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BACK TO AR-KANSAS! May 9, 2018

Hi friends and family!! 

So transfers are this week and they are moving me back to Arkansas. I am going to Springdale and I'll be in the Prairie Grove ward with my new companion Sister Wamsley! I'm super excited! We both came to the mission field at the same time so it's going to be fun to see how much we've changed in the past 9 months :) 

It's been sad saying goodbye to this wonderful place of Miami, Oklahoma, but I know this will be good. I'm grateful for everything I have learned here and all the amazing people that have played a huge role on my mission! Sister Najera is staying so that will be super good- she's awesome. 

We had an amazing faith building experience this week! We were planning to tract a street and I had been praying that someone would be prepared on that street. I read Elder Uchtdorf's talk this week Fourth Floor, Last Door. and this gave me a lot of motivation that there would be someone on that street prepared, we just needed to act in faith. Then we went and tried every door. We met a lot of people who didn't want to hear our message at first. Then we kept going saying, "come on, fourth floor last door!" We knocked on this one door and it was amazing to see how open this man was. We were so excited to be able to share our message with him and he said we could come back! We thought that was going to be it, but the next house we knocked on, he was super kind, not super open, but nicer than a lot of people which we thought was wonderful! Then the next house, a young girl answered the door and we asked an impact question and she opened up and told us how she was looking for a place to go because she just moved here. We told her about our purpose and how much this will change her life and she was excited. We went back just on Saturday and we used the how to begin teaching to help her understand more about why we are here, we told her it was her choice to accept and act on our message, she responded, "I'm going to try it, I am going to read this book now." It was AMAZING! It's so fantastic being able to see the miracles happening and the way the Lord is preparing people for us to come. She had just gotten home from work and she was so tired, but she knew this was something she wants to learn more about so she came and talked to us and is going to start reading the Book of Mormon. This was a testimony builder for me, because as we act on our faith then the Lord can help us. 

I hope you all have a wonderful week!! Thank you for all the love and encouragement! :)
 
Love, Sister Burton 








​These are the Stocks and they are amazing!! They are always happy to have us over for dinner. 
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