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 | February 5, 2010
Dear Family and Friends,
Another week has come and gone. We had some great experiences this week. I have to admit though that I can’t remember what we did on Monday. So I will have to start with Tues.
Tues was Zone conference. That is a real treat. We get to spend part of the day with [...]
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 | 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 | September 6, 2009
The Bus
Russia has done a very good job of providing mass transportation for its citizens. This week while we were visiting one of our Humanitarian couples in Samara, Russia, we had a chance to ride on several kinds of buses. As it is an experience that we don’t get at home very often, I thought [...]
burtons | August 19, 2009
Dear Family and Friends,
Hello to all. It has been a while since I wrote. We are still in Russia and doing well.
Today we went to a school we hope to be able to do a project for. They are the first state sponsored school for multiple-handicapped children. We had heard of this school because they [...]
burtons | July 14, 2009
It was my turn to carry missionary passports to the U.S. Embassy today for processing. Each missionary in Russia must have two passports to allow them to leave the country every 90 days using their old visa, and to re-enter the country using a new visa that is valid for 90 more days. I have [...]
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 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 [...]