Half way!
| From: | Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)This sender is in your contact list. |
| Sent: | Thu 5/16/13 3:58 PM |
| To: | hortma@msn.com |
My dearest family!
I can't believe its already time for me to write you guys an email again! This week flew by! The MTC is great. Its wonderful in fact. I think I might miss it just a little, but I am so super eager to get out there and spread this amazing Gospel to the people of Virginia! This week especially I've been feeling that way! My Spanish isn't ready, but if I got a call to leave for Virginia tonight, I would be more than happy to go!
Russell M. Nelson came and spoke to us at our Tuesday night devotional this week! It was so awesome! The power of an apostle in the room is so cool! I wish I had a copy of the talk that I could just send to you guys! He talked about how much of a privilege it is to be a missionary and how we have people on the other side of the veil that are praying for us. His wife said something so cool. She said that we are praying for our people in our missions, while their ancestors are on the other side of the veil praying for us. And Elder Nelson said that when we pray we should call an angel by name to help us out. I instantly thought of Grandma and Grandpa Poulsen! I can feel how proud they are of me every single day. It is truely amazing! Something else that Elder Nelson said that excitement comes from serving and preaching the Gospel to others. I have already known this to be true! After we teach one of our "investigators" its like an adrenaline rush! Thats either from the Spirit or the fact that I was able to teach the Gospel in an unknown language without crashing and burning. Either way, he is right! His talk was so awesome. Its so funny to see the difference between an apostle at conference and an apostle in the MTC. They are so relaxed here so so much of their hilarious personality comes out! It was so great to hear him! Everyone in the room was just hanging on every word he said. And I'm in the MTC choir so he's heard me sing before. I think my voice really made a big impression on him.
Also, Janice Kapp Perry came and spoke to all the Relief Society last Sunday! She is one amazing lady. She wrote so many of my favorite church songs. And she wrote this song for sister missionaries where she changed the words from "As Sisters in Zion" to "The Sisters of Zion." She changed all the words to fit sister missionaries and we were the first people to sing it. It was one of the most amazing things that I have ever participated in. There wasn't a dry eye in the room by the end of the song. It made me appreciate being a missionary so much! So keep your eyes out for it and please send me a CD when she publishes it! I'm pretty sure the whole CD is dedicated to sister missionaries.
Its been fun to see Jordan here sometimes! He is having such a wonderful time and he is the district leader which doesn't come to any surprise. I'm so glad he came and visited you guys before he left!
Thank you so much for the letters and packages! I'm glad to see my room has a floor finally! Probably the first time in years! When are Mike and Sashana moving in? Hopefully they're reading this so that they can send me a letter or something... preferrably a package...
My Spanish is coming along! Or so I thought. But we started learning all of this future and past tense stuff this week and its completely crashed all of the stuff I was good at before. We do these things called TRCs every Monday. I think I've talked about it before. But we teach members that know Spanish and its way fun! We taught this cute old couple about Joseph Smith and I was able to bear one of the strongest testimonies I've ever been able to bear in Spanish before. I am so grateful that I can bear my testimony is Spanish! It has saved me so many times in lessons when I don't know what else to say.
So my companion and I decided that we were going to share our testimonies with our families this week and I decided that I wanted to do it in Spanish!
Yo se que esta Iglesia es verdadero. Yo se que El Libro de Mormon es la palabra de Dios y que es verdadero. Yo se que Jose Smith fue un profeta. Yo se que el tradujo el Libro de Mormon por medio la poder de Dios. Yo se que Dios es nuestro Padre Celestial y el nos ama muy mucho. Yo se que Jesucristo es el hijo de Dios y que El sufrir por nuestro pecados. Estoy agradecido por esta Iglesia. Necessito esta Iglesia!
I'm sorry for those of you that understood and knew how bad my grammer was but just love it.
I love you all! The church is true! Thanks for everything you do and all of the support you give me!
-Hermana Horton
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