BOM + conference=perfection

BOM+conference=perfection

From:	Callie Horton (callie.horton@myldsmail.net)
Sent:	Mon 10/06/14 12:22 PM

My dearest loved ones!

 

What an amazing week. Holy cow! How do I even sum it up into words? Lots of great stuff, but hard too. The fact that the end of my mission is coming hit me kinda hard last week. I just can't believe how fast it’s coming! But we had missionary leadership council last week and President Wilson just happened to give all of us lots of advice for when we go home. His timing was perfect! 

 

THE BOOK OF MORMON READ A THON WAS AMAZING. It actually went by a lot faster than I thought it would. I can't even believe how much I learned. It was really cool to be able to get a little bit of a better grasp on the story. And I underlined all of the attributes of Christ and Heavenly Father and that was really cool too. It truly does talk about Them on almost every single page. The Book of Mormon is just so true! It brought the Spirit into my life so strongly. After I was done reading it I took on Moroni's promise and prayed about it. Even though before I have received confirmation that it’s true, I took on the promise again. The way I received my answer was the complete and pure joy that I felt after I prayed. There was just so much happiness that I didn't even know what to do with it all! We had zone meeting last Friday and it was the best zone meeting of my mission. We had all been buried in the Book of Mormon all week and so the Spirit was so strong.

 

Having such a strong spirit in my life made conference so cool as well. It was seriously so good! I don't even know if I can pick out a favorite because there was something in every single talk that was amazing! I really loved both of the talks on the sacrament. I have learned so much about the sacredness of the sacrament on my mission and those talks helped me understand even more. I also loved President Uchtdorf's talk about Heavenly Father. We just shouldn't worry so much about the things that we can't comprehend about God, just like people 1,000 years ago couldn't have understood smart phones if someone went back in time and tried to tell them about them. And then Elder Bednar's talk was fabulous. So simple and so powerful. It was just overall such a great conference! And our new investigator Jose came to the last session which was great!! He is an 18 year old kid who knows a lot about God, but he is very open to learning more. 

 

We also started teaching a returning less actives boyfriend. I have talked a little before about the Pico family. Its Hermana Pico's boyfriend. He has sometimes been there for our lessons with them, but never really showed very much interest. We decided to show them the Restoration DVD yesterday and Juan was watching too and he really enjoyed it. And then we were talking about the BOM after and we asked him if he had a copy and he said he didn't, but that he would like one. We came to find out that he doesn't really have much religious background. So we gave him a BOM and he made sure that he would be there when we stopped by their house later this week! God's timing is perfect. 

 

I hope you all have a wonderful week! Make it count! I love you!!

 

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