Conference Weekend!

Sister Cady is doing well.  We had a good companion talk the other day.  Our companionship wasn't where it needed to be.  She helped me realize that I was being non accepting of her, and it's not like me at all.  I haven't been myself since I got out into the mission field. I've been scared, just not me at all.  I have needed to change things about myself and love everyone, which I do, But I tell you, Satan seriously knows our weaknesses and knows how to get right to us.  It's crazy.  I know I need to improve myself a lot, and through Christ's atonement, I can be the person I want to be out here and the person the Lord wants me to be. We are doing so much better now. It has strengthened my testimony immensely.

Well, we saw Noah this past week and he said that he has been reading the Book of Mormon and we hope to commit him for baptism this next week. We have another investigator, her name is Mary Kirby.  She has a baptist husband and she believes that if God has sent us prophets back then, why wouldn't he do it now? And we are like, "Get baptized already!" So, she's been reading the BOM as well, and we hope to commit her for baptism, too!

We have a baptism this next Sunday, October 13th, after church. Ashley Gilliam. She is such a sweet girl and she has a desire to learn more!

General Conference was seriously one of the best conferences I've ever listened to! Saturday was unreal.  Every single talk was specifically for me, I believe. Talk after talk, there were things that I needed to hear SO much.  I loved Robert D. Hales' talk about putting on the FULL armor of God. Ulisses Soares: Saying it's possible to change, and this was right after me and Sister Cady talked. It really just opened my eyes on how I need to use the atonement. 

I LOVED Elder Edward Dube's talk: Stand close together and lift where we stand, It doesn't matter where we have been, what we have done, but where we are WILLING to go. That hit me so hard. Where we are WILLING to go.  We need to realize what steps we are willing to take to become better. I loved it.

Elder Uchtdorf: Wow. amazing, amazing talk! We as missionaries were like YEAH! GO UCHTDOFT! He was just telling people to come, no matter your circumstance, just come. Seek the pure doctrine of Christ, it will heal your wounded soul. It's the pathway to peace and happiness. Loved it.

Boyd K. Packer talked about repentance and forgiveness, which is what I needed.  

I about died crying with Jefferey R. Holland's talk.  Finally someone comes out and says that it's okay to be depressed! But God is always there and He loves us NO MATTER WHAT. Charity NEVER faileth. Trust in God, don't give in, show compassion one to another. Saturday was AWESOME!

Sunday, Henry B. Eyring started it off with a boom! It was soo good! It was about love and I absolutely loved his talk.  We need to encourage everyone and love everyone regardless of what they do.
Of course I LOVED Thomas S. Monson's talk. Seriously, this was the best General Conference.  You already know that I was bawling my eyes out through out the entire thing.  Sister Cady is now used to my crying, maybe.

It's been a great week.  I miss you and love you so much! Tell the kids I miss and love them so much! 

Love always,
Sister Burr.

My Mission Isn't About Me....

Sister Burr and Elder Burr - two cousins in the MTC together.

How awesome is that???

Hey ya'll!

I absolutely love those pictures you sent me. I miss you guys so much, I can't even explain to you how much I do. And I love you guys so so so so much!

Well, my week has been rather boring, I just do the same stuff every day.  Teach people about Jesus. We got some new investigators this week. We have a baptism! October 13. So that's cool, right? haha yeah. She was gonna get married to a guy named Bill who is a member, then get baptized the week after, but they broke up a day before the wedding...so that was awkward. So we were like...did we just lose our baptism? But, she really loves the church still and so we had a new date for her. Then we're getting close with a couple other people.  So hopefully we commit them for baptism this week.  We haven't met with Noah since like 2 or 3 weeks ago...he is just always working and we're like dude! you are ready to be baptized...we haven't committed him yet, but he is so close. Other than that, I just play the piano during church and call people and remind them to read their scriptures.  There is this one guy, Bro Hamilton. He's not a member, and he's like 68? and he is like one of my favorite people ever.  He married his 2nd wife and she was awful to him and like abused him and his son and he like legit wanted to kill her, but then she died...and he can't forgive himself for wanting to do that.  He believes that this is the true church and everything, he loves the book of mormon, has great faith and love for God.  He said he would get baptized but he can't forgive himself. I just wanna shake him and say look! that is what the Atonement is for! so that you CAN forgive yourself! All things are made possible by Jesus Christ and His Atonement! But, he's so funny! He thinks he's the hottest guy on the planet. He has women buy him jewelry. Oh man, he's hilarious. He said Sister Cady, my companion, reminded him of the Yankees up north and he likes yankees. HA! It was SO funny. I love people here. They are funny. Other than that, It's been a boring week. We do exchanges with other Sisters for a night, so I went to Kingsport, Tennessee for a night and it was pretty fun.  I love all the people in my mission. It's been so, so, so fun.

I miss you guys so much and I love you guys even more!

Love always,

Sister Burr.

Here is something you could put on the blog. haha I don't know. I promise I'm not bored out here!! hahaha.

It's been hard being out here because I'm trying to gain more confidence in my missionary abilities, still not the strongest, but gaining strength through exact obedience, keeping FULL faith in Jesus Christ and the most important thing I have learned is the last part of our purpose; enduring to the end. It's been hard the past couple of weeks, overcoming personal challenges; learning not to be so hard on myself, telling myself that I CAN do this, to not let Satan get me down, feeling like what I'm doing just isn't enough. All of these things, I've been able to get past, or at least start to, and trying to become better. I'm FAR from perfect. I know that trusting in the Lord is of utmost importance. I can't teach with the Spirit without trusting Him. I didn't realize that it took so much to give ALL of myself to him. I want nothing else, but it is hard. I keep forgetting that my mission isn't about me though, it's about the people we teach and helping them reach salvation. I can only convert people as far as I'm converted. So, I'm working on my knowledge of the lessons and of the Book of Mormon. Because I feel like it's one of my weak points. I don't know as much as I want to, to be able to teach simply, which is the way of Christ.

My new glasses!

This is my cute district. Me and Sister Cady, Elder Friedman and Waring

Then it's Elder and Sister Miner, then Elder and Sister Wilken.

They are the best.

This his Bro. Hunsucker. He is basically one of my favorite people here. he's the EQ president. He's hilarious.

Cake, Confidence, and Kudzu!

This week has been good! Kind of a hilarious story. So, the senior missionary couple that lives across the hall from us, we decided we want to make a mayo cake. It sounds REALLY gross, but it's REALLY good (:  It's a cake mix, 3 eggs, 1 cup of water, and 1 cup mayo. It's good. SO we decided we needed something to celebrate. So we added all of our ages up, us and the senior couple, it was about 180 candles, so we went and got 180 candles and put them all on the cake. we made it pretty too! like we put little chocolate chips on the side. We took way too much time on this, haha and then we put the candles REALLY close together, like it was crazy. Then we lit them up and we didn't know the flame would be so high.....ya we didn't figure that out...hahaha. Then we had to carry it across the hall, so I was holding the cake and I tried to run with it, but the flames were getting in my face, then the fire alarm started going off, so we hurried across the hall and their faces, oh my gosh, SO funny. then we tried to blow out the candles and it wouldn't work...hahaha so basically we were in a panic, but they went out, man it was hilarious.

But as for being a missionary, I have been struggling with speaking during lessons, because I'm so shy and I don't know what to say...my companion had to finally say "hey, I can't do this alone, you have to step it up". And I'm like, "I'm sorry I suck at life"!  I've had really low self confidence about everything while being on a mission.... feeling inadequate, not meeting any of the expectations. and just feeling like I just don't have it in me to do this. BUT through prayer and reading the scriptures, I've gained that confidence. Like I read D&C 60:2-3 and it basically said if you don't open your mouth and use your abilities, they will be taken away from you, so HAVE FAITH! That has really hit me and pushed me to talk more, but it's been hard. Every time I get scared to say something in the lesson, I just think, Just have faith in Jesus, just have faith in Jesus, just have faith in Jesus! hahaha. Because people here are just SO, you know, like "Praise Jesus!" and so we always say Jesus loves you! to EVERYONE haha it's really funny. So I say that all the time now. Sac-religious?...maybe..but I don't think so! we all love Jesus! hahaha(: And then we have been seeing lots of less active members and there has been lots of homes where there is just a bad feeling in there and the energy is so negative...it's really been a strength builder. Other than that, we've just been teaching and spreading the good word of God(:  I'm getting better at this whole missionary thing. I can't believe i've been out for almost 6 weeks..it's kinda really crazy!

So ya, It's been great! I miss you and love you all so much! tell EVERYONE I said hello! and Jesus loves you! haha. 

So this stuff that looks like a blanket on the trees, it's called Kudzu, it's a Japanese weed that has come over here and it grows over everything but it kills all the trees, it's pretty in a weird way. it's everywhere here! I just thought that was cool.

The 180 Candle Cake after blowing out the candles :)

Our first bottle of franks- finished it in 4 weeks!

The one month mark....

This month has gone by so fast and slow. I'm getting more comfortable with it. It's a lot of hard work, and one thing I love about my companion, is that she is a HARD worker, she's only got 5 months left so she wants to work work work, which is good, and exhausting. And we both love spicy things and put Frank's buffalo sauce on EVERYTHING. So, we get along well :) haha. I love being a missionary so much. It's the best and hardest emotional thing I've ever gone through, but I've already seen it bless my life in so many different ways!

One of the sister senior missionaries, Sister Casper, died on Saturday :( She was 69. She was always in bad health and she had heart failure and kidney failure. She wasn't doing well. It was very sad to see her pass away. All she wanted to do her whole life was serve a mission. So she died doing what she always wanted to do, serve the Lord, and that takes a LOT of courage and faith. I admire her.

This week has been extremely uneventful, everyone we went to see either wasn't home, had bad past experiences with missionaries or their house didn't exist, so we barely taught anyone this week, and with having zone meetings and stake conference, we didn't do a lot of teaching. So i've just been studying a lot and learning more about this wonderful gospel which I love so much.

Well I love you and miss you all! Keep your relationships up with God and as a family. Don't forget what's important out of our crazy lives.

I absolutely love the pictures you sent. Sadly I don't have any today. I didn't take any pictures this week. I will be taking more, though. I sent Brandee and Dave a letter about how happy I am that they are getting sealed. And Spencer sent me a letter. It was the cutest thing of my life!! He's so cute! I love that whole family!

I love you and miss you SO much. I wanted a hug from you the other day :( but it's okay, when I get home, I know you'll give me a great big hug.

Love always,

Sister Burr.

Mt. Timpanogos Temple 7-27-13

Mt. Timpanogos Temple

What a beautiful day and a wonderful experience to go to the temple! It was nice to have so many family and friends show up to share this special day.  We know that it was so busy, and that not everyone was able to make it in, but we appreciate the time and effort that everyone put in to make this a good experience for Lindsi. We love you all!

Grandma and Grandpa Burr
Lindsi and her Dad















Aimee, Grandma, Jeff, Brad,
Lindsi, Greg and Grandpa

          Thank you to those who came:

          Grandma and Grandpa Burr
          Jeff and Aimee Burr
          Mike, Annie, and Alex Burr
          Greg and Emily Burr
          Uncle Mick and Mike Paskett
          Jana Floyd
          Terelyn Killpack
          Jill Tolley
          Valerie Ogborn
          Bryan and Jana Amundson
          James and Joni Saxton



                   Mom, Lindsi and Dad

New Pictures - Arrival and Orientation - (posted on the mission website)

The Lord's Hand.....

I miss you guys so much! The homesickness really hit me this week. It has been a strange week in the mountains (hills) of Virginia! My favorite guy in the ward, President Hunsucker (EQ)….his laugh isn't like any other laugh. The ward here is so amazing. They are so dedicated, diligent and hard working. They drive an hour to come to church, family home evening and a Book of Mormon class on Wednesdays.

I have definitely seen the Lord's hand in my life.  I have had a hard time 'opening my mouth' to those we teach.  But scripture after scripture I found that if I open my mouth, the Lord will fill it.  I have also learned this week that as I teach by the Spirit, that changes the hardest of hearts.  There is a couple, Bro. and Sis. Johnson.  He used to be the bishop and a high councilman and they, and a couple other families, just up and left the church one day over 30 years ago because they weren't put into the Stake leadership positions. It tore the ward apart. We went and saw them and you could literally feel such a sad spirit in their home. The spirit wasn't there at all.  We could see him fighting the spirit and we both know his spirit is yearning to come back into the nourishment of Christ.  They keep denying it though.  I have faith that we will help him back though. I can feel the love that God has for His children. 

And let me tell you, the Spirit has helped me do things and I don't know why I did them. That is the power of God, though.  We were teaching an investigator named Brother Porter.  He has this amazing faith in God and such a positive attitude about life.  I felt impressed to share a quote with him, "Faith is like a staircase and not seeing the entire staircase, you take the first few steps and rely on God that the rest of it will be there." He said that he had been having this dream about a staircase surrounded by nothing but water and a lighthouse.  He knew that I had answered this for him and that the lighthouse was God.  God is the lighthouse in our lives of confusion and if we have faith in Him, the Lord works wonders.  Noah also kept saying, I know you. I don't know how, but I know you. It's crazy how the Lord works.  I have had so much fun being out here. It's hard, definitely. But I am changing lives out here and they don't even know it yet. 

I also play piano every Sunday because they only have 1 other person who can play.  Practice does pay off. :)

I'm so glad that all of you are okay and it confirms how much I love each and everyone of my family members. I love you all SO much and I don't know what I would do without ANY of you. Thank you for your support and love.

I love my companion by the way. She is crazy, goofy and amazing!