Jared Barton's Mexican Fiesta

Another week here in la gran misión! We baptized a girl named Jaretzi yesterday! She is 9 years old (which still counts as a convert) and she was so excited. Her sister is named Salma, and we are going to try to get here this week to end the changes. This change has gone by so fast! Elder Willie and I are having so much fun working hard and being hilarious. We have so many inside jokes. I´m hoping we can stay one more change together in this ward, but we will find out on Saturday night. This week we had interviews with President, and it was really cool. We turned in our personal Living Christ assignment and he said he loved reading it. He bore his testimony to me in my interview about Christ, and he was so powerful. I tried to hint to him in the interview and in the email I just sent to him that Elder Willie and I want to stay one more change together. haha. In other news, we did interchanges this week with our district. I stayed in my area and Elder Ortiz from Cancun came to work with me. he´s a pretty weird guy. haha but we had fun. He only speaks Spanish, so that was also fun. Also, we had probably the weirdest day I´ll ever have on my mission on Saturday. We had 2 appointments in the morning, and they both didn´t answer the door, so we were walking around contacting in the street. We were contacting on a corner of 2 roads, and a car backed into my comp. It wasn´t going fast or anything, but it was obviously on purpose because it wasn´t necassary at all to be backing up where we were. He hit the car really hard with his hand and the car just drove off. haha and then some druggies were on the other corner of the road yelling at us for being in the road (we were right by the curb) haha. Then we went down the road and contacted another guy who said he didn´t believe in God, because he is God. haha he wasn´t drinking, he wasn´t doing drugs, and he had a firm belief that he is God. My comp. told him even though he was saying garbage, God still loves him. And he said,´´Sí, me amo.´´ which means, Yes I love me. hahaha. So then we went back to the same corner with the druggies because we were on our way to lunch with the Plata family. One of the druggies was alone on another corner and called us over, so we went and tried to contact him. He demanded my comp to give him a candy that my comp had in his hand, and Elder Willie gave him a little attitude. haha he said,´´what do you say?´´ like he´s a kid. The guy rolls his eyes and says por favor. haha. Then the guy told us that Mexico is going to kill everyone that´s not from Mexico. So naturally, we walk away. haha. Then we get to the food, and my comp and I are being joksters like we are, doing things with our ties to make the kids laugh. Then we showed it to the mom of the family, and she laughed so hard. haha after we ate, we were going to share something with them before we left. We started sharing a few of our inside jokes, and the mom was doubled over the armrest of the couch laughing so hard. haha we were laughing because she was laughing, and the 2 kids were just sitting there not laughing at all. haha then to finish the day later on, we had the baptism interview for Jaretzi, and went home. Best day ever...haha. I love this area so much. The Sanchez family gets cooler and cooler every day, and we have so much support from the members. In conclusion, I need to say Happy Birthday to my mom because her birthday is on the 28th this week! I love you mom, thank you for your example to me and for always showing how much you love me. I can´t thank you enough. That´s it for me this week! Besides a few funny pictures from the last week. I love you all!

Con amor,

Elder Barton