So first
I have to tell you this week was way great and there was one point that I was
like yeah I have never really been homesick and that my mission has become home
and all that cool stuff.... then I come to email and I realize that I am
totally homesick haha. The good thing is that it is only when I email so
that means I can sufficiently focus on the work when I am supposed to.
Last week we had Olympics
and it was okay. I love playing sports! But I haven't really been
around other Sister Missionaries for a long time. In Washington and in
Decatur I am surrounded by Elders and I guess I have learned to be a little
rougher when it comes to playing sports haha it has been fun :)
Randy F is getting
baptized this week!! Saturday and Sister Montgomery is coming back to see
and it is just going to be great . I got to talk to her on the phone and
it was SO weird! But it was great to hear from her. I miss her, but
I love Sister Auble. It’s weird how you can gain so many best friends :0
I love being a missionary though.
I don't know much else
to write, but I do want to write about a miracle we saw lately. Randy G
(The older one that WAS atheist :) was having a really rough time with some
things. You could see how down and depressed he looked and he hasn't
looked that way since the moment we met him. But there wasn't even a
light in his eyes. This was probably the coolest teaching moment of my
life! You see I have felt that way before. It was very humbling to
share with him two scriptures that opened my eyes at that time in my life.
1 Ne 21:16 and Alma 7:12. They both talk about Christ. He
knows us each individually and the scars in his hands are his reminder of each
one of us! The Alma scripture talks about how he felt LITERALLY
everything. All our pain all our sorrow. So after reading that we
felt impressed to pray right then and there. So we did :0 After
each of us said a short powerful prayer the old Randy came back. That is
the light of Christ was once again radiating out of him. It was the most
humbling experience to see how what we teach works only if the SPIRIT is the
one teaching through us. We are conduits for him to work through to bring
to pass the immortality and eternal life of man :) There is nothing I
would rather be doing right now :0
Oh so I just remembered
something else! In church yesterday Sister Auble got annoyed with a
grumpy old lady in our ward. Someday I will have to explain this lady.
But she said she just wanted to slap her cause she was being SUPER rude.
It was funny because we were passing notes about it and I was trying to
help sister Auble calm down. I wrote something about how she isn't the
one that needs to worry about it. We are just to turn the other cheek and
Heavenly Father will take care of them. It reminded me of the so many
times that we would call and tattle on each other and you or dad would always
say just leave them alone and we will take care of it when we get home.
Little did I know you were teaching me an eternal principle :) We
aren't supposed to worry about the actions of others. We are just to grin
and bear it. And the Lord will deal with it. :0 Slowly but
surely I am able to reflect on all the amazing lessons I was taught as a child
and a teenager that I was too stubborn and shortsighted to see then :)
Love,
Sister Calton
PS The picture is of me
teaching a library statue :) Yeah we do that sometimes haha
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