Mariah's Mission

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...