Monday, May 23, 2016
She read the whole Book of Mormon 5-1-20/16
Hello!
President
gave us permission to go to the temple on Saturday. We wanted to get
there early because Saturdays are busy. We wanted to go to the 6:00am session but we didn´t end up getting there in time so we decided to go to the session at 8:00.
But that one ended up filling up. But we were lucky and got in to that
season because the son-in-law of a member in our ward hooked us up!
haha. We also got to help out with other things while we were waiting.
It was a really good visit. God really knows how to respond to our
prayers and gives us the answers we need when we go to the temple. It
was also really cool because I ran into some members from my last two
areas. Two members from Sorzales were working in the temple and the
branch in Zambrano had a temple trip. So that was really cool! I
always like hearing about how the people in my old areas are doing.
We
wanted to have Robelio get baptized this last Saturday, but he is still
having some problems with the word of wisdom. But we will help him out
with that. He ended up going down south to visit his family, so
hopefully he is not gone too long.
Jina
gave us some great news! Her oldest son wants to come back to church
again. Jeremy had been the rebellious 19 year-old, but he has had a
change. Jina told us that he walked all the way to church and then the
guards didn´t let him in! (Our church building is inside a gated
community with some strict and rude security guards). He hasn't been to
church in about two months, so that was good to hear.
Jina
also gave us a reference about two months ago (the mom of an old
investigator), but we were never able to contact her because she was in
the hospital for a while. Someone gave her a Book of Mormon while she
was there and Jina gave her a gospel principals book. We went to go
contact her and we asked her if she had been reading the Book of Mormon,
and she told us, "Yeah I read it," And then I asked, "the whole
thing?" And then she said, "Yes, it is a very great book" Elder Dunn
and I just kind of looked at each other. She had read the ENTIRE Book
of Mormon when she was in the hospital and then when she was
recuperating in her home. She also told us she had been studying the
Bible and the gospel principles book. I´ll let you know how it goes,
but it sounds like a golden investigator!
All you moms have a great mother´s day this Sunday!
- Elder Burnham
Staying in the office with a new companion 4-2-2016
Hello!
Last Saturday, we got to go and help out at a "marathon." It was only
like three miles. But it was a big church activity with all the stakes
from our mission within Tegucigalpa. We got to hand out water to the
runners and pick up garbage and stuff, so it was like a little service
activity.
For
like the last week and a half, we have had some really bad air
quality. I think there have been some fires in the forests nearby and
the sky has been hazy-white for a really long time.
We
had transfers in the mission this week. I get to stay in the office
for another transfer, but my comp and Elder Bingham are leaving. They
both get to stay this week in the office to train the new secretaries.
Elder Dunn, my new companion, came on Monday. He is from Arizona and is
really cool, a good teacher. This should be a really good transfer.
Elder Storrs (We were in the MTC at the same time) is also a new
secretary in the office.
The new missionaries were supposed to come on Monday morning at 8:00am but their flight got cancelled. They ended up getting here on a different flight at around 6:00pm.
So that kind of threw out all the plans to have to new missionary
meetings that day. haha. The new elders ended up staying at our house.
Then on Wednesday we had to go drop off missionaries at the airport and
the travel agent for the church always like to schedule the flights for 6:20am...so we had to get up pretty early.
I
was not impressed with immigration this week. When one of the new
missionaries came on Monday, they did NOT stamp her passport...We did
not have physical proof that she entered this country legally. She was
on the system on the computer, but we had to go back to immigration so
she could get her stamp. We would not be able to start her residency
process without it. And so we sat around for a few hours waiting for
people to get off their lunch breaks and get us a stamp. That was fun.
Robelio
has been progressing really fast, if everything goes well and if he
doesn't have to go out of town, he should get baptized this weekend!
This
week was super busy and I am trying to remember all that happened, but I
think that this is all I am going to write for now.
Adios!
- Elder Burnham
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