Monday, June 16, 2014

Adios Woodbridge


Adios Woodbridge

From:
 Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Mon 6/16/14 9:46 AM

My dear family and friends!

 

Well, that sad time has come again where I will be getting transferred. And even sadder, Hermana McBride is getting transferred too. So there will be 2 new hermanas coming into our area behind us. We have been stressing a lot since we got the calls to get everything ready for the new hermanas. This is a pretty sad transfer. I have loved my time is Woodbridge SO much. I have grown so much since I have been here. Saying goodbye to the ward yesterday was pretty hard for the both of us. I have never felt so loved so fast by so many people. And I have loved serving with Hermana McBride soo much! I love that I have been able to meet some of my bestest friends on the mission. I just feel so blessed. I will surely miss my time here. And I have also been called to be a Sister Training Leader. It’s like a sister zone leader kind of. I'm excited but nervous because I feel so inadequate for the job, but the Lord has called me so He will help me!

 

So Vanessa is baptized!! YAY!! It was such a beautiful baptism, but holy cow one of the most stressful days ever. Everything started kind of falling apart last minute, but with the help of the Lord, we got it all worked out. Satan was trying real hard to pull us down and not enjoy the day, but its ok because Vanessa was so happy and her happiness made us so happy and made the stress all worth it. Vanessa told us a couple of days before her baptism that her dad wasn't going to be able to come unless we moved the time to that evening, which was sad because we moved the baptism date just so that he could be there. We couldn't move it because there was already a baptism of another ward going on at that time and we had already planned everything for the morning. She was pretty sad about it and so were we. So we were just praying so hard that her dad would somehow be able to make it, and then we got a call from Vanessa Saturday morning and she said that he would be able to come! It was such a huge tender mercy. Everything worked out perfectly in the end. And now she is a member of the Church and nothing brings me more joy than knowing that.

 

We had another really cool experience that day too. We were fasting to know how we could help our investigator Corina because she knows it’s true and she wants to be baptized, but she has kind of lost the flame and won't set a date and we haven't been able to see her lately and she hasn't been coming to church. So we were fasting and it was seriously a trial of our faith a couple of times because of how stressful that day had been. And then that day we were eating dinner at the bishop's house and the Elders were coming to eat there after us so they showed up while we were finishing up eating. The Elders were talking to the Bishop about this one member in the ward, and they said, "Yeah, he is so great. If there is someone that won't set a baptismal date you definitely need to bring him." And then this light bulb just went off at the same time in mine and Hermana McBride's head. So we just looked at each other and starting tearing up because we knew that Heavenly Father had just answered our prayers. I have the strongest testimony of fasting. It works every time. Fasting has helped me soo much on my mission. The Lord ALWAYS blesses us when we make sacrifices.

 

I have seemed to collect a lot of stuff on my mission so I will be sending home a couple of boxes today. Just put them on my bed and I'll go through them when I get home.

 

I hope you have the best week ever! Remember that I love you! Adios amigos!

 

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

 

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