Friends and Family,
This week has been one of the most exciting of my mission, and not because of Thanksgiving. On Tuesday morning, my mission president called me and formally extended the call to me to be a spanish-speaking missionary. He ordered the MTC materials for me, which I will probably get tomorrow. As of Wednesday, I have a native spanish-speaking companion. So exciting. I will tell a little background about it.
At the begining of the transfer six weeks ago, I was talking to Elder Petersen who served in the same branch as me, but spanish. He said that he had been called English, but told President he would liketo go Spanish. He was switched a transfer later. He said that if I showed desire to do the same, there was a chance I could. I started studying Spanish in my free time with some spanish materials I found at the appartment: a MTC lesson and grammar book, the pamphlets in spanish, and a spanish Preach My Gospel I borrowed from the church library. When Interviews rolled around, I told president I would love to switch. He said he would consider it. Many of the Spanish missionaries do not have driving privelages, because they are from foreign countries. He said they were always in need of ones who could drive. Now we jump forward to the morning before transfers. I got the call from President, and I was off.
I am now serving in the Logan, Iowa branch, in the Council Bluffs stake. The branch is mostly english with the exception of Denison. Denison used to be a spanish area with its own missionaries and branch. It closed 6 weeks ago and became part of the Logan Branch. The Logan branch has about 100 people who come regularly and has a nice building.
My companion is Elder Poccori. He wasw born in Peru, and moved to the US about 7 years ago. He speaks English, but only enough to get by. I am helping him with it, and he is helping me with Spanish.
We live with members- the Hess family. It is just a husband and wife who are both retired. We live in the town of Persia which has about 360 people. It is right in the middle of the major population in our area: Logan, Missouri Valley, Harlan, and Denison. We get our mail from the post office, which has a public area of about 5ft by 10 ft inside. The members we live with are cool though. They feed us all the time, and we have a spiritual thought every night.
It is officially Christmas time!! I love it. Every one is putting up Christmas lights and we are singing Christmas hymns in Church. I love it.
Send mail through the Mission office, but if you send a Christmas package, send it to:
Elder Burnham
Box 57
Persia, IA 51563
Doing this will keep the mission office from getting flodded with Christmas packages.
That is all for this week.
-Elder Burnham
PS. Iowa actually has hills. It is nice to see something besides FLAT.
At the begining of the transfer six weeks ago, I was talking to Elder Petersen who served in the same branch as me, but spanish. He said that he had been called English, but told President he would liketo go Spanish. He was switched a transfer later. He said that if I showed desire to do the same, there was a chance I could. I started studying Spanish in my free time with some spanish materials I found at the appartment: a MTC lesson and grammar book, the pamphlets in spanish, and a spanish Preach My Gospel I borrowed from the church library. When Interviews rolled around, I told president I would love to switch. He said he would consider it. Many of the Spanish missionaries do not have driving privelages, because they are from foreign countries. He said they were always in need of ones who could drive. Now we jump forward to the morning before transfers. I got the call from President, and I was off.
I am now serving in the Logan, Iowa branch, in the Council Bluffs stake. The branch is mostly english with the exception of Denison. Denison used to be a spanish area with its own missionaries and branch. It closed 6 weeks ago and became part of the Logan Branch. The Logan branch has about 100 people who come regularly and has a nice building.
My companion is Elder Poccori. He wasw born in Peru, and moved to the US about 7 years ago. He speaks English, but only enough to get by. I am helping him with it, and he is helping me with Spanish.
We live with members- the Hess family. It is just a husband and wife who are both retired. We live in the town of Persia which has about 360 people. It is right in the middle of the major population in our area: Logan, Missouri Valley, Harlan, and Denison. We get our mail from the post office, which has a public area of about 5ft by 10 ft inside. The members we live with are cool though. They feed us all the time, and we have a spiritual thought every night.
It is officially Christmas time!! I love it. Every one is putting up Christmas lights and we are singing Christmas hymns in Church. I love it.
Send mail through the Mission office, but if you send a Christmas package, send it to:
Elder Burnham
Box 57
Persia, IA 51563
Doing this will keep the mission office from getting flodded with Christmas packages.
That is all for this week.
-Elder Burnham
PS. Iowa actually has hills. It is nice to see something besides FLAT.
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