This week seemed to fly by today. First of all we have gotten a lot
of members telling us that we should be careful and that the storm may
keep us inside, but so far all we have gotten is a little wind. It is
starting to cool down, but really over here you wouldn't even know there
was a hurricane hitting up north. I hear it is supposed to tear through
New York. That must be exciting. We are doing great down here. I have
heard a couple member say that they couldn't care less if New York got
hit bad, those crazy Yankees. Gotta love the south. :) Mom, the suit
should show up on the Internet by now. I got it at Belk, it is bigger,
it is a dark blue, and it makes me look pretty darn gorgeous. Thanks to
birthday mail, and holidays and stuff happening I have been kind of slow
at getting snail mail out. I am trying my best though so that is why
pictures haven't been sent yet. Thank you so much for the package by the
way. It was funny to see those pasta sides in there. Those are pretty
much one of the most popular foods that we as poor missionaries eat.
Those emails were super good to read also. Thank you for everything.
This week was really good all the way around. We have been doing
a lot of work with less actives, which is usually in English since there
are only like 6 Spanish members here. It is really rough work, but we
are doing our best. We just found two new investigators and set another
baptismal date, which we are excited about even though I will probably
get transferred before that happens, but that's okay. Another big thing
we are starting this week is Elder Goodwin and I have put up fliers
everywhere throughout the local tiendas to start up an English class. We
will be teaching English to Hispanics every Friday at 7p.m. We aren't
exactly sure how well of a turn out we will get, but we have already
gotten calls from people that saw them in the tiendas and want to come. I
don't know exactly how to teach people a second language, but we are
just going to try our best to do what the MTC did with us. Our goal for
this is to teach them English by teaching them how to do simple things
like talk to God, and other Gospel things which will help them learn how
to communicate in every day situations, and also to feel the spirit. We
plan on giving out a Book of Mormon in both languages for reading
material. We are excited and hope to see some miracles come from this,
so we can only pray and have some hope. We have been working hard with
less actives which includes Cary Turner. He is my favorite member and is
the most interesting man in the south. He used to do reenactments up
in Gettysburg and all that jazz and he knows way too much about the
civil war and the confederacy. All I know is I probably would have joined
the south if I could go back in time to fight in that. He has so many
interesting stories and his life is like a national treasure movie. He
is currently trying to seek out his cousin's body that got left behind
in Cambodia after a battle on the island that the marines were sent to
take care of because the U.S.A had a ship with heroin on it to help pay
for the war or something like that. Anyway his cousin was sent there
with a bunch of other marines to basically be a decoy without knowing it
and got killed because he was left behind by a chopper that was supposed
to rescue them. Anyway if he gets all the pieces put together and can
prove anything then he is convinced that the government is really trying
hard to cover things up. All I know is that I could sit down with that
man for hours and just listen. He is a wonderful person.
Well other than that we have been testifying to everyone and just
doing what we have been called to do. I don't have any crazy pictures
for you today, but they will come. I love you all very much and I'm
thankful for all you do for me. Keep up the good work.
Con Amor,
Elder Burnham
SOUTH RISE AGAIN!!!!
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