6 months already?!?!‏

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Mon 10/21/13 9:08 AM

 

Aloha!

 

Holy smokes. 6 months. 1/3. 1 year to go. HOLY COW!! I can't even believe how fast these past 6 months have gone!! But at the same time it feels like I have been doing this for forever and that I will be doing it for forever. These past 6 months have been absolutely amazing!!

 

Filiberto is AWESOME!! He is an investigador de oro!! (golden investigator) Even single lesson we have with him we just come out saying things like: "Is this really even happening right now?!" "How did we get so lucky..." "He is really getting baptized!! And he is very aware of what he's doing!" "He's the greatest." He is solid. November 2nd is going to happen as far as I can tell! He just wants to be the best he can be because he knows how important this is! He was asking us questions yesterday like: "What kind of music can I listen to?" "Do I need socks?" "Do I have to fast the day of my baptism?" And just so many golden questions! He is so excited! I just can't even describe it, but he does this thing when we talk about his baptism and its kinda of like he's super excited, but like kinda freaking out and it just brings laughter to my belly! He is doing things like marking scriptures and reading from the gospel principles book and he is telling his friends from work about it! And even though they didn't understand why he was doing this, he was just explaining about how he felt so good about this decision. And he works on weekends with our investigator Ever and he said how they talk about the muchachas (us) and he told Ever about his baptism so we are hoping that we will be able to get Ever to come! I hope that one day you will all get to meet the great and wonderful Filiberto. He just has so much faith and is trying so hard to do his best. It is so amazing and such a huge testimony builder to me!

 

We had a great miracle last night! This week was kinda weird with just like lots of appointments falling through and such, and Sunday nights are the queen of appointments falling through. So we took this lady from the ward who speaks a little Spanish with us to a couple appointments in this appartment complex. Right before one of our lessons got canceled, but we had some other people to see so we had high hopes that something would happen! We went to our first appointment and they weren't there. So we went to go try to see someone else and that was just an interesting experience. So we went to go try to see these people who we have been trying to see since I got to this area, but no one ever answers. But last night they answered! His name is Ricardo. He doesn't really have any experience with religion and is so eager to learn more about God. And when we asked him to pray at the end he prayed in his head and then excited looked up and told us about this things he prayed for. He has never prayed before in his life and we just knew that whatever he said in his prayer was so sincere. It was so great! I absolutely love those unexpected miracles. And tonight, we are going to teach him and his wife and their cute little children!

 

I can hardly believe that 1/3 of my mission is already gone. These past months have been some of the most amazing months of my life! I have learned and grown so much! Even though the mission has been hard at some moments, I would never trade these past months for anything. I don't think that I would have been able to have this growth any other way. And I have so much more to do! I know that this time will be the strong foundation for the rest of my life. I am especially grateful for my relationship with my Heavenly Father. Gah I can't even think about it without crying!! I know with all of my heart that He loves me so much. More than I can even imagine. I just can't even describe how I feel about my relationship with Him. But I do know that I want everyone to feel this way. The world would be such a happier place if they could only realize the amazing love that we have from our Heavenly Father. I can not even imagine my life without Him to be there with me every step of the way. He is my rock!

 

Well I hope that you all have a wonderful week! Remember that I love you so much! God be with you.

 

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