553 DAYS OF SUMMER: Week 72: 8 Weeks Left!

We had Shane Littlefield come from Salt Lake to our mission this past week and his goal was to help inspire us in setting inspired goals that, as we work to achieve them, will help us to be made more effective instruments in the Lord's hands.

So, after his and President and Sister Sorensens' inspiring trainings, we went home and applied what had been talked about.. Although I've seen so many miracles everyday throughout my mission, every week literally feels like it's somehow even better than the last as the Lord provides us with new opportunities to meet and to help and to lift others around us that He puts in our path! It's amazing!

So, we set a goal to find 2 new people to teach this week, and spent the whole week working to set up appointments with a few different families that have been on our radar that have a lot of potential and interest, but just have crazy things happen every time we set up an appointment so we haven't been able to teach them yet (story of every missionary's life, right?). So Sunday comes around and it's the last day that we have to start teaching someone to reach this goal that we felt inspired to set. All of our appointments fell through and no one came to church (☹) because everyone's getting sick right now and things were not looking too good. But, we had one appointment left for the day and as we knocked on the door no one came to answer it and we thought no one was home and they had forgotten (not too uncommon, sadly).

But, after we knocked again the dad answered and we were able to have a really good visit getting to know this sweet family where the dad grew up a member and the mom and their four sons are all not members of the church but love the programs we have and are all wanting to learn more about it! They asked us to give them that "push" to be more involved in going to church and making it more of a center of their lives!

It was a great day and we reached the goal Heavenly Father inspired us to set as we worked towards helping His children find Him by simply trusting His plan and never giving up. And that is sometimes the hardest thing to do! But I know that the Lord doesn't give us any commandments that He doesn't help us to keep- He tells us who we can be, and then He leads us as we slowly walk the path to get there because He loves us.

We are His work and His glory. Our eternal life with Him. 💛😊

Never forget that and never give up.

And always remember that He is a God of miracles and He works in our lives according to our faith.

Love you guys!

Sister Wilcox

Pictures:

-temple trip round 2 with the district (we got to go through it for real this time 😁)