Coming home November 2022

 

November 9, 2022

   He’s home! 

November 7, 2022

 what's up everyone??

thank you all for tagging along to my once every couple month emails 😁. I'll be finishing up my mission this Wednesday. I can't believe how fast it's gone. I'm going to miss it.

I don't want to get too sappy... but I'm incredibly grateful that I chose to serve. There's just something about losing yourself. I can't put it into words, but what I have learned is that there is no better feeling, and I mean no better feeling than knowing God is using you to bless someone else's life. You get to join him in his purpose. 

Love you all,

Élder Burton

God is a God of joy and hope. So do anything you can to be on his side, and live life with him at your side, it's worth it! 

JULY 25, 2022

What's up guys!

Redbull gives you wings, Modelos do not

so some things have changed. 

I went back to an old area I used to serve in, but this time português. I'm in Richmond. It was super weird to come back, but I love this place.

I'm also back with Élder yadon let's go. 

Things are going great. I love the serving the lord, and we are seeing his hand in all of it. 

We have this one lady we are teaching right now who is pretty awesome. We met her a couple of weeks ago knocking some doors. She was excited we spoke português, but we didn't think she was super into learning about the restored gospel. 

than something happened. 

she texts us out of the blue and asks us to come visit her. 

we start talking our lesson. she ends up telling us this story. she was on the river with her friends, and she was drinking.  One thing led to another and boom she was jumping off a 100 foot bridge into a river. (she's probably in her late 50s). Broke something in her shoulder and was in the hospital for a day. Then while home resting and recovering she watched the restoration movie on YouTube! 

god works in mysterious ways.

-Élder b

June 13, 2022

San Francisco is full of the weirdest people you'll ever meet. I love it. 

This week has been solid. Something that stuck out to me this week was .... revelation. 

So as missionaries, we do a lot of the same things everyday. At times you can fall into a mundane routine. This week we were trying to make sure we weren't going through the motions. 

then we got a English class referral, almost the epitamy of the same old routine. we got our lesson set

up and started off with the usual figure out their English level. but that morning instead of just saying hey we're gonna teach God's our loving heavenly father, and we chose a scripture (1 Nephi 21: 15-16) which usually we would have done during the lesson. but we read her the scripture and she started to cry. she then went on to tell us that she had recently moved because their old house caught fire and they lost everything. she had been going through a lot of hard things, and that verse we shared with her (which is an Isaiah verse) was the very first verse that spoke to her. she told us in that moment she knew God was taking care of her. 

"yet will I not forget thee... I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands" 

Jesus christ will not forget about you. He has lived your life. He experienced what you experience. I know he is with us. 

- elder Burton 

April 18, 2022

 Oi turma bom dia! 

it's been a minute. 

things in San Francisco are going great. the work is moving forward. there are a lot of things that have happened since my last email and I don't even know where to start. 

I got a new companion his name is elder McKnight. he's from Wisconsin and lived in Puerto Rico for three years. we get a long great and it's been a lot of fun serving with him. 

the Portuguese group is moving forward. it's really cool to see our members make sacrifices that a lot of other church members wouldn't have to make. yet they do it anyways and are happy to do so. 

late happy Easter. Jesus christ lives. he knows us and he thought of you, while he did what he did some 2000 years ago. he is always there for you and because he walked his path alone we don't have to do so. he will not forget you. 

God is good, all the time 

all the time, God is good 

^shoutout to the methodist preacher for teaching us that one 

Elder. Burton 

January 31, 2022

Once again, it's been a minute, but things are going great. 

Some updates, 

- so all we need for our group to make the jump to a branch is a building. Shouldn't be too hard right, well... we had to call I the big guns, but we should be getting our building soon. Then we can all meet as awhole group in person every week! 

- my greenie (elder holloway) left for brasil. so now it's just me and elder yadon 

- the Portuguese is getting there. unfortunately I mix my portugese into my Spanish now :( 

- we have a friend on date for March 6th, his name is bruno. he is very prepared for the gospel. he came to America to "find himself". oh and how's he finding it. we have had some suoer spiritual lessons with him it's been awesome. 

- we have found the hive of brasilians. it's been great, a lot of fun finding opportunities. almost everytime were down there some new family invites us in and feeds us. 

- had exchanges with my guy elder Evans. we were in the mtc together, now we're both português. 

- i had an exchange with the one qnd only elder creer. that was a lot of fun to be with him again 

- life is good! 

2 nephi 3:12. the book of Mormon is powerful. along with the Bible it will establish peace, and give us clarity. so go take a look! 

elder b