Mission Fun

Buenos días!

     Well, another month has come and gone. This month of November was certainly the month where I was the most tired, most frustrated, stressed, but rewarded in my mission. We went to our meeting with President on Monday with the other zone leaders and found out the results of the month. As a mission, we had 231 baptisms! It was the 2nd best month of the year. As a zone of Camarones, we had 24 of those. In the meeting, they have a slideshow of the numbers of every zone, and the zone leaders of that zone stand up in front and present what they did. Usually they do it in alphabetical order, but on monday they did it a little different. They started with the zone with the lowest average number of baptisms and worked their way up to number 1. I was sitting next to my ex-companion, Elder Cabrera, waiting for the results. Long story short, we were left with the 2 top spots left. They were us and Elder Cabrera...haha. We were waiting for the next slide to show up to reveal who ended up in 2nd place. After playing with us a little, the assistant turned the slide to reveal Metepec!!! I was filled with relief and so much joy when I realized that we had done it! We are the zone of power!!! I´m so grateful for the opportunity to see how hard our young group fought and worked. Especially last Sunday when we NEEDED to put 6 under the water to assure us a spot on top. My companion and I baptized one, and we helped other areas get 5 more. Then we found out that we ended up on top! After that, we had our zone meeting yesterday and we revealed the results to the other missionaries. I drew a Camarón on a whiteboard with our names and our number of baptisms. haha. I don´t think I have mentioned this, but camarón in spanish means shrimp. So when I send the picture of the whiteboard, it´ll make sense. haha. So we received some announcements from President during the meeting on Monday. One of them was about skype on Christmas day. Usually, the time we have is 1 hour to talk to our families. But this Christmas, we will only have 40 minutes. It was announcement from the area seventy, not from President or Hermana Whitehead. So just be ready for a 40 minute talk instead of an hour. That´s all I got this week, thanks for all the love and support!!

Con amor,

Elder Barton

silly missionaries 

Cute little girl who told Jared a joke. What did one stop light say to the other? Turn around, I'm changing.haha

Jared's awesome shrimp

Mexican smiles

numero uno in November (they were kinda excited)

this sisters asked the Elders to pose how the girls do....Nailed it!

? I think they're making an 8....I don't know

happy dance

Tyler told me about the poses. Jared is posing like Collin Keapernick Elder Floisand andt he Hermanas are doing Tim Tebow