Wednesday, December 29, 2010

12-29-2010

well flip its i miss you guys. it was fun to talk to you and get to see you. so just recently ive takin up tennis we have a member in our ward who is a pro and he is showing us how to play and some techniques and stuff. and its a two birds with one stone ituation because it just so happens that he is a less active member so he is come to church more and we are becoming pro tennis players. pretty dang exciting. well we went on our usual door knocking rampage yesterday and we were in a more gheto part of town and pretty much no one spoke english so i worked on my portugese/spanish it was horrible bu i thinik some people gothe idea. so im still working on the book of mormon im in alma chapter 27 this is probably my favorite part of alma its so cool to see these people that ammon and alma amulek are teaching and they accept the gospel but the cool part is that they make a firm resolve to live the gosepel. Im finding that as a missionanary how important it is to teach the gospel but even more that its important to continuew to learn and study. i fifnd so many times when something i read applies directly to the situation of a person we are teaching that day its cool and fun.

Wow mom R.S. counselor pretty legit. you will be great who is the R.S. pres? Im glad you said I will. like dad says the lord qualifies those he calls. it will be cool. well we are just getting ready for the new year and making goals and stuff. for new years day morning we are going over to a members house who promissed to make us waffles so im pretty excited. well not to much else to report. thanks for putting the money on my card i will send you my camera card in just a bit.

as far as the old gang the only peple i stay in steady contact with is eric jamie ayris and im writing carrisa lamb from utah and thats pretty much it.

love and miss ya
Elder Burbidge

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

12-22-2010

Hey I just sent the christmas present to boston i got him a pretty swell toy thing its pretty cool my companion had one and we had a lot of fun with it.
well on saterday im gonna call you from our cell phone (---)--- ---- . did dad talk to elder workman when he called the office i guess we will have to find our about the skype thing. so we just had an addition of 4 new investigators this last week and 2 of them are dying to get baptized its pretty cool the other ones are gonna take alittle work but it will be good im excited to have so many people to teach. well we havent got the packages yet but we are gonna open them all at the carsons house with them i love them they are so cool brother carson offered me a little bit of a job after the mission if i wanted to come back. they also said that they want to come and visit they washington casa. well i well talk to you on saterday im pretty dang excited.

love elder Burbidge

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Burbidge family wrote:

Hey Jesse Wayne!
How are you?
Plz tell us how we get to contact each other. Dad called the mission office and the Bro. there said we could skype each other ????? Make sure that's ok with the Pres. (except we don't want to do it if it's gonna mess you up....)
Did you get any of your packages yet?? Hope so!!!
I'm wondering if you're okay, but I know you are. I feel at Peace every time I pray for you and hope you feel that as well.
We've really been having fun skypeing the kids. We've only seen Nin once, but Sis & Tone's families almost every day.
Dad's been having Dave Coughlin come over and work on our computer a few times ~ more ram and clearing off a bunch of junk we don't need!
Dad's loving being the gospel doctorine teacher.
Well, hope to hear from you in a minute or two.
I love you tons!!!!!!!!!
Love Eternally,
~Mom~

Thursday, December 2, 2010

December 2, 2010

wow sorry its been a while. I'm trying to stay on top of everything it hard sometimes. we just moved to our new apartment 6730 riverton ave #231
North Hollywood CA
91606

it was pretty crazy you wouldnt beleive how much missionaries leave behind and how much accumulates after 12 years we threw alot away...

I missed home alot on thanksgiving. However we did have alot of fun. i dont know if you remember me talking about the Greslie family but he is an less active member with a nonmember spouse. kind of an awnry old coot but he has grown to be like my uncle he is really cool he served in Vietnam and was there for a 2 years. you can tell its a memory he keeps kinda close. but any ways when i first got to the Big CA he was someone we picked out to try and get to come back to church. when we first met him he came off as kind of a mean ol cuss but we decided that we would go back anyways and maybe do some work. he didnt want to hear what the missionaries had to say so we went over there with our work clothes on and he was just out working in the yard and so we got there and just hit the dirt right beside him and we just without words started pulling weeds and diggin and so every thursday since we have gone back and done service for him and now we have been teaching him the lessons so we hope to see him at church. but he and his wife invited us over for thanksgiving and it was really good but interesting. Sister greslie is his second marriage so she has a family of her own and they were the ones that came for thanksgiving as well. sister greslies oldest son is gay and he came with his husband so we were a little nervous but it ended up being pretty fun. they tried to make us squirm but we would either brush it off or just go to a different room when things got weird. but it was alot of fun they really made us feel like family. and since the elders were coming to dinner they all drank nonacholic drinks even non alcholic beer so that was nice. it was a good sober holiday and we got to talk to alot of people.

well dad i just got your letter and you asked about training. I definitely love having a Go-fer boy instead of being the go-fer. its alot of fun. elder jensen and me get along real good. he is pretty redneck so we have lots of hilbilly fun. somtimes ive got to real him in a little but its fun. he has got at home a 46 chevy truck and right now its under major revamp he has got the cab and bed on a 1998 dodge chassis with a 12 valve cummins diesl so it gonna be pretty cool. before that he had it all original with the straight stove bolt six completely cast iron power plant. we have fun talking about cars and motorcycles and the gospel. as far as training goes im working on being better everyday i think thats what magnifying your calling is all about.

well on the 13 is transfers so there is a good chance that i will be leaving. I been here in north hollywood for the whole time ive been our my only other area is Barroso forteleza. so i will keep you posted but we will see. I do love the people here in noth hollywood I know just about everybody in the church including the less active members. so i kind of dont want to leave but at the same time man i hate the city i hate driving in the city it flippin sucks. but im happy dispit the stressful situations that present themselves. its fun to talk about home and people are like whats the population! or how many miles away is the nearest walmart? so i still have lots of fun with people.

right now we are putting together this really awesome fireside for families and our teaching pool. its The plan of salvation but interactive style its gonna be awesome. its starts out with everybody sitting in a plane(the over flow) and then the lights go out and we explain that everybody just died then from there we take them through a tour of " The other side" its gonna be really cool. I will have to send you an outline its awesome.

well this isnt even our regular email day but we got special permission because we have been moving and stuff. so sorry to throw everthing out of whack but thats just how it goes.

thanks for sending the money dad i needed to buy a new tube for my new bike the tire went flat but i think i need to get new tires these ones are paper thin and maybe for christmas you guys could send some of those tire liners. just an idea.

thanks for all the help you give me mom and dad im having a life changing experience out here. thanks for your prayers i feel them every day and they help more than you know.

Love Elder Burbidge

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010

From: jesse.burbidge@myldsmail.net
To: nicoleyskeem@live.com

flip i really just want some good ol rain storm days and weeks. I cant wait to see oklahoma im excited to come visit. we just had our stake conference as well and our mission president came and spoke andit was really good. it was sad that none of our investigators made it to conference but it was really good about missionary work and new members and about families.

so north hollywood is my only area on my mission and i have been here for ever its not a bad thing i might be ready for a little change but i have really come to know and love the members in the ward and they have helped me alot and i hope that i am helping them. for thanksgiving we are eating at a less active members house. its pretty cool because he hasnt been to church in over 40years and his wife isnt a member. but one day we just decided to go meet him and he let us come in and share a spiritual thought but as far as learning the missionary lessons with his wife we didnt want us to make the coming over and visiting a regular thing but one day we decided to put on our service clothes and just show up. and when we got there he was out working in the yard and so we just went and worked right beside him. it was cool and we have met every thursday since so he is making alot of proggress. and he and his wife jsut invited us to thanksgiving but she has a son named rick and he is gay and married to a man named rick so anyways she asked me if it was alright with us if they were there and i said that it was alright with us but that she would probably want to ask them if it they were ok with us being there. with the whole prop 8 deal. so then she said well if so they dont need to come. i felt kinda bad that she would pick us over her only son but, we have gotten really close over the past months.

well sis i love you and miss you and love to here about your new adventures.

love elder burbidge