Last week's letter

"There can be miracles when you believe" -Prince of Egypt

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Mon 6/02/14 9:04 AM

Hey you guys! (Like the guy from The Goonies)

 

I just have so much to say about the gloriousness of this last week, but alas, time will only let me say the highlights. But it really was such a great week! I know that it all happened because Hermana McBride and I are trying to change and polish ourselves into who Heavenly Father wants us to be. And with that, we received so many blessings.

 

First off, Noelia and Amilcar have a baptismal date!! They will be baptized on July 12. We asked them recently to be baptized on June 14 and after they prayed about it, they felt that they needed more time. So then the next lesson we invited them to pray about being baptized on July 12. When we went to the next lesson we asked them if they had prayed about that date and they said that it they're not even sure if they have to pray about it because it just feels so right. Yay! They just seemed so happy. It has been so cool to see the change in them since we very first started teaching them. And Noelia wants to go to girls’ camp! We were talking to the YW leaders yesterday at church about signing her up and they just jumped right on it. She will need a ride to YW every week and the YW president said that she will find her a ride every week and everything. We are so excited!!

 

Yesterday we had such a great little miracle. We were in our new golden trailer park after we had this great lesson. We were going to our next appointment and there was this guy sitting on his porch and I had the feeling that we should talk to him, but I ignored it. We went to our next appointment and they weren't there. So we went and tried to see a couple other people that we had met before and we didn't have success. We were walking down the street and trying to decide if we should knock or move on to the next thing we had planned (we really didn't want to knock..) And there was the guy on his doorstep again and I knew if I thought about it too much I wouldn't go talk to him so I just said, "I don't know what we should do but I'm just going to hurry and give this guy something real fast." So we went to go talk to him and we come to find out that he doesn't really know anything about God. I asked him if we could give him a pamphlet, but when I reached in my bag, I felt we should give him a Book of Mormon. So I gave him one and we ask him when we can teach him and we find out that he is locked out of the house so we're just thinking, "Sweet!" So we ask him if we can teach him right then and he agrees. So I sit on one of those lawn chairs that are like on the ground practically and Hermana McBride sits on the ground. We taught a great lesson, got eaten alive by bugs, and we helped him understand a little bit more about who God is. I felt like such a missionary. And even though there was loud Hispanic music coming from the trailer next door, some kid down the street practicing his trombone outside, and someone drilling in the ground not too far away, the Spirit was so strong and we barely even noticed those things. And now we have a return appointment and he agreed to be baptized when he knows these things are true. His name is Alfredo. We just felt so blessed. The Lord always blesses us for our efforts.

 

There was a lady that I talked about last week who was way awesome but is going to Mexico for a little while. She has to go there because of her visa and everything. So we decided that to decorate her door with hearts and leave her cookies before she goes. After we did that, she called us and she said that she wants us to come over before she leaves. So we got to go have one more lesson with her! And we found out that she will probably only be there until July instead of September!! I don't know how we were able to establish such a strong relationship so fast with her, but I am positive that she really will call us when she comes back. Cookies really do soften the hearts of the people!

 

Well I hope you have a great week! The gospel is so true. It just brings so much happiness that you just can't deny it once it gets a hold of you. I love this work so much!! Now go out and share it with your brothers and sisters! I love you!

 

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