Barton Family News

Dear Fam, Hows it going???  This last week sounded so neat!!! Lots of stuff happening!!! Super cool!!! This week really surprised me at the end! We have been having a hard time finding more people to teach. Not gonna lie, a bit of a struggle, but I've still been loving every bit of the mission!!! Seriously such a huge blessing a privilege to serve the Lord. I've noticed a lot of changes in me recently.  Usually I'd have a craving for watching a movie or just chilling playing some sort of game, but all I want to do is just read the scriptures. It's become so much more important to me and so much more spiritual. I'll read and just feel the spirit so strong every morning and almost break into tears. The scriptures are so powerful and amazing to me.  We had a lot of troubles finding people this week. A lot of our investigators stopped progressing, and we've had to even stop teaching some because they weren't following through our invites and chose ...

Dear Family, Hows it goin??? Happy Father´s Day Dad!!!!!! It looked like you all had a super fun time showing Dad just how much you all love him. Dad's the best!!!! Soccer has been a little crazy here! The game was  on Friday , and we were instructed by our president to do our weekly planning during the game. Ya, I guess you could say its pretty serious. Soccer is literally religion here! It's crazy! As Elder Gusmão and I were planning, we heard people screaming and trumpet sounds going off; it was crazy!   We had a bunch of powerful moments this week. We have been teaching a lot more with members, and God has blessed us so much to be able to find people to teach and to be able to teach more powerful lessons. I feel like Elder Gusmão and I are getting better at teaching to the needs of the people. Rather than teach a lesson in bullet points, it's a personally customized answer for that person given to them through us from God. It's pretty neat!  We...

Hello family!!!! Sounds like summer´s started for yall! Crazy!!! This week was actually super cool!!! We had a ton of lessons with members!!! We had a few that were extremely neat!!!!  We went to teach this one family that we had contacted on the metro. The parents were super open and super accepting!!! They both had specific questions that were perfect for the messages we had! The spirit was super strong! I felt guided the whole time by the spirit!!! we also had another incredible lesson with another member that was perfect for this other family we are teaching! They were both evangelic, and the member knew exactly what to say to this family! It was seriously incredible! the members are so important in this work!!! Because of them, the lessons have been a ton more spiritual and the needs of our investigators have been more easily met.  We had another super powerful lesson with an investigator that had pretty much disappeared before. Elder Egbert, the new elder in ...

Dear family!!! How's it goin on the other side of the pond??? Sounds like you all had such a great week!!! Bet you all are so happy to be done with school stress!! hahaha! Now it's on to the summer sport camp stress!! hahahaha!!!  We had some super neat experiences this week with some of our investigators and recent converts. We went to this one investigator's home with a member named Andre. We sat down together to talk to Bruno. Bruno has shown interest here and there but is always super busy with school and work. We got to talking about baptism with him. Andre said how he was baptized later in his life, but both Elder Gusmão and I were baptized at the age of 8. Bruno asked if it was easier for us because of that. We went on to say that we still had to gain our own testimonies. Andre said straight up how Bruno could ask either one of us if we believed what we were teaching. There was a little pause as Bruno looks back and forth at both of us. I then bore my testi...