ELDER ERIC BURGON: THE BOOK, BIG DOGS, & BUGATTI

Hello everbody!

This week has been another great one!

We got some extremely exciting news this week. On Tuesday we had a special zone conference and President Haynie announced that we are now a Facebook mission! So now we can use facebook to help do missionary work :) It will be a super nice tool to help people fit visits with us into their busy schedules. Sometimes people don't have an hour or even a half hour for us to come by and meet with them but almost everyone can find time to hop on facebook and chat with us. We were able to use it the very first day we got it. We had an investigator who was about to stop meeting with us because she was just too busy and couldn't find the time to meet with us. But then we told her that we can use facebook now and we can chat with her whenever she is available and she really liked that! So she decided that she is going to continue meeting with us! It was so awesome!

This week there have been lots of fun dog encounters. One of our new investigators has a big pitbull named Shadow that LOVES Elder Burns! While we were at her house yesterday Shadow would not leave Elder Burns alone. By the time we left Elder Burns was covered in dog hair, had recieved lots of unwelcome dog kisses, and was covered in dirty paw prints. I was dying! On Saturday after dinner with some members we were walking back to our car and Elder Burns noticed that there was a dog on the sidewalk about a block away from us. We crossed the street and were walking down the other side road just to be safe. But when we were across the street from the dog it jumped up and started barking its head off and chasing us. Me and Elder Burns had to run back to our car but it was close so we made it back safe.

Earlier I was reading some First Presidency messages from a while ago and there was this one that I really liked. It was from President Monson on following spiritual promptings. In it President Monson shared a story about a prompting he got to go visit an elderly lady at a senior center. He followed the prompting and went to visit her and they had a good visit. But while he was there he ran into the son of Gene Hemingway who was a counselor in a previous bishopric. He said that Gene was also in the senior center and had been calling President Monson's name. President Monson went to see Gene and he was able to meet up with him and talk to him. He was also able to give him a blessing of comfort to help him as he was struggling. President Monson left and then the next morning he got a call that informed him that Gene had passed away 20 minutes after he left. President Monson was very grateful that he recieved the prompting and was able to follow it. This just really showed me how important it is to be in tune with the spirit and to follow its promptings. I know that as we follow the promptings of the spirit we will be guided and directed and it will make us so much happier!

Have a great week!

-Elder Burgon

And one last thing that was cool that happened this last week. When we were driving home from the zone conference we were driving through a part of Beverly Hills and we saw a Bugatti Veyron! :) I was able to get a picture of it so it will be down below. Me and Elder Burns were pretty pumped. It's in the window...look closely :)