Christmas week

Dear Family,

     First of all, it was great to see you all on Christmas! I was so happy to hear all your voices and to talk for a few minutes. I´m still sure that I don´t have an accent. haha but whatever you say. So about other important stuff, we baptized 3 this week! We baptized a little girl named Celina, and 2 youth named Brian and Lina. I think Brian and Lina are 2 future missionaries. We´ll talk to them about that! We ended up having a White Christmas here in Mexico as well. But it wasn´t with snow, it was with white baptismal clothes.  We ended up with 5 in December. As a zone, we finished below what we were hoping, but it was still a good month for the zone. We finished with 19 baptisms. With an average of 2.37 baptisms per companionship. I´m so nervous to see the results next Monday in our meeting with President. It´s a great month for us, but I´m just not sure if it´s enough to get us on top again. We´ll see! So on Saturday morning, we went to an área called Cuitláhuac to help them get someone to get baptized. She´s a lady who has gone to church a lot but just wasn´t getting baptized. So we went over there with them. It was 4 Americans against one lady. in about 20 minutes, we had the lady convinced that the church is true. I did the baptism interview and she got baptized yesterday.  it was cool to see. After that, we went up to the corner of the street and we were waiting for the bus talking to Elder Floisand and Elder Monarrez. All of a sudden, this guy comes up and starts talking to us about he can help us baptize more people. I asked him if he was a member of the church and he said no, he just knows how the Mexicans are. haha. He was explaining how to convince people socially before doing it spiritually. I asked him,´´ so how many people have you baptized?´´ He paused and said,´´.....nobody. But I want to help you!´´ haha we got a good laugh out of that. So I was just looking at the pictures that you sent me of my cousins. They´re huge! haha it´s amazing how much older they look. I think the biggest surprise of the picture was Brooks! Beast! haha. I love you all!

Con amor,

Elder Barton