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Hey guys!
So
next pday is the departing temple trip, meaning pday isn't until
Thursday! I'll email if I still find time, but this might be the last
time you hear from me!! Who really knows anymore.. 🙄🤔
Anyways,
I decided to send you guys videos this week because I feel like they
pretty much sum up what it's like serving in Idaho. It goes from being
sunny and warm to snowing (or even hailing outside!). And everyone has
animals. Everyone.
Tomorrow is my last
MLC 😖😠then we're going on our last set of exchanges, too! Things are
coming to a close. It's weird and scary, but exciting! And then on
Saturday Sisters Yeates, Bradshaw, Hopkins and I are going up to Baker
for Desiree's baptism!!!!! And we get to see Sisters Estes and Saunders
up there! I'm so excited! 💛
This week we
started teaching Tucker, someone who was introduced to the church by his
fiance and her family a while ago. He has already read the Book of
Mormon a time and a half on his own! We also had a good lesson with the
Johnsons (who are the sweetest family!) and met so many other great new
people and had a lot of lessons with our usual friends, too.
It's
been awesome being able to meet so many of God's children in the last
year and a half. To get to know people where they're at, to have hope
and love for them as I've been blessed to see who they are and who they
have the potential to become through Christ's perspective.
There
is no greater work than this. One point someone made at district
council the other day is that the Lord doesn't need missionaries, or
members, or anyone's help really to do His work.
As the
prophet Joseph Smith said, "The truth of God will go forth boldly,
nobly, and independent, til it has penetrated every continent, visited
every climb, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, til the
purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the great Jehovah shall say,
'The work is done!'" (Joseph Smith's Statement, 'The Standard of Truth')
It's not because He needs
our help that He calls us to this work. Rather, He's blessing us to
have the opportunity to take part in it! As we give our lives to Him and let Him make us instruments in His hands, He, in turn, molds us into
the people we didn't even know we could become. Our joy is made more
full than we before comprehended, and that joy is lasting. It is
eternal!
For everyone who is reading this who has served missions or participated in missionary work, keep living so that you can have
this fullness of joy that comes as we share God's truth of eternal
Salvation with all of His children! You've felt it before, and you can
feel it always! And for those of you who haven't experienced this Alma
27:16-18 makes-Ammon-faint-because-it's-so-full joy before, you can!!!
As
we simply reach out in love to those around us the Lord puts us where
we need to be to bless and touch those in need. Those who are searching
for the truth who "know not where to find it" (Doctrine and Covenants
123:11-17) will finally find the peace and wholeness that the gospel
brings. They will be brought to "sing the song of redeeming love" (Alma
5:26) as we are, and we will have a fullness of joy with them.
So,
my invitation to you is to pray. Pray to be made instruments in His
hands. Pray for Him to use you to answer another's prayers- then act! As we simply try our best to be good, to love, and to serve, we will be used by God, the Greatest of All, to bless others. Because He loves us, and He wants us to feel the same joy He feels as He's centered His purpose (or His "work and [His] glory") "to bring to pass our immortality and eternal life." (Moses 1:39)
I'll see you all soon! This week just "try a little harder to be a little better." (President Hinckley) That's all He asks. 😊
You will see miracles. Promise.
I love you all!
Sister Wilcox
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