The Book is blue and true

The Book is blue and true

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Mon 9/08/14 8:54 AM

 

HELLO!

 

Another great week here in Chesterfield! Transfer calls were Saturday and it looks like Hermana Dangerfield and I will be staying here for my last transfer! (Wow! That's crazy!) Also the sisters that we live with are staying so we are really excited! Lots of good times ahead. 

 

I just love the Book of Mormon so much. So many great things happened with it this week. First off, Lizeth before wouldn't read the Book of Mormon because she thought that it was only for old people and that she didn't need to read it. She has been taught for about 4 months now and last week she finally agreed to read it. So recently the primary kids from the ward back home had sent me a hard-back copy of the Book of Mormon. For every time that they shared the gospel with a family member or a friend they got to put a nickel in a jar until they had enough to purchase this Book of Mormon. Then they are wrote their names in it and a testimony. So this is a very special Book of Mormon. I was really touched to have received this and I really wanted the book to end up in good hands. I felt like I should give it to Lizeth. We had this lesson about the BOM with her and we read some scriptures with her and showed her how it isn't that hard to understand. We asked her if she would read it if we gave her a copy and she agreed. So I pulled out the special Book of Mormon that I had. I told her about what the primary kids had done to get this book. I was so overcome with emotion as I realized once again in that moment how much I loved that book, and how much I appreciated all of the kids that had sent me that specific copy. The Spirit was so strong. One of the strongest I've ever felt it while talking about the Book of Mormon. And then Lizeth in her closing prayer thanked Heavenly Father for the BOM and for the kids that had saved up nickels for it. She also said in her prayer that she couldn't believe that someone would do something so great. It was such a special moment that I will never forget.

 

Another cool thing that we found out about this last week is that our whole mission will be doing a Book of Mormon read-a-thon starting on Sept 27 and ending on October 4! We literally are going to spend the whole week reading it. The only other thing we will do is go to our set teaching appointments and the other set things that we have. We were all pretty shocked when we found out in missionary leadership council, and then I got the privilege of announcing it in zone meeting and everyone's reactions were priceless. We have to read about 75 pages a day for finish it on October 4. I am soo excited! This is going to be such a special thing. President Wilson wants to do it to make sure that everyone in the mission has read through the whole BOM at least once and that we all have testimonies of it. That is such a testimony to me of the importance of the BOM because President Wilson is all about not wasting time. So if we are going to do nothing but read the BOM for a whole week that just shows how important our testimonies of it are. It is going to be so cool.

 

I hope that you all have a very wonderful week! Make it count! I love you all so much!

 

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