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Elder Burton, Mike, & Elder Durrant |
Monday, July 28, 2014
Email July 28, 2014
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July 28, 2014 – Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton
"The
Why of tomorrow is more important than the What of today." -Elder Durrant
Bunch
of Burtons
July
is flying by. Witch also means summer will be gone just as quick. The other day
while we were making dinner the music we were listening to switched files to a
Christmas file, not to uncommon, but this time it made me really want Christmas
to come. With all the excitement, the cold and the snow. The only disadvantage
is that here that means no light for days, you can already see the difference.
When we are heading for bed its actually dark enough to sleep.
A
lot happened this week! We had a lot of very positive lessons! One was with a
man named Mike who lives a little ways away so we met him at a castle instead
of going all the way to his house. The castle turned out to be more of a small
palace. What I think of when I picture a castle is a defensive fort with stone
walls and towers, maybe with a mote. Oh well. I guess the King who lived in
this castle had a pond filled with fish right bellow his window so that he
could hang a line out the window and fish from his room. When he didn't catch
anything he would get angry and punish anyone around him, so his servants
started sitting underneath his window and would put a fish on his hook without
him knowing so that he always caught a fish. Our friend Mike knows so much
about history, when we first got to the castle we walked around the grounds and
he told us all about everything we saw. He's offered to go down to a more
famous castle with us and the rest of our District and he could give us a tour
so we wouldn't have to pay for one. Mike is very positive. He's really wanting
to learn for himself if God exists and if this is his true church. He told us
that he's either all in or all out and from what I can tell he's more on the
all in. He'll be a strong member once he's baptized.
Monday, July 21, 2014
Email July 21, 2014
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July 21, 2014 – Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton
"When
in the work of the Lord the power behind you is always more powerful then the
obstacles before you."
Bunch
of Burtons
We just received news that Elder Bednar is
coming to Denmark and is going to be giving a mission wide conference on
September 6th! So many great and exciting things are happening lately! Roomer
is Elder Bednar is coming with the Ipads, September is about the time we're
scheduled to get them. I didn't expect an Apostle to be coming though, I can't
wait to hear his message, the conference with him is going to be two hours and
the whole mission is coming even the Icelandic Elders. That's as long as a
session of General Conference that we get to listen to one Apostle!
Thanks Dad for the quote you sent from
Alex! "As time sweeps us all away let's choose not to lament or mourn it
but to savor and enjoy it. The experience of the passage of time is but a one
time experience. We only get it while we're here on earth." I had written
down the same quote from the letter she wrote and I was just reading it and
shared it with my companion this morning. That is one thing I really have been
learning on my mission, the importance of using time wisely. Its so hard to do,
but can make a huge difference when attempted. Mom mentioned how Dad has been
spending every spare minute he can to work on the garage, that's awesome!
Imagine how many hours we loose because when we have a few minutes instead of
doing something productive we sit and think about all the things we would do if
we had more time. Something I've been trying to do lately, not extremely
successfully but its improving, is using spare minutes I have during the day,
on car rides, at bus stations, or after meals to learn and study. I try to
carry a small note book with Danish vocabulary I need to learn, and after meals
I read from the books in the Missionary Library. I forget quite a lot to study
in the few minute breaks I have, but I am doing better and learning more.
Imagine how much we could learn or accomplish if every spare minute was filled
with it?
Monday, July 14, 2014
Email July 14, 2014
Email 7-14
-14 Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton
Holbæk!
Bunch
of Burtons
Crazy transfer day! We took a train three
hours last night to Aarhus and dragged our luggage to the Elders apartment
there to spend the night and then this morning barely missed our first train
and then took another three hour train ride to Høl Taastrup were I met my new
companion Elder Durrant and we drove over to the library with a few other
Elders to email. Transfers wouldnt have been too bad except that sometime last
night I got a bad case of pink eye, or something similar, and my eyes have been
freaking out ever sence. At some points I litterally can not pull my eyes open
because of a mix of bad sleep and soreness. Its getting a little better though
because Im able to sit and type and still see the screen and all the great
pictures everyone sent. And thanks for that!
Ah! I just realized Im logged in as a
guest so I dont have much more time and it wont let me add time! If I cant log
back on then Ill just email more next week sorry!
Meget Kærlighed!
Elder
Burton
#2
Bunch
of Burtons
Well here's the second try, we're in
Holbæk now and found some time to finish our emailing. There are lots of photos
this week so I hope they all get uploaded before we are done, we have an eating
appointment tonight that is a half hour drive so we don't have tones of time.
Elder Durrant, he has two little brothers,
ran a little cross country and played basket ball in high school, comes from
Mapleton Utah but went to Provo High. He was pretty sick not to long ago so I
guess he has lost a tone of weight. We're already getting along great, so thats
good although I didnt expect anything different.
Friday, July 11, 2014
Monday, July 7, 2014
Email July 7, 2014
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July 7, 2014 – Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton
Transfer calls!
Bunch
of Burtons
We
just got transfer calls, Ill be transferring next Monday to Holbæk! A car area!
And the biggest ward in Denmark! I'm so excited! More than I thought I would
be, I have to leave Frederikshavn and the people who are here, but I have the
opportunity to serve somewhere new. New people to serve and come to love. I
know it's where I need to be otherwise I wouldn't have been called. Elder
Hawkes's call is exciting as well, he's going to be training a new elder! He
really will do such a great job, he's basically been adding to my own training
the whole time I've been with him. He'll defiantly be missed.
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Saturday, July 5, 2014
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