How Can We Represent the Savior? October 30, 2017

Hello Friends and Family!

How is everyone doing?? So many wonderful things are happening here in Springfield Missouri, I hope the same for everyone back home :) Soo many miracles, I don't even know where to start! haha but first off, we had zone conference this week which was awesome! Our mission president and his wife talked about how we can represent the Savior and share the gospel with everyone. I loved this and one thing I took away was to always have something to share with someone. Especially being near a college campus, we see people all the time so I am going to work on always having a doctrine of Christ or spiritual message to share with all those we talk to. I'm excited about this :)

Another amazing thing that happened this week was Payton, the member in our ward who reached out to sister and set up an appointment for us to meet with her, well we got to meet her! Her name is Sasha and she is so cool! She has been reading from the Book of Mormon and has so many questions, but I just admire her desire to become closer to her Savior Jesus Christ and she has become so happy, it's fantastic! The first time we met with her she wasn't sure she could be happy, but now, she said she feels the love and happiness that comes from being in our church building and from talking about the gospel. I LOVE IT!! I'm so proud of Payton and her willingness to act on her prompting.

Also, it was ISABEL'S BAPTISM yesterday!!! YAYAY! Isabel is so cool!! She comes from a Jehovah's Witness family and they were so against her being baptized, but she knows the church is true and did it anyway. I admire her as well, because she really acted on faith and it's amazing the things she's been doing. She's also been coming to church every Sunday for a while now so when they mentioned her baptism yesterday a lot of the members came up and said they were surprised to hear that cause they thought she was already a member! haha it was so funny and I think it's amazing the example she is being for her family :)

Some fun stories, we went out to get frozen yogurt with Isabel and Payton and it was so much fun talking with them! They make me laugh so hard it's awesome, but at one point Payton accidently honked the horn and said "OH man! Someone just honked at me!" and we were all like no Payton, that was you! Good times with those two :)

We did a spinning wheel thing at our table this week at MSU to talk to people about the gospel and we had a lot of success. We got 6 new investigators, people who wanted to learn more and set a return appointment, just from that and it was so cool!

We learned this analogy from zone conference where you draw a line with an arrow at each end facing the opposite direction. The Lord is walking one direction and you are walking the other, will your paths ever meet? No, but if we use repentance we can correct ourselves and be turned around on the right path and also if we use faith we can jump on that path in the direction of the

Savior so then our paths will meet. I hope this makes sense, I'm sorry I can't draw it for you, but I love this because it's true. As we repent and act on faith we can be headed in the same direction as the Savior. I encourage you all to find ways that you can represent the Savior this week and write them down. Put them on a sticky note on the door as you walk out each morning or the fridge or by your bed. Somewhere where you will remember and focus on that as you go throughout you day.

I love and miss you all so much!! Thank you for all the love and support you give me!! I hope you all have an amazing week! :)

Love, Sister Burton