Hey ya'll!!‏

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Tue 11/12/13 9:09 AM

Hello all!

 

Sorry that this email is a day late. We had a member of the seventy come talk to us yesterday! So our p day is today instead. It was so great! His name is Elder Sitati. Him and his wife are from Kenya. They were so cute and so funny! They gave us soo much good advice! Elder Sitati broke up our missionary purpose into little sections and he showed us how all except for one parts relates to us too, not just our investigators. My favorite part was with the beginning of our purpose. The first line is, "invite others to come unto Christ." He changed it to say this, "Come unto Christ to invite others to come unto Christ." Whoa!! It’s so amazing how different a mission is than what I thought it would be. I knew that I would change when I was on a mission, but I thought it would be so much more of helping to change other people. I have found this to be soo different. We can't even begin to help people if we aren't changed ourselves. We are here to better ourselves so that we can eventually help others. Hermana Bingham and I had to give a training in district meeting last week about our purpose. I related it something that I learned in the Red Cross. On our shirts it says, "Ourselves. Our community. Our world." We have to first help ourselves and love ourselves, then we can help others and love others. And through these things we are helping the world to be a better place. I was so grateful to hear Elder Sitati speak! But I almost didn't! I got some super nasty stomach something or other on Sunday. It took me out for almost the whole day. I was feeling WAY poopy before I went to bed and we weren't sure we were going to be able to go. But I got a blessing and our district leader and his companion brought me Sprite and saltines and that helped a ton. We were able to make it! It was definitely a miracle.

 

Ever came to church!!!!! We could not even believe it. Filiberto walks in and behind him walks in little Ever. Both of our jaws dropped and we were soo excited!! Filiberto went and talked to their boss so that he could come to church. The boss let him but said that he won't be able to go every week. But still!! I honestly didn't know if we would ever see him at church unless he lost his job. But thanks to Filiberto he was able to come! Filiberto is so great! He is still doing great. Doesn't want to make a baptismal date just quite yet, but he'll get there after everything with his work is better. I know he'll be baptized.

 

Our investigator Claudia is also progressing a lot!! We had dinner with her and Veronica (who also came to church!!) on Saturday and after we had a lesson about the Sabbath Day. We know that Claudia has to work on Sundays and that we've kind of talked to her about it before. But we just told them how it was and how it is such a huge blessing in our lives and that God will always supply a way to live His commandments. I was kind of afraid that it would sound like we were chastising her, but after the lesson she talked about how good she felt and that she was really grateful for what we said. She is going to try to come to church as soon as she can!

 

We've found another place with a bunch of Hispanics!! Its in the town of Sandston. We're just beginning to teach some people there, but we have high hopes for this place. There is a trailer park there and a couple of apartment complexes that are loaded with them! It is so great to be a part of this area and help it to grow. I love when we are able to find these places and introduce them to something they've never heard before. It is so much better than being somewhere where almost everyone there has seen missionaries before. This Sunday is transfer calls and we are crossing our fingers that we get to be in this area for one more transfer! Especially during the holidays, I would love to be with Hermana Bingham and with this ward over the holidays. So keep your fingers crossed!

 

I hope you all have a lovely week! Remember that I love you sooo much and am so grateful for all that you all do for me. I know that prayers are being sent my way. I can feel it. Thank you so much. I love you!

 

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