This
week has been insane! My trainee is fabulous: Sister Wilcox hailing
from Salt Lake City! She takes the term "hit the ground running" to new
extremes...she's quite literally chased down people on the street to
talk to them. Her fire for missionary work is unquenchable- I'm just
trying to not get burned! Her first 24 hours in the field she committed 2
people to baptism who said yes! Allison, the single mom I talked about
last week, is super on board and excited to make this covenant with
Heavenly Father! The other is a woman named Clois. Clois is basically an
exact replica of my mother (decorates her house x10 according to the
holiday, wears pearls, adores her children)! Her nephews are LDS and
recently got back from serving missions. She thought they were
outstanding young men and wanted to learn about what they were teaching
for the past 2 years, so she referred herself to us. She's SUPER
Methodist- tons of pictures of Jesus in her home, wears a cross
necklace, her Bible is all marked up and obviously well studied- the
whole shebang. I was kinda nervous about how our lesson would go, but it
was the most spiritual lesson I've ever had my entire mission. We
talked about our life stories and how Christ had brought us to this
point in our lives, I showed her MY marked up Bible and we bonded over
scripture stories and similar notes we'd taken in the margins, and most
importantly talked about the Book of Mormon and how it's an additional
witness of who the Bible testifies of: Jesus Christ. When we were
talking about it the Spirit got so strong, and she was probably
listening the most intently that anyone has ever listened to us talk
about the restoration before. She asked a lot of amazing questions, and
we had an incredible conversation about all these things she had never
heard before. Sister Wilcox took the opportunity to testify of the
truthfulness of the restored gospel and invite Clois to be baptized. Her
response was so heartfelt and faith-filled. She said, "This is all so
new to me. I'm 70 years old, and I was brought up so differently. But I
feel like these things are true, and I can't not follow God if this is
what He's telling me to do." I have never met anyone so devout and so
willing to submit to the Father's will. She did say her family would
have some issues with it (her husband is Lutheran and her son is a
born-again Christian), but I know she has grit to stay on the path! I am
SO grateful Heavenly Father is allowing me to participate in her
journey!
Glenn
showed up for church yesterday in his blue suede shoes, parrot shirt,
and blue fedora. It was awesome. Everyone loved him and he stayed for
ALL 3 HOURS. That's like unheard of with investigators. Can't wait for
him to get in the font next month!!
Sis
Wilcox is a little insane in the best way, and loves tracting. We're
been doing a ton of door-to-doors and trying to find new investigators.
She said her transfer goal was to baptize 10 people....#dreambig. I
won't burst her bubble quite yet about Midwest receptiveness to Mormons,
we'll just keep that between us :) I'm lucky to have such a motivated
companion- watch out, Eau Claire! We're comin' for ya!
Love, Sister Brett
Quotes of the week:
*during our lesson with Aaron*
Me: "Mosiah 4 is one of my favorite chapters. But King Benjamin is pretty bold, so don't freak out."
Aaron:
"Sister Brett, you say that is if you don't light a fire under my butt
every time you come here. If he's bold, you a dang lion."
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