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. [...]
burtons | June 29, 2009
Dear Family,
I have been so long in writing, I will try to do better. We are very busy here, and we are starting to get a chance to do real missionary work. Not a lot. How many people go on a mission and spend their time sitting in front of a computer, However, Pres. Cranney, [...]
burtons | June 23, 2009
Picture us in a small car this week with our Russian interprepter and the director of one of the first charities in Moscow. It is the director’s car and she is driving. . . tearing through traffic very much like an Armenian taxi driver . . . talking to our interpreter (Anna) and waving both hands while dodging [...]
burtons | June 10, 2009
Bulgaria
Provided a staircase wheelchair escalator to a daycare for youth and children with disabilities to provide access for handicapped children to the gymnasium where physical therapy is provided.
Ukraine
Provided 17 doors for a large surgery center in a hospital to improve sterile conditions. The surgical area previously was [...]
burtons | June 5, 2009
While Pres. Uchtdorf and Elder Anderson were in Moscow, they spoke at two meetings that DeVere and I were privleged to go to. The first meeting was a meeting with missionaries. The second was with the Saints who are members of the two Moscow Districts and their friends and families. This first part [...]
burtons | June 4, 2009
A special thing happened in Russia last Monday. Two of the Lord’s chosen apostles came to Moscow and spoke to the members of the church. President Uchtdorf called it a special “family home evening”. It was well attended and the large auditorium was filled with members and their friends from the Moscow area and beyond. [...]