Posts for Elder_Barton

Chapter 10: Expect the unexpected

2009 April 06

So you might think after having been in my previous area for 4 transfers, and having only been here for 6 weeks, that I wouldn't get moved for a little while longer. Maybe a new companion or something, right?... *Wrong* Transfer calls is: Elder Larsen to Carson City as Jr. Comp. with Elder Jex in a car. Covering: Hot Springs, Carson River. Yep. Expect the unexpected. Anyways, this week wasn't too bad otherwise. Conference was pretty awesome, especially Saturday Morning, since we watched that with our investigators (I feel so happy to have done that, and also that we have ...

Sent to the Northern Hinterlands...

2008 September 15

Hey All! So... I got transfered. Elder Hoffman stayed put... he's training a greenie (I think his name is Elder Farnsworth). I'm executing a hit on Elder Ingham. In SPARKS. Waay north of Vegas. So I'm in the Reno North Zone now, Sparks North District. We (me & Elder Ingham) cover the Pyramid Lake and Sparks 8th Wards. Elder Ingham is the district leader here. This makes the 3rd district leader that I've served as companion to. The thing that's funny about coming here is that this is the second area I've come to where Elder ...

All quiet on the Western Front...

2008 April 21

Alright, this week we're not experiencing technical difficulties. Sweet. So, after the library insanity last week, Thursday went ok, Friday I was in another area on splits, and Saturday was good. We've been refocusing on meeting the members in our wards, since we don't know them real well. We did have some success this week--the inactive family we've been working with came to a baptism on Saturday (not ours-Barton & Bachelder) and then came to Church on Sunday. We think we've got a pretty solid baptismal date for their 9-year-old (May 3rd). Other than that

Lead Kindly Light...

2008 March 31

I'm in the field now. I'm serving in the South District in the South Zone of the mission--my area is Hacienda Heights/Laurelwood. We're right next to the strip (which is no-mans-land... I don't think it's in either mission). My Trainer is Elder Dahl. He's from Palmer, Alaska, and has been out for just shy of 9 months. I'm a second child (aka E. Dahl trained somebody before me), and my grandpa, E. Warnecott, is one of our ZLs. There are 6 Elders & 2 Sisters in our district. E. Dahl is DL, we have ...