HELLO EVERYONE!

Hello everyone!

Sorry I don't have much time! We went to Philly today and it was so

fun! Pictures to come... Anyway this week was pretty good. And we had

a pretty big miracle this week!

So Tuesday evening we had gone to try and contact a Head Quarters

referral we had received a few days before. This woman requested a

Book of Mormon, and so we had intended to go and drop it off for her.

Well she lives in an apartment right about a bunch of shops but there

is no way that she would hear us knocking. So we went back a few for a

few days checking with the lady who owns the florist shop, we asked

her if Dawn lived there and she said she wasn't home. So after a few

attempts at trying to contact Dawn, we asked if we could leave the

Florist with the Book of Mormon that Dawn had requested and if she

would be willing to give it to her. So quickly I wrote down my simple

testimony and right as I finished I had the most simple thought to

write down our phone number in the Book of Mormon. So I did and we

left of with the woman and then left. Well then a few hours later as

we finished dinner I saw that we had missed a call on the phone. So I

listened to the voice mail and it was Dawn! And in the message one of

the things she said was "I want to join your church." Immediately I

called her back and she explained to me how she had met with

Missionaries a few years ago and almost joined but then for whatever

reason fell away before she got baptized. I asked her if we could come

and visit her right then and she said  "of course!" We went over to

her home and she let us in and we taught her The Restoration. And she

said she was so grateful that I left the number because she didn't

have any way of contacting us. I asked her if the florist women had

ever given her the card we left her and she told us, "no, I didn't

know you left a card for me. She probably threw it out. She doesn't

like Mormons. But I'm grateful you wrote the number down because

otherwise I wouldn't have known how to get a hold of you." She

continued to tell us how she didn't feel comfortable going to any

other church besides ours and how after some experiences in her life

she feels like she owes it to her Heavenly Father to follow Him and

become part of His church. I was just beaming because of her

enthusiasm and I knew that Heavenly Father had prepared her for this.

We invited her to be baptized right then and there and without

hesitation she said "yes!" And the next thing out of her mouth was

"When can you come back? I want to learn all I can." So then we went

back and taught her again on Friday.  She is so prepared!! She will be

baptized on November 8! And I can't wait! Then she came to three

sessions of conference and she loved it! I am so excited for her! She

is great!

And quickly some of the things I loved from conference. I seriously

wrote a book with how many notes I took. First I loved Pres. Uchtdorf

and how his point was that living the gospel is simple. And it really

is. And along with that I have learned that the spirit is so simple

too. Being a missionary I am coming to realize just how simple and

gentle that still small voice of the spirit really is. An experience I

had this week demonstrates this. So this last week after Zone

Conference, where we talked a lot about using the Book of Mormon in

our finding efforts, and taking the opportunities the lord gives you

and making the most of them. I felt so motivated to just go out and

talk to everyone I could about the restored gospel. Conference ended

at about 5 and once we left we set out to try and contact a potential

investigator in our area. After we prayed and got out of the car there

was no one outside but an older man getting out of his car who looked

like we was struggling to carry things inside. We were quite a ways

away and from our position I knew my companions felt it would be an

awkward situation to yell at the man from all the way across the

parking lot but they know me and knew what I was about to do. So I

called to him from across the parking lot and surprised he turned

around and I jogged over to him asked if I could help him carry

anything and he said "no thank you." I engaged him in a conversation

about the Book of Mormon and testified simply, invited him to learn

more, only to have him reject my invitation and walk inside. But we

went to the next house of the potential, and no answer. But we stopped

and set up another appointment with a different potential. My

companions and I started walking back to the car, when they both got

into the car and as I placed my hand on the handle to open the door, I

stopped what I was doing and felt the most gentle and simple thought

that said "no, there's someone here you have to find."

Again I stopped and looked around and there was no one outside. How

was I to know which house to knock on? When I looked a little ways off

and saw the house in the corner with a red car parked outside. The

same simple thought came again and feeling in my heart that said "that

one." So I looked at my companions and said, "theres someone we have

to find here. Let's go knock on one more." As we approached the door

and knocked a young man answered the door. And the only thing I can

say is that my words were truly directed by the spirit because I had

not felt like I'd been able to speak that clearly in a while, although

I've tried despite my weaknesses. As we talked with him he seemed to

be very interested. We introduced him to the Book of Mormon and taught

a bit about The Restoration and he said, "I'm definitely very

interested. That's something I've been looking for a long time. Can we

set up a time to meet this week?" We did and will be teaching him

soon. As we walked back to the car one of my companions asked, "What

made you choose to knock on that house?" I replied, "that still,

small, and simple voice."

It was not an overwhelming feeling or a burning in the bosom, rather

it was truly that still, small voice that prompted me. I've had many

more experiences like that as well that I have noticed. But my

testimony is simple, it is that the gospel is simple. The spirit is

simple. Too often I have found myself looking for more complicated

answers but that is not how the Lord or the spirit works. If there is

one precious truth that I learned from this conference it is

this...the spirit, our covenants, and the commandments of God are what

are going to keep us safe and lead us home. But we MUST learn to

listen to the ever simple prompting a of the Holy Ghost in our lives.

I testify of that with all of my heart and soul. In the sacred name of

our Savior, Jesus Christ, whom I love so much. Amen.

Love you all! Until next week,

~Sister Amy Callaway~

Our District!--some pictures from conference that Sister Jolley

took!--and today in Philly with my two favorite little kiddos from our

Ward, Clarie and Boston! They're so cute! Oh and right in front of

ipIndependence Hall today!!