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.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

After a nights ride on the train we arrived in Crimea. Notice the red star on top of the tower.
Another picture of the train station.
This is why we are here. Another Career Workshop. We had a couple of older people come because their grandchildren wouldn't come and they wanted to explain the program to them to help them get a job. It is hard changing your life from a society that doen't demand that you work to one that does.
I wonder who engineered this sidewalk.
Very cute little children. We made their day by giving them a little candy.
Waiting for the missionaries to take us to our appartment in a town in Crimea.
Sister Burr likes Pomegranate. These were huge.
This is a map of the ancient Greek ruins. The whole city was destroyed.
The ruins you are looking at in these pictures is an ancient Greek city that was distroyed so fast that they found bones of a woman in the street up about 200 feet from the bottom of the picture.
They restored the monastery that is behind Sister Burr just a few years ago.
More ruins.
The only colosseum in Ukraine is this one in the ruins.
These are some of the solid steel doors that are under the mountain where the submarine base is.
This is where they dry docked submarines during the second world war to repair them. This is under a mountian that would be protected from an atomic bomb.
This is a lake hidden in the mountains where they docked the submarines.
Close to the enterence into the mountain where they repaired submarines.
The have large vinyards here.
The castle on the edge of a cliff.
I know it always looks like we are on vacation. Well maybe we are as we love being here and in doing our job we travel all over the place and see views like this all the time.
A really big tree in town.
Looks like a tree right out of Harry Potter.
Fun feeding the birds.
This is the building where the treaty to end World War II was signed.
This is the table where the treaty was signed to end World War II.
This is the inner court of the building.
As you know by our coats it is cold outside but this special rose that was shipped in from France is blooming.
This is where treaty talks took place.
This is the Russian news paper called Provda, Provda means truth in Russian, that annoounced the signing of the treaty.
In this room and on that chair, which is in the same building, Stalin and Roosevelt had secret talks.
This is the Russian paper called provda which means truth. It is the paper that talked about the treaty to end World War II.
This is what we went to Crimea for. This is a Career Workshop which we enjoy doing.
The one standing on the left by Elder Burr is the Branch Preside. Kneeling on the left was our driver while in Crimea he is a councilor to the mission president and next to him is our translator.
This is a class we had in the evening on food storage and we also taught nutrition and 72 hour kits.