Last email of the change...It really is incredible how fast each change goes by. This one has been frustrating with the comp and all, but it still found a way to slip by. I experienced another miracle this week...haha right now the mission knows our zone as ´´atlacomilagros´´ which in english is ´´atlacomiracle.´´ We are finding a lot of prepared people to baptize that have already been to church and received the missionaries in the zone. But this last week, I had a miracle with my cell phone. It has been announced in concilio and zone meetings for a few months now that the sister missionaries lose 80% of the phones that are lost. haha. In the zone meeting last week, everybody got a kick out of that announcement and were giving tips to the hermanas to not lost their phones. haha. On Thursday, I was in a taxi going to a certain part of Xonacantlán (another area in the zone) on interchanges. I was talking to the driver about the church and he seemed interested. He gave us his address and what time he´s home during the day. We said thanks and got out at our destination. When we were 2 blocks away, I realized my phone wasn´t in my shirt pocket or my pants pocket...I ran back to the taxi base, but the guy had already left on his route again. We waited to see if he got back, but he didn´t get back. It turned out that his address was in the area of the hermanas of Xonacantlán, so they went to try to find him and get my phone. Turns out that his address doesn´t exist...haha he gave us a false address. But we were using the phone of Xona to call mine over and over again. I might have called it 100 times. No luck. The next morning, I was still in Xona and I was calling it over and over again because the call was going in and everything. Someone was bound to answer. Long story short, someone answered it at 10 am on Friday morning, and we set up a time and place to meet to get it back to me. We get to the place, and I get my phone back. Curious, I asked the guy where he got it (because it wasn´t the taxi driver that we had contacted the day before) He said that some kids sold it to him the day before because they wanted money to play arcade games. haha. So in less than 24 hours, it was sold, given to little kids, and sold to this guy....#mexico. But I was able to get it back for a reasonable price from the guy. haha. So first was the keys, and now my phone. I wonder what´s next...haha. Anyways we were also going to have a baptism yesterday but it turns out that our guy didn´t get it all out in his baptismal interview...he doesn´t feel ready because he still has some things that he didn´t tell the district leader that he´s done...we are going to help him understand the atonement a little more and help him feel our support even more this week. And we´ll get him baptized this Sunday. I love you all!
Con amor,
Elder Barton
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