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Sunday, August 29, 2010

August, 24, 2010

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Hello,

so sorry about not writting yesterday we drove down to new bedford for Elder Ataide to say goodbye to the members and investigators down there so we didn't have time to do anything at all yesterday it was crazy!! And it has been like raining ish here for the past three days its so pretty I love it here!! I just barely cut my hair for the first time out here yesterday haha it was an experience because of course im not going to spend money to have people cut my hair so elder ataide gave me his clippers he bought because he can't use them in brasil after his mission so I got a nice clipper set!! But I definatly need Madi to come out and cut my hair because well lets hope I get better at it hahaha! This week was good alot of talkin to people and we taught about 16 lessons which is really good for Mass. But yeah thank you for the package and everything it was nice I came home to it from new bedford last night so that was nice thank you!! I hope amanda has her baby soon Im sick of waiting haha!!! What is really cool about the area I am in is there are alot of Portugues and Spanish so I am starting to understand both really well!! I can't speak either of them real well yet ( more portugues then spanish) I can't speak spanish to save my life haha I just try speakin portugues to them and they have no idea what I am saying but its really cool 2 languages!! Oh and a story from this week so Im sitting at home during our weekly planning when this guy calls and Elder Ataide called him earlier because he called the mission office and wanted to know more about the church which is cool so he was just calling us back and elder ataide told me to just answer it and set up and appointment so I answered and told him who i was asked who he was and everything.. we finally got down into it when he said he wants nothing to do with the church he just wants to find out more about it which i told him was fine.. so he asked his first question which was if joseph smith translated the b.o.m from gold plates then where are the gold plates today. And I answered the question really well which was really cool because I didn't quite know what the right answer was or so I though. But then he went off and like a billion different question and before I knew it I had talked on the phone with him for an hour and a half it was crazy so I tried to set up an appointment so I could have a companion helping me but he didn't want to, he said he'd just call us tomorrow. so he called then next day and he finds all his information online which sucks because there is so much anti stuff online that I have to explain everything to him so he was then trying to prove the book of mormon wrong and everything which was starting to bug me haha but yeah so now im in the huge over the phone lesson stuff with this guy who wont meet with us but wants to know more about the gospel and its hard haha he asked the most irrelivant questions ever so its rough but its makes me really find out all the answers that i will have to sooner or later haha so its a good experience i guess but yeah that was one weird thing that happend this week. The mission scripture i want is i guess uh... mosiah 28 1-3 or atleast 3 but other then that my week was good. met some good potential investigators and yeah! I only have 2 weeks left with Ataide then I get a new companion which is pretty cool but i'll probably stay in framingham for like 3 more months im betting but its awesome and the members are amazingly strong here I love it!! but thank you for the letters sorry im trying to write back but its really hard because were always so busy and this P day was insain haha so i'll write back i promise thank you love you all!!

Elder Burton

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