Mariah's Mission

I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately this conference weekend. We miss you tremendously!! A lot of these talks bring up missionaries and overcoming trials and all we can think about is you in  new  country with a new companion, new language, new food, new home, and a new culture. Literally new everything. It’s not easy and we are praying for you and rooting for you  it’s such an exciting time but it’s not easy. Keep your chin up and trust in the Lord my sweet daughter. You got this  . I have been praying that you will have an amazing companion that will be patient with you as you learning and growing. We also have been following your AirTag and it’s been so cool to see you travel across the world and see you at mission presidents house then it appeared you were in a bus for like 12-14 hours   to campo grande. On Google Maps it’s looks pretty cool with all the fields but we felt for you as you traveled so much this last week. Well I hope you enjoyed conf...

PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED i got my visa!!!! I got my visa the day after the deadline and they are still letting me go out to brazil and im so excited! All bags are packed and we have to be out and ready to leave at 430am tomorrow yikes  We have three flights and between each one we got about a 5 hour layover so its about to be a long day.  I can testify prayers are heard and will be answered. This week ive prayed about so many questions ive had about things and many were answered and i also prayed for some silly things and have seen those prayers be answered too. Its crazy to think with all the prayers that are being said around the world God still hears YOU. This week has gone by so fast and i cannot believe ill be in Brazil Wednesday, im so excited for everything but honestly terrified. We will be getting right into it, having General Conference in portuguese will be something else and going straight into starting His work. I know its gunna be hard but i know its gunna be okay to...

This week went by so fast and i cant believe we're outta here in one week. This week we all got our reassignments... IM GOING TO JACKSON MISSISSIPPI! If i dont get my visa by Wednesday im headed there(pray for me that I get my visa)   as much as i wanna go straight to Brazil the south will be an awesome short experience for me, i know the Lord is putting me where he needs me to go and itll be exciting! This week was great but zero sleep for me found out by being woken up in the middle of the night two of the sisters in my room sleep talk   Other than that its great i love my district and all the sisters! Before bed we play a card game called nertz that they taught me and i hatee it cause i always lose and they said if i won we could play a different game so i locked in and WON  Me and my comp sista Huber had our second HOA lesson in portuguese and im so proud of us! I thought we did so good, we talked about The Restoration and the lady we were teaching randomly ...

Whats up!! I cannot believe we are already half way done at provo! Actually insane how fast this week went by. Everything here is so good, i absolutely love my branch president and district theh are so amazing!  My teachers here are also so good, one is from brazil, irma Gladden and shes the sweetest person ever. She made us these yummy brazilin treats one time and also gives us gold stars so im trying my best to get a collection   português on the other hand is coming along day by day.. our favorite saying is muito fola (so cute) but other than that we just switched to all português classes so 7 hours a day can be a lot sometimes. Also found out sister Larson is the GOAT at pickleball and we beat all the elders we play its so fun. Favorite part of the day for sure. We also gotta our cleaning assignment for the week and me and my comp hadda sweep and mop 7 flights of stairs and definitely got our workout in for the day  We also gotta serve and help welcome the new co...

9/7/2026 First week at the Provo MTC cant believe it! Hope everyone is doing good, miss you all so much and wish you the best in what your doing right now! Cant believe im typing up my first email right now.        The first day was good, i was scared i was going to be sad missing my family but thry definitly make sure to keep you busy enough so you dont have time to think about it. My district is such a blessing. I love all of them. They make me very joyous and i couldnt as for a better group.   We even joined the choir and we gunna sing for the devo tmr so that'll be interesting   The classes overall are good, taking lots of notes and didn't realize i could learn so much more about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Portuguese tho is a struggle, i will indeed need to have the Lords helping hand in learning the language and receiving the gift of tongues. I learn so much in three hours and then forget it all the next hour Its okay tho the pray in portugues...

Yesterday we dropped our beautiful missionary Mariah off at the Provo, MTC. She did home MTC for 2 weeks after being set apart.  Farewell was August 16th, 2026 Setting apart was August 18th, 2026 Home MTC start was August 19th, 2026 Provo MTC start was Sept. 2nd, 2026 It's been an emotional couple of weeks. We got her all packed. She had lots of time with her friends and family. She got to participate in her classes during the day and then fair week was the first week of her home MTC so she got to go to the rodeo and help with the 4H stuff with the other kids.  Yesterday we woke up at 6:00 and Brandon gave her a beautiful blessing before we headed out the door. We drove to Utah and went to sushi for lunch. Then hit up Trader Joes to get her some snacks for the MTC. Then we went to Provo City Center temple to walk around and take pictures. There were a lot of missionaries there. Then we headed to the MTC to drop her off. The line to get in was crazy long. There were lots of emo...