A week of Service and Miracles

This week was very interesting. It wasn't filled with alot of success or anything to incredible but this week my comp and I decided to do service. We went to a less active member who doesn't really like us or anything in the church because of something that had happened a few years back. We showed up at her house with normal clothes and with our machetes to cut her lawn.She said she didn't want service but that she wanted to help another member out so we went and planted and fixed her garden, out door toilet haha and cut her lawn. That less active ended up being really grateful for what we had done and is now helping us out with references so we will see what happens. I got the idea from in the book of Mormon with Ammon and how he only wanted to do service and love the people. Then something else that was amazing was we have an inv named Mariana who when we first started teaching her she had no work. We told her that if she had faith and went to the g conference that she would receive work. Anyway she ended up going and she found work however it was on Sundays as well so this past 3 weeks we have been teaching to her and telling her if she gave up her work the Lord would bless her but she was scared because she had found good work. On Saturday night we went to her house and told her we had nothing else to teach her but that she needed to pray and ask god if she had to keep her work or to not do it anymore and go to church. Long story short is we went to her house early Sunday morning to get her and she came out already to go and that she had called her boss and said SHE QUIT!! It was the coolest thing ever haha she went to church and she loved it. This week we are trying to get her ready to be baptized for this Sunday so pray that everything will work out!! also I got the email about call home for mothers day but you guys have to call me again. It will be for the 9th may on Sunday and it has to be in between like 1pm to 5pm we are going to go to a members house again after church but I will get the number of them this week and then I will send it to you guys this coming Monday. We cant call the day before to verify but its all good. Please figure out the time change of Paraguay and the u.s when you will call me between the time of 1 to 5 Paraguay time. I will get the number and send it to you and how to call and everything. I love you guys thanks for everything ps I loved the pics haha Ill send a few more chauuuuu! Elder Burr

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Me with my blood chicken soup!

My comp and I studying with a

million fans because it is SO hot!!

I'm doing fine!

Yes I am doing perfectly fine mother deary. the test came back splendid and I've got no more headaches or anything and I wont be turning into an elephant. This week was pretty eh as you might call it. My comp and I like usual have been working hard teaching, finding and listening to the drunks say annoying stuff and ya its a war out here, having to teach the people to repent and to come unto Christ giving up the things of the world and being baptized. This Sunday I was pretty down not in the efforts of my comp and I but just in the people and how wicked the world is getting. Compared to the u.s its like May berry from Andy Griffith, but here in Paraguay its like the war in Iraq. Wow horrible analogy but you get what I'm trying to say. Yesterday night we were talking with a member outside just about when Christ will come and save his children. while talking to him all I could here was drunks singing and yelling and girls screaming and ya just a nightmare. Sundays are now a joke in the world but its just insane to really see what the heck is going on in the world and its really depressing. I know there are people who are thinking the same stuff that I am thinking but aren't members and that they are praying for my comp and I to come looking for them. We have a few inv getting ready to be baptized but they have to give up a few things so that they can progress but its all good they will progress. We should have had a baptism on Sunday but our inv who didn't have work when we first taught her now has work and is working on Sundays so now we are trying to teach her that God will bless her with work for other days just like how he blessed her with work on Sundays haha it kinda sucks but its a blessing at the same time. I love what I am doing here and I am working like crazy because I know I've only got a year left and I want no regrets.I know this church is true and that its through the book of Mormon that we can know it! I know that this book is often kept under our beds or balances a table so that its sturdy or thrown places we don't know where, but we must be reading and praying and going to church so that we can fight against Satan and his temptations. Not to much else going on please pray for this area and our inv. Gerald and his 3 kids, Mariana, and Elizabeth and her 2 girls. Thank you for the love and support hugs and kisses from Paraguay Salado. love ya boy Elder Burr ps Pres Wade and Hermana Wade are going to our house tomorrow like they did that one time to see if our house is clean haha it sucks but I'm excited. any who CHAUU!

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Beautiful Paraguay!

Here I am lifting 450 on our homemade

workout bench!

Thanks for your prayers!

Hello family! well I'm glad everyone is nice and worried about me haha I'll have to remember never to say when I get sick or held up by guns or knives haha I am doing alot better and I kinda just worked it off so I am doing good and ya I'm doing great now thanks for the prayers. Everything is going great here in Salados I love my area and my comp and I just got back from tgi fridays in Asuncion with our zone. This past week I also went to the temple which was GREAT!! I love the temple so much. my comp and I are working like crazy and we are having success bringing people to church. This area was dead and hasnt baptized in some times but we have the faith and desires so we know we will baptize as long as we keep working hard and praying. I love it out here and I still can not believe I have one year, It went way to fast, I feel like I just barely left the air port haha. Also this next month I will be calling home but I dont have the info yet. I send anymore! I love you guys I hope all is well and hope you know I am working my hardest and I am feeling the spirit and really loving being a missionary and messenger from God. I love you all and I will talk to you all next week! chauuu

One Year mark!

Getting ready to burn my shirt...

"Don't Worry Mom! Its an old ripped shirt!"

One other thing!

I don't think I've got the package yet. Any who well lots of crazy news first off you know how blondness runs in the family, I found my debit card haha sorry about that I felt pretty sheepish. Also I am now in another new area close to Asuncion called Salado with my new comp Elder Sperry from Idaho. We are living with two other missionaries who are from Chile and Mexico. This area is another tough one and the missionary that was last here left us with a big fat 0 for inv so we have been looking and looking but we will have success I know it. Any who G conference was way sweet and we were able to bring a few people to see it that aren't members so we were blessed. My comp and I are working like crazy trying to get the members involved with us. This area has a beautiful brand new church that is bigger than the u.s churches its incredible.I really like this area though and I know that if we work as hard as we can we will have the help of the lord and we will baptized. I love how you said you just got your blood taken because so did I haha my comp and I just got back from the doctor in Asuncion. I might have Dagny not really sure how to say it in English or if that even is English. You get it from mosquito's. Anyway during the Saturday session of GC my head was throbbing and last night I never fell asleep so I called hermana Wade to see what she thought and ya long story short I'm waiting until 330 to here what my results are. I don't want to write to much because i want to try and send you some pics tonight and ya so any who I hope all is well! I'm pretty pumped to hit a year and I still cant believe I'm doing it! PS my trainer Elder Brown got called to be assistant! love always Elder Burr

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My ward in PJC

A sweet Paraguayan house!

Here's a picture of me teaching a primary

class and playing hang man.

Lets just the guy died before they could

guess Jesus!! ;)

This is what I like to call

"junk in trunk!" ;)