GO LA KINGS!!! Apparently they won
the Stanly Cup, but everyone in LA is too wrapped up in themselves that no one
really talked about it.......anyways thanks so much for the emails!! And the
updates!! It is good to know that the ribbons we put in the cherry tree are
still working. LA has some cool wild life, mainly possums, raccoons, and
parrots. Yeah! Parrots! I want to capture one so bad!!
haha Amanda’s email today was
awesome!! She is such a cool missionary. I literally talk about her in every
street contact I make. She is so cool. But oh man I got distracted because I
just realized the lady next to me with rollers and forks in her hair has
a dog sealed in some kind of grocery bag and its making noises and I don't
know what to do!!!!! This is so sad..
Anyways, that is so cool that Wyatt
is coming home. Tell him to write me something!! Words of wisdom, funny words
in Finnish, whatever!! I need to hear from that ol' Clegg.
So I learned something really cool
today. I was reading the talk in the Ensign about "Being Perfect in
Christ" and it was such a blessing because I have been getting a little
stressed. I feel like I am platto-ing on my mission, getting to comfortable,
getting stuck in the routine!! I just want to reach that next level, that step
closer to perfection, but I just can’t do it. But this talk helped me realize
that we are all a work in progress. That being perfect does not mean that we
never make mistakes or we never are lazy. It means that we are complete. A
scriptures I really enjoy sharing is in 3 Nephi 12 and it is the last
verse. It talks about how we should be perfect, like Jesus and the Father are
perfect. BUT looking at the Chinese translation, it uses the word wan quan (which
means complete) not the word wan mei de ( which means perfect) God wants
us to become complete, he wants us to slowly acquire the things that will make
us like Him and Jesus Christ one day. Right now we are in-complete. But every
day we can add more things. We can learn to be more loving, more diligent, more
Christ like. It’s not just flipping a switch and going from imperfect
to perfect. It is a lifetime of adding on the things we are missing, until we
reach that completed being. The person that Heavenly Father always intended us
to be.
Love you guys so much!! My time
is running out so no pictures this week, I will try next week for sure!!
Elder Burr
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