RESTORATION IN REVERSE

wus up my homies! 

Hope this week was great for you! We had an awesome one here, and very suspenseful...I swear the week before transfer calls is so intense. So we found out that I will be leaving and going to ANOTHER campus as a Sister Training Leader (STL). I am so so so excited especially because I get to be comps with Sister Griffiths who I came out with - and she is amazing. It's crazy to leave after 7 1/2 months of being here...its truly become Terre Home:) Sister Kammerman is staying and is going to be TRAINING a new missionary. Awe - our family is gettin' so big:')

Waiting for the transfer call be like....

Sure gonna miss my baby!!!!

We had some of those moments this week where you sit back and say I KNOW that that just happened because of the hand of the Lord- they are just my favorite moments. At district meeting, Elder Davies called on Sister Kammerman and I to roll play a BACKWARDS restoration lesson. yup...backwards. It was super fun and it was just another testimony to me that the restoration is 100% TRUE...it even makes sense in reverse:) WELL...later that day we taught a newer investigator, 'S'. And as we talked with her, we both felt prompted to teach her the restoration....but to start with the Book of Mormon, and then prayer, and then Joseph Smith...and guess what....We taught it backwards:) haha If we taught it forwards, I don't think it would have meant as much to her....but by starting at the end....it addressed her need and it was sooooo cool to see:)

We got to see 'J' again this week who was excited to tell us that he received an answer to his prayers and he knows that the Book of Mormon is true!!! We are super pumped :) I love that it came in such a still, small, yet powerful way! He said it just made sense in his mind and he felt it was right while he was reading it:) YAY!

Amazing how the restoration was such a focus this week: hang tight for another cool story...SO we had the opportunity to read Joseph Smith's story from JSH with an investigator who was struggling this week. As we taught, a group next to us was playing a board game, then another group came in and started talking, then a guy came in and started playing the piano and pretty soon, the room was no longer quiet...to say the least :) haha Even though it was loud, as we read about Joseph Smith and his experience- I felt the spirit really powerfully in my heart. It was amazing to have the confirmation in all the noise of the truth. It IS the restored gospel in our lives that gets us through the noise of the world. neato!!:) 

"I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." ~1 Nephi 3:7

Love ya! Hope you have a great week! The Lord loves ya:)

Love, Sister Burgon*

Pix: SAYING GOODBYE TO DEAR FRIENDS...

I pass the Terredise baton
to the very capable and wonderful
Sister Kammerman!!!
Love you BB!!!!

See y'all next week from the new campus!!!

NEVER FORGET, NEVER EVER EVER :)

Hello and happy February!! 

Get ready for some of thee coolest stories this week....this week was one for the books:) haha

Elizabeth Smart came to ISU campus as part of a lecture series and we got to go and meet her afterwards. Her story is absolutely amazing. It's an experience I will never forget. The next day we got to drive to Bloomington for Zone Conferences. It was one of the most powerful conferences I've been to. We talked about the importance and significance of the restoration and then we got to roll play a Restoration lesson to another companionship. Guess who we got as our roll playing companionship? President and Sister Carlson!!! And let me tell ya, it. was. cool. After we were done, they taught US and I just think it was SO NEAT to be able to hear the Restoration coming from my mission president and his sweet wife. Another one of those moments that I MUST never forget:) 

Alright hold on tight for this one. "A'S" is absolutely AMAZING!! She is blowing my mind. This week we taught her about the word of wisdom. She selflessly, and full of faith said that she would give up coffee. If it's what the Lord wanted, she would do it. 

After a prompting, Sister Kammerman told her about keeping our body like a Temple and following the prophet as we stay away from multiple piercings and tattoos. Right then she put her hands up to her face to cover her nose ring. She didn't want to take it out, but she said, "There is a voice in my head. It just keeps saying, 'Take it out "A'S", just take it out.' so, I don't want to, but I'm just going to take it out." AND SHE DID!! RIGHT THERE!!! It was amazing. We just sat there in awe! hahaha we promised that she would see blessings from her devotion to keeping the commandments and for sacrificing something she wanted...and then the very next morning she said that she already saw that come true! I know when we keep the commandments, blessings follow, blessings that are even greater than the "sacrifice" we feel like we are making by keeping them. What a great lesson she taught me by her example. :)

We met with Brotha "A" this week! He is really searching for an answer to a question he has. So we talked about it and showed him some scriptures but it wasn't quite settled yet. Something was missing. SO we knelt down right then and he offered a prayer, asking Heavenly Father his question specifically and we waited silently for an answer. The spirit totally flooded the room. It was so powerful. I handed him the Book of Mormon and he opened it up RIGHT to a scripture to back up exactly what we had been talking about, it was absolutely perfect. He said that he felt the spirit stronger than he had that whole day at church. We could have talked all day to him, but it wouldn't even compare to the impact that that experience had on him, because it came from the Holy Ghost and from Heavenly Father. AMAZING!! 

 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." ~Isaiah 55:8-9

Every week I think I will write a shorter letter....my apologies! Love you! Have a happy week!

xoxo 

Love, Sister Burgon*

The District & our Ward Mission Leader

 Day at the Feline Rescue

Can NOT Believe My Baby is 3 Months Already??!!!!!!!

Love you all so much! I seriously can't express well enough how very much ALL of your love & support have meant to me. Here's my little attempt to send some love in your direction!!! xoxox*

Have a wonderful week!*

MAKE IT HAPPEN

P-Day Exploring -
THE FOOTBALL STADIUM!!!! It was AWESOME!!!

Hello Hello! 

Happy last week of January! 

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We had such a great week, some of the coolest moments and miracles. At the beginning of my mission, my dearest mother sent me the coolest talk ever. Its called, "Bread or Stones; Understanding the God We Pray To" by S. Michael Wilcox. (I HIGHLY recommend it, it's become one of my favorites) We were pondering and praying about what to teach "A1" this week, and this talk came to my mind, so on Pday I printed it out and planned to give it to him to read. I had it with me in my bag the next day as we taught our investigators on campus (we planned to teach "A1" later that night) During one of our lessons, one of our investigators was getting pretty frustrated- feeling like God wasn't answering him and feeling like he wanted to give up. Instantly the talk came to my mind, and I even had it with me, so we read some of it together, bore testimony, and had a recent convert in our YSA ward who was with us share his conversion story too and the spirit was very strong. Our investigator left the lesson wanting to keep going, keep holding on, and keep trying. AMAZING RIGHT? Heavenly Father is aware let me tell ya!

We met with "J" again this week and holy cow, this kid is amazing. He read the intro and testimonies in the Book of Mormon and had the most in depth questions about it. He said he really loved church and what he'd learned and when came to the next lesson saying that he prayed about a baptismal date for himself. He came up with April 22nd and is excited! He said he really wanted this before he goes home at the end of this semester because he knows that "certain temptations will arise as he goes home and he knows this will help him be strong". Amen Brotha 

We met with "A2" this week and every time we see her I feel like she comes more and more prepared. She even had a friend encounter anti and ask her about it and she defended it and expressed her love for what she knows to be true. We've also started teaching her some of the commandments and guess what, she's already living them. haha we love her! She is working towards, and excited for February 25th to get baptized:)

Ok funny story from our Personal Contacting this week. We were out talking to students and saw on a screen that it was opposite day! So we got super excited and switched name tags hahaha clever right...we're genius lol. So we walk up to contact this guy and I shook his hand and said, "Hey, how's it going? I'm Sister Bur..Kam..mmerrr...man...." then Sister Kammerman says, "I'm Sister Burgon!" AND I LOST IT!!!!!! We both couldn't do it, we started laughing so hard and he probably thought we were crazy! Bingo buddio...we are. Well then we had to awkwardly explain that I was really Sister Burgon, not Sister Kammerman and it was opposite day...but hey he was cool and we got a return appointment, so proof that Heavenly Father really is in charge of this work, not even His goofy daughters can mess it up ;)  and a little laugh is good for everyone:)

Funniest part of this story...turns out opposite day was actually the following day!!!
We'll just chalk this one up to a blonde moment!!!!

Along with doing really cool service-inputting records for FamilySearch.org, having members powerfully testify at lessons, and having really cool surprise investigators at church, it was just an overall great week. 

The Lord loves ya! He is there! Matthew 10: 6-7,19-20

"But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you."

xoxo 

Love, Sister Burgon*

we had 2,394,837,489 people tell us that we look like twins this day hahahha
so we went inside and took a picture....i don't know what they're talking about hahahhaahahhahahaha
#twinning



Catch y'all in FEBRUARY!!!!*

65 DEGREES AND SUNNY - IN INDIANA - IN JANUARY!!!!

Hello from Indiana :) 

Hope this week was fantastic!! 

We had some awesome opportunities this week. We helped host/serve at a funeral with the relief society from both our ward and the Honey Creek Ward. They had prepared food for 50 people total. Well about 10 minutes before everyone showed up at the church to eat, we found out that there was at least 150 people coming. The relief society president silently slipped into another room and said a prayer that the food would somehow feed everyone who came. Well, miracles happen, and this was totally one of them. We were able to have a "5 Fishes and 2 Loaves" experience, because everyone got fed, and we even had enough for them to come back and get seconds! AMAZING. Literally witnessing miracles.

We also set up a booth on campus with posters, pamphlets, copies of the Book of Mormon, and pass-along cards...oh and chocolate...don't forget the chocolate. We got some cool people asking really cool questions. And it was super fun to switch up our finding methods too:)

Also, I LOVE CAMPUS BEING BACK IN SESSION....I don't know if I will ever be this excited for school again hahaha but it was wonderful to have our students back!! We saw so many of them, and most of them are picking up where they left off so it's wonderful. We met with a new-ish investigator named "H". She has been P R E P A R E D. As we were teaching the restoration, she would literally vocalize her thoughts, which just so happened to be the next point we were about to talk about haha. She kept saying, "I just understand this!" :) SO happy for her!

One of the greatest parts about working with students is that they are INSPIRING!! They teach me so much. We PC-ed into a guy named "J" who is a sophomore this year. We asked, "Do you have a faith in Jesus Christ?" and he humbly said, "No because faith requires action...and I don't have a church to go to. But I have been looking for one and reading my bible." haha whoa homie...that's faith if I've ever heard it :) As we kept talking, we found out that mr humble is SUPER smart....in the gospel and in life in general. We had a lesson with him a few days later and it might have been one of the coolest restoration lessons i've been in. Big things for this little dude! He even came to all 3 hours of church and applied how he can do home teaching in his life :) nice nice! Come join us brother!

Update on Mr. A! He came with us a few weeks ago to help us teach a lesson for the first time. The guy we were teaching was SUPER solid...and then all the sudden he took out a stack of papers filled out, front-to-back, with anti questions on them. I was worried that that lesson was traumatizing for "A" and that he would question too! Well this week he came to us explaining how he's been studying the questions that came up in that lesson so that he would know how to explain them to someone, if he ever got questioned about them. He's been studying from lds.org, the scriptures, etc...and knows more then us...I promise. It's truly amazing!!!! 

ALSO highlight....you've probably heard...but Rudy Ruettiger got baptized this week...ain't that just the coolest! :) Go Rudy!

Ecclesiastes 9:10

"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest."

Love you!! 

xoxo Love, Sister Burgon*

pix: da Mormon booth, the earth reminds you to smile, it hit 65 degrees outside...so a picture was necessary as we planned outside:), "when an investigator finally agrees to meet" hahahahah lol

Can't wait to see how this appointment goes...

I'll let you know next week!

'til then SMILE!*

LIVE IT WHILE YOU CAN

Hola mi amigos!!! 

Can't believe how fast January is flying by! 

Hope you all are enjoying it:) 

Campus starts this week!! AHH YAY...we are toooo pumped!!! 

This week was wonderful...so good!

On Tuesday we got the opportunity to go to the Temple, it was such an amazing experience. It has been quite a while since I've been able to go and it was so amazing to be back!!!! That is a speeeecial place! The Honeycreek Sisters picked us up to go and warned us that their trash had leaked in the car as they were driving it to a dumpster and the car smelled bad. We got in and...they were not wrong...hahahaha so we start driving and eventually stopped to get gas...and an air-freshener....while I was moving, I noticed that my dress was wet..so I asked where the trash juice had spilled and they said ON MY SEAT hahahahaha soooo basically I sat in moldy trash juice on the drive to the Temple....we all smelled like trash and air fresheners hahaha you can imagine the combo. On the more spiritual side of things, I was able to receive some amazing insights, answers and revelation while in the Temple and I knnowwww that that place truly is the house of the Lord. Good stuff.

THE SMELL.....soooooo badddd!!!!!

"J" (one that got anti-ed) agreed to meet up again and talk if we just taught her from the Bible. So we agreed and met this week! We got into a life-talk and she said that she was really wondering Why there are so many religions, where is the "one", and how can she know truth for herself. uhhh hahaha "J"!! The spirit was just telling us over and over to teach the restoration again. We've taught it to her before, but I guess it didn't stick with her, and now it is going to mean soooo much more to her because it will literally answer her questions. So turns out that there really MUST be opposition in all things, even anti! It has a purpose! So we taught half of the restoration until she had to go, and we will pick up on the 2nd half of it this week. She is being prepared!! How amazing is this!!!!

We also had interviews with President Carlson this week! I sure love the Carlson's and the sweet spirit they bring to us!! 

AT INTERVIEWS.
#floralfriday .... It's a thing!!!!

"S" was performing at her church on Sunday and invited us to go watch. So we church swapped! We went to watch her and she said that she would come to our church too! It's so fun to go to other churches and see how they worship. There's so many similarities and also lots of differences too. I'm just extremely grateful for the restoration and for the Gift of the Holy Ghost.

Thanks for all the love and support! Ya'll are the best you know it?? :)

xoxo

Love, Sister Burgon*

Pix: teaching those students on campus...this is Abe...he's progressing quite well, 12 Months.....ONE YEAR OUT...CRAZY...., so we celebrated with cheese sticks of course haha

Can NOT believe I come home
THIS YEAR!!!!
Got to live this mission life to the fullest
while I can!!!!

Still so much to do...
now there is just
so very little time!!!!

'til next week...go
LIVE IT WHILE
YOU
CAN!!!!!