Week 2 in the Field

I had another great week here in Salt Lake! Last P-day my whole zone

went to the creator of Scentsy's house just to hang out. They have a

huge house with an indoor basketball court and such that they always

let the missionaries use which was super cool. That night we got to

teach our investigator Paula which went really well! She does lots of

research and studying before each lesson we have with her and she asks

lots of great questions! Paula also had her daughter sit in the lesson

with us and she seems pretty interested too!

Tuesday we had new missionary training at the mission office which

took like 6 or 7 hours! Felt like an eternity but President and Sister

Hillier had lots of great things to say. They talked about creating a

"Zion mission." President Hillier has only been serving for about 4

months but that seems to be his theme. Doing everything we can to

build each other up so we can confidently go out and serve. He is such

an inspired leader and just perfect for this mission specifically.

Also I met a new missionary at the training who got here last Sunday

from Sooke, BC! His name is Elder Sulzen. He said he knows the Fishers

pretty well! Small world....

Wednesday we had zone conference which meant another 7 hours at the

mission office but it was also super great!  More about creating a

Zion mission and creating ward or stake focused missionaries. Helpful

stuff! I also got my IPad and my bike on Wednesday! Both of which

makes the work so much easier! The entire area book synced to maps is

on the IPad which is insanely helpful! Going to be hard to give up

once I go to New Cal haha.

Thursday was lots of weekly planning. Some more great lessons and a

lot of biking! We bike all day every day it seems but I enjoy the

exercise. Also Elder Lyons and I went over Alma chapter 5 which really

stuck out to me. I recommend you read it!

Friday was more meetings and pouring rain! Elder Lyons and I got

completely soaked and every lesson and meeting basically fell through.

Kind of a rough day but C'est la vie. Members have been telling us

that it's been strangely warm for this time of year. Normally by

Halloween its suppose to be dumping snow not rain! I'm glad it's

staying warm though. Hopefully it holds up before I head to the

tropics! That's about it for this last week. Talk to you next week!

I didn't really take any pictures this week but I'll be sure to take

some for next P-day.

Avec amour,

-Elder Burbank