Anything is possible if you just believe

Anything is possible if you just believe

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Mon 7/14/14 8:58 AM

My dear family and friends!

 

Well I think Hermana Chambers and I are finally getting better! My poor companion has been suffering from a headache for forever, but we went to two doctors last week and the second one gave her some medicine that we are pretty sure is working. Yay! And who knows what my problem has been, but I think it is officially going away. Its been a weird sickness. There is apparently some weird virus going around that lasts for a long time. It has honestly been a trial because I haven't felt as good as I want to. And even though I couldn't have Mom there to use her magic touch and make everything better, the Lord comforted me and I have definitely been able to feel of His love for me.

 

Juan unfortunately wasn't baptized this past Saturday, but its ok because he has made so much progress! We went to go have a lesson with him last Tuesday and at the beginning he basically had the attitude that leaving coffee is practically impossible. We were not about to let him think that because we know that he can do it. So we had a good chat about trusting in yourself and trusting in the Lord and then we made a plan with him. We made a little chart and he was going to drink less coffee every day and by the 16th, leave it completely. And we wrote down some of the things that he can do if he gets tempted to drink coffee. We went by on Thursday and he had only drank coffee once in between lessons! And then he called us Saturday and he starts out the phone call with, "Don't cry..." We were pretty confused and then he told us how he hadn't drank any coffee since our last lesson! He's such a funny little man. And then he calls us on Sunday and tells us that he still hadn't drank any coffee, but that his head hurt so bad that he couldn't come to church. We called him later to see how he was doing and he had drank a little bit of coffee. But he went 3 whole days! We're pretty proud of our little Juan. Right now he is set to be baptized this Saturday and we have so much faith in him. He CAN do it. But keep him in your prayers!

 

There has been more of a focus lately to tell people about family history work, even when we're tracting. They have changed some things in missionary work and we are now to teach lesson 5 in Preach My Gospel before baptism instead of just after baptism. So we have been teaching a lot of people about temples and family history work. It has been so cool! Even though I don't get to do much family history work here on my mission, my testimony of it has grown so much. Family history work is seriously crucial! It is just as much missionary work as knocking doors is. Even though I know that so much of our families work has been done, I'm excited to be able to try to find those haven't been found yet, or just do whatever I can with family history work. And it is so special that we get to do that sacred work in the temples. 

 

This week is going to be a good one, so make it count! I love you all so much!! 

 

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