We are NOW the Lord's missionaries!‏

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Tue 3/18/14 11:45 AM

My dearest family and friends!!

 

Sorry my email is a day late. There was a big snow storm yesterday so all of the libraries were closed. (Because it doesn't take much to close down the city here hehe.)

 

This week was SO GREAT! So many prayers were answered and so many blessings were received! First off, our investigator Corina is on the brink of baptism! She was just bearing her testimony to us last week and was talking about how she had received answers to her prayers. She has just kept saying how she wasn't ready to set a date for baptism, but that she would be baptized. But we have a lesson with her today and we have so much faith that she will set a date. She is so ready for this. She is ready to do the things that she needs to live this gospel.

 

Side note: I found out that Josue from my last area is getting baptized this Saturday!! Keep him in your prayers!

 

So as I have been saying, we have been having a hard time finding new investigators. But last week, the Lord blessed us with 3 new ones! We have been trying real hard to find those people that the Lord has prepared for us, but we've just been having a hard time. We thought that we were doing everything that we could. Our ward mission leader has been putting an emphasis on us trying to do service lately. So for the last week or so we have been basically making people let us do service for them. Instead of asking them if there is anything that we can do for them (because they almost always say no) we have just been saying, "Hey we're looking for service. What can we do for you?" It has definitely worked! We were able to help out some people last week and it was way fun! Hermana McRae and I were talking about it the other day and we just realized that maybe that was the thing that we were missing. We weren't really doing service besides our weekly English class. Once we started to do service the Lord blessed us immensely! I felt like I already had a strong testimony on service, but that just strengthened it even more. Even as a missionary, service is something that we need to always be looking for. And the Lord ALWAYS blesses us when we serve His children.

 

These last 3 days have been especially great. We have had full days of things to do at just about every hour of the day, and all of our plans have worked out! It has been such a huge blessing. On Saturday we did a blitz with the other members of our district. A blitz is just where a bunch of missionaries go into one area and knock a bunch of doors for a while. It was way fun! The weather was so perfect, we talked to some amazing people, and we got 2 new investigators out of it. After our blitz, we went to the Saturday night session of stake conference. It was amazing and the Spirit was so strong. All of the missionaries sang a song at the beginning and one at the end. For the last song we sang "As Sisters in Zion/We'll Bring the World His Truth" and instead of saying "And we will be the Lord's missionaries" we sang, "And we are NOW the Lord's missionaries." That song just gets me every time and that just made it worse haha. But it was so great. That song always brings the Spirit. We really are the Lord's missionaries now, and we should strive to be for the rest of our lives.

 

Things are great. Life is great. Being a missionary is the best. I love you all! Have a great week!

 

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