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.

Friday, October 14, 2011

This is a little baboska (grandma) that was out in a large field after it had been harvested. She was gleening the field. She is Sergey Maydon neighbor and he is standing to the right.
This is what she does. She picks up the old dried sunflower the harvestor didn't pick up and holds it over a bucket and taps it with a stick to get the last few seeds out of it. The burlap bag sitting on the ground as you can see is half full of seeds she has gleened so far. Boy has she ever done a lot of work today.
This is Sister Burr Standing with her just outside of her home.
This is her home. She is self saficient here. She has chickens, goats and a nice garden and you can see a table in the background by her front door which she uses to work on. The man infront of Sister burr is Sergey Maydon. His place is next to hers and she keeps the keys to his place while he is not there which is most of the year. He has an orchard that may be used in the Food Initiative Program.
This is the table of which I mentioned she works on. Right now she has ears of corn that she is drying. She said the red corn is for popping.
The corn reminds us of indian corn.
This is one of her two goats she milks and I guess may makes cheese out of.