New Year's Resolutions

So, I have no idea what to write.

At all.

So, I think for this week I will list some New Year's resolutions that I shared with my Mission President:

1) Change my street contacting Approach. Be more simple, direct, focused on the message of the Restoration, not just who we are.

2) Change my teaching Focus. Teach my investigators and others less about the unnecessaries doctrine--no one Needs to know the Body Temperature of a resurrected being(102.6 I believe). Focus on what will lead them to true conversion--that it, prayer, scripture study, attending church, and making and keeping sacred covenants.

3) Switch the large majority of my personal study to German. I am planning on, along with the Mission Book of Mormon study we are undertaking in the next 6 months, also reading through the complete New Testament and Doctrine and Covenants as well, seeing as I just finished the Old Testament. I was planning on doing that in English, then in German next year, but after discussing it with my companion and our amazing GML Bruder Benjamin Steffel, I have decided to rely more fully on your promises that studying in German will increase our abilities, so that we may speak, think, and dream in German.

In short, I plan on acting on the amazing council that I have received from my Mission President, as well as the council I received from the time I entered the MTC. Since Elder Poch left I believe that I have been focusing too much on being able to teach the deep doctrines, on having the most refined Approach possible, and just the sheer amount of study I got done. Instead, I want to Focus on truly becoming a Teacher, who is come from God, on finding the prepared People and sharing the beautiful Gospel message, and on improving the Quality and effectiveness of my study, to fill my lamp of Testimony with the Oil of conversion, as Elder Bednar said in his talk, ''Converted unto the Lord.''

Simplicity is now the Name of the game, and conversion and baptism is the Goal. baptisms to be more accurate.

Wish me luck.

Elder Burton's Testimony in German, December 2014