burtons | November 11, 2009
Instead of a letter I am sending a travel log. Love Mom, Grandma, Arva
We have learned since we came to Moscow, why people only buy enough food for a day or two instead of for a week or two. The reason is very simple really. You have to carry everything you buy home. No car to get into [...]
burtons | September 15, 2009
Dear Family and Friends,
I have been going to Primary in our new branch. I tried Relief Society and I enjoyed the sisters and someone would always translate for me, but I did not feel involved, so one Sunday, I went to Primary. That first Sunday there was someone there who could translate for me. But [...]
burtons | September 9, 2009
Since June, Sister Burton and I have been serving as coordinators for the Young Single Adult family home evening activities here in Moscow. One evening we happened to mention that we were traveling to Samara (a city several hundred miles east of Moscow) during the week ahead to work with the humanitarian missionaries there. As [...]
burtons | June 29, 2009
Today I had a very difficult experience. I was asked to bless the sacrament . . . in the Russian language. I felt like a young priest with reading disabilities. The branch president was most liberal with me . . . or maybe he just could not stand to hear me suffer through it again. [...]