7-18-2011

well family here comes an early email i hope it finds you well. I miss you.

This week has been number one... we just had a baptism and a marriage it was so cool the marriage actually came before the baptism. these next two weekends we have baptisms the work is just on fire here im loving it. two of the baptisms and the marriage are completing a broken family it feels good to be able to serve these people... its so cool they are already setting the goal for the temple...

Friday we had district meeting. we set some noble district goals. we are really focusing in the misssion on becomeing better missionaries that go and do. its been fun to aid in the raly of the troops. i shared some of my favorite qoutes from apostles through out the years and i shared Alme 36 22-26. I love thos chapters where alma is giving his sons council. the verses i shared i felt were a noble testimony from a returned missionary to his son. I then told them that we are on missions to aid in the work of the lord witch is to bring to pass the immotatlity and eternal life of man. I promised them if the would give their lives to christ that they would find them just as jesus himself promised. I felt the spirit and im sure that those present did as well.

man the otherday we were biking up shangri la a notoriously steep long hill in our area and as my legs of thunder were pumping up this hill much like the pistons on a ferrari my chain snaped in half. just blew up. i was sad especially because of the age of said chain it shouldnt be breaking not with the miticulous mantinece performed on it so i took it to the bike shop and the guy is so nice this makes the 5th time i have brought my bike into him with questions and free of charge he just ups and fixes it and showes me what to do as well. gotta love it.

well today this email is early because the family carson is coming from the valley/noorth hollywood to treat me and my companion to a wonderfly fun filled day. I hope all is well for you i just got an email from tone it was good to hear from him. well if you get the chance takes some wilderness pics for me so i can see the good ol washington landscape... and home and the dog and you guys..

welll i must be off but I love you guys and miss you much.

HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!!

7-11-2011

Thanks a Billion for the Cookies they are soo good i have to hide them from the rest of my apartment. I am sharing you need not worry... Im actually sick of sharing now that you bring it up well with missionaries that is. My new saying around the apartment is if you give a missionary a cookie he will probably want everything you own to go with it.

I sent tone a letter a few days ago I remembered it was his birthday and sent a letter with some pics up there....

It sounds like party days with sis and the kids Im glad you guys get to have so much fun. weve had an influx of new investigators this week and it feels good especialy in the heat its nice to have little victories here and there. especially when you sweat out your braineal cortex...

well we just got transfer calls this saturday and i am so suprised but im staying here for another one. Ive been here for over six months today. this means i only have about 6 and a half months left and i have only had 2 areas this whole time i love it though and the people arnt complaining about having elder burbidge around so im happy. I would like to see more of the mission however. but im loving life....

so this end of the transfer we have been trying to work with the zone leaders to ramp up missionary work attitude and stuff its been good this last district meeting was so cool. the zoneleaders and the two district leaders gave trainings on missionary habits. I really felt inspired to tell the missionaries in the zone how important these things were and vital to our success for the rest of our lives... it seems more and more that its not cool in our mission to be a good missionary... I told the zone that i felt our mission was being overrun by agnostic missionaries so we all sincerly commited to have a sweet transfer starting today.... And we all received Presidents email today and in it he talked about all the things i brought up in my training... I was glad to know that i was going off inspiration and not just what elder burbidge wanted.

well thanks again for the package... The nuetella was much appreciated...

love your son
ELder J.Wayne Burbidge...

7-4-2011

oh my goodness...

What the flip was tone thinkin he needs the other brother to do the skill saw work. man tone without a pinky that's weird. i don't know if it will be the same now when i see him...

Im glad to hear that Presley is taking care of my precious pooch. why doesn't Logan like his kitty? He probably wishes it was a dog.

I miss the home fireworks... our fourth is full of food we have been invited to about a hundred BBQ s i don't know how we are going to make all of them. but tonight we are going with a family(two of the people therein have Baptismal dates) to have a BBQ and then i guess there is some big show that we are gonna watch from this peek in our area from the top of this mountain you can also see magic mountain the theme park and i guess they have a crazy awesome show. but we will still be returning home at 9:30 fear not...

I'm glad Grandma D is 95 and still having bigger birthday parties than me... kidding.

how old is Els these days???

Im glad to hear that the pool got put somewhere else it was time.

well its about 7 million degrees outside so it makes for a great bike ride experience. we swear like the Niagara region of the world..

well thanks for the sending of glue and stamps "they were sorely needed"(name that movie........mountain of the lord).

i haven't received them yet but i await their arrival with outstretched arms.

well i love you you guys and miss you I hope all of your 4th of july things are safe and fun

love elder burbidge

tell becole and fam i love them