Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day last week!! :) Valentines Day.. the most awkward day to be a missionary. haha I was thinking today about how crazy it is that I have lived in New Glasgow for almost 4 months now. I love it here so much and I think we are really starting to make progress. The zone leaders called last night to discuss how our area was doing. We've had a few really great weeks and they said the New Glasgow Sisters are leading the whole zone in key indicators and lessons taught! Wahoo!  It's amazing to see the growth happening. I was talking with Elder Amaya (district leader) after church yesterday and in a recent letter to him, President Leavitt told him, "Sister Burton will be a power force to push this mission forward." Isn't that awesome!? Sometimes it feels like what I am doing won't ever be enough. Missionary work is stressful and relying on the spirit 100% of the time is not easy. but what is amazing is that the Lord uses our hands to perform his miracles. Jeffrey R Holland said, "When Christ comes, the members of His church must look and act like members of His church are supposed to look and act is we are to acceptable to Him. We must be doing His work and we must be living His teachings. He must recognize us quickly and easily ans truly being His disciples." I loved that because it doesn't just apply to missionary work, but to everything we do in life. 

A quick update on what's going on here.. Dwayne and Crystal are getting married at the church on Saturday! Hooray!  No worries, I pretty much planned their entire wedding. haha Karolanne, (their 14yr old daughter) is going to help us make their wedding cake on Friday. 2 weeks after that Dwayne will be baptized! He's so incredible! He even is sharing mormon.orgprofiles on facebook and inviting his friends to his baptism. I just love that family. Karolanne has started coming to young womens and church and we are really excited to start teaching her as well. The Frasers have started to call me "their missionary". I love that so much! Jessie is also doing so great! She is still working on her indexing and family history but she has also decided she wants to do Personal Progress. She is just awesome and still teaching gospel principles like a pro. I caught a glimpse of the screensaver on her Ipad the other day... it's a picture of me and her at her baptism! :) I loved that! I just love the people here so much! Things are going great here in New Glasgow. Thank you for all the prayers and mail, it makes my life so much easier. Have a great week everyone!  :) 

Love

Sister Burton