3.28.20: Brasil --> currently accepting rec's

Well I'm pretty sure everyone already knows what's going on but last Sunday night was when we got the call from our district leader that all of the americans are going home. We literally got the call at around 11pm and they told us we were leaving the next morning. So basically we spent the whole night packing up our stuff and having random breakdowns about things like not being able to wear sandals as a US missionary.  We all went to the mission office in the morning and our mission President and his wife had a super quick devotional which consisted of a whole lot of crying and hugging and ugly pictures from all the crying that was happening. But I wanted to share a few things my mission president said: 
We need to go to our next mission and decide to be happy. Satan wants us to be miserable so if we compare our missions we will be miserable and Satan will win. We can't let him win.

Nobody says "my mission" anymore, everyone says "the mission" bc we aren't serving our mission- we are all on THE mission which is the Lord's mission to gather Israel. It doesn't matter where we are or for how long.

If we never want to go inactive we need to pay tithing. Tithing is the engine booster to our faith.
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But yeah now I'm at home which is definitely not what I ever would've guessed two weeks ago. The very last time I went to do missionary work in brasil is a happy memory though: we gave out hand sanitizer and scriptures from the BOM about faith and hope. We had a sign that said "PARE por álcool gel e esperança" ("Stop for Hand Sanitizer & Hope. ")

Last week I hit my 9 month mark which is halfway, but we are supposed to get reassigned to US missions. 
As my good friend Hannah Montana would say, you get the best of both worlds. I guess God wanted me to know how to be a missionary in Brasil and As Estados Unidos. 
I am so grateful for the time I had in Brasil and all of the people I had the privilege of teaching. I am so grateful for the restored gospel and our living prophet who knows exactly how, when and where God wants his work to be done. I know that Jesus is our Savior and the Redeemer of the world. 

I read this scripture a few weeks ago and I wanted to share it: 

40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
41 ¶ And they departed from the presence of the council, arejoicing that they were counted worthy to bsuffer cshame for his dname.
42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and apreach Jesus Christ. (Acts 5:40-42) 
I hope we all live more worthily to suffer shame for his name and rejoice when we have the opportunity to be his representatives. 
Tchauzinho, 
Sister Barton  

Foto:
I earned my stripes + 
trying to be a missionary at home


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