Jared Barton's Mexican Fiesta : Baptism and fun at zone conference

Hola familia!

This week went by a little faster than the other weeks, and they all go by fast....we were working hard and having fun. We had another baptism yesterday! His name is Iñaki and he is a less active´s son. Him and his mom were driving and saw us. She pulled over and said,´´Elders! I´m less active! I want to return! This is my son! He´s not a member! Where and when are the services?!´´ We were speechless. haha. That was a few weeks ago, Iñaki and his mom went to church a few times and we baptized him yesterday. He asked my companion to baptize him and me to confirm him. I´m excited to do that next Sunday. Part of his extended family came to his baptism. It was cool to see his uncle soooo excited that he was finally getting baptized. His uncle and I were the 2 witnesses for it. When the services ended and we were going up to congratulate him, everyone had to wait for him and his uncle who were just sitting there hugging and crying. It was one of the coolest things that I have seen here on my mission. TRUE JOY IS FOUND IN THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS. Another cool thing that happened this week was we went to the mission offices so my companion could go sign his visa and stuff. I stayed back with the other trainers and we helped load all of the packages and mission supplies in President´s car. Then we went to the church of the Palmas ward to have a leadership training meeting with the trainers and their new missionaries. President did most of the presentation in english. It was way cool to hear President teach in english because he was really being himself. He´s powerful in spanish as well, but english is just different. It made me realize that someday I will see him speak in a general conference. He basically talked about how to train a new missionary and how to do it right. After that, we took the long busride back to Metepec and went back to work. So on Saturday we ate with the stake patriarch and his wife. We were sitting on their couch waiting for the food to be ready and we were looking at their cabinet that they have. It´s as tall as we are, and it has glass doors with wood framing. And for 10 minutes straight, we were trying to find out if they had put a mirror in the middle of it to make it seem bigger. We were up on our feet measuring the width of the whole thing with our arms and trying to determine if it was bigger or not. We decided 5 or 6 times that there was no mirror. haha until we asked finally and patriarca told us that there was a mirror...haha I don´t know why I wrote about that...but it was a funny moment. Anyways this Saturday we get our changes..I can´t believe how each change gets faster and faster. I really want to stay here in Las Torres for one more change, but it´s the Lord´s will!

Con amor,

Elder Barton