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Hello everyone! 

How was Thanksgiving? I'm still stuffed!!! We've had four Thanksgiving sized dinners in row!  

This week was the last week of the transfer and it was a great one. There were a bunch of fun things that happened this week!

For Thanksgiving our ward mission leader had us over for dinner and fed us tonnns of food! It was some good grub for sure. Plus they gave us lots of leftovers which made lunch on Friday like round two of Thanksgiving  Then Friday night Elder Burns' aunt and uncle were in LA on vacation so they got permission from president Haynie to take us out to dinner. They took us to an awesome restaurant in Koreatown and stuffed us again! On Saturday the V__ family had us over for dinner and they had lots of Thanksgiving leftovers so we had Thanksgiving all over again! It was soooo great! Yesterday E__, a priest from the Wilshire ward, had his farewell and after church they had a huge dinner for everyone that came. The theme of the meal was Thanksgiving dinners from around the world so they had Mexican food, Armanian food, and Thai food! So I can definitely say that I've been fed very well this week!!

As far as the work goes it was a bit slower than normal. We actually lost a lot of investigators. One of our investigators we had a lesson planned for Friday and when we went to his house there was a crew of people there and they told us he got arrested and was in jail now... Eeeek. 

Yesterday we got our transfer calls and I'm staying in Wilshire! Elder Burns got called to be a district leader down in Carson so he is packing up and moving out. My new companion is Elder Patrick who was actually Elder Burns MTC companion way back when so thats pretty cool! I'm excited and definitely pumped to build the teaching pool back up!

Have a great week!

-Elder Burgon

Thanksgiving day in LA

Thanksgiving day in LA

Thanksgiving Day District Meeting in LA

Riding the bus on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving feast round 1 and leftovers for the next day!!!

E. Burns uncle and cousins 

Thanksgiving feast in Koreatown

A few spiritual thoughts for the week!!!

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Hey friends n fam! It's Monday already!? Wowza where did the week go? This week was great and went by super fast!

Some of the highlights of the week were dinners with members. We went to dinner with a recent convert who is a music producer and it was super cool. He took us to an awesome BBQ place and told us all about his job and making music! It was awesome! He said he's produced music with the group The Kooks so you'll have to look them up for me and see if they're good  Another member we ate with this week is a movie producer so he took us to get Sushi and told us all about making movies! They were some fun dinners for sure!

Yesterday was great! N__ was confirmed in sacrament meeting and she brought her boyfriend to church. We've started meeting with him now and he said he wants to be Baptised too! Wahooooo! Another great part of the week was zone conference. We had lots of trainings on what to do if there are earthquakes, fires, and nuclear attacks  Hopefully that's not a sign of things to come 

A cool thought I found this week was given by Jean Bingham in the October 2016 woman's conference. In it she said, "Our obligation and privilege is to embrace improvement in everyone as we strive to become more like our savior, Jesus Christ." It just made me think about how everyone that has ever been on earth chose to follow our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and that we all came with the goal of returning to live with them again. Some people just don't remember that. That's why it's our obligation and privilege to help everyone we can remember their purpose here on earth, come unto Christ, and eventually return to live with our Heavenly Father. That's what the gospel is all about and that's why it's so important to share it with others!

Have a great week and a great Thanksgiving!

-Elder Burgon

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Helllllllooooooooo! 

Hope you all had an awesome week! 

Me and Elder Burns had about as good of a week as you can have as missionaries! It was full of awesome lessons with our investigators, we met a lot of awesome people, and best of all N__ was Baptized!

This week was great! I went on exchanges twice this week. Once with the zone leaders and the other time with the district leader. Exchanges are tons of fun so doing it twice in one week was a party! 

On Thursday we met with N__ and went up to the Temple and did a tour of the visitors center. We talked about temples and how amazing and important they are and it went really well! She said she is excited to go do baptisms for the dead as soon as she is Baptized and confirmed!

Now for the best part of the week... Sunday! Yesterday was the craziest but the best Sunday ever! N__'s baptism was at 5:00p so we were getting everything all setup for that throughout the day. We had meetings in the morning until church started at 10:30a and it was also the primary sacrament meeting program. In order to get enough primary kids together to put on a program our ward had to combine with the Spanish ward. Because of that the church schedule was a little backwards and we had sacrament meeting last. So first we had sunday school and then Elder Burns and I taught in elders quorum then we had the primary program. It was super unique and cool! Most of the kids in the program were from the Spanish ward because our primary is so small but what made it really cool was that most of the kids knew Spanish AND English! So they would get up and say their part in Spanish and then say the same thing in English. They were so little and they could already speak two languages! I thought that was really cool! After church we ran back to the apartment and ate some lunch and then ran right back to the church to get ready for N____'S BAPTISM! 

N__'s Baptism was the coolest experience ever! She invited all of her family and some of her friends and the baptism went so well! N__'s parents only speak Spanish so we did it a lot like the primary program. We would say everything in English and then the Spanish missionaries would say it in Spanish. The spirit was so strong and N__'s parents were very interested! We are definitely going to have the Spanish missionaries go and meet with them! N__ was Baptized and everything went so great! It was super amazing and so great to be able to help someone enter the gate on the straight and narrow path! 

I love sharing the blessings that come from the Gospel! 

Have a great week! 

-Elder Burgon

Pix:
Nancy's Baptism

 New Series...Food of the Week!

 Another New Series...Awesome Cars of LA

 Beauty of California

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Hello everyone! Can you believe it's already November 6th?! 

This past week was a pretty fun one. Halloween was awesome! The ward did a chili cook-off and a trunk-or-treat so we went and enjoyed some chili and tried to get lots of investigators to come. Then we had to be in our apartments by 6:00p so the day felt super short. Halloween is different in California! It was warm and nobody trick or treats  At least in my area there were no trick-or-treaters. It was weird compared to Utah Halloweens where there are tons of kids in costumes running around the neighborhood. 

Last p-day a lot of other elders and I did a really fun activity. We went to the Peterson Auto Museum and it was super cool! There were tons of cool cars there and the best part was that we were allowed to take pictures so I took tons! 

The rest of the week was pretty normal but for some reason, we met a ton of people throughout the week who were interested in learning. We normally meet a lot of people but for some reason this week it seemed like everyone wanted to talk with us! Everyday people were stopping us and getting really excited to learn about what we believe. More investigators wahoo! There was this one guy we ran into outside of the post office who had lots of questions! We talked with him for over an hour and he was very interested. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he was really excited to read it! Stuff like that happened all week! It was tons of fun!

We met with N__ again a couple of times during the week and holy cow she is ready to be Baptized! Less than a week away now! God is definitely preparing people to hear the Gospel! I am so grateful for the Gospel in my life and seeing the joy that it brings to others is the best thing ever!

Have a great week!

-Elder Burgon