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Email Address & Mission Blog

Email Address:
cory.barton@myldsmail.net

Mission Blog:
texashoustonmission.blogspot.com

My Testimony

My Testimony:
I know that the Atonement is real and that we can all enjoy the cleansing power that it provides. I am grateful for my Savior for performing the Atonement so that I can return to my Father in Heaven. I am grateful for missionary service. I am thankful that missionaries world-wide have the opportunity to bring the fullest blessings of the Atonement to faithful children of God. I know that the Bible and The Book of Mormon are inspired scriptures and are here for our behalf. I owe everything to all of those prophets of old that loved us so much and desired so much for our salvation to write down the words on how we can be saved. We are literally children of a loving Heavenly Father and He wants us to return to Him. I know that Jesus is the Christ. And I love the joy the gospel brings with the knowledge that we can be together with our families for all eternity.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Email Update: March 19, 2012

Hello Family!
So I forgot to mention I am in a half car, half bike area. This past week was a pretty good week overall. Tobchan and I have been hitting up the less active members in our area and so far we have weeded out a good chunk of the list.  So far we have found that 5 of the families have moved and 1 wants there name removed, so it makes me wonder how long have these people have gone unvisited by the missionaries in this area. I don't blame them, before they split the whole Westfield area between two companionships, only one companionship had to cover the whole Westfield area, which is huge! But this is part of missionary work, finding those who are here and not, and reporting whether they are here or not, so that church headquarters can find out where they are now. But we did get to meet with two families, so that is good. We did a lot of tracting, in fact, we tracted all day Friday so it's just like Wheatstone all over again, but it was good.  We got two potentials out of it, one of which looks like lil wayne. Then Sunday I got the lovely surprise of meeting Corinne Shiver and took a trip down memory lane talking about how she used to babysit me and how small I was back then, it's so crazy! I mean she has two kids now haha. Also on Sunday it was Elder Tobchan's birthday so we partied up his 21st birthday by having a dinner with a member, it was a lot fun and a lot of laughs. 

During this week Tobchan and I were at the bishop's storehouse and we walked back to our apartment when we got a call from the senior missionaries at the mission office that a man just came in and wanted a blessing so we biked back down there and talked to this man who is trying to get a steady job which isn't working and he his having family drama and just a lot of stress in general. He was such a nice man so we took him into President Pingree's office where I gave him a blessing of comfort.  It was such a peaceful thing and enjoyed getting to know that man and giving a blessing. Well that's what happened this week! Tell Dal Pal to get better!

Love
Elder Cory Barton