Tyler Mission News

Hello my family and friends, I am still aline in Brazil. Please pardon my absence, I have not been very good at writing emails!  But I have been having some awesome experience! I had the chance recently to go from a tiny 20 person branch to a ward with more than 100 people. Very different places and I have learned so much in each, these past months we have seen many miracles! I currently am in Volta Redonda, RJ. Home to Latin America's largest Steel Factory. It's kind hard to breath! I think the biggest take away I've had from the last couple months is that sometimes in life, God's plan is way different than ours, I know he loves us, he really wants us to come home. I have seen that in so many ways. Anyways I love you all! Please forgive my silence, I will attach some photos and send me an email if you want!  -Elder Burton 

 

Been on the mission for 1 year! Things have been sweet here in three hearts! We have had a ton of miracles! The members here are super cool. They give us a lot of food.       This week we had a really funny conversation with a dude. There is this thing here in Brazil, if you are crazy in the head and you see two young white strangers in a white shirt and tie, you have to have a conversation with them. This barefoot shirtless man came up to us, gave us a hug and said let me talk to you guys. He went on to tell us that what we were doing is the right thing if our hearts are dedicated to the work, which i took to the heart. He went on to profecy directly to me. He looked me straight in thr eyes about 5 inches from my face and said "I know that you left a women behind to do this, know that she is waiting for you" and then he disappeared. hahahahha     I don't know of anyone that is waiting for me, but I low key believed the dude, shout out to my homeless prophe...

    Whats up everyone!! Sorry it has been a while since i have written an email, just want to let you all know im doing great here In três corações! This week we had the baptism of Emily, she is super sick she is a friend of a recent convert.      The members here are really awesome, it has been super fun to work with them. This week we are gonna do a kite festival at the church so im pretty stoked on that,      I have definitly learned this transfer not to compare myself with other people, the only thing that matters is our efforts to be a good follower of Jesus Christ, i know god lives and loves us, love you all, send me an email!! 

Subject:  Hello everybody What's up all my friends in family, I am still in Brazil! Life is good! We have had some pretty sweet success here in Juiz de Fora,  I love our recent converts here, one of the favorite parts of my week are when we go to this lady's house that was recently baptized. She always makes us a delicious snack. The gospel has made all the difference in here life so that's been pretty cool 😎  Love you all! Send me an email also sorry for the long time no talk here are some photos  Elder Burton 

   What's up everybody!!! So sorry I've been so bad at writing emails!! These last few weeks have been the craziest weeks of my mission holyyyyy but it's been hard and awesome and fun and hard hahaha.     So two weeks ago I got transferred! I am now in Paraíba do Sul, a city in the state of Rio de Jaineiro. Also, I am finishing a training! My trainee is named Elder Hammer. Yes he is American hahaha he is from Idaho. The portuguese is definitely rough here but it's been an extremely blessed two weeks. Also there's a subway here so that's lit, it's the first thing I've tasted that tastes anything like America haha. Yea we've spent some money at subway. Also I a got hat      First day I got here we met with the Branch President, he asked me at 830 on a Saturday if I could give a short discurso(talk) of 25 minutes the next day in sacrement. I said yea I can probably figure something out. It was a wild first day I ran back to the apartment and started ...

What up everyone.... made it to 2023 in Brazil! These past few weeks have been good! Not too much to tell been pretty standard weeks    The new year has been good here! We spent New years with the bishop and his wife. They are so awesome they gave us some great food. The bishop here is really funny and sung us a ton of songs on his guitar. The new year has begun with rain, hahaha it has not stopped raining in 7 days. Right now we have some awesome people in our teaching group. One of our investigators named Isaías is getting baptized this week! One night we climbed the hill to his house in the rain and I was soaked, he ended up giving me this dope sweatshirt so that is sick. He's awesome and I'm super stoked for his babtism ! Other than that I ate some venezualan food (no idea what it was but it was good), I ate some açai (a lot), I lost a bet, also I get to wake up every morning to my comp lifting weights while laying in his bad, truly the good life.  Much love for you a...

What's good everybody!  Merry Christmas! Christmas here was good! Was a little bit different but awesome.    This week I went on a long exchange to a  town called Leopoldina. I hung out with my boy Elder Budge all week he is awesome he is from San Clemente. We tried a different burger stand every night so that was fun hahaha. We also got super lost one day and walked throug h this dudes pig farm in the forest. Was kinda scary not gonna lie.    We spent Christmas with a Venezuelan family in our ward! It was awesome we had a venezuelan feast which was delicous. Honestly I don't have any idea what I ate but it was yellow and it tasted good! The members here have been super nice to us this Christmas so we spent a lot of time in people's houses and eating food. It's been a grandão blessing. Also we are at a churrascaria right now for Christmas and it is awesome.    Christmas was a little a lot warmer here but was a great time to remember the birth of J...

What up everybodyyyy!! Had a blessed week this week.... just another week in Juiz de Fora.      This week I went on two exchanges which was fun! One exchange was me and this other gringo Elder hales that was in my MTC district. We both are new and don't speak the best so it was super interesting. It was crazy though the gift of tounges is legit! We taught three awesome lessons and also gave some blessings. We thought we were gonna be knocking doors all day so it was awesome. Man I can't believe I'm in Brazil speaking posrtuguese it's still wild to me.       Some other highlights were eating burgers, eating popcorn, singing in a Christmas presentation, marked some dates for babtism, drinking tererê, saw a sick garbage fire, saw a cool caterpillar, and we definitely met some elects of the lord this week... super blessed!      Love you all! Jesus christ lives and he's definitely been helping me out! Email me!!  Elder Burton