Monday, September 1, 2014
Email September 1, 2014
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September 1, 2014 – Elder Kenneth W. Burton
Happy
Birthday Jackson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 16!!!!!!
Bunch
of Burtons
Alma
16:16, "And there was no inequality among them; the Lord did pour out his
Spirit on all the face of the land to prepare the minds of the children of men,
or to prepare their hearts to receive the word which should be taught among
them at the time of his coming—" I came across this scripture in studies
this last week and realized it goes perfectly with what I mentioned in my last
letter. Christ prepared the minds of the children of men before his coming. He
helped them to learn His truths before he came. the same thing is what Elder
Bednar is doing, he has asked us to study specific material before his training
so that we can learn in faith. So that we can put in the effort ourselves and
teach ourselves the principles he wants us to learn before he arrives, we then
will be able to review it with him this upcoming Saturday. Elder Bednar said in
a talk in 2007, "experience has enabled me to understand that an answer
given by another person usually is not remembered for very long, if remembered
at all. But an answer we discover or obtain through the exercise of faith,
typically, is retained for a lifetime. The most important learning's of life
are caught—not taught." I can testify because of my own experiences and
tests that you will learn much more by this method, by teaching yourself what
you can in preparation for your review as a class or group.
For
a quick example, this last Saturday in our zone training I had forgotten to ask
the zone leaders what we were learning in zone training before Saturday, so I
wasn't able to study before, and because of that I wasn't able to be as
involved in the training as I would have liked. I still learned, and now I can
do my "homework" but it wasn't as much as I would have learned if I
had prepared before hand.
Email September 1, 2014
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September 1, 2014 – Sister Alexandra Burton
You
Won't Belive It But...MISSIONARY MAILBOX
Dear
Family!
Never
thought that it would come down to it, but I sent my last handwritten letters
last week (dated the 25th). Well, I
might send some more, but today was a pretty busy P-day and anything going out after
today is pretty much guarranteed to get home (gulp) after I do. But let's not
talk about that! It kind of hurts my
heart to break down and email my last three weeks, but I've decided that letting
you all know about the miracles around here is more important to me that
anything else! Also, hate to admit it,
but letters take time, and I'm going to give everything in the next couple
weeks to living here, in Korea.
Yesterday,
for the second week in a row, our new investigator family (yes, FAMILY!!!) came
to church! We called the mom Saturday
night to make sure they were coming and she said, sorry, they wouldn't be able to make it because they were
busy. The feeling I got, though, was that
she's just a little overwhelmed by everything right now. They met us (and our church) for the first
time last last Saturday at English class, came to church Sunday, came to the
Mon. night English class, chatted with
us by phone Tuesday, had their first lesson Wednesday, English class again
Saturday...that's how we like it, actually!
Contact with investigators that often is what we strive for, but I think
she was a little overwhelmed. They were
pretty surprised last week too, when church was a whopping three hours long! And such a different style from the churches
they are used to.
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