Happy birthday dadio!!‏

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Wed 10/16/13 1:59 PM

Hello sweet family!!

Shout out to Dad on his birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I hope it’s a great one!

And shout out to Laura!!! Congrats on the new baby!! She is a gem. Can't wait to meet her and be her favorite aunt!

We are having so much success here in the Mechanicsville area! This area is prepared for this gospel! Sorry its been awhile since I have emailed. Libraries were closed on Monday and Tuesdays are our busiest days of the week so we had to wait until today! It pretty much killed me. Especially considering that I was almost positive that Laura was having her baby.

We had 2 investigators at church on Sunday!! It was so great! It was Veronica and Filiberto. They were super awkward towards each other haha. I just had a good chuckle with myself about it. We have lots of good chuckles. If we didn’t we would probably just cry all of the time because crazy and awkward stuff happens on the daily. It is great! Definitely an adventure!

Filiberto is amazing!! He is basically the perfect investigator. He keeps all of his commitments and he hasn’t had any problems with the things that we have taught so far! And we’ve taught the word of wisdom and the law of chastity! Actually, he taught us the law of chastity. We gave him a pamphlet and asked him about it in our next lesson and he just started telling us about it and how great he thinks it is and how he already teaches his children stuff like that! And he even started bringing up things like modesty. Our minds were blown!! He also talked about how he is married (such a miracle!) and loyal to his wife. He is the smartest Hispanic I have ever met. He is the biggest miracle ever!! He just landed right in our laps and has been so extremely prepared for this gospel! We are praying hard that the adversary doesn’t get a hold of him before November 2^nd. So keep your fingers crossed!

We have had some major breakthroughs with some of our investigators! Claudia (Veronica’s friend) is finally progressing! She was having a hard time keeping her commitments and yesterday when we visited her she said that she had been reading! Wahoo! Veronica is starting to change her mind about everything. Before she said that she was happy with her life but that she wanted to learn more about our church. Yesterday we watched the restoration video and she was having this like spiritual battle inside of herself! She started talking about how she wants to know which church is true and she just kept trying to rationalize her feelings, but her mind is definitely changing. And Ever said that he had a dream and that he felt comfortable with the baptism that he already had. But he agreed to try to stop drinking coffee so that he could live the word of wisdom! Don't really know what is going to happen with him and baptism and all but we will keep teaching him and praying for him and something great is sure to happen!

I just really love Virginia soo much! I can hardly believe that its almost been 6 months!! Time really does fly when you're talking about Jesus. I really love being a missionary soo much. I know that there is nothing better that I could be doing with my life right now. I have grown so much and I know that I will continue to grow. I know that my mission will one day help me to be a better mom and spouse.

AND my Spanish isn't too shabby :) I wouldn't say fluent, but its not too shabby. I have been having a lot of dreams in Spanish lately which is great! Life is just good. Missionary work is good. The church is good.

Thank you everyone for your support and love! I really love you all so so much. I hope you have a great week!!

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