Training is the BOMB

3-16-15

Okay so I absolutely love training! And my trainee! She's the best! Her name's Hermana Jordan and she's so awesome! So ready to work and be obedient and learn.  It's awesome! She's definitely the right trainee for me. 

Not going to lie, there are definitely some hard parts to training, but I can feel the Lord strengthening me so much.  It's incredible. And the good parts definitely out way the hard parts.  It's so cool to see how much Hermana Jordan has learned and grown already.  And I'm learning so much from her as well.  Ah, I LOVE IT. 

This week I gained such a real testimony that the Lord answers our prayers, especially our specific prayers. I'm so grateful for that.  He loves us and he knows each one of us personally.  It's so dang cool. 

I love you all! Have an awesome week! 

Les quiero mucho! 

Hermana Horne 

It's a Girl!

Denise & David's Baptism

All the missionaries who helped teach Denise & David.

Best District Ever!

I "mustache" you a question.

A tortilla in honor of my home state!

A Welcome for my new "daughter"!

3-9-15

So big news... I'm training a new missionary!  President Mullen called me Saturday morning and asked me if I would accept the call as a trainer.  He told me that this is one of the highest signs of trust he could give a missionary.  So I'm kind of freaking out.  I don't feel like I know what I'm doing enough to be able to train someone else. But God doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies those he calls, right? So hopefully that holds true! I'm really excited though. I can't wait to meet this new missionary and get to work! I'm gonna be a mission mama! Ahh she flies in tomorrow, so I'm staying in Riverside tonight and then I'm going to the mission office tomorrow afternoon for meetings and to meet/ pick up my "daughter"!

Sunday was our last day with our district.  Sister Bowen is going home, Elder Anderson is going to Riverside to be and AP (Assistant to the President) and Elder Aguilar is going to Hemet to be a zone leader! So half of us are going and half are staying.  But this has been a really fun district! 

Yesterday we were able to go up to a baptism in Riverside for a family that we taught here in Perris.  Just the two kids were baptized (the "step-dad" is a member), but the mom will be soon and the whole family is super supportive.  Their grandparents are members of our ward so it was cool to see everyone there supporting them. So David and Denise were baptized and it was so good! As soon as David stepped down into the water I felt overwhelmed with love for them.  It made me so happy to see them making this covenant. Baptism is such an awesome thing.  I love it. 

After the baptism we went to a member's house and she taught us how to make flour tortillas.  I loved it! They were so good.  Hispanics are the coolest. 

Anyways, I love you all! I hope you have an awesome week. Keep the Faith! 

Con amor, 

Hermana Horne 

Grateful for Grace

3-2-15

Highlights of the week: 

1. Softball, then a little bit of football, then soccer with our zone (pictures to come next week)

2. Exchanges with the STLs 

3. Teaching combined Young Women's/ Young Men's on Sunday

So lately I've been studying/ thinking a lot about the grace.  There's so much more to it than I ever understood before! Christ's Atonement was a reeeeally miraculous thing.  And through that and His grace, not only are we cleansed from sin, but we can also lean on Christ to strengthen us and to help us to become better.  It's through his grace that we can overcome our weaknesses, that we can develop good habits or Christ-like attributes.  I was reading in Romans this week and I found a scripture that I loved.  It's Romans 5:6 and it says,"For when we are yet without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly."  I don't know about you, but I've had a lot of times where I've felt like all my strength is gone.  That I've tried me best and that wasn't good enough.  But that's when Christ comes in.  That's what he died for.  To help us and strengthen us in those times of exhaustion and weakness.  All we need to do is ask for His help.  And for that I am so grateful.  I'm so grateful that we can lean on him in our times of weakness. Because, boy, do I need it sometimes.  And it works.  I testify that it works.  I know that when we pray to God for strength He will help us with it. 

I hope you all have a great week! 

Sending love from California, 

Hermana Horne