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THUNDERSTORMS! August 20, 2018

Hey friends and family!! 

What an adventure this week with the weather! Everyone has been telling us this isn't normal for August and I think it's because Heavenly Father knows there are Utah girls serving here and can't handle the 100 degree weather with 100% humidity haha. The thunderstorms are wonderful too! Although, we did have a tornado warning for a little bit yesterday, but it went away. 

We had a really great week this week! We had zone conference on Thursday and it was our first one with President and Sister Strong. It was so great!! We focused a lot on preach my gospel and how we can use our technology more. It's very exciting! So, I will be posting more on Facebook, but I am not allowed to use it as a way of communication. I will respond to comments on what I post, but just a response. This way I don't get distracted on Facebook and just use it as a tool to share the gospel! but feel free to share what I post if you want :) Thank you for understanding!! :) 

We had two wonderful miracles happen yesterday that I want to share! One, we went to church yesterday and Yannick was there again!! He was so happy to be there and was talking to lots of the members. It was awesome. He was so sweet too and felt so bad about leaving last week before third hour, so he made it a point to stay for priesthood. He still has lots of questions, but we'll be meeting with him this week and hopefully start teaching him the lessons! It was so amazing seeing how prepared he is to hear the gospel. Also, he told us that he found out his mom is actually a member! She got baptized a long time ago, but he thought it was so cool to hear she was a member of this church. I am so excited to start teaching him! :) 
Second, fellowshipping is REAL. We've been teaching this man who is married to a member for a long time. He said he feels that this is where he should be and will eventually get baptized, but he isn't sure right now. But he has been slowly progressing. He has started staying for our gospel principles class which is wonderful! Yesterday, we had a member come with us to his lesson. Now this member has a lot in common with the man we are teaching and we asked him if he would be willing to share his conversion story during our lesson. The Spirit was SO STRONG. You could tell this man was understanding more. It was amazing! This member was also able to share an analogy about motorcycles to help him understand which was awesome because my companion don't get it at all haha. It just really testified to me the importance of fellowship. Missionaries will not always be here, but members will. It also means more when members express their testimonies sometimes then it does hearing the missionaries say it. Heavenly Father's work to gather His children is not the missionaries duty alone, it takes ALL of us to help gather Israel. 

I love and miss you all!! Thank yo so much for all your love and support!! I hope you have an AMAZING week!! And I challenge you to SMILE at the people you see each day, because even though we are different, we are ALL God's children. Plus it helps the missionaries out a ton if people already have positive experiences with members of the church ;) Y'all are amazing!

Love, Sister Burton

302 S Mock St. Apt #A4
Prairie Grove, AR
72753






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