Email: July 1, 2019 - The Sheriff and the deputy get a new mission president

July 01, 2019

Email: July 1, 2019 - The Sheriff and the deputy get a new mission president

Well everyone the time has come, President Haynie has officially departed as of Friday morning and President Cordón is now the mission president.

We had a nice opportunity to have our zone conference on President Haynie's final day and he gave us some wonderful advice as did Sister Haynie.

We also got awesome training on how to be an essentialist by Greg McKeown. He is the Elders quorum president of the Woodland Hills ward in our mission and he just published a book about essentialism. He taught us a simple and easy way to put the important things first and that there is always something you have to give up when making change and decisions, so put the important things first. Simple and easy right? Something we have always been taught since when we were kids. But when we look at it how many things are unessential that we are investing too much time in? And how many essential things do we underinvest in and put on hold? Kind of eye opening once you realize.

This week for Elder Seipel and I has been very busy with zone conference, exchanges, service and a bunch of other meetings

We got the opportunity to help break down a patio. We started with drills, but it wasn't really working so we busted out some sledgehammers. It was a lot of fun and very stress relieving (not that there is a lot of stress right now, just a nice chance to let things out)

We found a new friend this week named Jesenia who is SUPER prepared to receive the gospel. She was asking a lot of great questions in our first meeting and she was very willing to meet with us again.

The weather here has been going back and forth between being very hot and overcast. It seems like summer wants to start but is having second thoughts.

That's about from me this week. Next email you read from me will be about transfers so be sure to stay tuned.

Spiritual thought of the week: The Book of Mormon is awesome. As I have been deeply studying it the past 3 months it has enlightened my mind so much and has helped me in my trials. It has taught me lessons on humility, patience, charity, faith, diligence and the atonement of Jesus Christ that can't be learned any other way. The scriptures have been given to us to enlighten us. When we think about the scriptures are God's highlight reel of the history of the world! The most important events, the most important dialogue, the most important discoveries and the most important knowledge we can receive. Now why would we not want to read that?

I hope everyone has a great!

Take it slow and enjoy the moments!

-Elder Barton

This week's pictures consist of a cat that entered our apartment the other night (he has since been removed)