Elder "STUD PANTS" Barton's letter #5!

This week was the best week of my life! I have so much to say and I just hope that I will have enough time!!

First of all! I recieved so much love this week! It was amazing! one of the days, I had so many packages, each of my companions had to take some! not going to lie, I felt really cool! I am trying to wait until my b-day to open them though dont worry! However, some of them could not make it! I felt like it was Christmas, convincing myself I could just open up one on Christmas Eve! I loved it soo much thank you all! you are amazing!

NEXT WAS CONFERENCE! That was the best expierence that I think I will ever have my whole life! The spirit was so strong in that room sitting behind all of those amazing men! Usually when I see some one famous, I realize right away that they are just a person. when I saw these people, I realized they are not just people. They are called by God. We all stood when President Monson walked into the room, and the room went silent. He was followed by Uchdorf, and Eyring. After they were all seated and confrence was getting ready to start, President Monson stood up and walked into the audience. The room was still, completely silent. He made his way through the crowd, and then came to one little old man that had a cane in one hand. When he reached him, he held out his hand and helped him to his feet and then embrassed him with a big hug. I started to cry the spirit was so strong, it was so powerful to see how much love our prophet has. On both sides of me were two kids from Utah. I caught them out of the corner of my eye staring at me for crying. They had grown up seeing the Prophet and were used to the POWER that follows him. The next best part of the meeting was when we sang "called to serve" at the end of the meeting. The spirit was so strong during that song! I looked out into the audience and saw a group of boys (looked about the age of a deacon) smiling ear to ear. I felt so proud to be an example for those few boys, I started to cry again! After the song and the prayer, we all stood again as the Prophet exited the room. after he was gone, we all stayed standing. The spirit was so strong that my body froze. We all stood for a few minutes until I saw Nick Allegretti and Andrew Bertha waving at me! That was so funny! I was so happy to see them! It added on to the the amazing day that I had!

I was on TV!! I hope that all of you guys saw! If not, you can go onto the church website and there is a link to a conference site. If you go onto the priesthood section you can watch the songs that we did! I was sitting in the front left wearing a red tie!! This week I have to teach the first lesson in Mandrin Chinese! I am studying like crazy to prepare for it! I hope that I can at least get through the lesson! I was listening to a talk form Elder Bednar a few days ago that he previously gave at the MTC. In the beginning of the talk, he said "Elder Barton, I want to let you know that you are making the right choice!" talking to another Elder Barton but still it was awsome to hear him say my name! Later in his talk, he said that he feels awful for people teaching the lessons in Madrin Chinese! It was so funny! His talk was about relying on the spirit and recognizing its promptings!!! I was very grateful to hear it! It really helped me out!

Well, I hope that all of your weeks were as great as mine! I love you all so much!!! Thank you so much again for all of the Birthday Gifts!

zai jian! Bao Zhang lao!!!