Sister Mariah Burton

Hey Y'all!!  I'm staying another 6 weeks here in Miami Oklahoma!! YAY!! With Sister Najera so that will be so much fun!! We will continue to learn Spanish and help this ward grow! I'm so excited about it :)  I told the Bishop I was staying another 6 weeks and he just asked if he should find me a home to live in so I can just stay forever. haha it was so funny!  This week was pretty great! We found some new Hispanic investigators from Honduras and they are so sweet! It's been a blast learning Spanish and being able to teach them. :) This week we had a neat experience with having members involved and having investigators reach out to us. A while ago we gave an investigator a break to determine what he desires, because every time we would schedule an appointment he wouldn't answer the door when we came and we couldn't seem to stay in contact. But then the other day he reached out and contacted us and wanted to meet again. We had dinner with a member an...

Hey everyone!  Yo no hablo ingles, estoy aprendiendo espano! I truly am learning so much! It's so fun! We had two amazing miracles this week that I want to share that happened in Spanish. We went to visit a potential investigator and the one man spoke English, but he was drinking a beer and said we should talk to Patricia inside, but she only speaks Spanish. So Sister Najera did a wonderful job of teaching and sharing our message with her all in Spanish. I sat there just in awe, I think they thought I was weird, but it was just so amazing! You can feel the Spirit so strong and since I knew what she was saying for the most part, I was able to focus on how Patricia was responding and focus on how receptive she was. It was so cool!  Okay, second miracle. We were out looking for less actives and we saw the Torres family was nearby where we were so we went. This man answered the door and we asked if Alberto was there. I'm not sure he fully understood me, but he let us in an...

Hey y'all!! I hope this week was fantastic for everyone!  We had a really good week! We got to go on exchanges in Joplin, which I got to be with Sister Tillotson! She was my first companion in the mission (my trainer) so that was way fun working with her again! We've had a lot of fun using our technology to help the work progress in this area. It's so great!!  We had a miracle just yesterday. We decided to go try a few of the potentials that we had just put in the area book app on our phones. We rode our bikes which was great being able to be seen by lots of people.It's so fun waving at them, because you get some pretty funny looks when you are riding a bike, in the cold, wearing a skirt haha. Then we knocked on some of the doors and then we had one more person on the map in that area to try. His name is Matt and we knocked on the door, it was a younger girl who answered and said he didn't live there anymore, but after we told her who we were she invited us...

Good Morning!!  This week has been an adventure week! We drove all the way down to Arkansas on Tuesday which was fun and then we've been working hard to find those who are prepared. Sister Najera is so great! We have been getting along so well! We understand each other I feel like and we both have the same goals for the area. We have been working on being exactly obedient with everything and it's been amazing to see the changes in us as we work on this together. It's a lot easier to do things when your companion wants to do them too :) She's also teaching me Spanish so that's awesome.   I was reading in 2 Nephi 4 one day and it hit me so hard. As I read verses 26 to the end I realized that was me! I was letting Satan discourage me and I started feeling bad for myself and the area, rather than trusting in the Lord. I was asking why me? Why this? Why? and these scriptures just brought me so much peace, because I didn't realize that I was letting Satan get...