Salty Senorita!

Hello Father Mother family friends conocidos y todos que me conocen! Well we got the changes and big Lu and I are staying together in Zeballos so I'm pretty excited! Also the whole baptism didn't go down Sunday it was crazy. I had to baptize him like 5 times but he kept kicking his feet out of the water and he wouldn't put his head in the water haha it was crazy but ya he never got his whole body under the water so we will see what happens. Other than that not much else is going on, all of our converts are doing sick here in Zeballos. I'm very happy that I am staying, I have a really good feeling that we will have alot of success this change. Not to much else going on, sorry I haven't been answering to many of your questions lately. About shoes and everything please don't send me any, and I don't need any when I get home I have my crocodile shoes haha I think this week or next I will buy the suit. How much do I have to take out? Also with packages for Christmas please don't send anything! I will have like 3 months left after Christmas, if you want you can send money, i want to buy a few things for everyone but seriously I don't want any candy or anything I can wait three months. Also I don't need an ipod, Tracie has my ipod. Again please don't send anything, you can send like pictures and letters but I will need nothing for Christmas. Also I got the letters and pics from the cabin they were tight!I loved them! I hope all is well and that everyone is doing great. You are all in my prayers. Stay happy stay safe! peace! Elder Burr also tell Salty Señorita to write! That's way sick that you talked to her!

"No throwing away trash??"

Ramon and his family!

Big B

Hello sweet family of mine,
Well we had the baptism of dear sweet Ramon on Friday, which was rad. This guy has been an inv for a few years and just has never wanted to get baptized. His wife and two kids are also members. After we got to know him better and we were more direct with him he began to listen more. They are now preparing to go to the temple in one year. It was crazy though because two other missionary's baptized this girl in our zone and while they baptized her 3 little member kids took her clothes that she wore to the baptism and put the in the toilet haha it really wasn't funny but now that I look back on it it really was haha. Any who today we had another one of those council things for zone leaders and then we played some soccer. Not going to lie iv got soccer just about down and I am ready to play in the bigs. I'll have to check and see if I can sign up for a coach kick kind of like coach pitch for baseball. Also please don't send me shoes, my shoes I have are pretty much brand new and the work perfect! About the whole suit, I have 50 dollars here and the suit costs about 100 dollars. As for everything else here not to much is going on, I'm just working like crazy and trying to build the Lords kingdom like usual. I hope all is well at home and everyone is happy and what not. Tell Sarah and Gloria I'm praying for them! PS we have another baptism this Sunday, the guys name is Marcelo, please pray for him. Also this next Tues is changes but I think we are staying together. Well I hope all is well, I am out! I have to go grocery shopping haha that sounds random. para siempre dios esta con vos Elder Burr

Congrats Sarah and Justin!

What up fam! this was a pretty crazy week with the four day capitation that I went to, my comp was in another area. I learned about these 8 lessons in preach my gospel that helped us to be able to put stronger commitments with the people, invite others to church, follow the spirit and a few other things. It was pretty rad! Any who it was a pretty sweet week, Friday we baptized this kid Alcides who is 21 and is preparing to go on a mission! He is one of the funniest kids I've ever met haha then on Sunday he was confirmed and next week he will receive his priesthood. We have a really great president in our branch who will help Alcides get ready to go on a mission. Other awesome news is that I talked with two different missionaries from my old areas. The first one from Pedro Juan told me that Sullie and her husband the girl Peterson and I baptized is getting ready for the temple in March and that they are super active! The second missionary I talked to was an elder who is in Ysapy my old area with Elder Alarcon. He said that the old lady we baptized is leaving with them to work and that she gives them referrals and gives them food haha she is so cool! Any who its been a great week. By the way yes I always get your letters every week with out fail haha you are a heck of a girlfriend the missionaries in my zone say haha I don't mind I love getting your letters sorry I haven't written to many I have just been really busy lately! Also don't worry about sending me packages for Christmas I will only have 3 months left haha how crazy. But ya if you want you can just send money because I want to buy some things to remember Paraguay and to get everyone something. Thank you for everything you guys do for me, Everyone is in my prayers. PS The suit I want to buy will be hand made buy a member don't worry it wont be ugly or rip in two days haha all the missionaries buy them Elder Curtis bought one, they are way fancy! Love you all again thanks for everything! PS Nicole our American inv went to the baptism on Friday!!! I will send pics later today this cyber doesn't work. The girl we baptized last week is doing really well by the way and her name is Adriana. We will be looking at another one hopefully this week so pray for Ramon! para siempre dios este con vos! THE GREATEST MISSIONARY WORK THAT WE WILL EVER DO WILL BE WITHIN OUR OWN HOMES. CHUASITO! ELDER BURRO

How is G Town?

Hello family, how is everyone doing?how is Gloria doing? Tell her she will be in my prayers, let her know everything will work out and that she doesn't need to worry the Lord will guide her and comfort her. Sometimes we have trials and things that come our way in life so that we can grow spiritually. Send her my love from PG please. Well this week was a little crazy we only had one baptism which was pretty depressing but the other girl that got baptized is way cool she was confirmed on Sunday and ya it was great like all baptisms are haha. This week was another insane full week of no sleep and thinking about others before yourself. Something I learned as a zone leader is that you have to love everyone! Its pretty sad but before the mission and during the start of my mission I judged people like crazy and instantly decided if I liked them or not haha sad I know but now I love everyone and ya its alot better haha anyway like I said this week was crazy we did a division with two elders on wed to help them out and then my comp and I went to the hermanas area to help them out so it didn't leave us much time to work. Tomorrow until Friday I will also be in training meetings with other missionaries so we will lose more time haha its crazy! Tell we had another tight zone activity, we went to Tobati again to rock climb just like last year it was way fun! Not much else going on here I loved the pics of Kenz and Blake that Court sent Kenz is going to be a way pretty girl it made me miss her so much seeing that pic haha I'm glad everyone loved the bracelets and the key chains haha I didn't have much money but hey its better then nothing. I hope all is well and I hope everyone is doing great! Give my love to the gtown! para siempre dios este con vos. ps I am savimg up to buy a suit because mine is super small haha Love Ya Boy Elder Burr

Pray for Adriana and Norma

What up hey I'm glad everyone got their gifts haha I know they weren't amazing or anything but hey its something. Not much is going on, my comp and I are working like crazy and we are looking at 2 baptisms for this week. Please pray for Adriana and Norma. Norma needs a little bit of permission from her grandma but we had an amazing experience with her. We asked if she wanted to do a fast, she agreed and didn't eat for two days haha I swear we only told her two meals haha it ended up turning out amazing. Wefasted with her and we came back and her grandma is super catholic but she told her that it is her dads call now so the big problem was the grandma so we will see what happens on Friday. Adriana is way cool she is a 22 year old girl who has a really strong testimony and is more than ready for this Friday. We have a couple more planned for next week. Today we did a zone activity playing baseball haha it was sick! I have never had so much fun I forgot how much I miss playing.I decided I'm going to play in one of those old people leagues over at freestone haha and then after that we went to the Paraguayan river to go fish haha. Any who so you are probably wondering where did we get the gloves and everything to play baseball? Well long story short is that we found and American named Nichole who is 24 from new Hampshire. She is doing one of those Peace Core things with some college. Anyway we were walking and I heard her speaking on the phone in English so I told my comp that we should follow her and talk with her. We ended up chasing her for like 10 blocks haha but we got a hold of her and set up a date to talk to her. Last night we went and taught her in English! It was insanely hard hahaha I felt so dumb teaching in English but it was an amazing experience. When we left she invited us and our zone to go play baseball with her Paraguayan group of teenagers! It was great! Se is super interested and wanted to know more but she said with the whole peace core thing it kind of gets in the way because the people will start thinking bad if she was baptized because the people here would stop participating in what she is doing here. I hope that all made since, I cant even speak in English or write well anymore ha. We will see what happens with her, she has her bom in English. Well I hope all is well and peachy love you all thanks for the support! para siempre dios este con vos! Elder Burr

Huge News!!

WHAT UP! HOLY FREAK HUGE NEWS! Welp lets just say I am out of Salados and I am now in the heart or b-crack as the people say here of Asuncion haha I am in Zeballos cue with one of my really good friends Elder Lucas. President Madariaga called me to be a zone leader!! Crazy! I am extremely excited! We are in a really really really poor area right now but the people are very humble. I am writing kind of late because we just got back from a meeting with all of the zone leaders to talk about ideas for this change with president in Asuncion. It's cool being a zone leader but it is alot more work but its all good I am excited to work! Not much else going on, we are going to move houses right now because we are pretty much living in a parking garage, no I'm not joking. We found a sweet house! It looks over all of Asuncion and the Paraguay river! We have alot of people getting ready for baptism this coming week and we will be finding alot more with my boy lucas. I am teaching him English haha hes from Ecuador. Well not much going on, I loved the pictures of the cabin haha I cant wait for next year! I love you guys and I am grateful for all the support. Stay happy!! chauusito! Elder Burr

News News News

MBA'E LA PORTE CHE FAMILIA KUERA! WELLLL news news news we had the most amazing day at church!!!! We had 9 inv and a family! It was sick!! wiiiiiiiiiiiiii! the only problem is that we have changes this week and I have no idea what is going to happen. I'm not really ready to leave here and I don't want to leave my kid he is way cool. This week was really good for us because through our fast and diligence we were blessed with a family of 5 that we found Saturday night that went to church and then the Mom and sister of my favorite less active family went to church with them and they are planning on moving in for a month so we will see what happens. Also that less active family is getting ready to go to the TEMPLE!! When I got here with Sperry we found them and we started sharing scriptures and then a song and prayer but it would do nothing because they would not go to church. After that I started to think about how we as a family would do morning scriptures so I put it into practice with this family haha when Eder Sperry and I had started beckoning the bom with them they hated it hahaha now they are all the way in Alma loving it and for 3 months straight they have not missed a single Sunday!!! They will have their interview with the Bishop tomorrow to get recommends! How cool!! We went to their house late last night to visit them and the Mom was saying how grateful she was for the Book of Mormon and how happy they are now and how when they read they never have problems and that when they forget she says they argue. Its incredible how the bom works. Mama Burr thanks for always reading every morning even though I was usually in the fetle position with my head slammed in the pillow trying to sleep hahaha oh man. also more news we are looking at 3 baptisms this week their names are milder William And Jorge if you can pray for them I would appreciate it! Milder and William are brothers and Jorge is their friend who speaks pure Guarani because he is from the boonies haha its pretty fun trying to communicate. I'm trying to think of anything else that happened this week. Tomorrow I will know about changes I feel like I am training again but I want to stay with Cerpa.I hope all is well and everyone had a blast at the cabin. Who won the race? Elder Burrs gym get big or die trying has got me already for next year!!! LETS GO! Love ya all! Pops I hope ya had a great bday! PS TIME IS GOING TO FAST! para siempre dios este con vos! by the way I have a new hobby, reading ha who would have ever thought. chauu for now! Elder Burr

Our shirts we bought at the expo, they say

vaca instead of puma!

Some bananas a member gave to us!