Tyler Mission News

   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 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 

What's up everybody!!! I am still alive and I made it to the field! This week has been full of a ton of new and it was awesome......      So Tuesday I got here and met my comp and mission presidents... I am so lucky to have awesome mission presidents and a bomb trainer. My dawg Elder muchocho is training me right, he is from Mozambique and doesn't speak to much English so I am learning a ton, sometimes it takes a few minutes for us to understand each other's simple questions but we get the job done hahaha.... I am serving in the bairu 2 area, I know it's in the city of Juiz de Fora but other than that, I have no clue where I am. Luckily meu pai Elder muchocho leads the way.      So yea the people here speak portuguese, and I do not hahaha.  I really don't understand to much but it's cool. Everyday I understand a little bit more.... me and Elder Muchocho have this awesome system for teaching and talking to people.... he carries the conversation, and whe...

          What's good everybody!! Im alive! This blessed Friday marks my last p day in the mtc, the coming Monday I'm out to Juiz de fora,  I'm sooo hyped. Soo yea I did the mtc, it twas quite chill, I learned soooo much.... I made a ton of great friends, laughed a ton, and I even learned a bit about the good word of of the gospel too hahah. I have also been studying the much more difficult words of Portuguese... it's coming along!! (I think)      My days here consist of class, class, rice and beans, more rice and beans, studying, general shenanigans with my district, and devotionals that occasionally inspired me to close my eyes (not sleep, just deep pondering)....        Some of the  highlights of my week is when my district hits the showers and does a choir practice, we have received many compliments throughout the ctm on our angelic singing voices. Also I have taken up the yoyo courtesy of elder Cook (I'm qui...

most day the homies wake up and work out, then we go try to eat breakfast....the food is rough but I can handle it.      It's great tho so many awesome people here... some highlights are zone testimony meetings, general conference, chilling w my district, yo yo ing with elder Cook, and hanging out with Drew he is right down the hall.  right now we are headed to the temple so that is exciting,   The ctm is kinda build like a prison hahah so it is nice when we get let out... they drove us like an hour to a police station for visa stuff so that was fun, it's cool here it doesn't really feel like we are in another country yet because we've been in the ctm the whole time.