Dear
Mom and _________,
I'm not even sure
where to begin! Life is more normal now that there are just the two of us and
we are only working in Sonoma, and we met some pretty cool people last week!
One cool thing that happened is that we had a little bit of extra time before
we were supposed to go back to our apartment last Tuesday, but there wasn't
enough time to go show up on someone's doorstep and teach, so we decided to go
to the Plaza to see if anyone was out so we could talk to people. There weren't
many people there anyway and all of the people we talked to were in English and
nobody really seemed to care about who we were so we were about to get in the
car to go back when we decided to walk around one last time before heading
home. So we did, and we found one more person! And she spoke Spanish! We had a
really great conversation with her and her friend and she told us where she
lived so we could come over and share our message with her in the daytime. We
taught her a few times last week and they were great lessons, and the Spirit
was especially strong in the last one! When we asked her if she would pray to
know if Joseph Smith was a prophet, she said that she didn't need to because
she could "feel it in her heart" already that he was. She is a really
sweet woman. She was going to come to church on Sunday, but something happened I guess because there was no answer at
the door on Sunday when we stopped by. We haven't been able to get in touch with
her since, but we're going to keep trying this week. I don't know what is going
to happen, but I do know that she has felt the Spirit and that she knows it's
true. Maybe we will be the ones to find her again or maybe Heavenly Father has
a different plan, but things will work out.
Another cool thing
happened yesterday when we went to see if her friend was home. We realized when
we were trying to look up his address that we had records of a bunch of other
people living there and we weren't sure which number was his. We decided to go
check it out anyway, even though we knew that we weren't going to be able to
see him because we didn't know which number he was in, but we decided to see if
we could find at least find the address. We parked up a street close to where
it would be and as we were getting out of the car, my companion looked at me
and said something like, "So pretty much we're here to walk to the
apartment, look at it, and then leave?" I realized that it didn't sound
like such a great plan when I heard it that way, but we decided to go check it
out anyway. We found the address number and kept walking a little past to see
if we could figure out how far down it went, when something moved in the shadow
of the garage and a man stepped out. He was still in the shadow and we couldn't
see him well, so we asked if he knew which door the man that we were looking
for lived in, and it turns out that he was the one we were looking for! He had
lost his other phone with our phone number in it, so we gave him our number
again and set up a return appointment for tomorrow! I don't know that we would have found him and where he lived
had we not gotten out of the car to go look at the apartment, even though it
seemed a little ridiculous to both of us at the time.
Also, the reason why I
am emailing today is because Elder James Hamula came to our mission and spoke
to us on
Monday. It was great! I
definitely felt the Spirit testify as he spoke and I know the things he
addressed to us came from our Heavenly Father. He spoke in General Conference
in October 2008 (it's called "Winning the War against Evil") and he
mentioned many similar things to us. Check out that talk when you have a
moment, it is pretty powerful. Well, I love you all bunches and I hope you have
a great week!
~Hermana Burton
Pictures!
My favorite person from Spain, gigantic husky,
me and my companion,
and the tiny house!
and the tiny house!
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