More miracles!

Dear Mom and remarkable people,

Well, it's been another week! It was kind of crazy because we had an All-Mission Conference on Wednesday down in Santa Rosa so we could say goodbye to President and Sister Alba one last time, and they will be on their way home today. President and Sister Wright are already here in the mission, and we will get to meet them on Saturday. I learned so much from President and Sister Alba, and I know that I am going to learn so much from the Wrights as well. 

I hope you all enjoyed hearing about all the miracles last week, because I have another one in particular that I want to share! We had a lesson on Saturday with our investigator who will be baptized next year, and he is one of the coolest people in the entire world. A little bit of background before I go on: we showed up for a lesson with him once and he came out with a bottle of coke for each of us (I don't normally drink a lot of pop, but we generally accept whatever people offer us, except for drugs of course). Since that time, he always has some kind of drink or little treat for us when we come over. On Saturday, we were running a bit late because we had to turn around and go back home to pick up the Conference talk that we wanted him to read, so we decided to take him some cookies I made that day and a bottle of cold water to make up for us being late. When we got there, he said "Oh is that water for me? I have some water for you too!" And sure enough, he had bought an entire case of water for us. We got closer to the trailer and something smelled really good, and we discovered that he was also grilling hamburgers and Italian sausage for us in a little dutch oven on the ground (he knows I lived in Italy for a year and he said that I probably like Italian sausage because they eat so much of it over there). Then he goes in the trailer and comes out with ice cream bars and tells us to pick one. It was so funny because he said that while he was getting everything at the store, he really wanted cookies but he decided not to go down that aisle. Then when he got home, he was really hot and thirsty and wanted something cold. Then we showed up with the cookies and cold water! We had an amazing lesson with him about the story of Enos and the power of prayer, and he told us that he always feels so light when he meets with us and that all of his prayers are being answered. After the lesson, he went in the trailer and came out with a bag of bananas and peaches and yogurt for us to make smoothies with because says he remembers us saying how much we love smoothies once. Even if I just stopped right there, the story is pretty remarkable but what's makes it truly miraculous is that I only have $5.08 in my bank account for this month (I'm still catching up from that one time my companion and I got scammed into $40 haircuts, but that's a different story). Each week my companion and I buy a case of water (because the water isn't clean that comes out of the tap) and I would only have had enough money to buy the water this week because it's my turn and I figured I would just eat oatmeal for a week. And then we discover that our investigator bought it for us and even got us smoothie-fixin's to top it off. Tender mercies, my friends! It was an answer to a prayer that I didn't even say, yet Heavenly Father is still watching out for us.  I know He is watching out for you too. 

Happy Fourth of July to everyone this Saturday! I hope everyone is happy and doing well!

Hermana Burton

PS- So this same investigator just barely texted us (we are going to have a lesson with him tonight) and he said "for after study I bought Kentucky Fried Chicken family dinner if y'all hungry" so we texted back and said "You have got to stop spoiling us! We're getting fat!" and his reply was "Thats ok God has someone for y'all who dont mind" Haha always trying to lift our spirits! On a more serious note, it is really amazing to hear him when he prays while we are there. He is so sincere and honest with Heavenly Father, and I remember one time when he thanked Him for sending us over there and said that we really are making a difference in people's lives. And of course this happened on a day when I was a little discouraged and wondered if my being here was even helping any body at all. Heavenly Father does answer our prayers, even through the prayer of other people.