So, as many of you know, I did NOT get the Rebekah Barton gene for singing! And so this Sunday, all my district wanted to go to choir practice? SOS!! So that equals me going too! So it starts out and they ask me if I am a soprano or an alto... and I was like ¨ I don't know? I am just Hermana Barton! and that's all I really do know!¨ They thought that was funny, but I was serious! But actually when I got past the singing part it actually wasn't too bad. We sang the Sisters in Zion- Armies of Helaman duo and it sounds pretty cool in Spanish. Never thought I would be singing that or anything for that fact in the CCM!
So the hymns here are awesome! And there is a guide of English hymns to Spanish. And the guide says:
I have a family here on Christmas Day.... instead of "I have a family here on earth." Awesome!
This Thursday we went to Immigration in the middle of Mexico City, which was really awesome because I finally got to get out of the walls of CCM! Probably the best part was seeing this random exercise center in the middle of the divide of the streets with about 7 old ladies on the machines, and they were doing these walking machines but it looked like they were doing the splits.. so this is confusing but we have one in Santa Cruz really similar.. so if you need a visual have Maddy take you to the one on the levy and imagine yourself as an old Mexican woman, and you will know the joy of this sight! But it was awesome to see the old buildings in downtown Mexico City, and become estoy stoked to get out and teach real people!
Hopefully next p-day we get to go to the Mexico City temple, which I am super excited for!
I have been learning so much Spanish, and actually can talk and have a conversation with the Latinos in the next door classes, which is awesombroso! And we especially talk a lot with an Elder we met who is from Hermosillo, so he tells us all about what it is like. So now I have evidence that Hermosillo actually exists, and there are real people there for me to go teach! Bonus! Well I knew it was real, but it is just cool to actually know someone from there!
I wanted to tell you about an awesome experience I had teaching Alejandro, my teacher this week. We were teaching about the restoration and he has been a really duro investigator, and we really wanted to have him feel the spirit so that his heart could change. We asked him to pray in the middle of the lesson to know that our message was true, and that the church was true. When he was done, he said he didn't really feel anything... so immediately my companion started bearing the most heart felt testimony ever, and started crying and at this point we were all crying, and he asked us how we knew that the church was true. And it hit me, why did I know it was true? And the spirit was so overwhelming, I knew without a doubt at this moment that it was true, that the gospel of Jesus Christ has made me the person I am today and has changed my life. And that the spirit has testified to me that God is our Heavenly Father, that Jesus is the Christ, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and that the Book of Mormon is True, and nothing else in this life really matters except that I know that el Evangelio de Dios es Verdadero!
So the hymns here are awesome! And there is a guide of English hymns to Spanish. And the guide says:
I have a family here on Christmas Day.... instead of "I have a family here on earth." Awesome!
This Thursday we went to Immigration in the middle of Mexico City, which was really awesome because I finally got to get out of the walls of CCM! Probably the best part was seeing this random exercise center in the middle of the divide of the streets with about 7 old ladies on the machines, and they were doing these walking machines but it looked like they were doing the splits.. so this is confusing but we have one in Santa Cruz really similar.. so if you need a visual have Maddy take you to the one on the levy and imagine yourself as an old Mexican woman, and you will know the joy of this sight! But it was awesome to see the old buildings in downtown Mexico City, and become estoy stoked to get out and teach real people!
Hopefully next p-day we get to go to the Mexico City temple, which I am super excited for!
I have been learning so much Spanish, and actually can talk and have a conversation with the Latinos in the next door classes, which is awesombroso! And we especially talk a lot with an Elder we met who is from Hermosillo, so he tells us all about what it is like. So now I have evidence that Hermosillo actually exists, and there are real people there for me to go teach! Bonus! Well I knew it was real, but it is just cool to actually know someone from there!
I wanted to tell you about an awesome experience I had teaching Alejandro, my teacher this week. We were teaching about the restoration and he has been a really duro investigator, and we really wanted to have him feel the spirit so that his heart could change. We asked him to pray in the middle of the lesson to know that our message was true, and that the church was true. When he was done, he said he didn't really feel anything... so immediately my companion started bearing the most heart felt testimony ever, and started crying and at this point we were all crying, and he asked us how we knew that the church was true. And it hit me, why did I know it was true? And the spirit was so overwhelming, I knew without a doubt at this moment that it was true, that the gospel of Jesus Christ has made me the person I am today and has changed my life. And that the spirit has testified to me that God is our Heavenly Father, that Jesus is the Christ, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and that the Book of Mormon is True, and nothing else in this life really matters except that I know that el Evangelio de Dios es Verdadero!
The first week in the CCM was all about Spanish. The second was all about teaching. and the third has been all about the spirit. and I have grown so much this week. Our lessons, now that we can just open our mouths and the spirit pours out, are so much better than before when we had a script and didn't know what to say, and could not say what the spirit wanted us to say.
Also, my companion and I led a discussion in Spanish yesterday about Ether chapter 12. It is an awesome chapter all about faith. And it makes so much sense that the first principle of the gospel is Faith in Jesus Christ, because until you can understand this concept, nothing else really matters!
WOW! this email makes me sound like a missionary!
Oceans of love to you all! Thank you for all the support, mail, and prayers!
Hermana Barton
Note to parents:
I forgot to tell you last week that I am not doing the push up challenge, i forgot to get the schedule, but i do instead 50 push ups in the morning, and 50 at night. One of the other elders in my district does it too, so i just started joining him. Hopefully soon I'm going to bump it up to 60 and 60, but at least for now I am keeping some of my no skills...
So this week we got news that the US now allows gay marriage in all states, and the people with US missions had to go to a special meeting about new changes and rules. Has that been a problem for you?
I love hearing about your experience with that girl, it is amazing the love I feel from Heavenly Father for the investigators I am teaching, who are just my teachers.
How are the Clarks? I actually think about Janae alot since I know that she helped train the people here at the CCM.
I love hearing all about the surfing, and Liza, I wish I could catch a few waves, but I also know that this is the place I am supposed to be!
Oceans of love to you,
Hermana Bomby
Also Ademas!
I forgot to tell you about my companion and I and our awesome telepathic powers with the spirit. I hope that is not sacrilegious to say it like that... but when we are teaching, and I get stuck on what I am trying to say, or vice versa, the other person is able to pick up exactly word for word what the other person was trying to say without even us talking. It seriously is amazing, and a HUGE testimony of the spirit working in us when we are in tune with it, and saying what it wants us to say during lessons.
Pictures:
This one makes me laugh. Check out our faces.
Here are pics with the two hermanas I was telling you about! (Who weren't in last week's pictures.) They are awesombroso and a half! Especially love the second one's (from the left) face in the goofy pic! She is Santa Cruz at heart in so many ways that I can't explain. And the one with curly hair (far left) was probably given to the wrong family because we were meant to be twins, but anyways that's a side note!
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