Things are going well. We had a good week and were pretty busy. General Conference was really good! We had 4 investigators show up so that made us really happy! Today we woke up and one investigator, Kent, who was planning on getting baptised this weekend told us that he wasn't quite ready yet. That made us pretty sad because we had planned to have an interview with the Zone Leaders this tuesday. But we will just have to keep working with him and address his concerns. He is a real good guy though, we really like him. Just takes a little more time and we won't be able to baptise anyone this transfer. This week we went on transfers so I went down to Carterton and Featherston which is about 20-30 minutes drive south of Masterton and a fair bit smaller. It was good to work with another Elder and learn from him. He actually went to BYU fall semester and we had the same Book of Mormon and American Heritage professors and didn't even know it!
I haven't really had to eat anything too weird. I did have something called boil-up. Basically they take a whole bunch of pork bones with a little meat, cabbage and some dough and throw it all in a pot with some water and boil it for who knows how long. It was pretty good but not too much flavour. And it was kinda hard to eat it politely so the member's house who we ate it at, Tame, told us just to dig in with our hands next time! Our flat is really nice! Next week I will take some pictures and do a little visual tour for you. Its two bedrooms, one bathroom, a kitchen and a little living area. We also have a one car garage. Fairly new too. We have a washer and dryer but no dishwasher. One of the bedrooms is our study room. I will be wearing a suit until like January or something I think. That is when it gets the hottest I guess. It is sometimes already way too hot to be wearing a suit but oh well! Sounds like things are going well back at home and maybe settling down a little bit. Jacob is pretty creative to come up with something like that to ask Eva to Homecoming. Hopefully he has a great time!
This week we will be going on transfers with the zone leaders down closer to Wellington. They are pretty busy I guess down there so they need some help to get things done. Either that or things are going slow so we are going down there to help things pick up, I can't remember. But that will be exciting, they are real good Elders. Well that is about all for this week, nothing too exciting. Oh except that we are both pretty much completely out of money. I have nothing at all left and Elder Christensen has like 13 dollars. We need to get reimbursed for purchasing some petrol so we are waiting on that. And we get our "blessing" in just a couple days but just not in time for p-day. So we get to make do with the little bit of food we have left and see what members will feed us haha. I am not too worried. When we are doing what we are supposed to be doing, the Lord always provides for us missionaries so I will just keep working! And making sure I don't get "hunger anger.' Haha.
Well I hope you all are having a great week and I am enjoying the pictures you are sending! Did you spend time in St. George because Grandma isn't doing too well again or just to get down there? Either way, I hope you are enjoying your time!
Love,
Elder Burnham
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