Busy is Best!

Man, sounds like a wonderful week! I'm glad you all have enjoyed this wonderful event of Sean returning home. I am anxious to see where his next move will be. Has he done all the crazy missionary things yet, like back up without anyone backing him, or get on the Internet, or watch a movie..... ? hahaha. Hey just curious when does Elder Fischer return home? I'm glad you got my letter. I guess I didn't decorate it with graffiti stating not to open it until Thanksgiving. Sorry. :) Man this area is picking up so much! We have a super solid investigator. Her name is Dana Stone she is the fiance of a recent convert and has had a bad experience with her church and is now ready to accept truths! It's wonderful to see how the Lord provides! So Speaking of stress I think I might have gotten in over my head with suggesting activities and service projects. I might be the one heading them all. A secret Santa drive. A ward rake and run, and then we have begun a competition with the other elders in my district to see which ward can get the most member present lessons, via member referrals. I love being busy! It keeps me out of trouble! Luckily we have a decent ward mission leader who is willing to step up when he can. He is an EMT so he has funky hours and can't always meet with us or even talk to us over the phone. I have gained such a testimony of relying on the Lord! With all that has happened recently I have had to just pray and leave it all up to the Savior, because I couldn't do it. We had an awesome zone conference this past Friday. Craig A. Cardon of the seventy came and chastised us all! It was great!!!!! I've never enjoyed being told I'm doing things wrong so much in my life! It's amazing what spiritual preparation will do for you! He spoke a lot about the concept of inviting the head of the house hold to pray, and how it's become routine to ask the head who they would like to say the prayer, well he said "never do that again!" Rather be bold and say something along the lines of "at the conclusion of our lesson we will have a prayer and you will be saying that, but before that we want to talk about the principles of prayer...." We are to use skill and tactic to overcome this giant hurdle! the reason we don't "ask" the head of the household is because we already know the answer. It's going to be someone else other than him/herself. I enjoyed it so much I applied it immediately. Right when we got back from OKC we had a lesson and guess what I did, I commanded that woman to pray! haha. It happened to be Dana Stone who is now prepping for baptism!!!! i love this work! I love being an ambassador for the Lord! I am so very thankful for this opportunity to serve! It is sooooooo fantastic! All I have to say is I would not trade these experiences for anything in the world! This Thanksgiving we were invited to go to Bishop's. We are hopefully going to receive more and more dinners this holiday season. Bishop announced from the pulpit that the members need to make sure the missionaries are cared for at this time of being away from their family. Honestly I was thinking to myself "self.... I don't think this holiday season is going to be hard for me, just stay busy, but I'll take all the dinners handed to me :)" I hope that doesn't make you sad Mom, But we all know you would rather me be out serving then home! I know and you know where it is I am to be! Just make sure you give the elders a little treat or something. They may not have as much support as I do! And to answer the question about my companion, I would say a letter could never hurt. Although he literally gets one a day. His grandparents send him like 2 a day then like a package every two weeks! It kind of drives me crazy! I haven't gotten mail in like a month! He just laughs and says he will have his sister write me :) hahaha. I love Elder Faulkner! Well I hope this letter is long enough ;) I am thankful for all you do for me!

Not a Second Wasted,

Elder Burnham!