Gospel=Happiness

Gospel=Happiness

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From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net
Sent:	Mon 8/11/14 10:36 AM

Hello family!

 

This week was a great one! Lizeth set another baptismal date!! She felt like she could be ready to be baptized by September 20. We had this super great lesson with her last week. We watched the Restoration DVD with her and she said that the part that stuck out to her the most was the part where Joseph's dad is getting baptized. She said she liked it because they looked so peaceful. Her testimony is slowly growing. She said that she thinks the church is true because ever since we started visiting her that she has been praying more and has just been feeling better. The Spirit was seriously so strong in the lesson. Lizeth will definitely get there.

 

This past week we went on exchanges with our mission mom and it was seriously the greatest. One of the hardest that I have laughed in a while. We went and visited a couple of families with her. The first family was the Sanchez family. They are a less active family that is becoming reactivated and is starting to prepare to go to the temple. A huge focus that we have in our mission is that we are making the temple the goal for less active members. There has definitely been a lot of success with it! Especially with this family. The temple is something that they really want. The other family is the Pico family. They are becoming reactivated as well. We are especially teaching the kids because they don't know that much about the church since they haven't gone to church for most of their lives. And the youngest boy Matthew is going to get baptized soon so we are teaching him some of the lessons. They are such a great family! The mom is supposed to start getting Sundays off starting in September so hopefully they will be able to become fully reactivated. Sister Wilson is seriously the greatest though! I just feel really blessed to have a mission president and mission mom that try to take time to go out with the missionaries. And it’s even greater that they understand that we love to have fun while we're doing the work! President Wilson always tells us to have fun and be excellent. We shouldn't just be good missionaries, we should be excellent missionaries, but also have fun while we're doing it.

 

Being a missionary is seriously the best thing ever! I just feel so happy! My companion is just so wonderful and the sisters that we live with are so much fun. Even if we don't have the most successful day ever, it’s all ok because if I truly did my best then I can be happy and I know that at the end of the day that I can come home to a house full of happy sisters. This work seriously brings so much joy! I am reading in Alma right now and there are so many good missionary stories and scriptures in there. This past week I have started underlining all of the times that it talks about the joy that they feel and they talk about it a lot! It’s the coolest thing ever. Amidst the sad and horrible things, they are still happy. This gospel is happiness. 

 

Have a wonderful week everybody! I love you lots!

 

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