Hello Hello!
So this week was fantastic! As far as numbers go this was the best week of my whole entire mission! There were so many incredible miracles that happened this last week! We found a lot of new investigators, and even had almost all of our investigators come to church on sunday. It was so intense! I am loving having elder huang in our companionship! We came out at about the same time, and we have a lot of fun, but we also work very hard. I love it, it is a perfect balance!
Some of the new investigators that we found this week are so cool! One of them is a blind guy, that me and elder huang found tracting a long time ago while we were on a split. It is cool how time has permitted us to now teach him together. He is a really nice guy! Very smart! He remembered everything that we taught him the first time! Even though it was about a year ago! He walks down five flights of stairs to let us in at the door, and then leads the way for us back up the stairs to the door of his house it is incredible. We have recently just been reading the book of mormon with him, to try to help. Chinese does not have any form of Braille, so there is no way for him to read on his own. We also ran into this girl that I contacted a long time ago! She has such a cute baby! The baby is only one years old but has the funniest personality. After we taught this lady, she stayed for a while to watch our english class. As I was teaching the english class, I would feel a little tug on the back of my pants then turn around and the baby would start cracking up! She thought she was such a little prankster! I will send a picture home today so that you can see! We also met a lady this week from California!! How cool is that! She is from riverside! She has only lived in the US for about a year, and NY for a few weeks. She came to NY without really knowing why. She started to find interest in Christianity when she lived in California. I am very excited to continue meeting with her! We had so many other finding miracles happen! People that we have been trying to meet with a long time just show up, and investigators that we already had bring in referrals! I cant even begin to explain the feelings that I feel. I am so grateful for all that heavenly father has blessed me with.
My up state chinese convert came down again to visit me, and this time she delivered some great news that made me so happy. Those two friends of hers that she told me about a while back. The ones that she had been teaching about the church. They are going to get baptized! One of them will get baptized in Seattle Washington, and the other one lives in china so she is going to fly to hong kong so that she can get baptized. I thought that was so amazing! What a great example to all of us of true conversion. What a great blessing it has been to have met somebody like her.
I also had another very touching experience happen to me this week. I was street contacting in china town, and I saw a man that did not look chinese. Don't worry I promise you that the story will get better then this. I walked up to him and began to talk with him. He had just come to AAmerica from Guatemala, so his english was not the best. I talked to him for a few moments, and he told me that he really needed help. He had to go to the bathroom really bad, and needed to know a place to go. Luckily I knew one that was close by, so I was able to give him directions. After I gave him directions My shiny name tag caught his attention. He asked me where our church was. I told him, then he asked if we had a church in CT. Luckily I served in CT a few months ago so I knew were a few chapels were located. He told me that one day as he was walking down the busy streets of Guatemala in a big hurry to get some where he passed by two missionaries from our church. They stopped him and tried to talk with him, but because of all the noise and the rush that he was in he was not able to stop and talk for long. But there was one sentence that he remembered. He said it in spanish, but I think that it meant Joseph smith restored Jesus Christ's church. He told me that he has never been able to forget that sentence. He said that he really felt something when this young missionary said those simple words to him. Because he was in hurry I took down his phone number and gave him the phone number of a spanish companionship in CT. Such an amazing miracle.
Well, guys I got to get going, but thank you so much for all of your love and support it really means a lot! I hope that you have a great week!
Elder Barton
PS thanks for all of the updates! If you get a chance tell andrew I said congrats! That is so awesome he is going to love that mission!
Elder Barton
