Aug 26

My dear dear family,

Sounds like it was an exciting week at home. I loved receiving pictures and good news from you.  I feel lifted up by your words and prayers and i feel motivated to keep working and work harder when i know that there are so many praying that i will and needing me to give my all. So we keep keep going. I have come to love this area as well. It is small but the members are good and want to work. We have a new Ward mission leader. He is new in the Ward and actually is just reactivating. He is enthusiastic about the calling and has good ideas to help us. We are kind of in training mode right now to help him understand the organization of the church and his role. His name is Hermano Pulido. We are still working with Frankie and have a lesson tonight with him. He is pretty hung up on the idea of Joseph smith but a member has invited him to watch the video with their family tonight. We are sure it will help him and motivate him to have the courage to pray and read. I mentioned the husband of an investigator in my email to president but i wanted to tell you the story. He is a new investigator this week. Maybe a month ago we received a referral for Evelyn, john's wife. She lives kind of far away so we called. She didn't want anything. We called  another week later and still didn't want anything and made it a little more obvious so we asked if we could just drop off a booklet with her. She agreed. We went and asked if we could come in an explain the booklet to her. She reluctantly agreed because her 3 year old daughter was inviting us in already. We taught her our primary message, the restoration and she still was closed but as we were leaving her husband came in and kindly said they weren't very interested but we were always welcome in their home. Together sister Jeronimo and I decided that we would go back to teach him the restoration to see if there was any way they would open their hearts to really pray about it.  Their phone ended up being shut off. As got in the car at 8 pm we knew we would probably only be able to visit one more person. We prayed with faith and felt to go back to john and Evelyn. When we went back john opened the door and said, "i was really didn't want to lose contact with you please come in." We were kind of confused but as the visit continue because of the example of the members in his group of friends, He decided to read the book of Mormon. He had already read the first 8 chapters along with all the introductory pages beforehand. He had questions and said, "i want to learn from a Mormon, what this is really all about it. I just want to understand the words and will of Christ." Evelyn is in school so she is very busy. She was kinder this time but still unsure about having us in her home. Diligence goes far. When we are diligent we show out faith and we show our testimony to other that we KNOW they want it and need it. It would have been easy to drop her after the first phone call and frankly it is tempting at times to be lazy or slack because of fears of offending or making others uncomfortable but our love for the Lord is stronger. Sister Neider said in a training this week, "why not do what you were sent here to do." it is so simple but it is true. every time we open our mouths, we are really opening ourselves to receive more of the spirit because it is an act of faith and obedience. Why not actually do what i said i would actually do. The blessings are unmeasurably greater than the small and insignificant risk there is. They do not even compare. It is only the intelligent thing to do to be obedient despite our natural selves, desires, selfishness, and pride. I believe the key to discipleship is discipline. I know that this is true. I feel it is true and it makes me happy and it increases my faith. That is the power of the book of mormon, prayer and church attendance combined with a broken heart and a contrite spirit. I love you all. Christian, keep preparing. don't lose your focus and remember your purpose. Preach my gospel teaches us that prospective missionaries should be a source of finding. Let everyone in the whole world know that you are serving the Lord and it will open the doors to missionary opportunities.

All my love

Hermana Burrup

ps- Elder anderson is coming in 2 weeks. Can't wait! 

Dear President Neider,

The Lord blessed us a lot with finding this week but we struggled with our lessons with members. I really want to reach our goal, do my part, be an example, really help and prepare the people, but most of all obey and please the Lord. Elder Johnson offered some suggestions during the call-in report last night that we'll try out. I want to be a more effective missionary and eliminate any excuse or disruption. In regards to the blessings we have received in the finding part of the work, it is a simple blessing of diligence. We were blessed with a family, a couple and now an investigators husband is listening. I know that the Lord is blessing them with the opportunity to hear the fulness of the gospel. Each is already a religious family but has expressed the desire to follow the savior. Also, stake conference was great yesterday. Thank you President and Sister Neider for your words. We love you! To finish off, i went on an exchange with Sister Parkinson this week. I learned from her to be more diligent in street contacts even in a business or store like setting. She's a hard worker with great intentions. I think the main training portion of the exchange was on testifying always. She agreed to work on testifying, even if it is 1 sentence, EVERY street contact. We also worked on using members for finding and although we didn't have splits planned for the exchange, i showed her how to plan splits to get more work done. i do think she is working hard to do her best. We were able to see miracles. and had a very positive experience. Thanks again president, we love you and your wife a lot and appreciate you!  Hurrah for Israel!

Love

Hermana Burrup

Aug 19

Family Family Family,

It's been warm but our district leader, elder Johnson left us the suggestion last sunday to get out and walk more. We set the day and went. It's hot and it's easy to just drive from one appointment to another or one potential to another but this week we walked. It was actually pretty fun. One elder said, "if you aren't happy, just go outside and open your mouth and you will be happy." and it's true. Sister Jeronimo is so so sweet. Afterwards with her optimism showed as she vibrantly exclaimed, "Wow, that was fun! Let's walk everyday!" She is so flat out good. I love her lots. For her if you could just pray that she will have courage and confidence to teach, testify, and participate in every lesson. She is a little shy because of her english. Her english is very good but she doesn't believe me. :) 

Well, speaking of the work, there are all kinds of good things happening! For starters, I went to Gabriela Jimenez' baptism on Saturday. We worked a lot with her in Sunrise and she finally was able to get there. The sisters dropped her after i left but were diligent in getting her to church. Revelation comes at church. There in the chapel we feel the spirit and it guides us and changes are desires. So that was really excited. Also, we had an amazing lesson with Frankie! I talked about in my letter to president. For him the spirit is huge. He was finally able to feel it strongly and committed to be baptized on september 28. We have a lot of preparing to do with him. He is a heavy smoker and his friends are important to him. His grandparents are against the church completely so we can't knock on his door. all the lessons are at the church or in member's homes.  He has a lot of integrity and knows he needs to follow the answers he receives. That is why he is scared of getting answers. Please pray for him to have courage. We also contacted some potentials and found the husband at home. Just last night he bombarded us with so many questions. They were great questions! We are excited to start teaching him. The work is moving forward and we love it. The spirit is strong and the people are prepared. We just hav eot guide them to their answers in the book of mormon, at church, and in prayer. 

I know the church is the church of Christ. I didn't realize how often the book of mormon throughout each book talks about the liahona. In alma 37:40 I learned a lot. Miracles do happen!, I read it, "according to their faith....it was done...day by day." or "according to their faith, miracles were wrought, day by day." Not a day need go by without miracles or without participating in his work and living our testimony by sharing it. I love this work and i love the Lord. We are excited to see the miracles day by day this week according to our faith. Take care and thank you for your love and support!

Love

Hermana Burrup

Dear President Neider,

What a week?! We saw a definite miracle with an investigator this week named Frankie. He was actually a Christian missionary in El Salvador so he has had some different questions than we are used to but we just study lots follow the spirit and invite members and it goes well. The miracle was simply that he could feel the spirit. He said, " i felt something i haven't felt in a long time...since i was walking with god in El Salvador." he has a lot of regrets since he came here and fell into his old life. He is scared of answers and scared of change because he is scared of failing. We are working with him but so excited for the progress he is making. We are trying to work more with members and trying to be more supportive by having more contact with them.  We also did an exchange this week. i was with Sister Webb in Warm springs. It was a positive experience and she is working hard. They have good teaching opportunities and they are doing well at keeping the area book updated. Sister Webb is an effective teacher and very sincere in her testimony. She's doing great and we learned a lot. Thanks for all you do president. We love you and your wife! Hurrah for Israel!

Love

Hermana Burrup

Aug 12

My dear dear family,

How are you? I was so excited to get the good news about jon and nicole and the pregnancy! Can't wait for the two of you. You will be excellent parents. 

Well, to tell you a little about the work in altavist, this has been a little bit of a strange week. We've had a lot of meetings this week so sister Jeronimo and I just felt restless to work. We just wanted to get out and go to work. So this week we will work hard to catch up on lost time. We are trying to get things moving now. We know the people and we are just trying to push the work forward. We had a few lessons with members this week and more than anything felt the great need to train the members. President Neider taught us that our job is to find on our own but more than anything to train the members in their missionary efforts to find and support the investigators already present. There are few spanish people in this area so when there are lessons the members get really excited. They are so willing to let us teach their homes, to come to lessons, sit with them at church, invite them....anything they will do. We are trying to be supportive of them and their efforts but to teach them to humbly testify in a loving way that won't be taken incorrectly. To teach them their role to testify in lessons. We had a lesson with frankie this week and struggled teaching because the member was so excited to share her testimony. We have some ood plans in how to better organize and coordinate the lessons between the members and us so that we are all prepared and know what the point and end goal of the lesson is. Please pray for us that we can be effective teachers and trainers in missionary work. President neider said that we are simply the missionary specialists but that the members should be the source of people to teach and homes to teach in. We want covenant keeping homes to teach in he said. despite the less than ideal lesson with frankie he was anxious to come to church yesterday and even brought his friend. If a desire to share the gospel is an indicator of the personal conversion of the members than it certainly would be as well for the investigators. Frankie is our main focus right now because he is progressing most. He has a lot of good questions that honestly are hard to answer but we study it out and the Lord helps us. 

We are also working with family history and temple work for the recent converts in the area. Rodrigo Reyes was baptized about a month before we got here. He has his own manuals now and said he stayed up until 1 just reading and reading and reading. People like him are out there that simply want and are looking for the gospel. The members will lead us to their doors and homes. I'm excited to get going and to start family mission plans in this branch as well. 

I'm still trying to read the Book of Mormon before the end of the transfer. I'm behind but getting better. this week i woke up with an anxiousness to read. An excited to read. The book Of mormon is true and i know and feel the blessings it brings. I am coming to know my savior better and better with each day of reading. Never let a day pass by without the power of the book of mormon. Christian, the book of mormon is the most powerful tool in conversion but also in temple and mission prep. Learn it, study it, and feast upon it. I love you so much!

I'm doing well, trying to stay positive, and absolutely focused. Thank you for your love and prayers,

Love

Hermana Burrup

ps- mom, in regards to school, i just need to know when sign ups are for classes next winter so i don't miss it. As for the flights and all, i'm game for anything at all. As soon as it's for sure, sister royal and you will work out the details. She said that you will probably buy my ticket and then the church would reimburse you but that they would need the details probably sooner rather than later. Thanks for working things out and sorry i'm not more of a help.  the office number is 702-794-0365

Dear President Neider,

Thank you for you wonderful counsel and encouraging words at interviews. I think every time we get the opportunity to see you and your wife we walk away motivated by the spirit to work hard and show our faith to the Lord.  Thank you for living worthy of the Spirit. Well, We are planning 2 exchanges this week to get caught up a little and we're really excited to learn from other sisters. We are excited to be in this area and are trying to constantly show our faith. I feel bad that we aren't contributing 10 LTMs to the mission each week but we are trying to show faith that we can get there as we diligently work. Finding has been the biggest problem. Elder Johnson kindly indicated a few ways we could work on finding and we will follow in faith. We're excited to see what miracles the Lord has prepared. I love the Book of Mormon. I love the Lord. I Love his work and his children. May God bless others by blessing us in this work! Hurrah for Israel!

Love

Hermana Burrup

Aug 5

My dear family, 

I think the weeks always get better when you work. Sister Jeronimo and I are feeling much more confident now that we are starting to meet the members. I feel like we still don't know very many people at all but when we go throught the directory, i think it is just that there aren't a lot of members. The branch is so cute though. They help out a lot and are so willing to help. As a mission we fasted to get 10 lessons with members in preparation to receive Elders Callister and Anderson. We are going to act in faith and start by bringing 10 members with us with or without lessons set and planned. This week we took with us a recent convert, Hermana Barragan out to contact people from the potential list in the area book. It was such a neat experience. We saw a man outside so we, "pulled over to get directions" and he was actually the person we were looking for. Turns out he was a referral from the stake president a year ago and they could never get in contact with them. We had a short lesson and then set another appointment to go back. We are excited for the appointment this tuesday. Their names are Carlos and Maria. They actually remind me a lot of you mom and dad :)

We went to a mission call opening this week for stephanie pecjak. Their home is the second mission home of Las Vegas. They are such a neat family. Frankie was excited to go as well. Frankie said he wants to serve a mission. We told him he needs to be baptized first. Honestly we haven't taught him any of the lessons yet. His grandparents won't let us into their home so we have to organize it at a members' home. His phone is disconnected right now so we are struggling get in contact with him. please pray for him and his sister yoselin. She wants to listen but she is a minor and doesn't have permission. They are a sweet family.

We also had a new investigator Manuel. We taught him the first lesson and it went really well. He really needs the gospel and seems to have a lot of potential.  Unfortunately, That night he called us 13 times and many times the next day and apparently He really wants to date my companion so we sent the elders. We are kind of bummed but please pray that he will recieve the elders as well. 

Rodrigo Reyes is a recent convert. Taught and baptized while Hermana Oyanedel was here. He is so full of faith and zeal for the gospel. He paid his first fast offering yesterday. He lives in a trailer alone with his son. his wife is in california with cancer in her stomache. He has so much faith and is so simply good. 

We are working hard and contacting as many people as we can. We are trying to testify with all our heart and often. I love the savior so very much and know that it will bless anyone who is humble enough to receive it including me. I feel that i have much to change but am grateful for the many blessings the Lord has given me. I'm behind in my Book of Mormon reading but oh how i love the Book of Mormon. i was touched by alma 15:18. We always think of ammon and amulek as the unstoppable firm missionary companionship but this scriptures simply taught me that in every companionship we must strengthen and love our brother. I want to help all those around me including poor sister Jeronimo who has to live with me and be with me all day every day. 

We also had mission leadership council this week. i loved it. I think the highlight for me ws sister Neider's quote, "include the savior as we commune together." it was powerful. How i love the leaders in this mission and see and feel their love for the Savior. I am anxious to do the Lord's work and do it well!

I love you! Hurrah for Israel!

Love

Hermana Burrup

Dear President Neider,

I think I'm the most blessed sister in the mission to be with Hermana Jeronimo. She is so sweet and simply want to do what's right. She full of integrity and does everything with faith. This week we made a theme for our companionship based on 2 miracles we saw. We decided that we can't pray that people will open their doors to us then walk to the door doubting. That is not faith. We have o expect the miracles. Twice we prayed and decided they would be home expecting the miracle and exercising our faith. Both cases we had been told they were hard to contact but the Lord provided. Our theme is, "faith moves mountains... and doors." it sounds better in spanish but we have fun with it. I really feel humbled by the opportunity to serve with a new missionary and specifically Hermana Jeronimo. I believe that New missionaries bring new faith and new faith brings new miracles to any area they serve in. Right now we are trying to meet all the members and investigators still but we are almost there. We are excited to see the Lord's miracles this week. Hurrah for Israel!

Love

Hermana Burrup

ps- THANK YOU! 

July 29

My dear dear family,

i love new missionaries an d new missionary training. I have a saying which is, "new missionaries bring new faith which brings new miracles to any area." i really believe it. my new companion is Sister Jeronimo. She is originally from michoacan mexico but comes from kansas city. She already understands english really well but i get to work with her on speaking it. I miss sister Zegarra a lot though. 4.5 months with her was a blessing but i am so looking forward to these next months with sister jeronimo. She was one of the first to be baptized in her family when she was 15. She's 20 right now and everything about her says humble, good, sincere, and compassionate. She is already my hero because she has the traits i struggle with. I love her already! Well, we went to church this last sunday. i honestly feel like this transfer has been a little bit of a culture shock. people aren't outside so when they are, we shout hello to them and start the conversation from down the street because we want to talk to them. The large majority of people are white and have money so they aren't as receptive. We went to church and there was about 75 people including children. It is a very very small branch that honestly, i think is struggling a lot. There are a lot of people that should be in the branch that don't come. They go to other wards because there are more people in other wards. In absolute honesty, I'm trying hard to stay focused on here and now with my companion and my branch. i'm trying to get my whole heart into it but I'm nervous right now. I have to retrain myself how to work in an area like this again. In new missionary training a new sister got up and said that our thoughts are a reflection of faith. I'm trying to push out thoughts of paradise, thoughts of home, and anything else to really really consecrate myself to this work. I'm working on it :) "work work work" seems to be the answer. There much more and much better things to think and worry about in my short time in the Lord's service. Please pray for me. That i will focus, that i will be happy and that i won't compare. I do have faith that this is the Lord's work and that i need to be here, now, with sister Jeronimo. I am excited to be here and looking forward to the work we do have.

So, the work! Frankie is awesome! he is the only investigator we have been able to meet so far. he is18 and he is from el salvador and has a lot fo good questions. he came to church last night and is going to night FHE tonight. please pray that his grandparents don't cause him grief. They already lie to us and if we visit there are already fights in the home. Frankie's sister is really interested but she is 17 so she is still a minor. We are focusing on Frankie to begin with and will try to teach yoselin after. WE are excited for him and the progress he is making. He has a lot of regrets and feels unworthy to pray. We have had some really good teaching moments with him but are anxious to start teaching in a home instead of the parking lot :) I love how missionary work is. Anywhere you share the gospel! Besides him, we haven't been able to contact the investigators the sisters had before us. We know the Lord will bless us and guide us! I will work to be worthy of those miracles and blessings! I will work to be an example to my new companion. She deserves a trainer that will bring miracles to her mission. She deserves the best and so do the people here! I love you! Hurrah for Israel! 

Love

Hermana Burrup

ps- mom, if at all a possibility, i was wondering if you could put some CD's of music in the package....we don't have anything but classical hymns which are also great! Also, my cherished alaarm clock that projects the time on the ceiling no longer projects the time only random lines on the cieling. my companions always tease me saying, "sister burrup i'm going to miss you and all but i'm REALLY going to miss your clock." it's funny but it'd be nice to have another if possible. Thank you mom for all you do. you are wonderful! i love you!

pss- dad, keep up the missionary work. Sounds like you are doing great. missionary work isn't quite as scary as we think if we just start speaking the words come! thanks for being my example!

President Neider, 

What a week! I feel like it was a bit of a culture shock. one of those, "sister burrup you are not in paraiso anymore." moments but still, i love this work! i love the Lord, and i'm detirmined to work my hardest and talk to everyone no matter how many times i might get rejected it doesn't matter because the message i share is true whether or not they accept it. Here it is harder to find people outside so we look hard and try not to lose the opportunities. I love sister Jeronimo and she is excellent! We had 2 youth with us on saturday so we did splits just for a 30 minutes while contacting people from the area book. She had such a positive attitude and a smile the whole time. i know i will learn a lot from her. I'm looking forward to these next months together! Thank you president for all you do!

Love

Hermana Burrup

July 22

My Dear dear family,

I am time and time again grateful for you! I pray each monday that the Lord will inspire my words. I hope so much that my words each week can at least reinforce the testimonies you each have and strengthen mine as i share my own. This week is transfers. I've starting wednesday i will be double transferred into Henderson- Altavista branch with a new missionary. I hope she speaks great spanish :) It is Sister Oyanedel's area so i've been in the area a few times on exchanges. From what i can tell, it will be a lot like Warm Springs. Working with members to teach friends, Big area, lots of work for finding and working with the Branch to strengthen the members. It will be a positive experience i'm sure! Missionary work always brings eternal blessings even when we feel at times that are wheels are spinning beneath us. I'm honestly a little nervous and trying to get rid of "stinking thinking" as sister Neider Calls it. I'm loved Paradise so so very much! I'm sure i will continue to love it and love Altavista just as much as i work with heart and soul. Training is always a great opportunity to do that because "new missionaries bring new faith which brings new faith" I love this work dearly! We got the transfer information on Saturday night. I prayed that night in the Living Room and just poured out my hear, fears, and feelings to the Lord. I prayed for strength and i prayed for guidance, faith, and a confirmation that this is the Lord's work. I think that Confirmation will come little by little as i start in the area. church yesterday was a positive experience. I'm glad i was able to say goodbye to the members and the investigators. The members are so so thoughtful. The Relief Society president, Hermana Soto is one Sister i absolutely love and admire. Everyone loves her because she is absolutely heaven inspired. She is diligent in her calling and makes every visitor feel welcomed, loved, needed, and wanted. She's one i will never forget! There's several really.the Member's are so important in the Lord's work!

Well, a few spiritual experiences, I love the Book of Mormon. I'm reading it and making progress little by little. i might start getting up early to read because i'm behind. The word study just seems to be the opposite of rushed. I'm going to simply try to dedicate more time. i loved a scriptures i read this week mosiah 8:18. I know that our faith can bless others, it can make a difference, and it can benefit the people that surround us. I really loved the scripture! I prayed for the people in Peru that the Lord would prepare His trainer and the members and investigators he will teach. As i prayed the feeling and thought came to me, christian, that the Lord will prepare them as you prepare yourself to teach and bless them. I believe that, christian! Focus your mind now and the Lord will prepare many to receive you, christian! 

One last good news, elder anderson, the apostle is coming! we're excited to meet him! I love you all and thank you for your examples, help and prayers! Keep up the good work! Hurrah for Israel!

Love

Hermana Burrup

Dear President Neider,

Another transfer gone and another area to look forward to, learn from, labor in and for, and another trust with a new missionary. I am excited for this next transfer without a doubt even if i'm a bit nervous. I love the Lord's work wherever it may be! I'm humbled time and time again by the opportunities and blessings the Lord gives me daily. Well, to be 100% honest i'm a little heart-broken to leave. My love for the members, investigators, work and the Lord has deepened greatly here. I look forward to seeing many of these families again. I'm praying that it will be at baptisms. What a blessing it is to bring the Lord's love to them. I learned in Preach my Gospel this week that every time we talk to someone or teach someone it is a manifestation of God's love for them. It really impressed me, touched my heart, and motivated me to focus more on others and less on me. I will work harder in my new area and i will work with the members. This week i went on my last exchange with Sister Despain in Sunrise. She is doing an excellent job working with the members. Most of our appointments with them were focused on Less-actives and inviting the members to help find. Sister Despain is doing a great great job. I definitely felt that i was the one coming out of the exchange trained. She is doing great work and I'm sure she will do well wherever she is sent! Thank you again president for your example and testimony. We love, respect, and admire you!

Love

Hermana Burrup

July 15

My wonderful wonderful family!

I was so excited to see extra emails this week with extra great news! I feel so supported by you and week after week after week i feel so blessed to have each of yours support. Thank you for your prayers. We had set a goal based on faith for our lessons with members this week based on the new standard of excellence that president Neider has been inspired to ask of us. We were 2 short last night and only had 1 lesson set up. We had a member set up. We said a prayer and contacted her to see if she could still come. She said yes and asked if she could bring another member. We of course said YES! and then the inspiration came to do splits again. We did splits and were able to get two lessons with a member in the last hour of the last day of the week. It was a miracle that sister Acosta and I were able to meet with Delmin. Her mom came out and said, What church are you from because we are catholic and that's it. With the help of hermana Acosta and dozens of prayers form Both of us, She finally let us in. She and I both thanked the Lord and had a positive experience with strengthened faith knowing that the Lord answers our prayers. I know that the Lord does answer our prayers and is aware of us and desires that we meet our goals when set and worked for by faith. It takes constant and consisitent effort or in other words DILIGENCE! i was asked to give a training on diligence and it was such a positive experience. As i prepared it, it was meant to be more of a discussion than me talking. There are many hard working missionaries that are doing their part in the Lord's work and being blessed for that diligence. I believe that we can be blessed by being diligent missionaries at any stage. I have noticed that the young families are often the most busy of families in the ward but also some of the most effective. Children are proud of their testimonies and are great at inviting their friends to church. Thank you for your work and examples. i love hearing about your experiences. 

Christian,  i just talked to my companion and showed her the maps. She said El Agustino es super feo y peligroso...so honestly, you probably want to serve there :) the poorer the better. nah i'm just teasing. The other cities that are more in the mountains she said are really really pretty. She was showing me how huge the city is. She showed me where she lives which is not in your area unfortunately but i was amazed at how huge the city is. She's excited for you and i'm absolutley stoke for you. Exciting Calling too! your doing great i'm sure. Maybe you can really work with people through Facebook. Our leaders have encouraged us a lot to use is. Also mormon.org profiles are really useful for full-time missionaries. i love when we are in a lesson and the member has a profile so we can say hey have you seen the website? your best friend has a profile! I bet you are already doing great! I wish i had my PMG to give you more pointers for Wednesday. i write everything down in PMG because i have a bad memory. But everything everything everything must lead us to our purpose. our purpose is our vision combined with our authority. I love you bud and i'm so grateful to be here.  You can also use my commission. Our purpose is a literal respresentation of Jesus Christ. Please keep up the good work! i love you bud! 

Really quick, my companions are waiting for me because i was the last to get on but Sister Bateman went to Brazil Which means that Sister Oyanedel is companionless. So we are now 3 covering two areas. WE are exciting to be together again. What a blessing to be with the 2 of them at the same time. We will keep working hard! As for investigators, we have a few new and working on always finding without leaving any members behind.

i love you all! thank you again!

Love

Hermana Burrup

Dear President Neider,

This week was a great week! The Lord really blessed us with miracles! Even a miracle in the last hour of the week on sunday after night church. Providing a magic member with the member we had set up. We were able to organize splits and with many prayers and patience we met our goals of 10 LTMs this week. Thank you president for your loving support and great example. We are so grateful for you and sister Neider. 

Also, this week i was on an exchange with Sister Cichoski. She came here to our area. The day was a lot of appointments. from one to the next but we worked hard, we worked together and we learned from each other. She is such an optimistic missionary. As we talked about her work, we emphasized the importance of talking with everyone and how it effects our other key indicators. She and Sister Despain are working well together and with the members. The commmitment i left with her was to take members out finding as well. To say a prayer with the member and really exercise faith to recieve miracles. I will follow this week. I will also be on an exchange in sunrise this week to work with Sister Despain. Thank you again and Hurrah for israel!

Love

Hermana Burrup