Email August 17, 2015 - Ken

Email August 17, 2015 – Elder Kenneth William Burton

Bunch of Burtons

Well I got an x-ray on my wrist and found out its not broken. But about two minutes ago the hospital called and said they found something else in the scan that they want to investigate a little more.... so I guess we'll find out. It feels a lot better than it did. It only causes problems now if I put a lot of weight on it. But its not broken so that's good!

Hjarnø is becoming a great place for missionary work. Its a little island in the Horsens fjord where we decided a few weeks ago we could do some finding. A few weeks ago we found a man named Jens, I believe I told his story, he's the one we started out by serving and then I ripped my pants. Well last week we were out there again to visit him and as we were walking to his home a van pulled over with a bunch of teenage boys in the back. The driver rolls down the window smiling and waves us over. I immediately recognized him but couldn't remember where from. He mentioned he was working there on the island at a school and we could stop by later to come and talk with him. Then he drove off, and we were standing there still confused trying to figure out where I knew him from. Elder Porter had never met him. 

Photos from Argentina

Elder Burton arrived safely in Buenos Aries on August 11th after an over 9 hour delayed flight. From the left: President & Sister Thurgood, Elder Burton, Elder Bahena (Ike's trainer)

Welcome Elder Burton to Argentina!

Photos from Horsens

Email August 10, 2015

Email August 10, 2015 – Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton

Bunch of Burtons

Okay, I'll start out with the bad'ish news and go on from there. I fell off my bike and may have broken my wrist. Not a bad break or anything. It feels the same as it did when I had a micro fracture in my wrist senior year from wrestling. Its the same wrist too.

So here's the story. We were biking out somewhere and were heading up a long hill. All of a sudden my gears slip and next thing I know I'm on the the ground. A pretty solid fall. I caught myself perfectly, although that's probably the problem. I also destroyed my pants. Somehow they ripped down the front of the thigh. So that was on Thursday. Saturday morning I decided I should probably have it looked at so we went to the hospital because all the other doctors offices are closed on the weekend. The doctor there was no help at all. He played with my wrist for a minute, poking at it, bending it. And its sore, but nothing bad. It mainly feels really shaky and weak. So he gives me some weird look and tells me he doesn't think its broken, but if I want to I can buy a brace for it. I thought he would at least x-ray it or something. He said because I wasn't in extreme pain and it wasn't swollen at all, it must not be broken. Last time I went a whole month on it before I finally found out it was fractured, it wasn't swollen at all, and didn't hurt too badly. And even if it is just sprained, the reason I came to the hospital was to find out for sure. To figure out what really was wrong not just to get an opinion. I already knew I needed a brace. I just wanted to know exactly was wrong. Ah well. I ended up buying a brace, and it feels a tone better while its on. I'm planning on going to see my actual doctor in a week or two if its still feeling the same.

So that's exciting'ish news..... Sorry mom, I'll be more careful. 

Email August 8, 2015

Email August 8, 2015 – Elder Isaac Kenneth Burton

Last week in the MTC!

On Tuesday night we had the great opportunity to have President Nelson of the quorum of the twelve come and speak to us! IT was way awesome! We had been hoping that an apostle would speak to us before we left and it finally happened!  He spoke about becoming epistles of the lord. An Epistle we found out is a formal document or writing. So I think its pretty cool that christ wants us to become living epistles. When we become epistles the words of god and the truth of this gospel are engraved into our hearts and our bone marrow. When that happens then everyone that we come into contact with will be able to feel and know that we are servants of the lord. IT was a wa good talk and I'm super grateful for the opportunity we had to be able to hear from him. 

Email August 3, 2015

Email August 3, 2015 – Elder Kenneth William Burton

Bunch of Burtons

We spent at least an hour each day this last week with our friend Rafael who actually lives two floors under us in our apartment building. He filmed us doing different types of missionary work surrounded around "helping" that's kind of the topic of this documentary he's making "help". He wants to depict us in a way that shows the help and service we do for others and why. It should turn out well. He wrote some great background music that Elder Porter plays on the piano, and I'll be sort of the one speaking throughout it.

On Thursday we biked out and hour and a half to a member who recently moved back into the area, and we spent a few hours helping them with the yard and then they made us a great dinner after. Typical danish meal, potatoes, pork, sauce. I love it! Its amazing how much grease and cream adds. Oh and butter! Butter is great.  Its a good thing on our own Elder Porter and I are trying to eat healthy. We have a pretty good diet plan we're sticking to, with the exception of eating appointments and the weekly Kebab. 

Email August 1, 2015

Email August 1, 2015 – Elder Isaac Kenneth Burton

Got travel plans!!!

Hey Everyone!

      We got our travel plans yesterday!! So we head for the airport at 8:30am on august 10th! At 1:50pm we get on a plane that will take us to the Atlanta Georgia airport. We'll land there at about 7:45 pm. We have about a two hour layover and then we get on a plane that leaves at 10:00 pm and flies through the night to Buenos Aires Argentina!! We'll arrive in Buenos aires at about 9:10am Argentina time, which is three hours ahead of time here in utah. Our Mission president will meet us at the airport and then we're off to work I guess. I can't wait!! Geting travel plans makes me super excited and makes it finally feel real that I;m actually going to Argentina. It's gonna be awesome.