Barton Family News

Hey there good lookin family!!!! Hows it goin?!?!?! you all sounds like you are doing well. You all are such huge inspiration to me!!!! Love hearing (reading) from you all!!!! We had some pretty neat miracles happen this week. We get letters from our president every week and I really try to implement them. He talked about serving with all our heart, might, mind and strength. That is much MUCH easier said than done, hahaha! I really thought about my purpose when I read that and what I wanted to accomplish during the time the LORD has given me to serve Him. I decided to really put myself out there and act on first promptings. It was one of the greatest missionary work weeks ever because of that! We found and taught tons of new people this week!!!  I remember a few of these neat little experiences we had when I followed these impressions. We were waiting at this one bus stop pretty far from our area and I felt the impression to start doing contacts. I started with this younger lo...

Estimada Família, Hey guys!!! Hope you all are doing great!!! Don't have too much time to write, but I´ll try to write as much as I can for this week!!!!  So, this week, we tried a lot to work with the members. We were told by our AP how increasing working with the members is such a more effective way of doing missionary work. We presented a member missionary reference card to the members. it was awesome!!! I got to show a bunch of ways not to do missionary work and then one quick example of how they should and could do easy simple invites in less that a minute!!! It was super neat, and we got a bunch of golden references from it.  We´ve also been working with this one member named Irmão Azevedo. He is seriously one of the most amazing people I know! He is always so upbeat and ready to go out and do missionary work with us. He is a bit older but acts super young and has tons of energy! there was one time we called to meet with him and we were waiting at his house to ...

Hey there good lookins!!!!!! Hope you all are doing well as ever!!!! We seriously had such an awesome week this week!!!! I´ll tell you all a story, well, a miracle that happened  Friday . We got up, did our weekly planning, and had lunch with some members, yadayada. The normal for  Friday . We then went to a meeting with a bunch of the leaders in our area called workshop. We met with an elder named Elder Macedo. It was super neat because he was our zone leader and had done a bunch of visits with me before, so he knew super well how to help us. We started talking about an instigator in our area named Elvira. She is super sweet! We had visited her before, Elder Macedo and I , and she had practically passed a baptismal interview, the only thing was, we had visited her later, and she said she didn't want to be baptized. But, last week, already told this story, she went to church with us. It was super neat! Elder Macedo got to talking and said that we could baptism her that day. ...

Ola e boa tarde Família!!!! The beginning of this week was a sad send off for Elder Barrios. Let me tell ya, he did not want to leave this area. We ate our last meal at mcdonalds in Alges. We got these free cards to eat at mcdonalds from our neighbor and decided to use them as our last meal. It was funny, this whole time together, we got to know each other so well!!! Right as Elder Barrios sat down, I was still standing. We both paused for a moments, and right before I said anything, Elder Barrios said, "tem que usar a casa de banho?" and I said, "sim." haha! I have to got to the bathroom a lot because I drink a ton of water throughout the day. It was pretty funny that he knew me so well. We dropped him off with a member. It was super sad to see him go. When we arrived, we instantly started looking for our new companions.  I had heard that my companion was a little shorter. When I saw an elder that was a bit shorter, we both stopped and instantly looked at each ot...