Barton Family News

Hello Family! Wow, you all look so good in those pictures! The Thanksgiving trip sounds and looks like a blast as always! Ellie won! What?!?!?! I´m so proud of her!!!!!!! Hahaha! I love how everyone is getting into the Christmas spirit! Those spongebob costumes were fantastic! My companion and I laughed pretty hard when we saw those! Ellie, I will for sure do the letter thing! Let me know if there is anything else you want me to do! I´m still debating how I should send it all, but I´m sure I´ll figure it out. Mom and Dad, you both sound great! I love hearing from you! Oh, and mom, I love it when you go on tangents like that! Believe it or not, I needed to hear all of that! I didn't cry!!!!! haha, just a little! you always know what to say. I hope you all get to put up the Christmas stuff soon, I know seeing that stuff always made me happy every day! I also hope Parker is doing ok. I´m happy he gets to go back out in February. Gpa of course wrote me a nice letter about thanksgiv...

Olá Família! I hope all is well at home and on the colorado trip! I cannot believe how much things seem to be changing at home! Dad, it sounds like you have a lot coming your way! Crazy! Everyone must thing you can take care of the whole world or something! And, ya , the language is pretty interesting. I´ve been able to contribute here and there and talk to some people on the street, but it is all very basic. I feel like I am being pushed to learn and grow every day. My companion speaks very fast too! I feal like I am learning more spanish than Portuguese! I have to adjust to hearing actual people from portugal after hearing my companion talk in his spanish accent. I actually love it! I notice my attitude has everything to do with the language too! If I am upbeat and excited about learning, it is much easier. I have also been reading the Book of Mormon out loud in Portuguese out loud like you told me to. Carter sounds like a beast tearing it up on the court! Chloe, thanks for stickin...

Olá Família! Hope you all are doing well! Yes, first week in Portugal! Crazy! I cant believe all that is happening! It still feels like a dream to be honest! Im so sorry about the cut off on the phone. I probably left you clueless! Its nothing too crazy. Ill for sure have to tell you some other time! So, Ill continue where I left off with you. So we got on the plane like right after. We landed in minneapolis and got to our next gate to fly to Amsterdam. When we got to the gate, I saw Elder Mortensen and Elder White! It was so crazy! My heart started pounding so hard I was getting so excited! We got on a huge plane! Seriously! Huge! We flew for a long time as you might guess. We got to talk to a man named Mr. Beggs. He was super nice and we were able to teach him the whole restoration on teh flight and give him a Book of Mormon! He even started reading it on the plane! I was so happy! I was able to pass out for a little bit and was then woken up by a stewardess last second after all t...

Got this note from Taggert's mission president this morning: Hello! Your son, Elder Barton has arrived in the Portugal Lisbon Mission safely, and will eat and sleep for the rest of the night. He is very loved and in Good hands, we are excited to have him here. With Love, Presidente & Sister Tavares We also got to talk with Elder Barton while he was in the airport yesterday.  It was so great to hear his voice.  He sounded very excited to go to Portugal.  

Hey Family!!! What a week it has been!!!! So crazy!!! I found out   Wednesday  that we got our visas! So exciting!!!! We leave today, and I am just sending a quick email before I head to the airport! I am going crazy in my mind right now! There is so much going on in my head! To be honest, I thought I would not ever really feel like Boise would be a home for me. As soon as I got the call that we got our visas, I got excited and sad. I realized Boise was my home for a while. I'm getting really sad thinking about the people I am leaving. I'm really going to miss them. I really feel like we were just getting started!!! I really wish I could have seen some things play out. Another time or another place perhaps. We had a great week!!! Preparation day, we got to go see the capital! It was so pretty!!! we walked around the whole inside and I got some sweet pictures! That night was a packed night. We had a ton of visits. I'll just tell you about the more prominent ones. We go...