Hello family!!

Hello family!!

Well this week we great! Not much time but I just wanted to share some

cool experiences from this week. First of all earlier this week we

went to Mt. Holly to try and contact a referral we had received for a

woman named Carmen. We stopped by and gave her the bible she requested

and then also gave her a Book of Mormon. And we set up return

appointment for Sunday. Well we showed up yesterday and she wasn't

home...BUT! As we were walking we met her boyfriend named Julio. And

we got to talking with him and he said he has been looking for a

church for a while and that he would love to come check it out! And we

set up an appointment for today! So I will update you next week on

Carmen and Julio! They are awesome.

Also the women's broadcast was INCREDIBLE!!! So many answered

prayers!!! And since I could write and entire book about how much I

loved it I will just leave you all with one of my favorite quotes from

it... I can't remember the sisters name who said this 😁 but simply

she said

"What will it matter dear sisters, if in the end these trials are the

very things that help to qualify us for eternal life and exaltation?"

I loved that. Also Lisa, our recent convert came and she LOVED the

broadcast! She is so awesome and we just love her.

Also yesterday at church was so great! We had our investigator Lisa

there, and thenRick came too!! And he wore a sweater!! That sounds so

silly but really though, I thought of the scripture in Alma 37:6 "by

small and simple things are great things brought to pass." And so it

is with each of us. It's the small steps that truly show our

progression. Wearing a sweater is just one tiny step of progress that

we are so grateful for!! Especially for him :) so yes, let it be known

that Sister Callaway was excited that one of her investigators wore a

sweater to church :) also at church yesterday during RS one Sister was

giving the lesson and when I first got here this sister hadn't been to

church in years. And we taught her for a while and eventually she

started coming back to church. I was just grateful whole sitting there

watching this sister, I felt the spirit and I thought how I have seen

this sister progress so much. A sister who thought that the atonement

was so far beyond her reach, who had come back and was now teaching

her fellow sister in RS about the grace and mercy that she has

experienced from the atonement even after she thought it was so far

out of her reach. I love this area and love this Ward!! I know this

gospel is true and I love it more than anything! It's true! It's true!

Everything about it is true. And I pray we will share that knowledge

with as many people as we can.

Love you all! Until next week!

Sister Callaway

Oh and we may be going to Philly next week so that email might be even

shorter but I love you all!

Also I got some happy news this week...Tony and Laura from my last

area got baptized!!! :)

My conference buddy :)--Conference with my family :) (if you can see

the picture sitting right next to me haha)--and Independence Hall

today!! More pictures next week :)