My Lovelies!

Hello my darling family!!

So today's email is going to be very short. I know, it's a miracle!

Haha but luckily I was able to give you all types of updates while

looking at each of your beautiful faces. Ohh my goodness I really

loved Skyping with all of you soo very much and don't think it could

have made me happier. I honestly had such a blast chatting away with

all of you and even having a good amount of time speaking Spanish with

Ralph & Scotty! Brad, I still want to speak more with you!! And

Brittany responding to some of my questions as well... Very impressed.

Haha but honestly that was soo much fun for me and I can't wait to

talk more to you all in Español when I get home. Hopefully my accent

will be a great amount better by then as well. I promise I am working

on it every day! But thank you for being so nice about it and boosting

my confidence a little bit haha. You all are honestly the BEST and I

love each of you more than you possibly know. You bring so much joy

into to my life and pure happiness into my heart. After we finished

Skyping I was honestly beaming and couldn't stop smiling, I was sooo

happy!! I feel soo blessed to have each of you in my life and to have

you as my family & very best friends!!! This morning I was actually

just reading in 1 Nephi 2 ... (I am reading the Book of Mormon in

Spanish right now so I am not anywhere specific in my English Book of

Mormon) but I read verse 4 where it is talking about Lehi heading into

the wilderness and it says, "... he left his house, and the land of

his inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his precious

things, and took nothing with him, save it were his family...." With

you all so heavily on my mind, this verse stood out to me more than

normal and I related it to when we will be departing out of this life.

I thought about how when we leave this life we won't be taking with us

our homes, cars, clothes, cellphones, laptops, fancy belongings and

any other worldly items or precious things... but we will be taking

with us our FAMILIES, those we love and hold most dear to us, our

relationships... This really hit me as I pondered over it and I

realized how all of the little worldly "things" we see as so valuable

in this life truly are not valuable at all. But what is most valuable

and what we will indeed be taking with us after we die is our families

and spirits. There is a lot more I could say or go into detail about

this but it made me very happy to think about and also brought me a

whole lot of comfort and peace. I already have what is most precious

and valuable. My beautiful family & dearest friends. That's all that

matters. You are all that matters!! And how lucky am I to have such a

wonderful wonderful family at that??? Ohh I am sooo blessed & lucky I

do not even know how to express it. Heavenly Father knows how blessed

I feel though because I tell him about a million times each day haha.

But truly, you all mean more than the world to me and I couldn't love

each of you more!!! I feel like I wasn't able to express it as much as

I would have liked to while we were Skyping but seeing each of you and

hearing your voices, hearing your laughs and watching you interact

with one another and hearing all of the advice you had for me, hearing

your comments, stories, insight, jokes.... everything, just feeling

like I was with my most loves ones again really touched my heart so

much. You have noo idea how much it meant to me and how much it

uplifted my spirit. I am the luckiest girl & missionary in the entire

world and you are all everything to me!!!!! This also reminds me of

when Abby lost all of those items that were stolen out of her car and

after listing what she had lost she said to me, "I am thankful for

everything I have that are not things, and that is the most

important." That simple statement of hers impressed me so much and

meant a lot to me. It got me thinking as well and it is so true. If we

just take a step back in our crazy lives, get away from all of the

noise of the world... we will be able to have the spirit touch us and

we will realize how much we have to be grateful for and we'll

recognize what is most important and valuable. And we will clearly

realize it's not the "things" we have but the people we hold dear to

our hearts. I love you my dearest family ohhh so much and am sooo

thankful for each and everyone of you more than you know. I love you

so much.

Also, for you former missionaries.... I have written all of your

advice down and I am really taking it all to heart!! I set some new

goals for myself this morning actually and I am so excited to keep

working hard and trying out some new approaches to the work!!!! And

the same goes for my Spanish. I will try my best to keep improving it

each day as well!! Oh you all are so great and I appreciate your

advice, comments and help more than you know. How lucky am I to have

such wonderful examples in my life and such excellent role models of

the missionary I want to be???? You are all the absolute best and I

hope to be half the missionary each of you were!!!!!!!!

Oh, and I will send pictures from Any & Maria's baptism right now!!!

You are all going to die they are the cutest people alive. Our

TRACTING SUCCESS baptism. I love it too much and will never get over

it!! The fact that while Any was sharing her testimony she kept

looking at Hermana Richards and I and saying, "thank you for knocking

on my door, thank you for knocking on my door" while tears were

streaming down her face.... And she gave such a powerful, strong and

meaningful testimony. Wow, she is something else. Such an amazing

woman. And while us sister missionaries sang, "Más cerca Dios de Ti"

Any & Maria had tears streaming down their faces and would just look

at me with the biggest smiles. There are no words to describe how

happy that made me feel and I just felt the spirit soo strongly

throughout the entire baptismal service. They are so so special and

the most golden of all goldens. I love it so much. Also, I still can't

get over the fact that I got to be back in Gridley with my amazing

family there!!!! Ahhh it made me sooo happy. Ps. Remember not to plan

any trips for June of 2015 when the entire Gridley branch is coming to

Salt Lake City!!!!!!! You will get to meet everyone in our own home

town!!!!!! How is my life this good???? I feel completely spoiled. It

will be too amazing. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if members asked to

stay in our home.... That may be something to take into consideration.

Hahaha THE MISSION LIFE IS TOO GOOD!!!!!! Okay, I am going to go send

the baptism pictures. I love you all!!!!

Con mucho amor y un GRAN abrazo,

Hermana Barth

Okay. So we are at the library and I just tried to send pictures but

it was soooo slow and then wouldn't let me so I am going to try to

send them next week hopefully at the family history center. I am so

excited for you to see pictures though because they are the cutest and

it was such a special baptism!!!!!! So next week I will try again!! So

sorry!!!!