Busy week of zone conferences

This is a quote Hermana Whitehead sent to Jared:

Parley P. Pratt gave us a vision of what the gift of the Holy Ghost could mean to us when he said:

“The gift of the Holy Ghost … quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges, expands and purifies all the natural passions and affections; and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates and matures all the fine-toned sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings, and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness, and charity. It develops beauty of person, form and features. It tends to health, vigor, animation, and social feeling. It invigorates all the faculties of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens, and gives tone to the nerves. In short, it is, as it were, marrow to the bone, joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the ears, and life to the whole being” (Key to the Science of Theology, 9th ed. [1965], 101).

Hey yáll!

     I want to first apologize for not writing yesterday. We have had zone conferences every day since Wednesday of last week except for Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday, we were in Zitácuaro from 9 am to 2 pm, and then we booked it to Atlacomulco and started there about 4 pm and went to 8 pm. Then we slept in my old house in Atlaco. This morning, we traveled about an hour and a half to Toluca to do another zone conference, and we got permission to write to you guys right now. Life as an AP is totally different from the life of a zone leader or district leader. We are in the offices a lot with President´s 2 secretaries just making sure everything is perfect around here. Making sure reports are done, making phone calls, confirming appointments with stake presidents, etc. We get to work in our area of Molinito 1 only on Saturdays...so that´s going to complicate things a bit. But my comp. and I are getting along great and we will find a way to get people to church and baptize. On Sunday, we managed to get 4 people to church. So there´s a start. I´ve gotten to give a few talks this last week in a few zone conferences. I spoke yesterday in Atlacomulco and today in Toluca about the imprortance of unity. I´ve learned some pretty cool things, and my testimony has been strengthened about the holy ghost, because in both of the talks I´ve given, I´ve said some things completely out of my game plan, but they were the highlights of the talks. Tomorrow, we will be in another zone conference in the zones of Las Torres and Metepec, then on Thursday in Lerma, then on Friday in Chapultepec, then on Saturday we will be welcoming in an apostle of the Lord. We are trying to get the whole mission ready for that, and the church where we will be at is being cleaned inside and out all this week. We´re excited! Being by President´s side a lot has been cool, especially because I can ask him a lot of stuff. I´ve learned a lot about his life and his knowledge. Hermana Whitehead is amazing as well with knowledge and her love for everybody. I´m going to take advantage of that for these next weeks while I´m here. It´s pretty sure that I´ll finish my mission as an assistant, so I´m going to figure out the best way to be one, and learn from all the people I´ll be around while I´m here. I love you all!

Con amor,

Elder Barton