Well, another week goes down. Yesterday, I met the members of our ward because last week was general conference and we were in the offices for it. We went to our services over there and had fast and testimony meeting. It´s a different feeling, because I´ve never been in this stake before, I had never been to that area before, and we won´t be there everyday. Normally, I go to town trying to get to know the members and start working with them. But I´ll only be here 4 more weeks in the ward...so I´m trying to figure out how to work well in the area. Elder Mason and I are getting along great! He´s so good with the scriptures and I´ve been learning a lot from him. He works hard and loves the work. He´s got 7 months left in the mission, and he´s in his prime. We also see the secretaries a lot. We live with them and we are in the offices a lot together. One is Elder Hirsch from Centerville. He´s a state champion golfer and has a scholarship to BYU. The other is Elder Lowe from Layton. We love that all 4 of us are Americans to be able to speak english during the day. haha. My chest pains and gall bladder pains have gone away for the most part. Sometimes I´ll get a sharp pain to the gall bladder but then it goes away. This week I went on interchanges to a zone called Lomas Verdes. It´s the wealthiest zone of the mission. They say it´s hard to work there because of the wealth. Mostly everyone has cars, and aren´t in the street. Or they have hard hearts and don´t want to listen. I went over with an awesome guy named Elder Alegre from Argentina. He´s an energetic guy and we had a good day over there. The member who signed up for the food wasn´t going to be there so we had to go buy it. We went to a burger place called la cabaña. (the cabin) and I had the biggest burger of my life! It was only 100 pesos and it had 500 grams of meat. With ketchup, mustard, onions, lettuce, tomato, all that. In our area, we were working pretty hard but not really finding much success. It´s a different area than I´m used to, but we are making do. Honestly, I´m scared for this last month. It hadn´t have hit me yet that I was going home until last week. It will be a life changer that I have to be ready for, but I´m ready to get things going at home. I love you all, have a good week!
Con amor,
Elder Barton
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