concilio

Hola Familia!

     Another concilio week flies by. This concilio was full of the spirit and subjects that we needed in the mission. We had the meeting in President´s house this time instead of in a stake center in a stake called Tacubaya. It was fun being in President´s house, especially because he pulled out the grill afterwords and made hamburgers and hot dogs for everyone. That was AMAZING. haha I haven´t had a hamburger with the black grill lines for about 22 months. haha. The most special part about that was that his family was their visiting. Their daughter and grandkids that had lost their dad recently. They had a special musical number that the kids sung, and the mom played the piano. They sung families can be together forever. I´m pretty sure there was not a dry eye in the room. The spirit was so strong, and that family just got stronger after their tragedy. Yesterday, we had our zone meeting where we had to relay the messages from concilio to our zones. I got to talk about ´´internal pressure´´ and how it compares to external pressure. External pressure comes from others. Mission president, companion, leaders, etc. But what we need to develop is internal pressure so that we can motivate ourselves to work instead to relying only on external pressure. I liked giving that message, and I learned a lot while preparing it. We were going to have a baptism on Sunday but it fell through because the guy had to take a double shift in his work and worked all day on Sunday...So we are going to get him either during the week or this Sunday. He´s a great guy, and he had asked his work to let him rest on Sundays. They gave it to him, but someone didn´t show up to work and he had to cover them. On Sunday night, we traveled to the assistant´s house in the city to sleep so we didn´t have to wake up so early for concilio. When we do that, we meet with the assistants, secretaries, and another pair of zone leaders that are also far away in the mission offices. When we got to the offices, the secretary tells me that we had made it to the elite 8. I was confused and asked him why. He took me back to the secretary´s office and showed me a bracket of the mission. haha. He had seeded every single area according to the success they had in recent times. We were put up against other areas in a bracket and according to our success of the week determined if we won or not. haha. Out of about 100 areas, we were in the elite 8 going into last week. During the ´´tournament´´ we had beaten a few companionships of zone leaders, regular companionships, and we had beaten the assistants. haha but this last week, our baptism fell through and we were going up against a pair of hermanas in my ex-zone camarones. They baptized 3, and we were eliminated from the tournament. haha they find great ways to entertain themselves in the offices. That´s all I got for this week. I love you all!

Con amor,

Elder Barton