The Joys of the Work

The Joys of the Work

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From:

Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net

Hola familia!

 

So my new companion is Hermana Dangerfield. She is from Cedar City. (No, she doesn't know the Sanders.) She has been out one transfer less than me. She is soo awesome! I seriously love her so much already! We knew each other a little bit before and I always wanted to serve with her. She is just so happy and such a hard worker. We have had so much fun already! 

 

This week was a very blessed one. Lizeth had kind of been falling off of the radar a little bit, but last week she made so much progress! We were teaching her about the plan of salvation and she knew that to go to the celestial kingdom she had to be baptized. That has been one of her conflicts lately because she doesn't know which church she should be baptized into. She's been praying a lot about it lately. At the end of the lesson she told us about a dream that she had where everything was white and she was being baptized, and her family was there and we were there. We pointed out to her that that was an answer to her prayers, but she hasn't quite grasped that yet. But that definitely made her think a lot. She was really excited and ready to come to church yesterday, but then something happened last minute and she couldn't come. But progress was definitely made!

 

So we were knocking doors the other day and we find a golden new investigator! Her name is Marina. We knocked her door and told her who we were and she said that she didn't have time because she was cooking. We told her a little bit more about the message that we share and then she decided to let us in. We talked to her for a little bit and she opened up to us and told us how she has to get dialysis and how it has made her really depressed, but that she is trying to act happy so that her kids are happy. We were able to testify of the happiness that the gospel brings and she was really interested in coming to church! Unfortunately she ended up having to work. But it is just so great to find those people that are so prepared to hear this gospel!

 

The coolest thing happened at transfer meeting last week! So there was this kid who is from Virginia, and he was on a little mini mission here to see if he could handle a full mission. He was here for about 2 transfers. I think that's a pretty common thing to do. But anyways, he got his real mission call last week. President brought it out at transfer meeting. First we sang the first verse of Called to Serve and then the kid opened his mission call over the pulpit. I think that literally every single person in the room was in tears. The Spirit was SO strong. I think it brought us back to the time that we all opened our calls and the overwhelming joy that we felt. There was just so much happiness in the room, and we all just cheered after he opened it. And then we sang the second verse of Called to Serve. I was just so overwhelmed with the joy that I feel because I am a missionary. This is such a blessed calling.

 

I hope you all have a wonderful week! I love you!!

 

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