Merry Christmas everyone!!! I’ve got like a couple of minutes to shoot off an email telling you that I love you before we leave the office for the night! This morning we got up at 4:30 am, left the mission home at 6:00 am, drove two hours to Lucena, gave a one hour training meeting for new trainers at 8:30 am. Then at 10:00 am zone conference started that went until 4:00 pm. During that zone conference we gave a workshop about short powerful messages in finding. We taught about the principle of reflection. How we receive light from our Heavenly Father through Christ and it is an unchangable law of God not for us to reflect it once we receive it. If you want to get deep with it, I found it while studying Facsimile 2 in the Book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price along with Doctrine & Covenants 88 (40ish verses). It’s wild, but so simple how God’s laws apply to everything that he creates. There’s a lot of light going on out in space, but it’s all organized. Just like our testimonies and our faith. If you are really receiving light through the Atonement, you should really be reflecting just as much to those around you.
Elder Burbidge & President Mangum, his mission president at Zone Conference. President Mangum was reading ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas” to the leaders.
Selfie with Elder Burbidge and Elder Bodkin at Zone Conference.
Tomorrow is the same schedule, except we get to sleep in a little bit later than yesterday because our venue for the zone conference is closer – in the town of Lipa. I struggled a bit in church this last week about not being with the family at Christmas time, but it made me so grateful for you all that I became happy instead. I’ve been trying to observe how much light is going on around us through the actions of others and you’ll find that even though the world is pretty crude right now, most people have light that they don’t know that they have. That means you do too. Magnify that light through living worthy of the Spirit to guide you in which direction and which way to “direct your reflect”. Thank you so much! I love you all! Merry Christmas.
Love,
Elder Tyler Burbidge
Elder Bland, Elder Burbidge, and a Sister missionary at Zone conference.
Tyler Burbidge's Mission 