Oh What a Wonderful World!
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Mon 6/10/13 1:29 PM
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Hola familia!
I'm here! I made it to
the beautiful and wonderful Virginia!! Seriously, it's BEAUTIFUL! One of the
most beautiful places I've ever been to! I absolutely love it! We live in this
cute little blue house with an English speaking trio and they are way fun! Its
fun to talk about our experiences at the end of the day with them.
I'm in a trio and my
companions' names are Hermana Mendez and Hermana Sasser. Hermana Mendez is a
native hispanic which is awesome! They are wonderful! They are so patient with
me and my horrible Spanish and they have been so helpful. I am very grateful
that I was put with them.
So much has already
happened! I don't even know where to start. My first day of teaching was
Friday. We went to this trailer park and were going to visit some former
investigators, but we kept seeing people so we would talk to them. Well mostly
my companions would because I had like no idea what was going on. After doing
that for a while, we went and visited this former investigator named Margarita.
She was wanting to know which church was the true church and which way was the
correct way to be baptized. After talking for awhile, and me having no idea
what's going on, my companions told me to teach her about Joseph Smith and the
Book of Mormon, so that's what I did! Both of things are something that I feel
so strongly about so I was able to bear testimony of these amazing things with
my poor little broken Spanish. The Spirit was crazy strong! And it must have
been completely the Spirit talking because she said that my Spanish was really
good. When I told her I've been learning for 6 weeks she couldn't stop talking
about it. It made me feel so good :) We teach this English class on Thursdays,
and she said, "I'll come to your English class if my English can be as
good as her Spanish in 6 weeks." I just felt like I was really able to
connect with her even though I couldn't really understand her. I gave her a
Book of Mormon and so hopefully she keeps her commitment to read it! It was soo
awesome!
Every Saturday we do these
things called "Walk and Talks" and we have to drive somewhere and
then just knock doors. We went to this one trailer park we heard had lots of
Hispanics. We ran into this lady named Corina who was from Guatemala. (I have
met so many people from Guatemala! I got the best of both worlds!) Before we
had told her anything she asked us where our church was and asked if she could
come! It was amazing! We went inside and taught her about the Restoration and
she thought it was so beautiful. We also taught a woman named Gloria who let us
in, but didn't seem too interested. She is letting us come back though so we'll
see! And she has a really cute daughter named Jane who gave us all these beads
and let us play with her Barbies.
Later that day we went
to go talk to a member and tell us if they knew any other Hispanics in their
apartment complex. They weren't home, but when we were walking out we saw this
Hispanic guy by his car so we went and talked to him. His name is Freddy. Once
again, he asked us if he could come to our church before we had even told him
anything! The people of Virginia are so prepared for the Gospel its ridiculous!
We just talked to so many people!
It rains here so much!
Its beautiful! I felt like a true missionary after Thursday was over because I
had taught someone, I was drenched from head to toe, and I had bug bites all
over my legs. I am now a real missionary!
We went to this Metro
Richmond Zoo today. It was a lot of fun! I forgot to bring my stuff so that I
could send pictures, but I've got some good ones. We went with the other
Sisters that we live with and some other Hermanas that had to stay with us for
a night.
Life is great here on
the East Coast! I miss you all! It was great to talk to some of the fam the
other day! I love you all very very much!!
And now I close mine
epistle. I am Hermana Horton.
Callie with President and Sister Perry
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