Elder and Sister Burr

Elder and Sister Burr

Mission Experiences

Second Mission
We will be serving in the Seoul South Korea mission for two years. We will be posting our experiences below.

First Mission
Hello to all our family and friends visiting this Blog. We are excited about our mission to Kharkov Ukraine. We are in the Donetsk Mission as Humanitarian/Welfare missionaries. Half of our time will be spent helping members with employment. We are also taking Russian lessons from a little Ukrainian girl twice a week. Our brains seem to be a bit scrambled but we are enjoying the process. Keep tuned in and we will keep you updated on what's happening. We are loving it here in Ukraine and we love the people. What a great experience.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

This is when we first visited the care center where there are mentally and physically handicapped children from age four to thirty. This is the room that special beds will go into for younger children that have a disorders that cause them to have to rest much of the day so the beds are special ones that they can enjoy being in.
This room will be for desks that are for the same children.


These are some of the older children that put on a play for us the day we were first there. It was very enjoyable.

These are the desks and the children. There are six desks.

There are eight beds for these special children.




Friday, October 29, 2010

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The top picture shows two girls in the back and the one on the left we have teaching us Russian and the one on right is one of our translators.

These are the pictures of the CES kids doing blankets for mentally handicapped women. It was paid for by Humanitarian Funds. The are going to make 40 blankets.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

This is one of the little girls of the orphanage and was one sweet and loving children you can find in life. She and others gave their crafts to us.
Sister Burr holding some of the children with their arts and crafts.

We visited some of the children in other classes doing some arts and crafts.


The two high government officals against the wall next to us.



This is the closing we went to for the computers that were bought for the orphanage. This is the teacher and some of the children in the class checking out there new equipment.




A picture of the class.






A picture of the special screen sent from the USA for the high resolution projecter shown below.














A D-Link to connect all the computers to the internet.
The vender explaining the finer details of the computer to the teacher (left) and the principal (middle).
This is a picture of the great computers that were bought.
Unpackaging the equipment. Sergey our transilator in the back and other people that came from the place that sold it to help set it up.
We are excited about our first project that is starting to come to a close. Here we are starting to deliver and unpakage the computers in this picture. The computers are ASUS computers with 320 gig hard drive memory and 2 gig ram memory with multi disk burning abilities. Whatever that means. This is much more than they thought they would get. The principal said that now they have as much computer equipment as any inner city school. The vendor we bought them from was so impressed with our project for this orphanage that he added extra stuff to the computers, delivered them, and set them up himself. They were impressed that they were all for the orphanage and not for our use.

We have many more projects going on but it's harder to end a project than start one. This project is at an orphanage outside of town. This type of school doesn't get as much support from the city as do the inner city schools. This is now a very high tech computer class for these kids and the teacher and principal are a little overwhelmed. The teacher said we will be spending some time getting to know what we have.

This is what is done with the money you donate to the church. Your humanitarian funds are blessing the lives of the less fortunate childern in the world. These orphans will now be able to have a qulity computer class.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

This is Sister Burr teaching at the English Club. She does a great job at preparing lessons for it and they are having fun making sentences out of sentences she has cut up and they have to rearranging them into sentences again. They did a good job as this group is advanced in knowing their english.




This is Sister Burr and Elder Burr teaching the third Career Workshop class and the girl standing with them is one of their translators who's name is Alyona. We really enjoy teaching this class and it's a lot of fun and most class members love the class.