just glad I don´t have to be dunked all the way under. So I don´t know if I have said this before, but this is one of my favorite things to do. When we knock on a door, and a Little kid comes to the door saying the parents aren´t there. Then we say,´´well will you go ask them when they´ll be back?´´ and they say yes and go ask. I get a good laugh every time. Also, we can´t forget that it´s dad´s birthday this week! I just want to say thanks for always being an example to me. You are the hardest worker I know, and you´ve taught me so much. Thanks for being the best dad. In other news, I took more money out of my personal card, about the money that was put in as a gift. I think that money on my card is the best gift, because I can buy a lot of things here if I need, and a lot of cool stuff. I haven´t received any packages yet, because I have only had interviews with president Whitehead once, and the packages didn´t have enough time to get here. I´ll probably get them later this month, or next, depending on when they were sent. Also, tell Tyler I can´t wait to come back and play FIFA with him again, and I can narrate it in Spanish. haha. A good study idea is Lehi´s dream. I studied that in Spanish for the first time this week. That´s all I got for this week. I love you!

     Love,

       Elder Barton