October 31st Letter

 MacIver and me on Vallenar bridge

Hola  Familia

 Ah so  sorry for having a bad attitude last week shame on me. The Lord gave me so many little blessings and I totally looked over them. Anyways Hermana Burnett is  back and is finally in Love with Playa Brava.  This week was great we found many new less actives to visit. One is the Castillo familia  with two young girls that we visit Saturday night and told them how many blessings are waiting for them to attend church. And yesterday they walked in during  open hymn it was awesome!! ah one visit to them and here they all were!! There were so many people at church today  because we had another baby blessing  so I was searching to see if our less actives came or investigators and I spotted  Javeria!! yeah and another familiy wahoo that's three and with the Castillo that's 6. And then Hna. MacIver saw this one Hermano that we visit  the first week here and he finally came!! that makes SEVEN LESS ACTIVES!!! yeah ! It was so awesome. I love Hna. Gallaghers letters she is so amazing and is so right about every little thing.
  Sunday for us missionaries is truly the Judgement day to see if our lessons have the spirit and if we are teaching to our people´s needs and not just lessons. And this week showed. Our investigators we have are kinda iffy about things two are young and need permission and the parents don´t like us so that hard. However the Lord answers our prayer and gave us a great barrio that constantly has referrals. And one of the referrals we have been trying to contact for the whole week showed up to church!! So now he knows us and is ready for us to visit him this week. Another is a members husband, he is reading the El Libro de Mormon and showed up to church today for all three hours. She had teary eyes all day cause she was so happy.
  The Barrio is starting to open up more to us and actually giving us sincere hugs and references. We finally have a Obispo this Barrio hasn´t had one since Julio crazy huh. So this is going to help. Our Lider Misional is awesome and willing to drive our investigators to anywhere we need.
 I had my first  companion exchange this week with Hna Menghini de Argentina, it was so different but good I learned a another way to teach and how to speak Spanish all day literally. haha
 We found new investigator a sister of one of our youth and this girl actually seems interested and me and my comp our great with YW so she is our focus this month.
 I love this gospel so much and learn something new everyday. We didnt´have any baptisms here in Playa Brava which is hard but we were told that our Alex ( our fire,hot, gold) from Vallenar was baptized last week!! how awesome!! so I am counting him as our baptism this month,
 I love you all and hope that everything is going good. Keep praying, reading and especially attend church! There are so many great and grand blessings that come from attending church that you can´t get anywhere else. Keep working hard in school brothers!! Keep loving work mom, dad and Roland!! Feel better mom and Hayden sorry you're sick.
Love you each and wish you a very HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!  Take tons of pictures and send them!! Mom ask Roland I left the charger there with you.

p.s. Can you send me the ward family address please, oh and  can you add sterling silver studs for me birthday and a light cardigan. This is all I want for Christmas and my birthday you can combine the two.
I think about you all and  pray for you all everyday!!

Con Armor
Hermana Burnett

October 24th Letter

Our broken door handle

 Me moving our fridge back into the kitchen cause we had no electricity for a week  in all our rooms except one our study room

Me cleaning the baño with Hna Mapa cause the Elders before us didn´t clean anything!!

Our zone at lunch

Hna MacIver and me at the beach finally

Hola familia,

Ah so playa brava is a lot different then Torreblanca and these past two weeks have been super hard for me. I have no exact reason why but just a whole bunch of small things have been adding up. The positive of our mission is our mamita and papita this family Araya is seriously like our family . They makes us laugh everyday and they love English so they are always asking us phrases or words. We have had some good lessons and have had people open up to us but no one is really wanting to progress. We have had many  YW walk right up to us to at church and ask when can they work with us!! This is so awesome and every missionary´s dream however no one wants to meet with us . I got to work in my first three companionship with Hna Meghini from Argentina. It was alright one day but super hard the next. She teaches so differently and didn't really have love for her investigator, it was sad to watch. I don't really no what to say-  this week has been HARD and its not even the Spanish is something else. Sorry this letter is lame . No worries I have a great comp and Hna Mapa to make me smile. And best of all I have the Lord to help me which he is cause I am blessed with so many great people around me. I am enduring to the end no worries. I love you all and am so happy to hear you all went to lagoon and went on rides except Hayden!! porque? You are the craziest of us all!!  hope you all have a great HALLOWEEN !! take lots of pictures and send me through email please! I miss all your faces!!  I love Iquique it looks like I am in California!! Ttell everyone hi and don't forward this to anyone cause its not a happy letter..

Love you all  and cant wait to receive your package- no worries it will probably be here next week..Can you send  me peanut butter and cake mix and USA treats will be great!! And photos of you all!!!  One of my hoodies please! that's all I can think of . I don't really need any other items ..
con amor
Hna Burnett

October 17th Letter

Pres Albanez family of the branch

Helado every Lunes

Our YW on my last Sunday

My mamita and daughter in Vallenar

My comp Hna. Maciver and me

Hola Familia,

Ah I am here in a new area called  Playa Brava, Iquique and it is so beautiful.  It was so hard to leave Vallenar, we had so many great investigators ready for baptism they just needed one more lesson. And our Young Women were starting to fall into the things of the world again and so we were going to do an activity and now we can´t. It is so hard to be here , both of us that there aren't other sister missionaries taking care of our sheep. However I know that we have to transfer for a reason and that Pres. Bruce did truly receive revelation to send me and my comp to Playa Brava. Our case is very rare for us both to travel to a new place together. When we transfer we leave all this paper work behind so other missionaries know who we were visiting and who was recently baptized this book has everything. So we left a huge detailed letter for the elders taking over .
   We are in a sector that had  elders before so there should be a bunch of paperwork of less actives and investigators like what we left, right? No... These elders left nothing.. We have no idea on who they have been teaching or visiting NOTHING. It is as if no one was here. So we are both new trying to find houses and people to visit and make new contacts and it is hard. This is how our whole week was , we got into a few homes and were able to teach  less actives which felt great but couldn´t find investigators of the old elders. Yesterday after lunch we headed to a recent converts in hope to talk with the mom who isn't a member. And she was THERE!! We got to know her a little  better and then begin to teach and the first few words she says after the prayer is "yes I do want to get baptized but after December" And my heart begin to pump . She went on to talk about how she does want to and she likes church. That she has attend few times and is glad her girls got baptized. But she is to busy and wants to feel peace on her baptism day so that is why she is waiting. I could feel the spirit so strong on this point and the wonderful letter that Hna. Gallagher sent hit me strong. I just began testifying really strongly about how she needs to be baptized now. I didn't even think about what I was saying I was just speaking fluently in Spanish and I know its because this hermana need to hear my testimony. She was in tears and after a few minutes said she would get baptized next week if she had work off or the latest Nov. 5.!!  She told  us that many elders have stopped by and said hermana you should get baptized but then wouldn´t testify and just joke around and eat.  After meeting this hermana and her not wanting us to leave cause we made her happy and wanting to know when we could visit her next so she could continue to prepare for the day.  I KNOW NOW without a doubt she is the reason we are here!! Pres. Bruce sent us here to baptize this Hermana and to bring the family together.
After this great lesson we stopped by a  members family to visit his mom who is less active and she told us we are the first to visit her in 8 months of her being in active and she lives with others who aren´t members. And she was in tears and so happy that we came and can´t wait for us to return. I have no idea what these elders where doing before but they were missing out on some wonderful hermanas who need to hear the gospel. It´s alright though we found them and are going to baptize one and bring the other back to church and baptize her family. I LOVE THIS WORK !! This week was hard cleaning up the mess of the elders physically and emotionally but we are here for a reason. The Lord helps me everyday with my Spanish people are so surprised when I say only 7 weeks in the field. 
This area has a ward and everyone here wants to help us even the youth!! And everyone says anytime is good to set up an appointment for FHE. This is so different from Vallenar . I feel as if I´m in the states again, I love how everyone is willing to help.

Everyone keep reading and praying everyday I know that The Lord answers are prayers daily.Thanks for all your prayers and support.

Mom i love you, my address will be the same for the whole mission, so no worries I will receive it. And It takes a little longer for me to receive things just so you know. You picked up the boxes from when I left the MTC right? Good luck with school and if you just do your BS now that's a great start mom!!
Dad I love you and think that you should paint the room a light yellow or tan. How is work?
Roland stop taking the Internet so I can read longer letters :) Love you tons hope you enjoyed my letter
Twins - love you and hope you aren't growing to tall

Take care everyone!! I'm doing great in CHILE!!
Con Amor
Hna. Burnett

October 11th Letter

My zone in Vallenar

HOLA FAMILIA,

 So....  this Wed. was the BEST EVER!! We had set 5 apps for this day and we had ALL of them plus one!!! SIX APPOINTMENTS!! wahoo!!! They were all great with our investigators and less actives ! So cool.  And for once the mom feed us scrambled eggs and meat so yummy ! My first scrambled eggs that I have received from someone. Hna Sylvia is less active invited us into her kitchen and showed us how to make lemon pie and apple pie so awesome then she wanted us to eat both of the pies at that moment. she is so cute.  Everyone was feeding us in all our citas I drank so much but was able to hold it all in till we arrived home that night at 10 pm unlike Janae did in her meeting. hahaha  Thurs we went to visit hna Ilda who is our cute abuela here in Chile before we left she gave us each a bag full of snacks! ah she is adorable . We had another great lesson with Louis and she is keeping all her commitments we leave her and is so excited to attend church tomorrow with us all :) Friday we moved  our study room around to prepare for more sisters to come and cleaned everywhere!! I am  so  excited for more sisters to come to our area!! Later that evening we headed to a less actives to help set up a birthday party and then went to Louisa with our Elders and wow they are awesome!! The spirit was so strong I am so grateful for the Priesthood that we have !! We did tons of service Saturday and then a lot of knocking on doors cause our appointments fell through. no fun! however we found so many new less actives. later that night as we were walking home we received a phone call from the assistants ..... They told us we are being transferred to Iquique which is all the way north . a 16 hour bus drive!! and that elders were taking our place here. I felt so sick !! We have amazing invest. so close to baptism and we are now leaving Sunday night at12:00 am. I could not sleep at all I just sat and ate!! I had no idea that this was coming for us both to leave. Ah anyways these things happen for a reason I know that Pres. Bruce needs us in Iquique the positive is there is a beach there, I'm with Hna MacIver still and I get to be in the same zone as Hna MAPA!!
 I got motion sickness  the last 6hours which was no fun and then the elders weren´t done cleaning so we couldn't unpack till today and oh my they were not cleaning at all!! the house was not just dirty but DISGUSTING! NO LIE!! I have no idea how they used the shower or fridge or anything in that house. So we spent all morning cleaning everything and we still aren´t finish. ah I will send pic next week I forget my cord. Oh yeah they didn't do their paper work so we have no idea who to teach... crazy elders.. ah!! It nice and big though our room is huge which is BAKAN.. we only have one bathroom and one mirror which is going to be hard we were kind of spoiled in vallenar.. anyways..
Love you all and love your letters.
love you much
Hermana Burnett

October 3rd Letter

Vallenar- A church

Utah valley missionaries( Edwards P.G., ME , Broadbent (Orem) Christensen(AF) Richardson (Lehi)( she says she knows Glenda cook)

Hna. ILDA making us almueroz

GC Christensen,Broadbent Rivas, me , MacIver

BBQ with the Zone, me making a smore

Hola Familia!!!

Wow what a great end of an up and down week!!!  Monday night I received a call that I had a new missionary meeting tomorrow in Antofagasta!! Yep that's right Antofagasta which is 11 hours bus drive!! ah crazy. So we headed home after only working a hour on Monday to head to Copaipo which is a Two hour drive. So four of us get in a collectivo(taxi) to head there a 9:00 pm arrive there around 11pm. My comp and I go stay with this one sister till 3 am which is when my bus leaves for Anto. yeah no fun!! Our phone dies which is bad but luckily E. Hewstone has the assistance number we wait there for 3o mins. They come get us and I´m changing clothes cause I feel all gross after being on a bus FOREVER!! When my cute MTC Hermanas walk in and scream and give me hugs!! just what I needed!! Ah it was so great to see them. We had a quick breakfast aka gross ham and cheese sandwiches. Then start the meeting at noon eat again at 1:30 then  play questions and answer time. Then I am off again back on the bus at 6 pm!! ah crazy!! This time I wasn´t stopping anywhere going to straight through. Ah my legs where so cramped and I was dead. I got to see the hand in the sand statue while on the bus, which was cool. We arrive home at 3:30 in the morning and find out later that day at one we had a Zone meeting with Pres Bruce. Talk about crazy. What he shared was so great!! He really emphasized how important we are and just really bold speaker.  He told us "Octubre is going to be HUGE, so don't miss it". Which I know he is right, cause this month we are pushing to baptize Alex and this cute mother and daughter that were suppose to be baptized last month but they disappeared but that's okay cause we found them know and they told the Elders that they are ready for us to baptism them!!! Thursday was great we had back to back wonderful lessons with our investigators and our mamaita who feeds us, she is a less active and today asked if we were going to pray!! BAKAN!!!  I'm so glad Thursday was great cause Friday was bad!! We had 5 appointments set up and they all fell !!! ah so horrible feeling and two of our girls in the YW now have a nose and tongue ring and one was smoking!! ah Friday was so hard I felt so sad to see this girl smoking after how much progress she has been making. It  just shows how strong Satan is and how we really needed to always  be following the commandments and praying daily. It  was a tough week with traveling for two whole days and not being able to work a lot but everything worked out well cause Conferencia General was here!! wahoo!!! It was so awesome I loved everything they shared on Sat. everything they said was so strong and I felt was directed to everything I needed to hear and my investigators. We sadly had none of our invest. but had 6 less actives show up Sunday. It was so great to see 6 of them there and some in which haven't been to church and many months.  I love this mission so much there are definitely time when I felt like dead and like my investigators aren't improving but then I have so many great moments of the Lord helping me in my life and others!!
Thanks so much for the letter dad I loved it and really needed it. I was beginning to worry about you!! I love you dearly dad!!! Tell everyone in Cali hello and I love them too.
Thanks mom for the updates!! tell Bryon congrats!! and to start reading the PMG now!! That is amazing that he is serving were Mike was!! when does he report? I'm glad you all had a great conference party!!


CON AMOR!!!
HERMANA BURNETT