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From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net).
Sent:	Mon 6/17/13 9:02 AM
To:	hortma@msn.com; gahort@q.com

Dear family that I love very dearly,

 

First I want to start off and say that I am so grateful to be a missionary! There is no where else I'd rather be right now. As hard as it may be, I am so super happy and I know that I am supposed to be right here in beautiful Virginia!

 

Well last Tuesday we had mission conference which was really great! It was sad though because it was our mission presidents last one, but they gave lots of great advice and I am very grateful for the short time that I was able to know them. They are so nice! One of my favorite things that I learned was "Expectations of immediate perfection can be crippling." Boy did I need this with my Spanish and all! I just want to be fluent already, but that isn't exactly how it works out unfortunately. It was way good to see my cute MTC companion as well! She is in Charlottsville and she met Jordan's sister that lives there! Last Tuesday we also had our second lesson with this lady named Corina. This sweet sweet lady is so prepared for the Gospel! It blows my mind! At the beginning of the lesson she told us that she knows that our church is true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet! Seriously?! We were so excited! A little bit into the lesson the prompting to challenge her for baptism came. My heart instantly fell out of my chest. I thought I was going to have a heart attack right there in the lesson! Then both of my companions told me at different times during the lesson that I needed to be the one to ask her. So I did! And I messed it up a little bit, but that's alright. And she said that she was already baptized and she didn't understand the whole proper authority thing, but she said that she will think about it. She is golden! She will be baptized. I'm sure of it.

 

We also had our second lesson with a lady named Gloria. She has the cutest little girl named Jane Melody. She was definitely not interested in the Restoration, but she let us come back again so we taught her the Plan of Salvation and she was SO much more interested. So what happened again? I challenged her for baptism! It totally caught her off guard. She also talked about how she had already been baptized, so we tried to explain things a little more and she said she wants to learn more. Her little girl is adorable! After the first time we taught her she yelled to us as we were walking away, "I'll never forget you!" And she gave us these beads and told us all about her favorite school teacher.

 

There is this little girl named Hannah that we are teaching that reminds me of Lillie! And we get to teach her in English which is nice. She says the sweetest prayers about how we are going to help her learn more before her baptism and she is so sweet! Such a great example.

 

So on Saturdays we have this thing called Walk and Talk where we can only go tracting from 1-5 and we talked to this couple named Miguel and Irma. We only talked to them at their door and told them about church and such, but they didn't have time for an actual lesson, but they came to church! It was amazing! Except church was crazy and everyone talked about baptisms for the dead so they were probably a little freaked out, but we were just so happy that they came! Miracles are happening left and right here. I have never seen so many!

 

Well thank you for all that you do! I miss you all very very much! But I love being a missionary! I love you!!

And now I close mine epistle.

 

-Hermana Horton

 

My address: Sorry I didn't give it last week.

Hermana Callie Horton

8742 Shadymist Dr.

Richmond, VA 23235