The Joys of Crab Apples

The Joys of Crab Apples

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Mon 9/29/14 8:58 AM

!Hola!

 

Another fabulous week! It all started last Monday... P day was over and we didn't have some set plans but we had some people that we were going to go try and visit. We went to visit a less active and they didn't really want to see us. Then there was this lady moving so we helped her move some stuff. Turns out that she used to date a Mormon, but isn't really interested. Then we were walking to our car and I saw this guy that was putting stuff in his car. We got in our car and drove to go see a potential. The whole time it was just eating me up inside that I didn't go talk to this guy! So we got to the potential's house, had a good laugh because there was a toilet sitting on their front lawn, and then we decided that we needed to go back and talk to that guy. Well we drove back and he was gone. So we decided that God had led us back there so we got out of our car and started walking around the apartment complex parking lot. As we were walking all of these kids start chucking crab apples at us! It was actually really funny, but kind of scary because crab apples are really hard. So we just kept walking, talked to a couple of people, and then had to turn back around to go to our car. And the same kids started throwing crab apples at us again. We were just trying to dodge them and laughing so hard while doing so. We just high fived after we passed them and said, "I think we just endured persecution!" Ha-ha. So we kept on walking and one of the kids comes up to us by our car and asked us when the office closes. We told her we didn't know, but that we wanted to give her a picture of Jesus. So we gave her one and instantly all of the kids start coming up to us. After one of the girls finds out who we are she says, "Oh... y'all are Jesus people?" Then they all started telling on each other for throwing crab apples at us. So we gave them all Jesus pictures and walk away and they keep on having a conversation about Jesus. It was great! We had some good laughs about it.

 

Lizeth didn't come to church again. She was so close! Then last minute wasn't able to. Hermana Dangerfield were just feeling like we had tried everything to get her to church and so we started wondering what it is that we needed to learn from all of this. And then it hit me how much I personally had learned about the importance of going to church. I have realized that we don't go to church for ourselves, but we go for Jesus Christ. Because of the Atonement and everything that he did for us, we go to church to show our gratitude for what He did. And we go there to serve others, not be served. If people ever come back from church feeling empty, it’s because they didn't try to serve others while they were there. Yes, we need to go to church to take the sacrament and be clean of our sins, but that is the only thing that we do for ourselves. Besides that it should all be focused on Jesus Christ and how we can administer to others like He would do. My testimony has truly grown a lot of the importance of church attendance.

 

The Book of Mormon read-a-thon started on Saturday! It has been so cool so far! We all kind of have sore necks from looking down at a book so much, but it has just been such a sweet experience. I'll tell you next week how the rest of it goes!

 

The Women’s Broadcast on Saturday was so good! I don't know why that meeting always makes me so emotional. President Uchtdorf's talk was so great. I loved when he said, "I think that God knows something that we don't." First off, it was great knowing that even the apostles like to speculate about the things of heaven, but it also made me think a lot! We definitely do need to follow God's commandments because there is something waiting for us that we don't even know about that we will receive if we keep the commandments. I also loved how he said that God's is not waiting to love us, but that He loves us today for who we are and also for the glorious person we can become. God's love is so constant no matter where we are in our lives. He will truly always love us. 

 

Make this week a good one! Read the BOM! I love you lots!

 

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