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, March 28, 2012

Before we went to L'Viv we had a senior couples confrence. The president liked it enough and got a lot of good ideas from the senior couples he wants one every six months.
This is the mission president's driver. He is a great man and a branch president and Sister Burr talked the mission president into letting him bring his family this time as he is gone from her so much. It was nice to keep then together this time. He called me on my birthday and sang happy birthday to me solo. That goes to show how great of a person he is.
Sister Burr is showing you one of the fine meals that our taxi driver in Kharkov and his nephew prepared and catered for us at the seniors conference at the church. It was very good.
This is all the senior missionaries in the Donets'k mission. The mission president is the one on the right.
A senior missionary standing right in the middle of Kharkov. He is a lawyer also. I wonder if he charmed jurys the same way?
You see a lot of little grandma's in Ukraine carrying sometimes big loads. She was carrying bags of bottles.
This is the LDS chruch in L'Viv.
This is our translator and his new wife. She was getting ready a taste of wheat sprouts and granola for our food storage and preparation class.
This is our display for the class. We have a $30.00 budget for this class in which we give it to the branch president after the class for him to distrubute to those who may need it.
This is what we went to L'Viv for. This is our Career Workshop Class and these people were very bright and followed very well what we were saying and were very appreciative of us coming to teach them. We have taught a total of 161 people in employment workshops this month.
This is our first picture as we entered L'Viv. It is a nice looking water tower. As you can see by the sky, it is still cold there. It was in the 30's most of the time.
This is a typical grave yard. The picture is clowdy as it is taken through a window on the train.
Guess who is watching the world go by as we traveled 19 hours on the train to L'Viv. The room we stayed in is to our back. This was one of the more comfortable trains.
Many of the churches in the smaller villiages are painted blue and we don't know why. Just an attractive color I guess. All villages have a church like this whether the village is big or small.
Another blue church.
Hard to see but behind the trees you will see a horse pulling a wagon. This is not unusual here in Ukraine.
Just one of the many sculptures we pasted in L'Viv.
The opera house in L'Viv.
Just one of the typical streets in L'Viv.
Sculpture of a man hanging out the window.
Just one of the streets in Liviv.
This is a Cathalic church which is unusual in Eastern Europe. It took 20 years for the Jesuits to build it and it was the largest church for a long time.
The four window buildings are built by the more wealthy rich people.
The three window building in the background were buildings owned buy less wealthy rich people.
This is a sculpture of Neptune.
This small church which is acually a barrial place for about eight people was built in 1617. The picture below shows you what is on top of the building.
Our tourist guide told us that this is the only piece of art that is like this one. It is called The Sitting Christ.
Lots of work being done to referbish old buildings.
They are trying to take buildings like this to look like the ones in the above picture. They generally start with the buildings in the main part of the city. Well this is the last post we will be doing. Sorry I, Elder Burr, wasn't more consistant in my posts but you got a small flavor of our mission and it has been wonderful. See you all in a few weeks. Love you all Wayne and Beverly.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

March 12th and ice cycles still not melting during the day. In the 20's during the day.
Picture of the second to the last district. This was the last district meeting with them. We have one more district of Elders to have a meal with and district meetings with.
We are having a food storage class with the second to the last branch. We will do this one more time with our home branch.
Long term storage class held in Kharkov. Unusual to have a bunch of men at this kind of project.
We are in Donetsk studing to give a self employment class.
Sister Burr loves her work.
Trying to figure out what I'm suppose to do next.
Sister burr working the class to make sure they understand what they are suppose to be doing.
Sister Burr on the left still working the class.
Sister Burr teaching the food storage class.
Our food storage display. We give these items to a branch president afterwards to give to needy members.
President Camparo (our mission president) teaching a square foot garden class during our food storage class.
Funny rabbit hit the tree. A snow rabbit a member made outside the church.