Week 20: We have a car!

We got a car!

The glories of technology and vehicles! We can travel from one house to another without having to take up time for traveling and walking, and we are visiting so many more houses now, it's great!

Something that I think is cool that has really let me see the Lord's hand in our weeks of walking in the cold, wet snow, however, is that our progress records (which we use to keep track of the people we see and visit with/teach every week) were never any less full when we didn't have a car than they are now.

 

The Lord knew that without a car, the people we made time to walk to- to go and see- would have to be there at the time we went to see them because our time and travel situations were a lot more limited. So, He made it happen. Same with when the temple open house was going on last transfer: We had so much less time to work in our area (with the open house taking up a good half of our week, every week for at least a month), but our progress records were always full. The Lord helps us to accomplish the things He's asked us to do, and He delivers every time. Just trust Him :)

I love to read about the miracles my sister (Sister A. Wilcox) experiences constantly in her mission in NY, NY, as well as the other missionaries in areas all over who try their best and the Lord does the rest. This is His work, and He is at the head guiding it all the way, and seeing glimpses of that eternal truth is a miracle in and of itself.

In our car (pictured below) we've been listening to the bibliography of President Hinckley, and it's cool to see how humble and willing he was to be made an instrument in the Lord's hands throughout his life, and to see how the Lord shaped and refined him to be the man, leader, and prophet that He  knew that he could be. As he did what the Lord asked, one prompting or good thought at a time, he became the Lord's instrument. Watching Pres. Monson's funeral last week helped me to see that again, as he too was made an instrument in the blessing of so many other's lives, simply because he was willing to always do what the Lord asked.

He never put a problem to be solved above a person to be loved.I.t's my hope that I can one day learn to never put off a prompting and be able to bless others and be the answers to others prayers as I listen to the Spirit and do my best to follow the promptings of the Lord in this work  and throughout my life. Feel free to join me in this goal 🤗

Love you all,

Sister Wilcox​

Our car and some interesting discoveries when we drive to visit people.

Me studying and the sisters in my district.

Week 19: Titles are hard to think of

Hello🤗

On Sunday, two of our investigators came to church, and for one of them it was her first time! We were so excited to have her there, as her health makes it difficult, but she showed her faith by coming anyways! I know that the Lord is pleased with her efforts and that he'll bless her as she continues to try her best to do whatever He asks of her!

Also, this past week we were able to visit a less-active sister named Carol, who is from Florida! She joined the church a couple of years ago when she met and married her husband, who was a member growing up. Carol explained to us that her first husband owned a funeral home, so she was introduced (through that) to all sorts of different religions, but as she talked with these people about their beliefs she said she could tell that all of them only had pieces of truth. She said she started to think that no one had the whole truth, until she met her husband and learned about the LDS church. As she read the Book of Mormon and took discussions from the missionaries she knew she had finally found the whole restored truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ! Once she was baptized, unfortunately, the members and the missionaries got really busy and she became overwhelmed with some things and sort of slipped through the cracks, and has gone to church off-and-on since then. So, we're going to start going through the new-member lessons with her, and help her read the Book of Mormon regularly again to get those good habits of spiritual CPR (church, praying, reading) back into action so she can keep her faith in store and become active in the church again!
 

But I'm so grateful to have the knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ in my life, and I know that it is the whole truth. That, with the Book of Mormon, the restored gospel and teaching of Jesus Christ in it's fulness, are here on the earth again today and that Jesus Christ Himself is at the head of this church, leading us through His living prophets. I'm grateful for President Monson's service, and I know that our next prophet will be a man called of God as well, and if you ever struggle to believe that, you can ask God yourself and He will manifest the truth of it unto you by the power of the Holy Ghost, because by the power of the Holy Ghost, you may know the truth of all things! (Moroni 10:3-5)

Love you all,

Sister Wilcox ✌

 

Almost a Florida sunset

 

 

Week 18: Smart Phones

We're getting technology by the end of this month! Crazy new year.... Happy 2018!

This past week has been pretty fun, and we were able to teach a new couple and make progress with them (so they're new investigators now!) and so that was cool. Right now, however, it's been a bit discouraging in our area, because the people we're meeting with weekly aren't really progressing very fast- but, slow and steady wins the race, right? Teach repentance, baptize converts..... and patience is a virtue. 😸
 
We're teaching an over-age youth who is moving soon, so we're scared to put her on date for baptism just in case it makes things more complicated and makes her "fall through the cracks" in the move with new member lessons and everything, but I think we should just go for it anyways and have faith and just keep her record very up-to-date (because they're planning on moving when their new house is done being built, so it could be a while!). But, no matter what happens, it'll all work out in the Lord's way and timing! 😊

Sorry time was short today, but Happy New Year! What are some resolutions you guys have for this upcoming year? One of mine is to finish reading the New Testament (along with the Book of Mormon) all the way through!  I 💛 the scriptures.

Love you guys,

Sister Wilcox

My Christmas socks

Our chapel