Nuts and Bolts of Mechanicsville‏

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Mon 9/16/13 10:04 AM

Hola a todos!

 

This week was SO fast! So much happened and yet it is just one giant blur so I will do my best to fill your lives with the many wonderful experiences of last week! First off, the weather has been AMAZING these last couple days. It reminded me a lot of Utah at the beginning of fall. Probably because there was like no humidity. It was great.

 

We had a very successful walk and talk last saturday! We found a gold mine of Hispanics! We couldn't believe our eyes! We went to this place where we knew a Hispanic family lived and we started to knock. Before we knew it they were all over the place! We would be talking to one and like 5 would walk past! For this area, that was a miracle! We found lots of people and have lots of lessons set up. This was again in Ashland which is like a 20 or 25 minute drive so we have "Ashland days" which makes it hard, but we know that it will work out!

 

Also, Osbel is amazing! He told 2 of his friends about us and how we are teaching him English too. So yesterday morning we had a lesson with him and his friends and it was awesome! The coolest part about it was that one of them was this referral that they got forever ago so we have been trying to contact him since before I got here! We didn't have a number for him and he was never home and it ended up being the same guy! We couldn't believe it. We KNOW that he needs to hear the gospel. There is no way that he would have landed in our laps like that if he wasn't meant to be taught this gospel at this time. They are all really smart! One of them kept talking about how he was a Michael Jordan fan. We all super enjoyed that. The night before our lesson we went into this Mexican restaurant to hang up an english poster and we went in and started speaking spanish and the looks on peoples faces when they saw 3 white girls speaking spanish was so great! All of the workers there were Hispanic and they all just started appearing out of no where to see us speak spanish haha. And turns out that Filiberto (the one we've been trying to contact for forever) was one of those people! He was talking about how he saw us and how everyone was so amazed by the 3 white girls speaking spanish haha. We felt pretty good about ourselves.

 

We had Sisters Meeting last Tuesday which was really fun! We learned a lot about finding our strengths which was really good because sometimes it seems like my weaknesses are just shining through like none other! But we all have our strengths and we need to work at improving them. The first step though is to find them so I have been working a lot lately at finding my strengths and talents and improving them! It was a really great meeting. President Wilson was talking a lot about how we need to know that we are amazing. He said something that was really awesome. He said, "If only you could look at yourselves through Heavenly Father's mirror." Heavenly Father loves us SO much and He thinks that we are just so amazing even on our worse days. I have learned so much about what being a child of God really means. Once we have that knowledge and really think about it, I think it really effects the way we act and think about ourselves.

 

I am just so grateful for the opportunity to be a missionary, but holy cow the time is going by SO fast! Someone asked me the other day how much time I had left and I like couldn't even believe it!! I know that this time is so precious and that I need to work as hard as I can so that I don't go home with any regrets.  I am so extremely grateful for the person that my mission is helping me to become. What a great time this is!

 

I hope you all have a wonderful week! Remember that I love you!!

 

And now I close mine epistle. I am Hermana Horton.