July 18, 2011

Hello my wonderful family! 
So this week was a very full week haha! We had a great week working in Pawtucket R.I. To Start of this week we had a leadership training meeting in Boston that Elder Slack and I had to go to. And not only that we had to give a training. ( I may have mentioned that last week) But we went and our training went really really well. It was enough to keep the Missionaries attention, Fun, and very spiritual as well. Not going to lie the other trainings were just normal boring haha I felt the spirit but I was falling asleep. We also had a Zone Meeting this week so it was a very meeting filled week. Haha I'm not a huge meeting fan but.... they were good though so can't complain. Elder Slack and I also worked real hard this week to teach everyone. I've never had it in my mission where we actually have to decided who to go teach and who to get later. We found 10 more new investigators this week which puts us at 19 in 2 weeks. Very unheard of in this area. The lord is sure blessing us with some success. We have 5 baptismal dates marked now we just have to try to get them to come to church. I'm having a lot of fun out here.
We had a good talk in church yesterday that I had some very interesting thoughts about... Its about Establishing patterns of Righteousness with our families. He talked about making sure we have good traditions in our homes. ( I thought about the Littlest Angel) This traditions help us to be a better family and to mimic the pattern that Heavenly Father has set up for us from the Pre-Earth Life. We need to establish Do's and Don'ts for our families. Some Do's could/should include always watch General Conference and to God's anointed, Read the Scriptures daily, pray, FHE ect. I know that as you do this things in life you ARE HAPPIER haha amazing concept huh. Who doesn't like to be happy. Deep down everyone in the world is looking for that inner joy. This is the way to taste of the fullness of joy promised to us by God. Some Don'ts are never use drugs (drinking, smoking, pills) the effect of these drugs, I have seen first hand kill any particle of happiness we obtain in this life. Another is Pornography. These should be the things on the list that if followed will bring you happiness. I can't wait to apply these things that I have learned so that my future family can be happy.
Oh and I have a member who is coming to Utah today and for the next couple days. He asked if I need/want anything for you guys and I said maybe he could swing by and pick up my baseball mit (the black one) so I'm going to give him our address and number so he can call within the next couple days to swing by okay? let me know
Other then that my week was great and the mission is going way way way to fast. I love what I do and I love you all

Elder Burton