We are now the Lord's missionaries

We are now the Lord's missionaries

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Mon 7/07/14 8:46 AM

Hola hola!

 

This was a very physically hard week. I had some weird stomach thing that I just couldn't seem to get better from and Hermana Chambers has been struggling with a migraine. But we made it! And I am finally feeling better and we are going to the doctors today for her. But we definitely still worked hard. We had to take it slow, but we did our very best and pushed ourselves as much as we could. Heavenly Father really helped us. He tested us, but He also helped us. 

 

Members are seriously one of the best tools that we have in missionary work! We had this super great/awkward experience with this member the other day. She is seriously a rock star. We called her to come to a lesson and she came and she also brought her newborn baby and her teenage daughter. She just hauled around a car seat the whole time. All I was thinking the whole time was, "If she can do it than anyone can!" We went to our lesson and they weren't there. We tried a couple other people that lived around there, but no luck. We didn't want to make her knock while carrying a baby car seat so we just thought that we would get in the car and take her back to her car. But right when we get in the car she asks who else we can go visit! What a gem. So we start off to visit someone else and there is this Hispanic walking and she just says, "There's a Hispanic! Go talk to her!" So we're just kind of laughing on the inside because of how awkward it’s going to be, but we just say, "Alright!" So we pull over and get out to go talk to her and the lady is just so weirded out, but we talk to her and she gives us her address to go and stop by another day! It was a pretty awkward street contact, but we had a good laugh about it later. I am just so amazed when members do things like that though. I really want to go home and be that kind of member. We need members like those in missionary work.

 

We also have this new investigator who looked us up! He was looking up churches to go to online and our church caught his attention so he called our mission office and now we're teaching him! He has already come to church once! His name is Dimar. The only sad thing is that he might be going back to his country really soon, but he said he would find the church once he got there! 

 

Our investigator Juan will hopefully be getting baptized this Saturday! He is seriously the greatest. He's just this cute little Hispanic man who loves to crack jokes all the time. He is still struggling a little bit with coffee, but he is seriously SO close! He has started drinking this new drink to replace the coffee so hopefully that will help him. He just wants to be baptized so badly. We really have so much hope that he will be able to be baptized this Saturday. There are a lot of people cheering him on in the ward too. So keep Juan in your prayers!

 

The 4th of July was pretty fun! We were able to teach a couple of lessons which is a miracle! And then we ended the day with milkshakes and grilled hamburgers. Mmm :) And after that we went outside and tried to catch fireflies because that is the closest thing that we have to fireworks. It was a lot of fun! I hope the neighborhood parade was fun!

 

I hope you all have a fabulous week! Make it count! I love you all!

 

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