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Elder Burton - Elder Cahoon - Elder Tenhoeve |
Monday, May 29, 2017
Email May 29, 2017
Email May 29, 2017 –
Elder Isaac Kenneth Burton
Another week in the
life :)
First off...Happy
Birthday Ken an Brig!! I hope you guys have an awesome day, make it a good one,
know that I love you guys a ton.
Second
off...Congrats to my brother Jack getting his call to serve a mission in
Japan!! You're gonna be an awesome missionary. I´m so excited for you.
Missions really are
the best. Two years with one purpose to make the world a better place by
helping people come unto Christ. It really is the most noble of works and it
reaps so many rewards. Something that I have learned recently is something that
King Benjamin taught, that we are eternally indebted to our God. Every time
that we do something to try to pay him back for the blessings that he gives us
he just ends up dumping even more blessings upon our heads. And then there is
the one blessing that would be impossible to ever payback, that of the atoning
sacrifice of Jesus Christ and that through him, we can be cleaned a perfected
to one day return to his presence. How blessed we are. How blessed I am. My
mission has really opened my eyes to how great God really is and how much he
loves his children. He is our Father and
loves us infinitely. Of that I am certain.
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Jackson's Mission Call
May 25th 2017
Here comes the mail truck!
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Sam gets there first. |
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Jackson has been called to serve in the Japan Sapporo Mission! |
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He will enter the Provo Mission Training Center on September 6th!Congratulations Jackson!! |
Monday, May 22, 2017
Email May 22, 2017
Email May 22, 2017 –
Elder Isaac Kenneth Burton
Life is good
Life is so great.
How is it that I am so happy but so tired at the same time? My comp and
President always make fun of me because everytime I sit in the car to go
somewhere I fall right asleep. I take it as a good sign haha.
It´s bbe a good but
busy week as always. This week we did interviews with four zones and my comps
and I did practices with the missionaries. It all went really well.
Monday, May 15, 2017
Email May 15, 2017
Email May 15, 2017 –
Elder Isaac Kenneth Burton
New companion!
It´s been a great
week!! This week was full of eventful things, first of which is that I got a
new companion! I´m still with Elder Tenhoeve who has been my comp for the last
almost 8 months, but now we are in a trio with an awesome missionary named
Elder Cahoon! He will be my replacement once I take off, so we are just kinda
showing him the ropes for now so that he knows how everything works. But he´s
great, he´s from Montana and has a year and a half in the mission. We are
already super good friends because he has worked with us in the offices as
secretary for the last six months. I´m excited to be his comp and will be an
awesome assistant!
Monday, May 8, 2017
Email May 8, 2017
Email May
8, 2017 – Elder Isaac Kenneth Burton
Crazy week
Well this
week has been awesome and super crazy! We are really focusing everything in the
mission right now on worthines and obedience so that we can keep improving and
baptize more of these amazing argentine people. As part of that, my comp and I
have been doing revisions of all the missionaries apartments, which has been a
pretty interesting experience. But that´s what we did pretty much the whole
week. Also we had leadership council...my last one. I have been a part of the
mission leadership council here since january of 2016, and it has been such a
blessing to work with so many great missionaries and learn from them. We talked
a lot about obedience, especially from the leaders. If the head is bad, the
whole body follows. I´m grateful that we have good leaders in the mission that
help us improve and grow through their example. I´m grateful to have the only
perfect leader, our savior Jesus Christ, as the head and leader of this church.
He really is the perfect example and who we should be constantly trying to
emulate. If we follow his lead, we will never be lead astray and fall from the
path.
I love you
all, have a great week!!
Con mucho
amor, Elder Burton
Monday, May 1, 2017
Email May 1, 2017
Email May 1, 2017 –
Elder Isaac Kenneth Burton
Transfer #17...here
we go :)
Wow, this week has
been crazy, the week before transfers always is. Lots of planning checking to
make sure that everything will go smoothly. But everything has gone well up
till now so that´s good. I feel like we are really starting to see some changes
in the mission. This last month of april we reached a new record of seventy
baptisms in the month which is great. We have been focusing a lot with the
missionaries on the importance of personal worthiness and I think that´s whats
really causing the change in the mission. If we are worthy then God will be
able to direct our lives in the direction he needs, and we will receive the
help to overcome anything that might trip us up.
Well sorry I can´t
write much, we are now closing the offices on mondays at 12:00 so that means we
have a little less time to write using the computers. Thanks for everything
that you all do, I hope you have a great week! I love you all!
Con mucho amor, Elder
Burton
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