why baseball players should serve missions....or why missionaries should play baseball?

Dear Family, 

 Another week goes by! This last week was full of meetings and
solid talks. My companion and I went to work and brought 13 people to
the conference! We had the blessing of watching 4 of the 5 sessions of
conference in English. We couldn´t get the internet access for the
Saturday AM session, but we got it for the rest. My comp. and I came
up with a theme for this last session. It was,´´have mercy on us oh
random seventy'' haha because the seventy just knocked it out of the
park. It was fun basically being called latter day sinners, quitters,
and hypocrites.  Also, the priesthood session, as always, was my
favorite. It was sad to see that great young mens presidency get
released, but Elder Larry Gibson gave a great example in his talk
about the coin his father gave to him when he was a kid. I think the
best talk of the whole thing was Pres. Eyring in the priesthood
session. After general conference, we had to put the suits on again
and go to our meeting with President. We found out that Culturas took
third place this month...but we still did really good. In the meeting,
President talked about how effective we need to be on our interchanges
that we do with the missionaries. Then one of the assistants talked
about how to use the members to find people to teach. I got to talk
about President´s message and the interchanges. I put what I thought
was a brilliant example. I used the example of the relievers in
baseball. When a starter gets into trouble, you put in a reliever for
a short time to get out of the jam. So I wrote out the process of
putting in a reliever. 1. the phonecall to the bullpen. 2. the
reliever warms up. 3. He enters the game and is a gamechanger. 4. Goes
back to the bullpen after a few innings of work. So this can be
related to an effective interchange. 1. we make the phonecall to set
up the interchange. 2. We get warmed up and pray specifically to get
help during it, and that the area can be blessed meanwhile. 3. We do
the interchanges and we are gamechangers in the area. 4. We return to
our own areas after a short time. I focused on why relievers are
important and their purpose, to get out of a jam or to mix things up.
That´s what interchanges are for. To get out of a jam or to get
someone new in their with more momentum. We finished the meeting with
a spiritual blast. We put together a chain of scriptures from Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John to read the last week of Christ. We had everyone
get separated on the benches in the chapel, and we read them outloud.
Every missionary had a part, and we just read them in order. In the
middle, my companion, I, and our sister training leader bore
testimonies and shared a little message. It´s kind of hard to explain,
but it turned out good. I also got a letter from Glenn and Molly on
Monday! I always love their letters, and I actually used part of
Glenn´s testimony in my talk yesterday. I translated it on the fly and
it helped finish my talk strong. So thanks for that! haha. I love you
all, thanks for all your support! 

 Con amor,
Elder Barton
Molonito 1










Elder Goodrich


I guess the backward hand guesture is a sarcastic thank you