Jared Barton's Mexican Fiesta : Don't run on waxed floors the miracle of Jared's knee

Querida Familia,

So here´s another Wednesday email! This week was full of crazy events...haha first we had our monthly meeting with President. We found out that Culturas ended up in 2nd place behind another zone called Atlacomulco. Camarones ended up pretty good as well. So we accomplished a few things this week as well. First, we baptized a man that has been investigating the church for 20 years! He got married to his wife 20 years ago. She was baptized, and he wasn´t. Their kids were baptized at 8 years old but the dad never was. My comp and I went over and we somehow said the right things and he wanted to get baptized! The baptismal service was so emotional for the ward. His family cried and half the ward came to the baptism. Everybody knows him, and everyone was so excited for him. I believe that this guy is a future bishop, he thinks only he will only be a councilor. haha. Another cool thing that happened was yesterday. I was in interchanges and I was contacting a lady in the street. It was night time, and there weren´t any light posts where we were. I was talking to the lady and I mentioned that I´m not from here, and she was all surprised and noticed that I was american. I was talking like a Mexican! haha I have been doing a lot of different things to improve my accent, and it´s paying off! That gave me a big confidence booster. Then on Saturday, we were running through the metro to get back to our area. We were running down the stairs and I made it to the bottom going at about jogging speed. Well they had just waxed the floor or something...my feet hit the floor and the next thing I know I was trying to keep my balance. Long story short, I hit the turf. My knee led the way and slammed into the floor, with my 227 lb. self landing on top of it. It was pretty embarassing...haha. But I stood up and found it hard to walk. My knee was hurting pretty bad after that. I tried to walk it off and just walk normally. We got back to our area and the hills were killing me. We went to bed that night, and my knee got all stiff and cold. I have never had so much pain in my knee before. I could hardly walk, and we had to walk to church. I limped on over there after asking for a blessing from my comp. I finished the day in pain, and I woke up on Monday morning with basically no pain at all! It was a miracle. And right now, the only thing that bothers my knee is doing a catcher´s squat. I was thankful for that blessing. And yesterday, we had our zone meeting. We talked a lot about retention of our converts again, so we are focusing more on that. President said that it doesn´t mean that we baptize less, it just means that we prepare our people better before they get baptized. That´s basically it for this week. I love you all!

Con amor,

Elder Barton