burtons | April 9, 2010
We have had some good experiences this past week and so has our mission.
As you know, a week ago last Monday there was a terrorist attack on the Metro. As a result we as missionaries were asked not to wear our tags and the young missionaries were not to do their regular [...]
burtons | March 31, 2010
By the time you read this post, the bombing of the Moscow Metro Trains will be news all over the world. At this point we believe all of the missionaries are safe. They have been ordered to stay in their apartments until further notice from the mission president. We don’t think any church members have been [...]
burtons | March 31, 2010
Dear Family and Friends,
Now that our computer is working again, I hope we can keep in touch. I am sorry to have not written for such a long time.
We just started daylight savings time here this week. This is the day I get mad at Benjamin Franklin. I have lost an hour of sleep that [...]
burtons | March 31, 2010
We have been to Prague and Riga on passport runs and to Volgograd to look at NRT projects (Neonatal Resuscitation Training) since we wrote last. That was an experience. We were to fly to Volgograd, a two hour flight in late afternoon with three other couples. After we had been in the air for over [...]
burtons | January 13, 2010
Dear Family,
We have had a wonderful week, but one that was very different from other years. This year I had no last minute shopping to do and no last minute wrapping. Well, not very much at least. I didn’t get all the missionaries socks wrapped, so had to quickly do those before they left our [...]
burtons | November 11, 2009
I have attached a few photos of places we have been and things we’ve seen. The chair is a massage therapy chair for treating handicapped people. As always, there are many large, beautiful churches everywhere we go. They are attractive, but they teach almost no doctrine other than that we should believe in Christ. No [...]
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 | November 2, 2009
Dear Family ,
We had a busy week last week. We worked on a possible crisis situation. One of our couples was asked to meet with the Minister of Religion in Perm, where they are serving. We heard about it on Tuesday and worked all that day and part of Wednesday to try and get the [...]
burtons | October 1, 2009
Dear Family and Friends..
Since I have written we have gone to Prague again. The Area CES guy is in our office. He was raised in East Germany and it would be wonderful to hear his stories of being a Saint before the wall came down. Anyway, he has traveled all over Europe so he suggested [...]
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 [...]