Adios Mechanicsville‏

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Mon 2/10/14 9:17 AM

HOLA!!!

So the time has finally come where I have to say goodbye to the lovely Mechanicsville. What a wonderful time I have had here! I will miss it dearly, but it is time to move on to another land where the Lord needs me. I am excited for the adventures that lie ahead! I will be finishing the training of a Hermana. I'll find out on Thursday where I will be going and who I will be with and then off I'll go! But I will definitely miss Mechanicsville so much. I have been here for so long I just thought about moving my records there! Not really, but I wouldn't mind! The people here are amazing. The ward basically had guessed that I was going to leave so I kind of said some goodbyes yesterday, and it just made me realize even more how much I love the people of that ward. It is really such an amazing ward! Even though we are the Spanish missionaries awkwardly in an English ward, they show so much love and support to us. I am so sure that I was so meant to be in that ward. There was a time when I was just thinking about how much better my Spanish would be if I was in a Spanish ward, but then I just had the strongest feeling that the Lord has some work for me to do after my mission and so I needed to learn how to share the gospel better in English. It’s kind of hard to explain, but I know that my time in an English ward was definitely for my benefit after my mission too. I have learned so much here and will be forever grateful for the many people that I met here.

 

We had an amazing miracle this week! So there was this lady that we had taught once at this trailer and when we went back for our second lesson she wasn't there and we didn't have a phone number for her. So we went back like a week later to see her, and the person that answers the door said that she moved. But they were Hispanic so we asked if they would be interested! It was this young boy and he didn't really seem too interested, but he set an appointment with us. We weren't really expecting a whole lot to come out of it. When we went back for our lesson his mom was there too. We asked her if she had ever heard of our church before. We come to find out that 3 years ago she was meeting with the missionaries! She had a Book of Mormon, some DVDs, she had been to church before, and she had even been to the temple grounds! The thought seriously crossed my mind to ask her if she was baptized... She said that she works now on Sundays, and we think that that may be the reason that she stopped meeting with them. We were reviewing the restoration with her, and when we asked her if she thought it was true, she just talked about how she already knew that it was true because she felt the Spirit when the other missionaries shared it too! She wouldn't agree to baptism right now because she doesn't feel like she can stop working on Sundays. Hopefully she will soon though! She is so so cute and so amazing!

 

Josue is doing so amazing! He has been keeping all of his commitments lately and he went to church with Filiberto yesterday and stayed for the baptism that they had after! We were teaching him the law of chastity the other day and we just got a reaction that we weren't expecting. It just made so much sense to him that Satan would be attacking it because of how sacred it is. We didn't even say that to him! He just figured that out on his own! He is already trying to live it in his life. But the greatest was at the end. We asked him if there was anything that we could do for him. Usually he says no, but this time he asked if we could pray for him to help to be able to continue onward with strength because when someone starts walking in the path of God the Devil just jumps on you and holds you down so that you can't get back up! Ha-ha. He's great. But he just has so much faith! It amazes me. And Filiberto is just being the best little fellow shipper. Speaking of Filiberto, he is such a fabulous human being. He is preparing right now to get his temple recommend so that he can go with the ward to the temple on the 22nd!

 

This week was just really great. I don't even have enough time to write about all of the great miracles that we saw, but the Lord definitely blessed us. I am so grateful for this amazing work and the opportunity to be a part of it. Being a part of it has helped to shape me into a better person. Oh how grateful I am! This gospel is amazing. How lucky are we to have the knowledge of it? The Church is true! I love you all! Have a grrrrrrrrreat week!!

 

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