An Exciting Week, July 13, 2009
Hey everyone! This is shaping up to be an exciting week. Annie is still on track for baptism, passed her interview, and actually moved her day to the 17th, a day earlier. I will for sure be doing the baptism, which is really exciting, but there is one slight problem. The 17th also happens to be the day that our zone has interviews with President Traveller. That means I will be performing the baptism in front of President and his wife, all the missionaries in the zone, and possibly both our branch and Matsumoto branch members. It is a little nerve-racking also. I’m excited though - I’ll send pictures!
Unfortunately, the 12-year old boy will not be baptized this week. He needs a little bit more time to prepare, but he will be baptized eventually I’m sure.
Other than that, we just have a lot of appointments this week. Everything seems to be full, except today. We actually have a pday we can rest on. We have a lot more people with potential to visit and lots of investigators (though strong ones are a little bit few). It is to the point where it is getting difficult to make time for everyone, but we are doing it somehow.
Even though we are succeeding here in Ina, I’m just about ready to transfer. I don’t know, six months in one place is just a loooong time. Transfer calls are a week from today, so next email session I should be able to tell you where I am going and everything, if I do leave.
I think that is really all I have for this week. So to answer some questions that came in email - yes, I have a guitar handy, I bought a $20 used Yamaha that is serving me well. It was a steal, so I couldn’t help but get it. I figure $20 for two years of practice isn’t a bad deal. I just learned ‘Master the Tempest is Raging’ over the last few days, but it needs a lot of work. I just practice basically from 10:00pm to 10:25 at night, and I wake up a little early to get some practice time in the morning. If you have any music you want me to learn, just email me the tab-notation version of the music (or regular notation - it just takes a lot longer to read) and I will learn it.
I think that covers everything. I am having a good time, but about ready to leave this area. I’ll let you know next week what happens.
Love you all,
Elder B.
Greg Burnham
gregburnham@myldsmail.net
1-304 Itakadai
Meito-ku Nagoya-shi Aichi-ken
465-0028 Japan
