I can't believe there are two of us once again out here
serving. It was so good to hear that Ryan is already serving in a
leadership role and working hard and understanding the necessity and
importance of prayer. It is going to be his best friend for the next two
years. Study it, Use it, and please Master it!!! The other thing is why
are they already sending that release stuff home. I am still young. I'm
in the middle! I can't even think that that day will come. I have so
much to get done.
Anyway this week has been kind of slow, but we definitely saw
miracles. We have been working on our faith this week. Faith in finding
the elect every single day! Elder Young and I have been really learning a
lot and seeing progression. Our investigators that are just waiting to
get married, moved this week and we helped them as much as we could. It
seems like their lives keep getting more hectic as they get closer to
this step in their life. Also our other investigator that I told you
about last week has been struggling with Satan as well. He had one more
day of probation and then he got a ticket for driving with out a
license. Because of that he had to go to court and pay a fine and
also received 18 more months of probation, which means that he can't
baptized for that time. Every time these people get close something
comes flying their way from Satan. He really has a desire to change, but
he has a lot of consequences for his actions that need to be paid
first. It is super unfortunate, but it is the way of life. We also had
other investigators that just couldn't keep commitments and other
nonsense. It was rough here and there, but among the bad we found a lot
of good. The biggest miracle we saw was that this Sunday was a special
day. It was stake conference for us, and also our mission decided to do a
mission-wide fast to find the elect. Well I was all gun ho for that and
we had a great meeting. Unfortunately being the only Spanish elders in
the stake we had to translate the whole meeting. Well I had to so it
because Elder Young is still working on that. We did have one returned
missionary form the singles ward help out as well, but either way it was
an interesting two hours of trying to translate these talks about crazy
stories and analogies to weird things. What was really good was when
our mission president actually spoke and threw down on doing missionary
work and exciting the members to get out there and help the
missionaries. There are so many ways to help, it just needs to be done!
Well after that great meeting we went home and got ready for a lesson
with a referral from one of the youth in out branch. We drove out to the
appointment after picking up the young man and had a wonderful first
lesson with the Martinez family. We found the answer to our prayers. We
found 3 new investigators and the elect all in one day. My testimony
grew. They accepted a baptismal date right away and even committed to
take their 17 year old daughter to mutual and then come to church
on Sunday. It was absolutely wonderful. Miracles are so great. What was
funny was that after the lesson we realized that I parked the car in
their front yard where the mud was so bad that we got stuck. So we had
to ask for them to help us get out of their front yard. That's how you
gain trust my friends. :)
Well that is pretty much all I have for you today. It was a roller
coaster of a week, but it was full of the hand of God. I love y'all very
much and I am so happy to hear from my little brother and little sister
as well. Keep the love coming. Thanks for everything.
Con Amor,
Elder Burnham
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