What up Yankee!

Our dresser didn't fit through the front door, so this was our second option...On P-Day we had a Zone activity, hiking a huge mountain in Tobati
Baptism the week of July 20th in Piribebuy.
Sorry its a little late don't everyone all freak out at once . we had a zone activity today in tobati where we went hiking haha this was no wind caves these sucks are huge mountains with no trails you just have to work your way through all the brush and vines and every other plant and thing that grows here. It was pretty dang scary we pretty much rocked climbed the whole thing. But ya thats why I'm a little late emailing because we got back super late but ya any who. Hows everyone doing? Great i hope. Well like ty and his haircut i got the same haha its so much easier with a buzz. Elder brown called me and my comp elder brown and he told me to email you and say thank you for emailing him haha he says your a sweet heart haha. To answer your question last week if that picture of the church was catholic it is and it is huge!! I got a quick joke that the people here think is so funny haha they say que paso george bush? Obama. Translation: what happened to bush? Obama which in guarni means left haha ya its really not funny but ya they think it is. Anyway this week has been insane with rain and coldness. It rained the other night for ever and i didn't have my umbrella because i was teaching two little boys the game of baseball with rocks and my unbrella and ya it broke but it was worth it because i don't have to play soccer with them anymore just baseball! This week i have given quite a few blessings because the flew is getting worse and worse especially the little kids which is super sad to see please pray for them. This week we finally moved into our new house which is pretty cool but it has no heater and you can see your breath when you breath it is so cold. Elder brown laughed when he saw my sleeping bag before but who's laughing now not me because i am nice and warm and sleep like a baby . we had to move all our stuff upstairs above our old house which included two beds a fridge and two huge dressers that didn't fit through the door so you will see a picture how we got them in our new house haha ill try and take some pictures of it. Any who i wish i could write more but we are so behind on everything i love you all and everyone be happy because you live in the u.s and you don't know what you've all got until you dont have it anymore! Ps i got the package today and i almost started crying when i got the Gatorade! Thanks for not sending it in a bottle i might have thrown it. Just kidding. Love you all peace! Elder burr pss i always get called a yankee so that's why i said that in my header of the email.

He was happy to find a little piece of home

MVP of the Paraguaian soccer team
whatup!! yes its me your favorite missionary. we had changes today and i aint goin no where!! im pretty happy haha i love my area and comp . also i dont live in asuncion i live in piribebuy hahaha ive wanted to tell you that for a while asuncion is about 3 hours away from me. and asuncion is like new york compared to piribebuy which is pretty much compared to as a dumpster. you laugh but im not joking peoples houses hear are made out of trash usually its pretty sad. we had the expo last week and it was the coolest thing ever haha i ate burger king!!! it tasted incredible i guess bk here is an amazing place and super fancy its like outback in the u.s haha the people get all dressed up. i saw my old comp there from the mtc haha elder lisonbee hes a tight kid he said he loves it so that makes two of us. also the food here is still pretty crappy what can ya do. i would like some of that food you used to make at home haha remember when i would call it dog food haha i think iv eating dog here at least once. my comp elder brown is from sacremento cali he has 1 brother 3 sisters and his dad is a stake pres. hes been out for a little over a year. hes way cool so im glad i started out with him. the other day for ward night we played ping pong haha and i taught the priest how to play around the world ping pong and while we were playing i tripped and fell and all the members laughed haha it was a good time not. the peolpe here still talk about michael jackson and said he was murdered? let me know if this is true the peolple make up so much stuff haha also we havent moved into our new house yet, i cant wait to not have to use our bathroom that is the size of my closet at home. i dont really need anything from home i have just about everything and i bought an unbrella it was cheap so im good. also we get 8 g or mil a month which is plenty of money to have because there just isnt much to buy here in piri because its so poor. if you want could you send my black quicksilver jacket when you can. not much else going on here i love youy guys and hope all is well here are a few pics. one love! para siempre dios este con vos! elder jj burr

I knew everyone back home would be so impressed!

One of our investagators all dressed up in her

mink ready for church

One of the many Catholic churches in Paraguay

What up family! And everyone else that receives these great letters from the greatest place on earth! Sorry about resending the emails i am a little blonde when it comes to the type writer out here in paraguay. Im glad court and ryan enjoyed the Picture of my girl renildia and her mink coat haha she is the funniest old lady. When you say a prayer she says it back to you haha.it was awesome hearing from everyone that made me way happy. Its super hard to mail everyone because i can only email for an hour. I will write everyone back that emailed you should probably get those by next year some time. Anywho it is so cold here and for some reason it is nice and hot here and we leave our house and it just starts raining like crazy! Also this computer is straight crap so if it says different words just try and understand what i am saying because ya its paraguayin but its cool. I am emailing super early right now because in a few hours were going to the expo!! Whoo its pretty much the state fair haha its going to be a good time. I guess we have to wear masks because the flu is getting really bad down here and people are dying and for some reason when someone dies everyone goes and hangs out at the persons house each day for a month and just stares at like a picture of christ. I call them sit and stares so when we contact and no one is home we just decide they are out drunk or at a sit and stare. That story about brother andes made me laugh about giving up soda haha the people down here are going crazy because they like saw this dumb comercial about how if you find so many of these soda caps you will get all this Money so the people always tell me to drink more soda haha they get upset when i tell them i dont drink soda its pretty funny. The other day i cut this big old tree down with a mashety or however you spell it. Actually this guy named miguel did but i finished it off with a good yell of timber and then i pushed it down and took out their clothes line on accident haha the other night our lights and our water went out which sucked pretty bad and our house like flooded. We move into the house above us this week. Also the man alimpio who said he prayed for two messengers is getting baptized this Sunday. We have two other men lined up but they both are having alot of doubts so its hard but they hopefully will come through. The other day one of the members was watching survivor man haha i was so excited but then we had to leave and i had seen that episode anyway haha also i heard the song i saw the sign which was pretty random. How is everything back at home? Tell justin craig hensly is probably his best bet for an attorney. I told you one day we´d look back on that and laugh haha at least i think you guys are laughing haha. Not much else going on here i love it but at the same time i get really homesick i am doing better though. I am already coming up on my first change and im hoping i dont get changed or get a different comp but i have a feeling i will because he has been here almost 6 months. We do alot of walking here alimpio lives about a half hour bus ride from us and we had to walk a few hours home from his house the other day. All of the hard times and pain are so worth it though. About the whole food thing i would love to say i know what i am eating but i have no idea its usually pretty gross and when we go out to this more poor area they feed us like bloody soup with just bits of fat its pretty nasty but i just eat it. The other day there was a snake at a members house and we killed it with a mashety haha it was pretty cool they kept calling the snake satanas haha here are a few pictures i love you all and miss you all! Deuces! Love elder Jacob julious burr

Hey sorry about yesterday. we didnt have pday because the leaders were having 
a huge meeting in asuncion so we had pday today but next week it will be 
monday like usual. congrats big ry dog on being baptized!! thats so cool! 
 i got big T´s email today and i laughed so hard about the purple 
bike and helmet hahaha i wish i had a bike we either grab rides with random 
trucks or motos or buses. we are supposed to have two other missionaries here 
but its just me and elder brown so we walk everywhere. sorry if i dont space 
all my words this key board is very paraguayin. yesterday i was bummed about 
not having pday but we took a bus out to this place called corillera which 
was super poor. there are some members out there who we visited and we were 
walking down this hill and we saw a man and decided to go talk to him. we 
clapped and he told us to come in. we were talking with him and he said that 
he had talked to missionaries before and he had the first lesson restoration 
pamphlet not sure how to spell that. anyways we were talking to him and he 
told us that the night befopre he prayed that 1 or 2 messengers of god would 
come to his house and bring him unto christ. we both just stared at him and 
were like are you serious. he told us he works every single day but friday 
and we asked if we could teach him this thursday in the afternoon jueves 
tardes. he told us he had work but that he didnt care and that he would 
rather come unto christ than have money and that money was nothing compared 
to that. we got the pamphlet from him and we were about to write down jueves 
tardes on the pamphlet when we realized it had already been written from 
the missionaries a year ago. it was insane the lord already knew this was all 
going to happen and it was random how we didnt have pday and he has already 
been to church twice before. we taught him about baptism and he asked if he 
went to church on sunday if he could be baptized for this sunday!! he is 
the coolest guy his name is olimpio! the people have to go to church atleast 
3 times before they are baptized. later that night we met a sixteen year old 
kid named ramon who is extremely interested in the church and he just kept 
asking us question after question and asked us if he could go to church and 
have a book or mormon it was so cool! it has been the best day out in the 
mission so far!! it finally stopped raining but the rain went on for about 4 
days it was insane all my stuff was soaked and muddy but all my stuff is 
holding up pretty well. our shower almost broke the other day and we almost 
didnt have our some what warm water if it goes out you are stuck with cold 
water its pretty much this like electric contraption with amillion wires. we 
were teaching a lesson the other day and this little girl called me feo haha 
ugly. and then the next house we went to this old lady kept saying i was 
beautiful in guarni and kept staring at me hahah we had our first zone 
conference the other day which was pretty fun. president wade and his wife 
were there also did i tell you elder brown from the mtc who talked to you at 
the airport is in my zone here. he says hi mama burr haha. after that we 
went to bk! haha they have one here but its disgusting iwaspretty bummed but 
they have frosted flakes here so when we go grocerey shopping i always grab 
some. that is insane about all the stuff with the suns i swear they have no 
idea what they are doing stephon curry is terrible he looks like he is 10 
years old. all of the people here keep asking if we aresad about michael 
jackson because i guess he died or something haha is that true. also its so 
funny whenever a plane or helicopter flies over the city the people like run 
inside because they think its like world war 3 they dont ever see planes or 
anything. elder brown and i usually make explosion noises and gun shot 
noises haha today on the bus going itagua for zone meeting i sat in the 
front of the bus and my comp was in the back because those were the only 
seats left on the bus but i talked to this guy in spanish by myself for 
about an hour and a half. i taught him the whole first lesson and invited 
him to chrch haha it was crzy i was able to speak and understand everything 
he said! it was an awesome experienece. when we got off the bus elder brown 
was like holy cow you talked to that guy forever what happened!!! haha the 
other day we visited a less active and i gave him one of my long sleeve 
church shirts because he had nothing for church. i have never seen someone 
so happy in my life haha i always teach his little girls the abc and elglish 
words and phrases also i taught them sike! i say high five and then pull it 
away and say sike haha they try and do it and they say blahh haha its pretty 
funny. this last week i was sick just about the whole week with a soar throat 
which sucked but i am doing alot better now! we went to visit this 
member named renildia who is a member and she was smoking and we said renildia 
were you smoking and she said well ya but not alot haha whoever taught this 
lady i guess forgot the word of wisdom but we are working with her. she gave 
my comp a paraguayin kiss on the cheek hahaha i stuck my hand out and said 
bye renildia no more smoking haha. oh ya haha i saw simpsons the other day 
here and the voices sound terrible haha also the people love the song sweet 
child of mine guns and roses haha. not much else to say i love you all i 
hope everyone is doing great send me emails to ty its hard writing alot 
because we dont have much time. again i love you all!! para siempre dios 
este con vos! if we fail we fail with glory god speed the right. 
Elder Jacob Julious Burr
ps did you get the email last week about my first baptism here are a few 
pics. peace!

Elder Burr & Elder Brown on a moto!

My first baptism!

Elder Brown, Ramon, and Me!

Elder Burr and a parrot!