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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, April 23, 2012

Email Update: April 23, 2012

So this past week was great because we taught as many lessons this week as we did over the past six weeks. So A LOT of success. We are having continual success with the less actives in the ward so I am really happy about that! We kind of have an investigator but he is an eternal investigator who doesn't keep his commitments but we wont give up on him. The R's are the ones I was telling you about who was making us the quilts and she finished it up this week and they look so awesome and are very comfortable! I can't wait to show y'all. 

Sunday we had ward conference so the bishop and stake president spoke the whole time and they did very well. 

This morning we started off bright and early by waking up at 5:20 to go to seminary at 5:40. We were asked by a seminary teacher to come today to her class because they were focusing on missionary work.   So we showed up and they split the missionaries in to groups to teach the students different parts of missionary work. Elder Stepp and I were in charge of Christlike Attributes. For our table we first had them unscramble each of the Christlike attribute words (Faith, Hope, Charity & Love, Patience, Virtue, Knowledge, Humility, Diligence, and Obedience) Then we had them look at a DNA helix and tell us how that relates to the gospel. Then we would give them a case study (there were 4) about how they would react in those situations. At the other tables they did memorizing Jeremiah 16:16, preparation, and something else.  Then at the end the teacher asked only me to give a 5 minute talk about preparing to go on a mission which I did. Oh side note, during the whole night last night tobchan was throwing up like crazy and only got two hours of sleep but he still got up and went to seminary with us, what a trooper! After seminary we went home so he could sleep. 

So yeah that's whats going on. Thanks for the picture Dad it is pretty swesome and it's good to see mountains ha ha. We did get some good rain out here, I loved it and today and yesterday feels like San Diego, it is beautiful! We are playing sand volleyball today too ha ha. I love y'all thank you for taking the time to e-mail me!

Love,

Elder Cory Barton