Happy Halloween!‏

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Mon 10/28/13 8:33 AM

HOLA A TODOS!

 

I hope that you all had a very wonderful week! This week was great! Starting getting a little chilly, but apparently its going to be back up in the 80s by like Thursday or something! I love Virginia weather. Its a gem.

 

Shout out to Mom and Dad! Good luck at your race on Saturday! Speaking of Saturday...

 

Filiberto is still doing great!! He is so excited for his baptism. I can't even believe it. I am still in awe of how perfect of an investigator he has been. He has had some challenges come his way, but he knows that through God and prayer that he will be able to make it through. He came to a baptism of an investigator of some other missionaries in our ward on Saturday. He loved it! We were asking him after how he was feeling about baptism and just about everything and he started crying. We about died. He just feels that this decision is so right for him and his excitement makes me even more excited (which is crazy because I already get overly excited about everything). Before he was saying that he wanted to have his baptism is English but he decided the other day to have it in Spanish which I think will be really good because he will understand it more and get more out of it. And one of the other cool parts is the excitement from the ward! So many people are coming that don't even speak Spanish! That's what kind of a ward this is. They are so supportive and so loving to everyone, even if they don't speak their language. This is my second favorite ward ever!! (CR1 will always be number one in my heart. Don't worry.) And the members that do speak Spanish are so supportive and willing to help wherever they can. So many of them just told us, "I'll do anything. You just tell me what you need me to do and I'll do it." If all hell doesn't break loose this week, Saturday should be a huge success.

 

Hermana Bingham is the greatest! I am so so grateful to still be her companion! We've had some pretty fun times together. Some of which were crazy in the moment and hilarious after. On Saturday we had a really great lesson about the Book of Mormon with a couple of our investigators. Short, powerful, to the point. The Spirit was strong! Our ward had their Halloween party on Saturday so we looked at our watches at the close of the lesson and were just thinking, "Sweet! Lots of time to get to the party on time!" And then before we knew it, they just started talking. And REALLY fast for really long. I think they forgot about our Spanish skills (or lack of). We understood most of it, but the whole time they would say something that I didn't really understand and then laugh and I would just laugh away because they were laughing! After, I found out that Hermana Bingham was doing the same haha. Half an hour later we had a Spanish headache, but we had some good laughs.

 

Being a missionary is great! I love how much I'm learning about myself. A mission makes you see so many things about yourself that I don't think I would have seen any other way. It is really great. I am so grateful for the blessings of this time of my life!

 

So I have something I want you all to do. I LOVE reading conference talks! So I would love if you could all send me a copy of your all time favorite conference talk. That would be grately appreciated.

 

Have a wonderful week! I love you all so much!! Adios!

 

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