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.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

After going to the temple with the couples we looked back and saw this view of the temple so we took a picture of it.
This is the housing that is on the temple grounds at the Kiev temple. The temple missionaries and people that come from far away to visit the temple stay here at a minimal cost.
This is the kitchen in the housing that those who visit can use.
This is the kitchen they use.
And this is a refrigerator that each person can use that is visiting. They can lock up their individual food stuffs.
This is a playroom for children who come to be sealed to their parents.
This is a hallway full of rooms for those who come a long ways to attend the temple. Wives and Husbands have to be seperated to accomadate more people (Women on one side of the hall and men on te other) and no children can come with them unless they are being sealed.
How great is this. The missionary couples get to have washers and dryers, the key word here is dryers, and not only that they don't have to pay to use them. There is another set just like this one for those who come from long distances to attend the temple.
Kiev Temple. This picture was taken the day we first arrived in Kiev at the first of our mission.
These are the missionaries that we went to the Kiev Temple with the before we had the class to teach ten missionary couples.
Setting up class in Kiev to train ten missionary couples.
Class in session.
We made it through the class without dieing of fright.

Kiev Mission President counceling with the missionary couples after class.
This is Yanna standing next to us. She is the first Employment Specialist in the Donetsk Mission and she is really a sharp person. She understood very well what needs to be done in the employment area
This is the class under way. They were a great class and we had a lot of fun. Lots of laughs and lots of learning. They were grateful for the information. Even the mission presidents wife said she would use the information when she gets home in three months.


This is before class started and is set up for 30 people. Twenty six came the first night and a total of thirty six came in total.

Friday, March 4, 2011

This is Alyona one of our translators. She was being funny here. She is moving to Idaho to marry a missionary she meet on her mission as soon as she gets her visa.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

This is a film of a boy and girl that was ice skating in the road. This is the suff we have to walk on a lot and it is uneven and slippery.

Below you will see some pictures of a couple of projects of the seventeen we are working on. This picture is of a kitchen that they want to put an oven in to cook many loaves of bread at a time.
The blue thing in the background is a dryer that doesn't work and in the foreground is a washer that needs to be replaced.

This is a large ironing machine that doesn't work very well. They want to replace it with a ironing machine that also dries.


This is interesting. This is a dryer for their cloths. These five racks pull out from the wall to hang their cloths on. They push the racks back into the wall and it is kind of warm back in there but not hot. As you can see the two stacks of clothes waiting to go into the dryer. A picture of their washing machine is below. Notice this guy has a hat and coat on.


They bake many loaves of bread a day and need a new oven. There are other things that they are asking for but these are the most important.