Week 64: Emmett's Pretty Cute.

Hi!  🙄

This week was pretty good. There is a lot of work already happening here in Emmett, so it's more of a teaching area than it is a finding area at the moment, which is a pretty nice change.

We are teaching a 97 year old lady named Dorothy who's getting baptized early December! Her son joined the church a year ago and has had a huge impact in her own faith growing enough for her to take the leap of leaving everything she's grown up knowing for the past century and the comfort of her old religion behind to join what she knows to be true. It was cool getting to sit in for the interview with her as she bore her testimony of the reality of how hard it is for her to change, and how scary it is for her to be getting dunked under water (she's 97!) but she knows it's the right thing and she's excited all the same. I hope we all can have testimonies firm enough to do whatever the Lord asks of us, especially when faced with fear from the adversary. The Lord is always more powerful and, "If we choose Christ, we will have made the correct choice" (Pres. Thomas S. Monson).

Also, last week I think I forgot to tell the stories of us almost dying and whatnot- so anyways, there was this guy on the side of the road that was talking to some kids in a pretty threatening way, so Sister Yeates and I, being the only other ones outside in the vacinity, stood kind of nearby nonchalantly on the street corner wanting to make sure nothing happened to them- but still trying to look like we weren't paying too much attention to the situation. After a while a woman came out of the house and got the kids and started talking to the man so firguring it was okay and wanting to look like we weren't suspiciously watching them we walked to the closest house nearby and tracted it. Unfortunately, it was clearly abandoned and as we stood on the doorstep the man was out of our view, but we could hear him and the woman talking about us watching him threaten the kids. He started yelling stuff and walking closer and long story short Sister Yeates and I just followed the Spirit and everything turned out okay and we gave him a Book of Mormon and by the end of our crazy conversation he said he'd read it, so all's well that ends well, right? 😅😐

Anyways, the Lord protects us as we give our hearts to Him and trust Him and His plan and try our best to be helping those around us to feel of His love and to be made instruments in His hands! This month we've been inviting people to think about what they're grateful for and to find a way to show their Heavenly Father that gratitude, and serving His children (which, in turn, is serving Him- Mosiah 2:17) is such a great way to find lasting joy and peace. So, I invite all of you this holiday week to find a way to show Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ that you're grateful for your blessings by sharing them or giving of yourself for someone else, so that they can find that happiness as well.

"Freely ye have received, freely give." 😊

Let me know how it goes!

Love,

Sister Wilcox

. Sister Yeates and I saying goodbye.. I'll try to be better about taking pics next week!