Dear Family,

     Well another week goes by in la gran misión. We finished the month of April pretty badly as a zone. Sometimes I don´t understand. We have great missionaries, great areas, and little success. We just had a slump this month, but we´ll get out of it this month of May. One cool thing that happened this week in our area. The services yesterday were a lot more reverent! We had some investigators there and the door hardly opened and shut, and almost no babies were crying. We noticed that the usual loud people weren´t there though...haha I guess the guilty find the truth to be hard. But during the 3rd hour, we gave the class as a companionship. Our Bishop is great and gives us the 4th Sunday every month to do a preach my gospel class. Yesterday, we did it on lession 1, the restoration. Our goal was to help the members know how to teach it with good examples and scriptures. So we taught each principle separately and answered questions. I had the opportunity to share principle number 6. Which is about the Joseph Smith story. I started to tell the story and went into the first vision. When I started to say Joseph Smith´s own words, a silence filled the room and I was the only one talking. The spirit was so strong, and when I had finished with his words, there was a silence for a good 10 seconds, even though there was a sacrament meeting on the other side of the curtain. It was way cool. I then testified of it and shared that those are the feelings of the true church. We had an investigator in the front row, and I know she felt something. She asked to come by today to teach a little more. I love teaching lession 1 to anybody, because the spirit is always there. We´ll have concilio next week, so I´ll write again on Wednesday. but I´m glad to hear about my baseball teammates and how they are doing well still. Keep it up!

Con amor,

Elder Barton

Elder Medina in the middle. He was an assistant for three months and is visiting from his home