Oct 28

My dear Dear Family

What a neat week! We saw lots of miracles. Fransisco went to a baptism this week and felt the spirit. He showed his faith by coming early on a saturday morning without his wife with 2 kids. I've never tried so hard in my life to entertain children in my life. We really wanted him to be abl eto focus on the baptism. He said he felt the spirit and told us that he had already invited his sister to his baptism. Everything is looking grat for the 16th of november. We are excited for him because we can see that he is clearly excited as well to take the steps to START following Jesus Chrst more fully. He has a lot of faith. He told us that he decided to go pray. He rode his bike up the mountain and started to pray. He layed down and as he looked at the stars he recieved his answer. Isn't it neat that God literally will answer EVERY child's prayer? That's the knowledge to share. He told us he had talked to missionaries before but the only reason he gave us a chance was because we put it all on faith and prayer. When we finally decide to trus tin the Lord we finally qualify for his help.  Also, Frankie had a neat experience as well. I wrote about in my email to president but it was so special to hear him bear his testimony of the restoration as he taught us. It was a role play in a mission prep class. He will be an excellent missionary some day! Eddie, a strong priest in the branch taught him how to tie a tie and is helping a lot. Frankie just needed to know that there are good people with good intentions that will help and support him. His progress has been gradual but it has been real. The Word of Wisdom is still the hardest part for him. We are still trying to help him feel the spirit often because when he does is when he is suddenly motivated and empowered to continue. The missionary work is great here. We have a few new families we are excited to teach as well. on our exchange our appointments flopped so we got to contact a lot of potentials and a lot of people in the streets. Very positive experience. If you aren't happy go talk to people in the streets and He'll make you happy! As for my companion, sister veazey is on fire! she is excellent and she testifies with power. I feel really blessed to be with her. WE laugh constantly but work hard. We are happy always because this is his work and it is true. The truth doesn't change even if/when people are harsh or sharp with us. Thank you for your help and prayers. I am so so blessed to have you. I'm excited and overjoyed to hear from Christian and thanks for the pictures. He will be an excellent missionary and i'm excited to support him the whole whole way!  Thanks and love you!

Love

Hermana Burrup

ps- can i have christian's mail address to send a bday card?

Also, it's fransisco loza and frankie martinez for the last names. As for school, i signed up for classes which was weird...it will probably all change again. As for housing, i am clueless. There is one sister here, sister cheatham that also is going to home at the same time. if you hear of any place with 2 that would be awesome but if not, no worries. Thanks and love you all! 

Dear President Neider,

Great week! The Lord, as always, blessed us very much! Frankie, is an 18 year old investigator here. He struggles with English and the Word of Wisdom because of his friends. He went to the PMG class with one of the priests last night where he had the opportunity to teach us the restoration. it was the perfect way to check for understanding and hear his testimony as it really is. He felt the spirit and offered a beautiful prayer. We hope he will continue to progress to be ready for the 16th of November. That was one of the many blessings but i am really enjoying serving here with Sister Veazey. We are working hard and trying hard to teach with the spirit. 

Also we went on exchanges this week. I was here with Sister Romero. I could see that she has a lot of desires to do good. WE had a positive exchange. I really tried to emphasize focusing on our purpose and effective street contacts. She does a great job in her street contacting. I left her with a few commitments to teach include members during lessons, to role play daily how to seal with the holy ghost and prepare to set as well as to find ways to show appreciation for her companion. She does have good desires and a testimony that is firm. She loves those she sees. Thanks president!

Hurrah For Israel

Hermana Burrup

ps- my brother just left on his mission to peru :) Good news to share.

Oct 21

Dear Dear Family,

I have a lot of mixed feeling and thoughts right now. I was honestly a little heart broken when i heard christian was leaving. I am anxious and excited for him to go and begin and bless and be blessed but i had this selfish hope that i would get to see him just 1 week. Christian, know that i pray fervently for you. You are a joy to the Lord, to your parents, and family. I love you and respect you dearly dearly dearly. Thank you for being worthy and valient in your preparation. you will not regret not even 1 day your preparation. Well, I feel very loved by you. thank you! Janae, i did get your package and the cookies are great! thank you very very much! you are so thoughtful! I loved the pictures i got from you as well, it's always fun to see pictures and faces.

Well, it's been a great but crazy week! Transfers, exchanges, splits, bed bugs, and weird other surprises this week. It's been fun though. Sister Veazey is from North Dakota and absolutely amazing! she has been out almost 9 months but is teaching me so so much! i am learning a lot about simple and effective, bold but loving teaching! We have a lot of fun together and get along very well. She is very optomistic and positive which has really helped me to keep working hard!

To tell you about the work, Frankie is at a really crucial point. He is discouraged with the word of wisdom. He has more problems with it than we knew. He has problems with coffee, alcohol, and cigarrettes. a lot of the problem is a social problem but he doubts himself a lot. He showed a lot discouragement and maybe lack of desire. This week will be another crucial week. please pray pray pray a lot for him. Fransisco is already talking about how excited he is for the 16th so he is doing wonderfully. We are working on getting people progressing right now and finding through the members. 

Family, this is God's work. We are a part of this work and the progress is oftentimes gradual but it is real. Mark 4:27 and 28 tie directly in with alma 32. Faith requires work and diligence and patience but gradually the progress comes thanks to the Enabling power of the atonement. May we all improve daily controlling only that within our power focused on our covenants to do His work in His way. may God bless us as we do His work. If all it required for many in the new testament was to touch his robe to be made whole than we must find our ways to touch his robe. to open the channels of the atonement in our lives. The base of our lives must be built on Him. I know this is his churhc and i know this is his work. and the work requires the efforts of all. President Neider said this morning, "we are only called to start the efforts of this work." he also said, "we have a lot of work to do. we must invite all because by the end of the millenium all their work must be done." I love dearly the Lord's servants here. May we support his servants everywhere in the capacities wherever and whatever they may be. I love you very very much!

Love

Hermana Burrup

ps - mom, i am so glad you found that music.please send the music as soon as you can. i'd love love love to use it really quick. There is a really special family; the pecjak family. The daughter is going on her mission soon and we want to sing it for her farewell. we'll have to practice and prepare on preparation day really quick. :)

Dear President Neider,

What a busy week. it was a great week but very busy. I am learning very much from sister Veazey. She is a hard worker and loves the Lord. Very focused and an excellent leader. We went on exchanges with Sister Webb and Sister Smith this week. Sister Smith came to Altavista with me. I felt of her goodness and her hard work as we were went from one place to the next. She loves the People she sees. A main focus of the exchanges was street contacts. How to be yourself from the very first impression so that when we share out testimonies it also feels genuine. She is doing a very good job at testifying every contact. We discussed how to share powerful testimonies by speaking slower and sharing absolute truths so they will think. It was a great exchange. She is working hard and doing very well. we also practiced the Zone Training on explaining the holy Ghost using the pamphlets. Thank you president for all you do. We love you and appreciate your humble yet excellent work. Thank you for you and your wife's thoughts and prayers. i am so blessed to serve here with you two. Hurrah For Israel

Love

Hermana Burrup

Oct 14

My dear dear family,

Thanks for all the great news! Christian, Congrats on BYU! what an exciting time! I fasted for you on sunday, christian. I will anxiously wait until monday to find out when you go. Are you supposed to report to the MTC in peru? or where? It was great to hear about and from some relatives. I am so blessed for the support that i recieve from you. I can't say thank you enough. Well, transfers are tomorrow. Sister Jeronimo is leaving and we are both super bummed about it along with the whole branch. The good news is that she is going to Sunrise with sister Oyanedel. I am really excited for them to be together. They will do great together! As for me, i get to stay and Sister Veazey is going to be my companion! i am super super excited! She is actually a friend of Emma hogan's family, my roommate and friend at BYU. Kind of random and funny. With her here, Exchanges will actually be much more effective and less stressful. training will be given to a companionship at a time instead of 1 by 1. So those are the changes starting tomorrow. My second american companion. How crazy. Hope we can keep up with the spanish.

Well, as for the area and people, things are going well. Fransisco and Frankie are progressing well. WE are trying to work closely with the members and hoping to have a ward mission plan soon to start family mission plans. It has been a lot of organization and phone calls but good missionary work is better than just busy missionary work. one of the zone leaders in the mission says we need to be full time missionaries not fill time missionaries. it is so important to be effective in our work and to really make sure we are doing effective work. how a basis of finding and a broad set of teaching skills according to president neider. without both we will have great difficulty in helping others.

everyone in the district gave 5 minute trainings at district meeting and it was a neat opportunity to look back at general conference. i chose to train on the power and value of Right now. It was kind of a realization that not only do we need to eliminate saying we will be better tomorrow or later but also saying today. We can be beter RIGHT NOW. I can be a missionary RIGHT NOW instead of with that other guy across the street what about the guy right next door or walking past me or the cashier. Right now is the time. God has called each of us to his work. I am so glad i can do it not only full-time but full-heartedly.

I am also reading the new testament and have found myself hungry to keep reading at the end of each day of studies. i am anxious to get to the pauline  espistles but loving the Saviors teachings in the gospels. i liked mark 4:27and 28, :the seed  should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come." it reminded me a lot of 3 nephi 9:20 and alma 32. The Bible and the Book of mormon really do testify of each other and the same doctrine in beautiful words that each give their own insight to the precious truths of God.  I also enjoyed mathew 27. Where joseph lays the saviours body in "his own new tomb." something everyone knows. as i read i felt the need for me to do the same. Give the Lord the very best of my very very own most precious possessions, talents, feelings, experiences, testimonies, and me. Now is the time and why not give all! I love the Lord dearly and feel strongly that he is a part of this work. it is his and nobody else's. May we embrace his glory, the eternal life of man, and helping others receive it. We will soon see that it is one of the Lord's greatest tools in helping us recieve eternal life as well. May God bless us all in his work! Hurrah for Israel!

Love

Hermana Burrup

Dear President Neider,

Transfers was a little bit of a surprise for me but i'm excited for the changes and know they will be a blessing. The Lord has helped us a lot this week and we are really starting to see some people progress. We've been trying to apply the trainings we received at Zone conference and Zone training and have found that as we testify often we really are much happier. We have also been able to see how baptismal dates help people to progress earlier on. Sister Jeronimo is sad to go but i Know she is going to have a great great time with sister oyanedel in sunrise. We have enjoyed being together and doing the 12 week program. We also went on 2 exchanges this week. First with sister Newey on tuesday. We specifically worked on how to work with members and why it was so important to have them out with us. Sister Newey and I talked a lot about it. she is doing well at teaching clearly and boldly with testimony. The second exchange was with Sister Webb. She is working hard and doing well there in Warm springs. We worked mainly on teaching for understanding and testifying simply and shortly. She really is giving her best. I'm proud of her. thank you president for your help. We look forward to interviews soon!

Love

Hermana Burrup

Oct 7

My Dear Dear Family,

Thank you for your prayers and your support. I do feel strengthened by you. Christian, I am so so sorry to hear aobut your knee surgery. I believe you will be able to recovery without much trouble at all. If it's the same one I had, than you'll be back to normal real quick! Satan can't stop the work from progressing. Never ever. The only way it will be delayed is if it's the Lord's will and it's part of your preparation. Maybe you've been such a good member missionary that the Lord wants to keep you in Washington just a minute longer. But come what may and love it. I already have written in my agenda to fast for you. Well, This week was probably the most meeting filled week every! We started with Zone conference which was absolutely EXCELLENT! Then off to mission leadership council, then to Zone training meeting, Corelation and weekley planning like every week, then General Conference! I felt like each of the meeting was very inspired and helped prepare us for the work to be done. What a blessing to be a missionary right now. Sister Neider always says, “now is the time, here is the place, and you are the ones.” I think that is probably true of each of us. God has called every baptized person to His work, to REALLY live and apply their covenants. In our Zone conference they shared with us a new way for the members to participate. It started in Texas is starting hear and has been taken to oregon and florida. It's spreading. In a comfortable non pressure way we can discover those willing to learn of the gospel. It's called the willing and brief invitation, “Would you be WILLING to hear a BRIEFpresentation about ….(whatever aspect or principle of the gospel they may need) by two of my friends from my church.” if they say no, it's fine. No big deal. Just checking. If yes, then get information and work with the missionaries to meet with them. It has had almost a 50: 50 response. Imagine if we invited everyone and half said yes. How the Gospel of Jesus Christ would enter homes, change families, enrich lives, and gladden the hearts of God's children. Are we consecrated enough to the Lord? I Know so. If we are not or maybe when we are not, I love the advice my companion gave me....just choose to believe it. I have been so blessed by sister Jeronimo. When we present this to families in our branch we ask them to use it until they get 1 yes. They can use it with ANYONE. Family, Will you use the willing and brief invitation with those you meet and know? I know that it was inspired and i promise you will feel the spirit stronger because it is an act of faith and every act of faith will invite the spirit more into our lives. There are many who want what God wants for them but don't know how to access it. may be we be the Lord's angels. We will know this saturday about this next transfer.I love this work very much and know it is His work. Please pray for Fransisco Loza. He has a baptismal date for November 16th and needs a clear answer. Pray for Fankie that His schedule will permit him to be taught. He has a new job and we've struggled getting started. Thank you. I love you dearly and know this is God's work. Hurrah For Israel!

Love

Hermana Burrup 

Dear President Neider,

This week really built my faith strongly. We had many many meeting and now i feel anxious to work already and put it to use. i feel like a sling shot just ready to fly! :) We are working hard and trying to get everything done that we need. We are trying also to finish the 12 week program. Sister Jeronimo has progressed a lot and she has become an excellent missionary. We set the husband of a less-active member for baptism this week. Sister Jeronimo took the initiative and knew exactly how and when to do it, why we needed to and was able to do it with the spirit and confidence. We love the work, each other, and those we visit. We are trying to increase our obedience by specifically getting out of dinner appointments on time so we can get back to work. May God bless us all in His work as we consecrate ourselves to His purposes. Hurrah for Israel!

Love,

Hermana Burrup

Sept 30

My Dear Dear Family,

As i read the emails this week i realized that we are very very much connected :) I have been so blessed to be around you my whole life. Blessed by your testimonies and examples and willingness to always help. One of my favorites memories is when i tried to run away from home. I planned to live in a big sagebrush bush next to the canal at the bottom of the hill and sneak home while you were at school to get food each week. I was  aweird child but i remember Janae coming down and talking me out of it. Explaining and teaching me how much i need my family and i need the church. I was probably 5 or 6. Thank you for always building and lifting me. As i sat down to watch the Relief Society Broadcast i thought of you and wondered where you would be but i KNEW you wouldn't have missed it for the world. Well, covenants are pretyy imporant aren't they! in Stake conference here, they emphasized our baptismal covenants and encouraged us to tain our minds to think of our baptismal covenants every every time we see water. I thought that was a pretty neat way to actively remember and keep our covenants everyday. I think i've already shared this but i believe our temple covenants become "OUR PURPOSE" in life. If we can center our lives around the promises we make and those that the Lord makes to us, we WILL have joy. we WILL have direction.  we WILL change. we WILL be better. and we WILL become. If we want to become like the Lord than we must be under his influence as much as possible. Where can we feel his influence the strongest. In our temples, chapels, and homes. The 3 most sacred places on this earth. I feel axious to return to the temple. We go every 3 months. in about 3 weeks i will be able to go again. Well, this week i finally finished the Book of Mormon. I didn't finish in 75 days or even close to it but i finished it and felt the spirit the whole way. I wrote my testimony in the blank pages afterwards: "Through the Book of Mormon my prayers have been answered. I felt that my mind has been quickened and claeared. For the people i loved, i suddenly felt the spirit guid my words to help them and my fingers to find the right pages for them. I felt and feel God speaking to me, Hermana Burrup, personally. ON my weakes days i felt him lft me up encourage me and give me strength. I felt His love as I read of His love and knew his words were not only for those of old but for me. One night as i struggled in prayer over my weaknessses i was filled with a hunger to read. God speaks through his scriptures and his prophets of old and present. Christ surely does live for he is my life light and he listenes. I love him dearly and will ever follow him i nthis life and the next. God be thanked by me and all who read the Book of mormon for Jesus Christ surely did come and by reading the book of mormon we surely will know him."  To myy dear family and everyone/anyone else willing to hear my testimony, THE BOOK OF MORMON IS TRUE. it will teach us how to make and keep and strengthen the bonds of our covenants. strengthen our bonds to the Lord and our claim to his blessings. Dad, i always have known of your love for the scriptures. Countless times i saw you reading in the dark of the night in your chair or your office or beside your computer. I remember them at your office at work in your car. I know you love the scriptures. Thank you for teaching me that! Yesterday we spoke with the excellent stake president here, President Steadman. He took his neighbor to see his office and to see what he does on sunday. Everytime i see him i think about you and your tireless service. He reminds me of you.  This work is real. The Lord is real. His blessings are real. We are important and This message is urgeant may we each tirelessly share it and be unite in our purpose as we make our purpose the Lord's purpose. What is an instrument? an instrument has 1 purpose. Each one has it's own. What kind of instrument are we? are we His? and are we single in purpose? I love you dearly! thank you for you prayers. I fasted that the Lord will help me focus and help me show faith. please pray for me as well. I want to give the Lord the best of all I am. I love you! Hurrah for Israel!

Love

Hermana Burrup

ps- mom, home is wherever you are...don't stress about the house. it can be my winter job before school :) focus on christian and helping me in his preparation. No regrets in the mission are most often prevented by no regrets in preparation. and thanks for getting one last package off. we're excited already. love you!

Dear President,

This week i went on exchanges with Sister Smith. Sounds like their area has progressed a lot and that they are working hard. I am very grateful for Sister Smith's humility and goodness. As we talked one concern came to mind that i will likely address on my exchange with Sister Webb. I am simply concerned that the work and companionship may not be equally yoked. I plan to speak with sister webb a little bit about leadership skills and trainings given to trainers in effectlively teaching with 2 people and one voice. While with sister Smith we specifically worked on using members for finding and how to still provide a spititual experience for the members when a lesson is canceled. I was very impressed and pleased to see the work they are do. Here in Altavista, we are being bold with the investigators and members. We are expressing our love and testimonies as well. WE are struggling with our Ward mission Leader because of his unpredictable work schedule but are trying to work with him to have correlation each week. We also have plans to get a new ward mission plan going quickly. We have goals for the members and missionary work and are anxious to get them going. Thank you president! Hurrah For Israel!

Love

Hermana Burrup

Sept 23

My Dear Family,

the Lord blessed us this week. We were able to get some really good work done. We are trying to get things organized with the ward mission plan to get family mission plans started because we really believe it will help the work move forward. We are usually 4 missionaries in the branch but one of the elders recieved his Visa and it's actually put the pressure on a bit because the other elder can't visit as many people and we've been asked to work with a lot of inactives. it's been a little bit of a balancing act but we just do our very best and try to grin the whole way through. Sister Jeronimo and I both studied Patience in PMG chapter 10 because we felt we both needed it. I enjoy serving with Hermana Jeronimo and wouldn't be surprised if we get to be together for 1 more transfer. She's so good good good through and through. I admire her a lot. She is also a convert and a very strong one at that. I am glad we can talk openly about what is most important to us. Well, Frankie's Baptismal date has been dropped we are going to help him choose his own baptismal date. He is enjoying the book of Mormon and excited to learn but we have struggled having lessons with him this week and still haven't taught the Word of Wisdom. We are anxious to keep contact with him so he feels strengthened and doesn't get discouraged by his family and work situations. Vanessa Mora is really progressing now. She really opened up this week. We had two lessons with her with good members to be her friends and we have another one planned for tonight. She loves the ideas of eternal families. She told us that she took her kids to the park right after our visit. She said the wind blew the leaves right in front of her and she felt really really good. She said she feels that the book of mormon is true when she reads and that she feels different when we are there. She is really sensitive to the spirit. She opened up with her doubts and expressed her fear of marital problems if she gets baptized and her questions about rules. She is so sweet and when we are teaching by her face we can see she is hungry for truth. We love our lessons with her. I am also loving my studies. I felt the spirit strongly this week as i was reading in the scriptures. For example today in Ether 12 8 and 9 it talks about being partakers of the heavenly gift. I love that. a heavenly gift. The greatest heavenly gift we can recieve is eternal life but up until this point, the greatest heavenly gift the world has ever recieved is Jesus Christ. I beleive there are many heavenly gifts we can recieve in preparation to recieve the greatest of all heavenly gifts. How i love the Lord and i know he desires to bless us. I know this is his work. he is all around us in this work. Preparing before us then following afterwards the traces, tracks and footprints we leave on the hearts of the people by sharing simple testimony. Testimony really goes a long long way. I am trying to testify more than just teach and include the saviour in every principle i teach. It really does teach what President Stapleton taught me at my setting apart. All things testify not only that there is a God but that God is a loving heavenly father who wants his children to come back. i love you family and am grateful for you. May the lord always bless you and us in our steps and goals. Hurrah for Israel!

Love

Hermana Burrup

Dear President,

How the week flies by. We have been trying to work with the members and had a meeting with our Ward mission leader about the importance of a Ward mission Plan. We are hoping to meet with him this week to set it up then present it to the branch president so that we can get going on Family mission plans based on the ward mission plan. We have a lot of goals for the area and believe it has a lot of potential if we can better coordinate the efforts and get the members excited about the the work. My companion is doing well and i've been impressed with her willingness to step up and lead the area. This week i went on an exchange with Sister Nieto. I went to her area and was able to  work with her. I specifically worked with her on the importance of how to begin teaching to help investigators progress or discern the need to drop. She is so good and does want to work hard  thanks president! i look forward to Zone conference soon! Hurrah for Israel!

Love

Hermana Burrup

Sept 16

My dear Family,

What a great week! We really did work hard. I was really feeling in the gutter at the beginning of this week. trying to convince myself not to be discouraged even though i was frustrated. Sister Jeronimo really pulled me through this week and helped me be positive, faithful, and encouraging. There was a series of blessings and miracles that the Lord gave us this week. for starters, The fireside with Elder Andersen was outstanding! It was highly focused on the power of the atonement of jesus Christ to perfect us not just clean us. He taught us to, "make jesus christ a part of our nature not just our behaviour." he said " Jesus christ will claim us as his to the same level we will clame him throughout our lives." " don't just believe in God but know him!" afterwards in my journal i wrote, "My testimony today was not found it was confirmed. Elder andersen testified of Jesus Christ. I know Jesus is real and he is my brother. I love him. I am changing and oh so weak but trying desperately to make me, Him...and My will, His." As i sat listening to Elder andersen, learning from him and his deep knowledge of the scriptures, my testimony was confirmed and reconfirmed. I know that a testimony is a constant work. It requires the Prime of our life and the prime of our day and the prime of our very selves. May we give the Lord our very best selves. my Prime self. Someone i've never been before. Sister Jeronimo and i have a new motto as of last night: We are doing good but we can do better. That is our goal and our work. Be beter by diligently working to become like the Savior.

To tell you briefly of the investigators, Frankie told us last night that he knows the book of mormon is true. Sister Jeronimo and I couldn't believe it! He has been calling us and asking us to  meet with him that same day if possible. How the Lord has changed him. Humility and hunger burn in his countenance. We left him reading the Book of mormon last night and he called 30 minutes later to share what he read. He is progressing but still has a few big obstacles. Word of Wisdom, family, and fear of failing. Please pray for him. The Lord helped us find 2 new families as well. Cesar from saturday was also baptized on Saturday. It was a blessing to be at his baptism and see his enthusiasm for the work. 

The work is moving forward. I love being a missionary and i love sharing my testimony. Elder andersen said that His personal goal for every every contact he has with anyone is to build their faith so that little by little they may be prepared for the gospel. Let your conversations and minds and words and works be directed to the Lord always and the Lord will help you be his hands. I love you all!

Love

hermana Burrup

ps- Jon and Nicole, Congrats on the girl! i loved the pictures!

Dear President Neider,

How about that for an incredible experience with Elder Andersen! I loved it. This week started out very rough. We had splits set up and lessons and everything fell through. Sister Jeronimo and I talked together one night about faith and she really just built me up and helped me feel that i CAN have faith to bring miracles and blessings to the people here. She is so so wonderful. I really have loved serving with her. Her goodness radiates in her testimony, smile, and laugh. She is very dedicated to the Lord and His work. I love my companion! Well, even with a rough start to the week, when we fight through, the blessings come. Our member present lessons were low but we did work hard and had many planned. This week we are going to work hard to keep the lessons on track and well planned and anticipated to see if we can prevent that. I felt the spirit strongly this week. In my personal prayer tuesday night, my personal study this week, sitting at the feet of an apostle of the Lord, and in a short lesson last night. President this is the Lord's work without a doubt. I know my days are numbered. i refuse to count them but I want to be perfected in Christ day by day. Little by little. My imperfections seem obvious as a I pray but i KNOW they can be changed. Thank you president for sharing your testimony and life with us missionaries. I love, admire, and respect the Neider family even without knowing all of you. May God always bless each you. Hurrah for Israel!

Love

Hermana Burrup

ps- Exchanges planned for this week and 12 week program is going great. We are really enjoying it! :