A little piece of Virginia

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Mon 4/14/14 9:32 AM

Hola!

 

Looks like the warm weather has finally hit Virginia! (And will hopefully stay) It has been so good. Everyone just seems happier! We just kept having some really pretty days and then it would like snow again, but it looks like it will be warm for the most part now. (Hallelujah!) This winter was a long one for Virginians. Way for missionary work in warm weather!

 

So just to get the not so happy out of the way first, Corina still doesn't have a baptismal date. She ended up not being able to have a lesson last week so we weren't able to set it. She is still doing great though! Her boss told her that she couldn't have every Sunday off, but we are praying for a softened heart and a miracle!

 

So I'm pretty sure I mentioned a little bit about Sonya last week, but she was this lady that we found after a long day of knocking where everyone hadn't been all that nice to us. So when we met her, which was just such a huge tender mercy. And then she told us to call her Friday morning just to make sure that it was still ok if we came over. So we called her and no one answered so we left a message that basically said, "We're going to come over at 5 30! Call us if that's a problem!" We were pretty desperate to see her. So we didn't receive a call so we went on over! That day we had been doing a lot of knocking again and hadn't had too much of success. We went to her house just crossing our fingers that she would be there. And she was! That was the second time that she was a tender mercy for us. And we had one of the best first lessons ever. Her and her 2 kids were there listening and then her husband eventually came in and joined us. We felt like we should teach them about the plan of salvation which ended up being perfect because one of her sons had questions about Adam and Eve. It was just such a beautiful sight to see a cute little family there listening and trying to sincerely understand everything that we had said. They want to be more sure before they agree to be baptized, but they seem pretty golden to me!

 

I hope you are all praying for opportunities to share the gospel. They aren't going to come to us unless we are praying for them. There is this guy in our ward who is a really great missionary. His other friends that missionaries had tried teaching ended up not working out. He got up to bear his testimony yesterday and was talking about how he and his wife had just been praying so hard for missionary opportunities. One day he was at work and he was working with this guy on something. Out of nowhere the guy started asking him if he has to do anything to be a member of his church and things like that. The Lord presented him with this golden opportunity to share the gospel. That will ALWAYS happen if we are sincerely praying for them. The Lord has commanded us to share the gospel so we need to pray for those opportunities! There is no greater joy than sharing than the gospel. And it doesn't always present itself in a golden way like that, and people won't always say yes, but it will bring you joy and blessings 100% of the time.

 

As a mission we are spending the next 5 months studying about the doctrine of Christ. This month we are studying about faith. FAITH IS CRUCIAL. I hope you are all doing the little things every single day to strengthen your faith. A testimony comes through faith and even more importantly, true conversion comes through faith. But it all starts with our faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! He did it all. He suffered for everything and through Him we can be happy and receive strength through our trials. But we have to have faith in Him. We can't let His suffering be in vain. I am really grateful for the things that I have learned about faith. Everyone could always add some strength to their faith.

 

I hope you all have the best week ever! The Church is true! I love you all!!

 

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