Hola Familia!

     Well, this week is Christmas!! When all of school is out, all the responsibility comes on the zone leaders to plan a zone activity on the 24th...haha I´ve been dumped with more things in the last week than my whole mission. But I´m having fun anyways. Anyways, the question that everyone wants answered....skype! We set up our skype time with 2 awesome members. We will be making the call around 10 am Mountain Time (11 mexico city time) in the house of some members. I can´t wait to see you guys again! I´ll be sure to prepare some things to say...haha. We´ll have to be prepared because we only have 40 minutes this time. But here are some of the things that happened this last week. First, we had another baptism! We were going to have 3, but all of a sudden the kids didn´t want to do it. They are 25 and 18 years old. I love them to death, so we´ll see what happens this weekend. But the mom still wanted to be baptized without her kids. This family was a reference from a bishop that lives about an hour from here. He found us walking through the alleyways of Tacuba and stopped us in our tracks. He took us to that family and had success! We just have to hope for the kids for this week. Also, we had our special Christmas Zone Conference with President. We had good messages given to us and after that, we got to watch Meet The Mormons. The new movie about our church. There´s a segment on that movie about the Navy football team´s head coach. Let´s just say I was getting the chills and kind of losing focus when they were showing clips of his team and some of their games. haha. I also got my package!! Thanks so much for the new suit and other stuff! The suit fits well, I just have to get it hemmed here pretty soon. I´m looking for a member to do it. If not, Hna. Whitehead will do it in January when we have interviews. I also got another one of Cheryl´s funny cards! I loved it all! So as a zone of Camarones, we have a ton of potential to repeat as the zone of power...we are going into the last week of the month. It´ll be harder because we won´t be working on Wednesday from 2 pm and on, then Thursday morning because we will be talking with families. So we will be praying so hard and going to work while we can. I got to baptize 4 people for the hermanas in our district yesterday as well. They were all so happy to be getting baptized, and it was such a cool experience to see them. Well I´m ready to go to work again and hardly get sleep. haha. I love you all, and I´ll see you on Thursday!! Merry Christmas!

Con amor,

Elder Barton

Jared's companion from the MTC

4 baptisms for the sisters