The Church is true. The book is blue.

The Church is true. The book is blue.

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Tue 9/02/14 9:00 AM

Hello everybody!

 

This week was so good! Some random highlights I want to share... I fell down our wooden stairs this morning and now I have this huge nasty bruise on my arm. It was so funny. Another one, we were visiting the Pico family the other day. They are a less active family that is becoming reactivated. The little boy Matthew (the one who got baptized a couple weeks ago) was singing these hymns in Spanish in a cute little voice and then he toots really loud (pardon my French) and he just starts saying, "Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I ate bacon for dinner." It was hilarious. I seriously love that family. We were visiting them yesterday and the ice cream truck came by and Hermana Pico wanted to buy us all something so we all just stood out there together and waited for the ice cream man to come. It was lots of fun.

 

Our investigators Lourdes and Diego set a baptismal date for Sept 27!! It is a mom and her son. They came here from Honduras not that long ago. We have actually been teaching them for a little bit and they weren't really making that much progress and then they just randomly starting progressing a lot! Lourdes has to get work off on Sundays, but she really wants to be baptized! They are so cute. 

 

We are still struggling to get Lizeth to church, but she came to Young Women's last week! It was such a miracle. So we don't really have that much communication with her mom, but we just thought that if we had more that her mom would be more willing to help her get to church. So we were randomly having our lesson outside and towards the end we were talking to Lizeth about coming to Young Women's and right then her mom came out and started listening from the porch so we were able to just ask her mom right then and there and she let her come! It was great. We are really excited for her to get more involved with the young women. 

 

Hermana Dangerfield and I have just been trying to talk to everyone lately and it has been so much fun. President Wilson always tells us how we need to talk to everyone or else we won't do it when we get home. We have really been taking that to heart and we have been trying to talk with everyone. We just know that there are some elect people out there just waiting for this message! But most of the time you have to talk to lots and lots of different people before you find the needle in the haystack. 

 

I had a really cool realization about the Atonement this morning. So Heavenly Father has this plan for our lives. And in that plan there are really great things, but also really hard things. And I am almost certain that it is not easy for Him to put those hard things in our lives because He loves us and no one likes to see their loved ones suffer. But the thing that makes it all worth it is the Atonement. It’s not only a comfort for us, but also for Heavenly Father. He knows that He can put hard things in our lives because we have help. The scary part for Him is whether we actually use the Atonement or not. We should never hesitate to use it. We have the Atonement to help us. Heavenly Father doesn't want us to try to do things on our own. He wants us to use His help. 

 

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

 

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