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 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 

What's up everybodyyy! Another good week here in brazilll. I'll be quick.    This week was super good we got to do some more Christmas stuff which was fun. A member in our ward has a band so this week, a bunch of the missionaries in our district and the district next to ours sung some Christmas songs to open a show they were playing. We definitely sounded pretty rough but it was fun! Spirit was strong! This week I also played my first hymn on the guitar for an investigator hahaha... it was good! Played silent night and Elder pike sung for us.     Other than that some highlights from this week were: I saw Santa driving down the street, cooked some popcorn, had some good juice, ate some good rice and beans, hung out w a bird, oh and I saw a toucan it was crazy.     Much love for you all hope you are doing well! Let me know how it's going!  Elder Burton 

What's up everybody I am still alive. Life is good!! Sorry i missed last week but yea im still alive!       This last week we had our Christmas conference which was so fun. It was with two other zones so I gotta see some of the homies from my ctm district. We had a dope training and then we played a white elephant game. I bought a sick plant for the people. Also Elder muchocho got transfered sadly, it's all good tho because now I'm with my boy Elder nascimento. He is so funny so its gonna be a good transfer.    Other than that some of my highlights from the last two weeks have been: taking a Pic with a flock of capivaras, the food at our zone conference, 3 promising investigators in sacrement, division with Elder Pike, made a cake, ate a pizza, and more.     We learned a ton in zone conference about how the Savior can work miracles in our work and lives. Christ loves us infinitely and his hand is always stretched out to help us. Life is hard ...

   What's good everybody!! Another good week not too much to tell... over all we had a solid week so I'll just give some highlights and some pictures...    On Monday we kinda had a tough day, it was some sort of Holliday here and nobody wanted to talk to us hahah, we did a ton of street contacts but didnt really meet anyone too interested. On our way home we decided to hold hands and pray with some homeless people in the rain... turned my day right around haha, they were all awesome people.    Other than that I saw a huge lizard, made some pancakes, bought some Christmas lights, ate some acai, taught some awesome lessons, and more. In our teaching group we have a ton of awesome people that could definitely progress so that is super exciting... also my homie wemmerson agreed to be baptized this week on our first contact, we gotta get him to church tho. Good stuff!!       It's really flying by and been awesome... Love you guys!!! Let me k...