The gospel is the good news!‏

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Mon 3/24/14 9:02 AM

Hola familia!

 

Great news! Hermana McRae and I will be staying together in Woodbridge for the next transfer!! We were seriously so excited. I love Hermana McRae a lot. At the beginning of the transfer I was just thinking how there was no way that we would stay together another transfer because we were just having so much fun but also working so hard. Then towards the end I didn't really feel like we were going to be transferred, and we aren't! A great transfer lies ahead.

 

So last Tuesday afternoon, President Wilson calls me and tells me that there is a meeting in Richmond the following day that he would like me to go to. I had no idea what the meeting was, but that night I got in a van with some other sisters going to the meeting. We stayed at the mission home that night and then went to the meeting the next day. Holy flip. First off, only the missionaries that are leaders and then a few other missionaries were invited, and I have no idea why I was one of the missionaries that got the opportunity to go, but I am so extremely grateful that I could. There were a couple of guys from the mission department that came and talked to us. It was absolutely amazing. It definitely changed my life as a missionary. They taught us about setting goals and planning and then about some teaching skills. It was so inspiring and the Spirit there was absolutely incredible! I just felt so honored that I got to be there. After the meeting, we were driving home and one of the sisters said, "The Church is true. Something that makes you feel that good just has to be true." We had to kind of recreate that Spirit in zone meeting last Friday. Our zone leaders did a really good job. It has definitely helped Hermana McRae and me a lot. We have felt the Spirit even more in our planning sessions and our lessons. President Wilson has focused lately on having the faith to double our baptisms as a mission, and I am so sure that the things we learned will help us to accomplish that.

 

Corina is just so close. She wants to wait until her boss has for sure told her that she can have Sundays free. We're being pretty persistent to set a date, but she really wants to wait. She is there though. She will definitely be baptized. We had this cute young woman come with us to the lesson that we had with her last week. It was her very first time going out with the missionaries. She did AMAZING. She bore a powerful testimony that really touched Corina. And she also was telling her about how much she wants Corina to be baptized because of the blessings that she has received in her life because of her baptism. I am so amazed at the youth of this Church! The Lord is preparing the future missionaries so well.

 

I am so grateful for this gospel in my life. It is the strongest source of happiness on this earth. There is no other way to receive of fullness of joy except for through this gospel. How lucky are we to have this knowledge?! Nothing makes me happier. I hope you all appreciate the joy that this gospel brings. There are a lot of people that would love to feel this joy, but that don't have it yet. I hope you all have a great week! Go share the gospel like you would share your chap stick! I love you!

 

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