Hola!

     Well this week was full of events since Wednesday! On Friday and Saturday, we went to conferences with of the Seventy. Elder Jesús Ortíz came to our mission to give us some advice and just say what the Lord wants us to hear from him. He said he was sent from Elder Dallin H. Oaks for the assignment. Him and his wife are an incredible tag team and they were really powerful. All the missionaries in the city went to a session Friday morning with just us missionaries, then at 7 pm with our Ward Council members. Then we had a special meeting with him as Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders on Saturday morning. He was so full of the spirit and said some really direct things to us. I learned a lot and I have a lot of things to apply and change. One thing he said was kind of funny but really serious at the same time.  He said a missionary asked him what he should do if his companion was being disobedient. He said, and I´m translating,´´Go with your companion wherever he goes, except hell.´´ haha. Meaning we try to help our companions who are disobedient. But after 2 tries if they still don´t want to, we leave them there and we call President. And we tell President that we want changes because we want the spirit in our area. That´s in extreme cases, but it´s something he told us to do if we need to. I learned so much from Elder Ortíz, and he said something in one of his talks that I was asking myself for a long time. It caught my attention, and I made sure to ask him about it later on. I got one on one with him for about a minute by strategic thinking, and I asked my question.  He answered in the most simple way, and I was able to get that answer. So at the conference with missionaries and the ward council members, the ward leaders from Las Armas came!!! I got to see 2 of my favorite families in the mission. La familia Sanchez, and la familia Fuentes. It was so great to see them and to talk for a bit. It made my day and it made me even more excited to go see them again when I´m heading home in September. Also, yesterday we baptized Juanita!! She´s my oldest convert, 80 years old! She´s been Christian all of her life, and those are normally the hardest to convert!  Her baptism was great, and she was so happy to be baptized again by immersion, but this time with the proper authority! That´s all I got this week. I love you all!

Con amor,

Elder Barton

la familla Sanchez

Hno. Fuentez

awesome baptism pics

I'm guessing they're looking at heaven