Time to get fat!!‏

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail
Sent:	Mon 11/25/13 9:01 AM

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

 

I can't believe it will be thanksgiving this week! The weather before yesterday has been pretty great so it didn't even seem like the holiday season should be beginning, but yesterday it definitely started to feel like it. It was sooo cold! Holy smokes! The cold here is different... Straight to the bones it goes. But my snazzy coat is helping me to stay warm! If anyone is feeling super generous this season, send me hand and feet warmers por favor.

 

We had a great week! Lots of new investigators! We had kind of been lacking in the new investigators department lately so this week we did a lot of finding and had 5 new investigators! It was great. We just met some really great people this week! One of the people we are now teaching is this guy named Enrique. He is so cool! We have already have a couple lessons with him and he is keeping all of his commitments and doing even more than we ask him! He agreed to be baptized once he knows more, so hopefully we will be able to get him on date soon!

 

The Lord always has a plan. I am so grateful for that. We just need to follow that plan. This week we went to have a lesson with someone and they weren't home. But there was this lady that was sitting at a table in front of her trailer across the street and Hermana Bingham felt that we should go talk to her, even though she wasn't Hispanic. Turns out this lady is having a really hard time right now. She was just crying the whole time and was just like, "You are the angels that I needed today!" This lady is amazing! She is having such a hard time right now and yet she is always trying to help out other people, even if it means making huge sacrifices. She was definitely an example to me! She didn't want to commit to having missionaries come teach her, but we told her we might send some by. I have faith that this message will touch her life and she will be baptized! If not, she has a huge heart and a huge love for God. I am sure that this message will be something that she will accept in the next life! I am so grateful for my amazing companion and the guidance of the Lord!

 

We had stake conference this weekend and it was soo good! In the adult session we talked about the hastening of the work. President Wilson spoke and he reminded us to not forget the whole sentence: "Hastening the work of salvation." He shared what the definition of hasten is: to excelerate; make something go faster. That is exactly what we are all doing! It is a part of our purpose in life. I hope that I can go back and be a good member missionary. I am not here to serve the Lord for just 18 months. I am here to serve Him and preach His gospel for the rest of my life. I hope to one day be like Grandpa Poulsen! Haha what a guy. Thanking all the Hispanics for the Book of Mormon and always giving one to random people!

 

The next day in the adult session, President Wilson talked again and he talked about what has become one of my all time favorite stories in the scriptures! He talked about John 21 when Jesus tells his disciples to put the net on the other side of the boat and then they have so much fish that they can't even cast in the net. But that's not my favorite part. I love verse 9 I think it is. So before this, they don't know that it is the Lord that is talking to them from the shore, but then one of the disciples tells Peter that it is the Lord. Now this is my favorite part in verse 9 when it talks about how after Peter heard that that, he cast himself in the water. Peter loved the Lord so much that he couldn't wait for the boat to go to the shore. He threw himself into the water and swam to Him. Peter's love for the Savior is such an example to me! I hope to be the kind of person that when I see the Lord, I will be so excited to see Him that I won't be able to wait until the boat gets to Him. I will throw myself in the water and swim to Him! I will work my whole life to have love for the Lord like Peter did. I love the Lord so much and I know that I need to show it even more.

 

I hope that you all have an amazing Thanksgiving and get really fat! Eat lots of stuffing in honor of me. I love you all so much! Have the best week ever!!

 

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