Marc's email 9/10/2012

So it sounds like Kyle got home in not great shape. Poor kid.. I hope he is happy though and that everything is going well for him. He will see several things in his life and many blessings. Soon we will be kicking it together. Before I forget tell the whole family that has their birthday this month that I say happy birthday and I love them. Matt will hopefully find some other chicks and maybe one day get married. If not he has until the millenium to do it. And if you know what time I get home I want you to notify steve harding cause he has been asking and I have no clue. Well this last week was a great week. Lupita got confirmed last week. I dont know if you remember about Mauricio and his family that we baptized right when I got here but he got the Melquizedek priesthood and blessed his little girl. Lilia is progressing tons in the gospel and Lupita loves it. We got the montes family to go to church and they also loved it. Today we will be teaching them and we will continue helping them in their family issues. I know that if my life doesnt work out like I want it to I can become a marriage counselor. That would be awesome huh? Also this week another investigator that we have had for months now finally said that she likes the church and that she wants to get baptized. Her name is Josefina but she has a lot of problems. She will take a lot of work to finally get baptized but it was awesome that she finally made the decision to get baptized. We are hoping to baptize the Montes family the day before I leave which for me would be a great miracle and blessing. But we are just working hard out here and I love it. I know that God answers prayers and that He loves us. He is willing to help us when we are humble and look for His help. Shortly this will end and I know that I will be able to say that I gave it my all. I am getting super tired but I am excited to keep working! I love you all! Elder Burr

Marc's email 9/3/2012

Hello mother, So it sounds like you are leaving the crib every single week. Maybe you will be home the day I get home. Just kidding mom! I am pretty upset about the date of my homecoming. That is like a month after I get home but I guess that is just the way it is. The topic is a sweet topic and maybe by then I will be able to speak english again. That is also crazy that kyle will be home tomorrow! That just blows my mind that he is already finishing the battle. Who is going to get him at the airport? And about the house cleaning... You never had to ask us more than once to clean up the house!! We always just did it without being asked I dont know what you are talking about. But I am glad that you are happy and the family is just chillin. Heather cant save the disneyland trip for when I get home huh? I would tear that place up with my little nieces and nephews. Alright well a little bit about our week. We were able to baptize lupita this saturday. She showed up and was super nervous but everything went really well. Elder Martinez and I were able go give talks and Elder Webb baptized her. She was really happy but the only problem was that on sunday we had a stake conference so she couldnt get confirmed but next week will be her confirmation. We have also been going with the Montes family. On thursday we did an awesome activity which helped them alot. We talked about the families and had them each write a note expressing their love and thnanks for their family members. Then they read them and expressed their feelings. It was an awesome experience and that family is sweet. Today we are going to do three family nights so we will see how it all goes! At the stake conference Elder johnson was there from the area presidency. That was awesome to listen to a servant of the Lord talk about mission work. I really have grown to love my mission and what I have learned. There is nothing in the world that could have taught me more than my mission has and I am grateful to it. This week will be another great work full of hard work and trying not to think about the little time left. It is hard to not think about it but I definately wont let it stop me from working. I love you mom. Hope you have a great week! Elder Burr

Marc's email 8/26/2012

Well it sounds like the parties are all now over and the real life has started again. That is awesome that you and Matt had a good time in San Fran. I bet that was awesome and you had some bonding time. Now he is just posted up in provo just trying to get by living with 4 boys. I have come to discover that living with four elders struggles at times. Elder Webb and I are actually really clean and have everything organized. Then the two mexicans come and throw all of their dishes in the sink and never sweep or do anything really. Every monday elder webb and I clean the house and by about Wed. it is dirty again. And for as many times as I have told them to clean up their mess they never do it. I think I prefer to just live alone! It sounds like the family is calming down a little bit and everybody is going back to school. Just a question. What size shirt are camden cooper and cameron? To hook them up with some soccer jerseys. Well this last week was awesome! We were able to have our zone conference with the president which was incredible. He knows so much and he taught me a ton about the plan of salvation. I now understand it alot better and I am so much more grateful for it. I know that God gives us exactly what we want. If we dont want to do what He says, we wont want to live with Him. If we want to live with Him all we have to do is obey His commandments. We have been able to visit the family that I told you about and they are good. We are going to go with them today and teach them the plan of salvation and hopefully they keep progressing. Yesterday we had an awesome experience with another family of five!! So we were in the church and all of the sudden the secretary comes up to me and says that somebody is on the phone and wants to talk to us. So I talked to him and it was a member of a stake presidency in Mexico D.F. He said he had a family that wanted us to visit them. So we put the appt. for 6pm yesterday. We went and all five of them were present and it was an awesome lesson. One of the daughters, Karen, is going through a hard time in her life and had lost all hopes of living. The family was in desperate need of some kind of miracle. So we went with them and expressed our love for them and the dad told us he wanted to get baptized. With him we are hoping his 3 kids and his wife get baptized. We will be working hard these next few weeks to get them taught, prepared, and baptized. It is the familia montes so you can pray for them please. This weekend we will be baptizing Lupita. She told us about a dream that she had about leaving her catholic beliefs behind and getting baptized. God answered her! The only problem is that this weekend we have stake conference so she wont be able to get confirmed until next week, the 9th. The Montes family will get baptized the 15 then we will be looking for somebody to get baptized the 22. Then my stay here in Guadalajara will come to a very successful end. I love this gospel and everything that God has given me. I know Him. He knows me. He has answered every one of my prayers and has given me a personal witness that He lives. Jesus Christ is His Son. He is the Saviour of the World and has died for all of us. This is His church. He guides it through a living prophet and I have been called by the Prophet of God. I have felt the miracle of forgiveness and have seen the miracles of selfless service. I have seen His hand in this work. It is His commision, I am His servant. I love it here! Elder Burr