September 26 Letter

Hey Family,

Como le va? This week was long and a lot of our appointments fell through which stinks but we had some amazing things happen. Our investigator Alex is FIRE,HOT, GOLD. hahah Yeah Elder Edwards from the 5th Ward came up with this one. Alex said he has been praying and has been reading a little and that he will prepare himself for baptism!! He also came to church and loved every moment. During sacrament he was looking up the scripture that the speakers had and marking his BOM up it was  so awesome. He is our focus for this week. We had a great English class yesterday it was small but I think they all enjoyed it. Alex came and his cousin Marcela who is another investgator so that was great. We got to travel to chañaral on Friday to get my visa it was fun and so beautiful there besides waking up at 3 in the morning ah!! no fun.  We have been doing a lot of service which is great because I know the Lord blesses us more when we do service through out the week.  I haven´t spoke English all week and I can see The Lord working in my life cause I am starting really understand the investigators more and don´t have the desire to speak English which is awesome. The pictures that I sent last week were of our mujeres jovens( YW) which we teach every week they are so sweet . They are really strong but i think one rebelled this week and got a tongue ring and her parents are fighting all the time. But our other girls are doing great and loving personal progress. Our elders had a baptism this week and we meet the boy´s sister and she is atheist but loves us to death and wants us to teach her but we can´t cause the elders. awkward moment for us we don´t want to take her from the elders but we know she really likes us and we know we could help her. So will see how that works out. Today we headed on a little adventure through this mountain and got to hike up a waterfall literally it was crazy but so worth it. The elders in our zone are all nice and four are from Utah valley which is fun. This week was good and we had a lot of good lessons. The only thing tough this week is Sunday which is sad to say but I just get so lost with so many people speaking Spanish fast and I become overwhelm which I know I should but I do.  But I fight through it and pray for strength which the Lord gives me daily.  This area has so many great members they are all just less active and need friends and visit from the ward which the members don't do. These moments make me really grateful for our wards in the States cause we have home teachers and visiting teachers which the people need here badly.


And can you send me peanut butter please I am craving it but its super expensive ;) not much time for a testimony i´ll  try in another email.

Love you all and thanks for the updates. Good luck with work dad and roland . Nice job with your grades Hayden your a star!! and Dallen keep working hard in school!! You are all awesome and I love  you very much!!!!!

Love Hermana Burnett.

September 18th Letter

Hola Familia y Amigos!!

 Ah so this week was very hectic because its Chile´s Independence day the 18th but here they celebrate not only one day the celebrate Friday through Monday so no one has been home or has been very busy. However we have TWO new great investigators named Louisa and Alex. Louisa is older and very receipted towards everything we have shared and kept her promise of reading the pamphlet we left her which was great!!  During our second visit her sister had a friend over that was evangelic and she told us that  ¨she doesn´t like Mormons and doesn't like that we don´t read the bible and says that the book of Mormon is lame and she didn´t like the hymn we sang or how we prayed¨. I didn´t understand any of this so I just sat their smiling and then I noticed my comp started to cry. Louisa finally said¨well I liked that song and I like listening to them¨which  I could only understand a little bit. I then  just turned to Louisa and asked her what part of the pamphlet did she like and why and what part didn't she understand. My comp then was able to talk again which then the other old mean lady decided to leave which was perfect for us. The Lord is amazing how he works he brought the spirit in so strong that the lady felt uncomfortable enough to leave. As we were leaving Louisa told us that she can feel a difference when we visit and she likes us a lot. So I am super excited to meet with her again cause I know she will want to come to church and gain a testimony quickly.  Our other investigator  Alex is a a nephew of a member  who´s 13 but so smart and receptive towards everything we shard. I can´t wait for this holiday celebration to be over its like Christmas here, its super pretty though with the red, white and blue everywhere!!  I'm doing great and loving my branch more everyday, we had a great 18th BBQ on Sat. with tons of games like  tug of war (which we pulled so hard at the end and it broke sending us all to the ground), and jump roped and danced the Chilean coyqui( don´t know how to spell sorry) but it was so pretty .Our young women are awesome and have been going on splits with us which is very helpful so that we can spend time with all those that need it!!  We head to a fair ground the morning it was like a big swap meet I loved it except they have to many State clothing and items, not a lot of authentic things.A man came up to me and asked me what part of Brazil I was from.. I was like um what is he saying.  I love torreblanca so much. The only problem here I am not able to have a conversation by myself yet, which stinks or understand everything they say. However. I am trying super hard to talk back as much as possible with out help. The lord has been helping to understand our investigators and members really well which is an answer to my prayers. And the members say they can understand me which is the best compliment ever!!
a great week and I'm ready for another great week.

con amor todos!! Thanks for all the emails it was the best surprise ever!! I´m sad i missed the state fair, but glad you all  had fun!!  the address on my envelope is the correct one.


thanks and correct any spelling errors before you post it on my blog ;)

Keep up the great diet mom!! Love you all

Hermana Burnett

September 12th Letter

Where we live

Mujeres joven

P-day wearing Elder Hewstone's tag

P-day with our area

P-day by the beach

Hola familia,

Ah I completed my first full week and wow I am exhausted everyday which is good right. I finally had my first warm water shower today and ah I loved it so much. Our gas has been retard and not working so I have been taking 3 pitcher of warm water baths . Anyways two of our investistgators have been flaking about attending church and not being home for our lessons so we had to say good bye to them which is sad. We have a new girl though named Fransica she is the one I gave my first BOM too so its been exciting to watch her understand and be excited about the lessons we have been teaching. I am LOVING the food tons here and actually lost 5 lbs but think I will gain it back because I crave their chocolate and bread all the time. They have this drink here called ecco which is coffee with out the caffine and they give it to us all the time especially at night during their late dinner once and its so gross. Um I have been eating some tomatoes and gaucmole you´d be so proud of me mom. The weather has been so crazy here today was super hot and I was sweating so bad and then two days later I am wearing a scarf, longsleeve, jacket and panties(leggings) hahaha and am still cold!! I feel like I am in Utah with this weather. Its really nice here though I love how big the sky is and how the moon comes out at 5:30 every evening and is so solid. In one of the photos I sent is of my cute yellow casa!! One is of the muerjas joven and another of my zone in huasco which is an hour south by the coast and so lovely!! Another picture I sent is with Hermana Idle who is 90 years old who was born,raised,married,widowed in Torreblanca. She is so cute and sweet and has been the only Hermana to as been the only one that has asked me if I like tomatoes or other foods before cooking which is so cool!! I love our muerjas joven they are so solid in their testimonies and all want to serve a mission and they are only 15 years old how amazing!! They have been helping us so much with our investigators lessons and activities, which is awesome cause all investigators need friends. We had an activities of baking state chocolate chip cookies which they all loved.
We had an ingles class of 15 kids and two were horrible which ruined the class time. I felt so useless cause I couldn't really discipline them which one of them needed badly. On Thurs we walked to the other side of vallenar ( which is a valley ) to help out our elders find less active people that need help so that was fun seeing all the elders and the other side of the valley. we have one investigator right now committed to baptism her name is Anita and she is 9yrs old of a less active. She is way smart and has the cutest personality so I am excited to see here be baptized. Did I tell you that Elder Jordan Edwards from the 5th ward is my District LEader. crazy huh!! So P.G. is being represented in Vallenar Chile!! I am loving the city right now, everyone is super excited for their Independence day which is the 18th of this month so the flag is everywhere . Our street is covered with those little flag banners. I was so tired the other night I passed out as I was writing in my diary, I can´t wait for my body to adjust to how my work days are here. We had four investigators attend church yesterday it was amazing . It is Fransica, her amiga Daniela, her cousin Dafne and Fernada. These three girls call us a Tia(aunt) which is so cute. It caught me off gaurd the first time I thought they where saying Tela or Te and then I noticed it more that it was Tia which is fun to hear besides Hermana all the time. Today for P-day we met with the elders and headed to Huasco where he played ulimate frisbee on a sand court and had a small lunch. MacIver keeps telling me that our elders are the golden elders of the mission and I agree so much. They are always making sure that our house is okay the Chileans mentioned we need bars for our windows cause they were nervous for us. Which we don't cause we are living in a richer area.
Sorry its scattered I just have so many thougths and no time so I hope you can understand!!
I love you all tons

Con Amor
Hermana Burnett

September 5th Letter

Janae and me at the MTC

My District at the MTC

Finally in Chile

With my mission president and his wife

With my first companion and the mission president

ALO FAMILIA,
I am OFFICIALLY a MISSIONARY!! My companion is Hermana MacIver from Arizona she has been out for a year this Thursday. I am so glad I was paired with here because she pushes me to speak Spanish all day but allows me at night to speak English. And she will translate during the lessons when I am lost which is very nice. She very bubbly and has a great personality so we are working well together. So wow what a hard, but amazing first week first off I am in Vallenar the southern part of my mission in this town called Torreblanca. This area is on a hill, yep a HILL I am literally climbing straight up roads to get to members, investigators and less actives homes. It is hard but I know that my classroom in the MTC on the 5th floor has prepared me for these hills. The neighborhood I live in is very nice I have a cute 3bed/2 bath little armarillo casa which only us two live in which is way nice. The area is HUGE!!! And we live on the other side of the town so we are running to lessons and at night to make it home at time. Our closes house is 20 mins and thats walking at a pretty good pace. Its all good though case I love the pan, and chocolate here so I dont feel to guilty if I eat to much. :)
President Bruce has us focusing on in actives so we do a lot of visiting teaching and aren´t tracking on doors which is way different then I thought. I love it though I haven´t had people shut the door on my face or yelled at me . This area has poor and middle class homes, their homes are all really close together and all have fences so we have to yell ALO to get them to come to the door. It really weird that we can´t just open the gate and go knock like we would in the states. There are million dogs everywhere and it sad to see the ones that have a nasty disease or that are really skinny. There is one dog in particular that tries to bite at me through the fence and came so close it scared me bad. One bit MacIver skirt the other day that was no bueno.
We work from 11:30am till 10 pm so we aren´t out in the middle of the day in the sun so that is nice. We have what ever for breakfast lately cereal cause we have no time to buy groceries and then for lunch we go to our mamacita a less actives home for food she feeds us tues-fri and does our laundry which is nice. The food here is pretty American they just give us a ton of food and like to put sunny side eggs on top of the food of mashed potato or pasta it was so funny the first time I was given it but then I thought I like eggs and potatoes so why not together. They drink juice all the time and at lesson have their kids go get us glasses of juice which is nice.
I´m doing good I havent freaked out yet but I know its because my companion is gringa which helps a lot. Im running out of time so sorry. You can still do dearelders.com They take just as long as letters though but are free so thats nice. I hope everyone is doing well !! Can´t wait to hear back from you all. I´m glad Mindy and Netta are still close to you I bet thats been fun :) I´m trying to add pictures so meg add them to my blog. thanks and yes mom you were caught thanks for telling the truth :) I trust you just wanted you to be careful.

Con amor

Hermana Burnett

August 27th Letter

Hola Familia,

My last letter from the MTC!!! how exciting!! Your child is headed to Chile, Monday morning bright and early. All I can say about this week is that I have been so so stress yep what a surprise. I have had the worse anxiety about getting ready to leave the MTC . I am feeling a little bit better but it is still in my mind and I am still a little nervous. However with a lot of prayer and faith I know that I will be fine and luckily I am with all my Hermanas so that is nice. Um not to much exciting happened this week. We only had one mock lesson which was really sad cause I prepared really hard for my lessons and then we didn't have any. Um I went to visit the outside world to an opathmalgoist so that was cool . I got to see cars and people in regular clothes, Hermana Butler and I were in shock the whole time it was pretty funny. The doctor said my eye is perfectly fine so that made me feel better. Um thanks so much for my shoes and the bread all the girls loved it. I wasn't able to write yesterday cause we had infield orientation; which is were they prepare us a little more for the outside world and show us how our first time in the field is going to be. Um so yeah I did three full days of total Spanish speaking or making noise and hand gestures to try to create the word and it was good. I feel more confident because I realize I know all the main words to create sentences and such. I memorized the first vision so that was hard but is so nice to know . Hermana Mapa helped me, she is amazing I am so so grateful for her always helping me and her personality and love that she gives me. We hosted again on Wed which was nice not too many girls came but It was nice to be outside and talk with the sisters in other districts. On Martes I was able to play vball with our second new district , it was legit. I was hitting hecka hard and digging all over it was the best game ever. We tried it again miercoles but that wasn't as successful. However i am super glad to have had that one game. We didn't have any general authority speak however we had tons of great devotionals which the last one was on success and how it come from ourselves. What ever we put into life is what life will give us. It is up to me to concord the challenges I receive our to stop and let them effect me. I learned a lot about the kind of missionary I want to be in the field. I want to be the most optimistic and the missionary that everyone in the ward can count on. I am grateful for all that I learned here and can't wait to take it to chile with me. Don't send any more dearelders or mail to the mtc cause I will not receive everything closes at 2 here how lame huh. I sent 4 boxes to the post mart at 2250n. Uni av. Provo. So they will be calling you Mommy,to pick them up for free after 2 business days it cost 2 for each box so dont forget. Two are under Mrs. Burnett cause Butler filled them out :)

Con Amor

Hermana Burnett

p.s. Ill probably call you both while in lax cause we have more time but maybe one in slc wont know till there!! So be prepared. I'll call the home for you dad i hope that is what you wanted. I have 500 mins so if you need to switch to your cell thats fine too :)

August 19th Letter

Hola familia,

So to start my p-day off I got something in my eye  last night after washing my face and my  eye was still red in the morning so i headed to the doctor and she couldnt get the thing out so we got to leave the mtc to the outside world and visit a doctor who told me that my cornea is scratch . He gave me some medicine to stop me from blinking but after a while it was making it worse so now I am wearing an eye patch. Yep I look like a real pirate, so hopefully it will be better by the 29 which is the day we head to the airport!! we leave here at 6 our flight is at 9:40am to LAX and then to Santiago  we arrive at 6:35 am and then another flight to Antofagasta. Yep a way long flight. Luckily our whole district is on the same flight. :)  Um so something new for this week is we got to host on Weds. and welcomed alll the new Sister missionaries it was super nice cause we got out of class and the same old routine.  Our district has been doing well with speaking spanish during and class and through out the day so that makes it more easy for me to have the desire. We got to new mock investigators and Juan and Arnold and they both feel so real to me. I wanted to buy a card for Juan yesterday thinking it would help him feel better  because our lesson went so well. I think with us being so close to leaving is a reason they feel real. Hermana Butler got me to sing in choir this week and I did. the main  reason i didn't want too is because they do close ups of choir and I didn't want to be on tv. Nope that plan didn't work because after the fireside everyone was like hey say you on the tv Hermana Burnett. Yeah no bueno. Im doing good here trying to endure to the end with spanish and patience and love for everyone.
 Ah great story from the fireside was about an Elder Kim was in Japan and didnt know the language very well even though he was Japnaese desedent, everyone always thought he could speak so they turn to him first. He was struggling hard and kept pushing through  his mission. towards the end he was called the zone leader and receive the promise of one more baptism before the end of his mission. He finishes he mission with no baptism and is very sad when exits the plane. the elder came from a home with active member and non member father. As he was unpacking his items he had his journal on top and his father saw the way he was admiring the journal. The dad walked and and said" son what do I have to do for you to baptism me still as a missionary". the elder then baptized his father a week later. Crazy huh how god keeps his promises and works in mysteries ways.

shoes mom??? anything I leave in 10 DAYS~!!! AND REALLY COULD USE THEM.  oh and my csun sweatshirt:) thanks  i'll be sending a package home with my temple clothes and thinggs that are too heavy.

sorry if this is weird i typed it with one eye literally!!

love you all

Hermana Burnett

August 11th Letter

HOLA FAMILIA,

 So this week has been up and down and all over the place, I think one reason is because one of our districts left our zone and they were all super nice to me and made the MTC more fun. Anyways, The devotionals were good this week one was really short and was just getting to the highlights about being a good example and then ended 15 mins early everyone was surprised, no worries though the prayer made up for it it was 15 mins no lie.  Domingo was nice so many of the oldest district shared their testimonies and even a few got teary eyed. I love how the spirit here allows the Elders to show their real feelings. That evening I shared with Hermana Butler about our family and she feels now that she understands me better so that is good. Hermano Vergdugo shared with us the importance of listening to the Spirit and had us watch a clip by Bedner which was amazing. He said that we need to stop worrying about spirit  in our lessons, that if we keep the commandments and our obedient and do all the things the Lord ask of us then the spirit will always be there. I believe that to be sooooo true when I just do my part for lessons, talks or service the spirit always finds it way in to my words and everything goes well.  I asked Hermana Butler if we could only play one song on the piano and then go look for Janae cause she arrived this wed. She said okay and as we were looking for a piano they were all taken so we head outside and guess who I see right outside the doors ? Sister Mortensen!!! How crazy is that I screamed so LOUD no joke !! It was so nice to see some one that you have known forever!! I'm so glad that happen cause I have seen her since. Its all about being obedient!!
 We didn't have to move this week lucky us and hopefully not till we leave.  Um that is about all the exciting new spanish is my new language so I try to think of the word first and sometimes look dumb trying to find the word but it is what I need to do caue I am out of here in 2 weeks crazy huh!! Time is flying by soooooo fast. Probably not for you haha sorry. I 'm having fun though :)

Love you and sorry short but nothing exciting I promise and plus you each get a letter too!!

Con Amor

Hermana Burnett

August 11th Letter

HOLA FAMILIA,

 So this week has been up and down and all over the place, I think one reason is because one of our districts left our zone and they were all super nice to me and made the MTC more fun. Anyways, The devotionals were good this week one was really short and was just getting to the highlights about being a good example and then ended 15 mins early everyone was surprised, no worries though the prayer made up for it it was 15 mins no lie.  Domingo was nice so many of the oldest district shared their testimonies and even a few got teary eyed. I love how the spirit here allows the Elders to show their real feelings. That evening I shared with Hermana Butler about our family and she feels now that she understands me better so that is good. Hermano Vergdugo shared with us the importance of listening to the Spirit and had us watch a clip by Bedner which was amazing. He said that we need to stop worrying about spirit  in our lessons, that if we keep the commandments and our obedient and do all the things the Lord ask of us then the spirit will always be there. I believe that to be sooooo true when I just do my part for lessons, talks or service the spirit always finds it way in to my words and everything goes well.  I asked Hermana Butler if we could only play one song on the piano and then go look for Janae cause she arrived this wed. She said okay and as we were looking for a piano they were all taken so we head outside and guess who I see right outside the doors ? Sister Mortensen!!! How crazy is that I screamed so LOUD no joke !! It was so nice to see some one that you have known forever!! I'm so glad that happen cause I have seen her since. Its all about being obedient!!
 We didn't have to move this week lucky us and hopefully not till we leave.  Um that is about all the exciting new spanish is my new language so I try to think of the word first and sometimes look dumb trying to find the word but it is what I need to do caue I am out of here in 2 weeks crazy huh!! Time is flying by soooooo fast. Probably not for you haha sorry. I 'm having fun though :)

Love you and sorry short but nothing exciting I promise and plus you each get a letter too!!

Con Amor

Hermana Burnett

August 6th Letter

Hola familia!!!

Como le va? I'm doing great here and miss you all tons!! This week we had two great devotionals on Charity and Faith. I learned so much from the charity one by  Bro. Swensen, he told us it is so important to have charity the whole time of our mission and that if i ask for charity then I will receive it . Another quote he gave was  " God focus  his love on every little thing we do because it matters to us, so it matters to him" how true is that. Its the same concept of you mom and dad loving every little accomplish that I have had in my life.  Bro. Swensen also mentioned that " There is no limit on God's love, therefore there should be no limit on our love" how neat and forward it that quote. The last quote that I enjoyed from him states" Charity is a commandment" "Don't hold back love, you can NEVER run out of LOVE.!! This speaker was really good. The speaker on Tuesday was  Elder Lund which both of these our retired seventies.  Elder Lund talked about faith and how its a process not an event . He showed pictures and shared with us how we all have different types of gates blocking our hearts and as missionaries we will run into all these different investigators with their hearts blocked. We need to have faith that we can get them to open their hearts unto us or even allow us just to be their friend. As missionaries we are heart surgeons and we need to learn how to soften people's heart. Which I believe us Hermanas can do better :)
So every Sunday we have to prepare a 3-5 min talk and this week I did just like I have been, except for this week I didn't feel really confident in it. However my Branch President Larson didn't agree he decided to call three speakers this week which is one more then usual and I happened to be the bonus speaker. Yeah me and speaking in sacrament still is no good. My farewell is the only talk in which i was confident and not shaking the whole time. Anyways I got and did the best I could and spoke about the Espiritu Santo and how it has blessed my life.  That evening I got all the Battlecreek missionaries and took pictures so i will be sending that home soon. So this Monday my vball district left to Mexico which is super sad and our oldest district is leaving this Monday which is sad also because I have become close  friends with them all. :( We had a little district family home evening playing this game called signs with BOM heroes which was fun and relaxing. We moved Tuesday morning down to the second floor and it was a lot easier this time cause Hermana Low went and asked some elders to help, so when I opened the door I saw 10 elders waiting to help which was super nice. The elders here a funny 19 years old guys but can be such gentlemen so many of them run to open the doors for us or stick their arm out and wait for us even if were still far behind them.   I went to the dentist  because my gum was purple and I was worried it was bad but he said food probably just got  in the cut and started to react to it.  Um I received a nice package from the pattons full of cookies and brownies and then you mom and  my whole district was so jealous. Mail here is a contest daily we all get jealous when some get a package. Mom I need grandpa berry  and lisa's address and check my account I used my credit card for something and did you here about my shoes?

Love you all thanks for the emails and letters

Con amor

Hermana Burnett

July 29 Letter

Hola Familia,

Como le va? So last Friday night me and Hermana Butler were called to the front desk and they told us we had to move again. yep that's right number two!!! So we loaded up that night and moved to the fourth of our building and the next day sat and unpacked for an hour. ah no fun. This week has been pretty great I loved our devotional one about pioneers and how we are all pioneers with our missions and other one was about the holy ghost. I realize i don't ever give thanks to Heavenly Father so I have been doing that lately. another devotional we had was about us magnifying who we are and becoming the best missionary ever. Stephen Allen director here in the MTC gave it. It was so neat he had tons of video clips and pictures he used during his talk. Very nice.

I ran into Elder Holmes the first day he got here and Elder Burke its been so fun running into Elder Burke all over. Um we went to the temple today for the first time, It was so pretty and relaxing and so nice to see our zone of elders all dressed in white. Sister Jolley our counselors wife let me give her money for some abreva that she snuck in for me so nice. It has helped but i still have a cold sore. I meet the cutest french Canadian redhead the other . I love it here I meet some many different people from all over the world. The elders I play volleyball with our leaving Monday, I am super sad I hope someone else will want to play with me. We got a new district in our zone so this will be fun to meet some new people. Did I mention our first day here we didn't know where to sit so we sat with elders from Russia. Come to find out everyone sits with there district at a certain table and act weird when you aren't in their district and you sit by them. So after two days of getting weird looks we now sit with our district and zone. I have had some hard days and its weird how it will come out of no where that's when I have to tell myself to have a good day from here on. My companion and i have had a few good mock lessons lately so were slowly getting better. It has finally hit me that i am with someone all day 24/7. yeah not so bueno all the time.

So this morning we got back to our house and find a note saying we have to move again. Yep that's right we get to move Tuesday the 4th. No reason, ah yeah I'm so annoyed don't they know how hard it is to move and unpack all our stuff and hang pictures. luckily it is the same building back down to the second floor. Two elders in our district have been sick and then Hermana Low and Mapa got sick and Butler got the sneezes luckily not me.

Um yes there should be a 2 dollar charge I used my card the other day. Can you mail me Lisa and Grandpa Berry address. Can you use my phone to contact Helen Tisserand and get her address. That is so exciting about Whitney tell her congrats. And yes that is were JaNae is going. Can you make sure that through dearelder that you do the print off not the email one so i get them daily. I'm glad Roland like my letter and no I have heard from them. Dad did you get my letters and the health paper filled out okay? Mom can you find me some cute shirts that are round necked and have a sleeve on them they don't like the tshirts from down east they say the shoulder isn't covered enough. And will you just read order the shoes in 11.5 m and I'll stretch them. I'm sorry you are sick take your vitamins daily and exercise. ..

Yo Amo ustedes, agradedcias por la cerro.

Hermana Burnett

July 22 Letter

Hola Familia,

 

So sorry about last week I accidentally deleted all that I type so don't think I was writing anyone except for you!! I have had a very spiritual week our teachers friend came in Jacob Reis he works here in the MTC and he gave us two really nice spiritual thoughts on the purpose of being here and how every object in the world can be connected back to a principle of the gospel. The temple has been closed for cleaning so we finally get to go in this week I'm super excited . None of our district has been so it will be really great experience for us all.  We had a great fireside on Sunday from President Sonne and his wife they were so cute and pushed us all to make goals in different areas so that we can greater success!!  We had our last temple walk with all our district Elders Lund and Stout  left Tuesday to Guatemala so now there is only ten of us which is nice in the classroom cause it is so tiny in there. Did I tell you that we have service every Wed at 6:15 which is nice, I like cause I get to be alone for awhile and gather my thoughts and give back to the MTC. Having a companeria around 24/7 is a little tiring after awhile.

   We had a great partner up activity where we asked a deep question that we have and the other person prays and searches for it which Elder Patterson was mine. He is so deep into the gospel and so knowledgeable I was glad to have him find my answer in 2 Nephi 26.  On Tuesday we have devotionals President  Melvin Hammond and his wife he from the seventy. They were president in the Bolivia Mission and so they had to learn Spanish and it was crazy how strong there  testimony was about the Book of Mormon. they still read it today together in Spanish and they are way older. It makes me realize that I can do this I am only 23  and this learning a new language should be easy I mean its Spanish not taglag like Katie. My mock lessons we do are good some days and not so good others but I can feel myself growing and changing each time. Its weird how I think in Spanish first sometimes and spell a lot in Spanish . My English is starting to leave which is good.  I started reading the books that Campbells giving me . I started with Our search for Happiness by Russell Ballard, It is so good and detailed and just straight forward I think you all should read it.  Yesterday was a wonderful day My personal study time was so peaceful and focused and my language study time went great. We decided to make a game called translator ed where we whisper to a person in ingles and they translated to the other person in espanol of course. I like because it keeps me on my toe and have think how to say it and then listen to what they are saying in detail.  I LOVE IT.

   Um so how is home? How is everything? Yes I did  receive your packages and dear elder thanks much the chocolate is way good the shoes where kind of small but I gave them to Hermana Mapa so she says thanks. Mom I have told you my companeria is Hermana Butler from Firth Idaho. She is 21 a student at Byu Idaho. She is one of eight children and is very closed in with her emotions so I try to help here express her feelings through our companion inventory. I have told you all how much food is here it is crazy it  is a buffet I hope that I'm not gaining weight. Um  I saw Elder Craig Holmes and Jordan Burke. Its crazy seeing people from home here. I also saw Brock Twiggs a few weeks ago that was weird too.

 

Love you all!!

 

Talk to you soon

 

Hermana Burnett!!!

July 2nd Letter

Mom and Dad,

Ah it is soooooo weird that I am here in the MTC but everything is going pretty good. I love my companion Hermana Butler she is very independent and sweet, but kind of a strict about some little rules. I'm sharing the room with two other sisters serving in our same mission Hermanas Low and Mapa and they both are way down to earth and easy going so that is nice. I have so many different feeling all day . I feel good, stress, upset, happy, and overwhelmed all in one day. The first day was crazy I felt like cattle being pushing into every direction not knowing was going to happen around each corner. I love my district 42 D we have three set of elders serving in the Santiago Chile Mission and one set serving in Guatemala. I haven't really cried hard yet, just a few tears here in there. I really still don't think that it has hit me yet that I am going to be gone for a long time. I ran into a MTC worker today that said he served in our same mission and that it super hard and hot and he went through three pairs of shoes. ah scary. We have Spanish class every day for two block periods of six hours and it is none stop Spanish from the teacher no ingles. Its hard at time but will have its moments of easy

I know that I'm doing the right thing and that everything will get easier once I get the same routine down. Everyday here so far has been different besides waking up at 6:30 which isnt to bad. I love you all so much and wish you the happiest 4th of July ever!!!

email me at dearelder.com web page because they print the emails of everyday so I can get some mail daily and that way I can prepare what I'm going to write when my Preparation days come. next week it will be Friday when I get to email back but I only have 30 mins.

Love you all very much

Adios

Hermana Burnett

P.S. sorry if this doesnt make sense typing all the great and hard things that happen here in less then 30 mins is super hard.

Last Supper... er- breakfast

Today Tela went out for one last big breakfast at Village Inn in Provo. A lot of her family and a few of her friends came to have one more meal with her and visit before she left. After breakfast we all went over to Amanda and Bryce's condo to chat a little longer before Tela reported to the MTC at 12:45pm. It was a teary and bitter sweet good bye. We know she'll do great and can't wait to hear updates from her over the next 18 months!

Grandma, Tela, and Grandpa

The Family

Tela, Megan, Janae at breakfast

Lunch Dates

Two great days in a row of lunch dates with old friends. My friend Hailey (Jeppson) Allsup who I played volleyball with for many years has been married for two years now and is pregnant with a boy . She is sweet, nice and so cute with her little prego belly. It was great to meet up with her again and talk about old teammates and friends.

The next day I meet up with Chelsie (Thurgood) McCage who is an old ward friend. We grew up as beehives together with her mom as our leader, it was so much fun. She was such a great leader and example to me.  We were the only two girls in our Sunday school class till we became juniors, so we had tons of crush on all the boys our age and older. She has been married for three years and just barely had a baby girl named Brylie 5 week it ago. Ah, it was so much fun to hold her Brylie she is so small and had a cute chubby face and tons of hair with a big bow. It was a great two days to meet up with old friends that are still so sweet, kind and fun as they were in high school and I’m so glad to know them both.

Singing in the Rain

Megan and I went to support my lovely BFC Danielle and her friend A.J. in the play Singing in the Rain. It was the first time either of us had seen this story line so it fun to watch people you know perform in it. They both did a wonderful job dancing and singing the night away.

Way to go Danny and A.J. 

Imagination

Coldwater Creek

Today started off great JaNae and I went to the Mt. Timpanogos Temple to do work which was our first time, making it a great experience. Later that day JaNae invited Megan and I to head up to Park City outlets to do some missionary clothes shopping with here two Aunts.  The first store we all three purchased cute items from was the Coldwater Creek store which is made primarily for older women aka moms and grandmas. It was funny to be in the store with so many older women, as we were trying on outfits for ourselves and liking them. We then departed from her aunts heading into younger stores like Rue 21 and Vans store to make us all feel young I guess. 

Manti Pageant

Megan and Danielle

Megan and I were able to attend the Manti Pageant for the first time this year with the whole YSA Stakes. We drove down with my Uncle Zane who is a new YSA Bishop and his family which made the road trip fun. We had an outside turkey dinner while it rained on us, but luckily it stopped before the pageant started.  As we were waiting for it to start I asked Megan to spray me with bug repellant in which she accidently squirted it my eyes. It burned so bad I had no idea it was possible to get in your eyes when have your eyes shut. The good thing about her spraying my face was that I had no bug bites on my face.  The Manti Temple is the background drop for pageant and it is gorgeous, I was so surprised by how big and tall it was up on the hill. The pageant was .very well done, a little cheesy here and there; however it was worth the drive

Donut Falls

Me, JaNae, and Megan

JaNae, Megan, and I decided to head up Cottonwood Mountain to do some hiking with the beautiful weather that Utah was finally getting. So we get up there all pumped up to go hiking, dressed in basketball shorts, t-shirts and sunscreen when we notice a mile into the hike that there is tons of SNOW on the ground. How is this possible it is mid JUNE and half of the mountain is covered in snow? Luckily it was warm weather while we hiked, the hike was fun we were slipping, sliding, and getting our legs knee deep in certain areas of snow. We were lost for a while but finally found our way to the fall which was pretty hidden. We ended the day with a stop at the Frozen Yogurt place which was a great way to end this exciting journey with two great friends.

Work=Fun

Work has been going GREAT within the last two weeks I have gone swimming, had two BBQ, played Just Dance, Sorry, Uno and watched many movies in the classroom and at the Scera. The students are done with school so I won't be working with them anymore, but the adults are still here so I will be with them which is still fun.