We're back to p day! Whoo!
So, Thursday, craziness happened. We tried finding a member who had zero information on her and lived way out in the boonies. We pulled up this super long driveway up a hill and the further we went, the more scared we got. We got to the top and there were a bunch of people outside and this guy came up to our car and we asked him if the people we were looking for lived there or not. He was like nope never heard of them they probably moved out a long time ago, yeah. But then he inches closer to Sister Young and sees what's written on her nametag and goes, "ohhh you're Mormons!" Then a lady came out from behind him and told us her name and she was the member we were looking for!😂
They turned out to be real nice, they just don't trust people. Understandable. They told us how they were working on building up their homestead to become self reliant and go off the grid. Pretty cool stuff! Well then we were there for 3 hours talking to the member, who was also the mom of the first guy we saw and her daughter lives by her too. They were all baptized, they just don't come because of some negative experience they had a long time ago. And apparently it was out of character for the daughter to talk to us and INVITE US IN, so that was awesome! We're eating dinner with them tonight. Hopefully we can help them want to come back to church ;)
That night we had an awesome lesson with Madonna and her husband Ron! We were so worried that he just wanted to bash us, but he was so sweet and so open! By the end he was like, "I need to come visit your church" and we were like yessss!!!! Then Madonna said she felt like she needed to sing us a song, so she and Ron sang us a gospel song and it was awesome!Friday we had district council and weekly planning, so I felt like we were just in one big meeting all day long, but that's okay!
Saturday we cleaned up our area book notes and had a great lesson with Marie. She just got her knee all fixed up so we were finally able to see her. She told us that she appreciated the space we have given her to ponder on the things she had been taught and to read from the book of Mormon and make up her mind on things. She told us she wants to come worship with us once her knee is fully healed, and that's not what I was expecting her to say! She said it's hard to go from one way of doing things to learning another completely different way, but she is amazing and we really think she will get there and make the change.
We also drove around Greensburg to try and find people. Man, if people don't want to be found they make your life so much harder as a missionary! There are some folks that just vanish, and nobody knows where they've gone!
Sunday Sister Young and I sang an Irish hymn for sacrament meeting called 'Be thou my vision' and people actually liked It! One sister told us we sounded like the Celtic Women and that made Sister Youngs' day! We also taught combined primary with all the other teachers about baptism. They were cute, but a little squirrely. This is where I got the title of my email actually. I miss being in primary!
Later we went over to the Veneys and made brownies and talked about missionary work. We did role plays with the kids and helped answer some questions Alyssa had while filling out her missionary papers- cuz she wants to serve a mission! So that was fun!
While we were out we decided to try by this one lady the previous sisters called the 'mystery woman'. Her name is Denise, and she has had some strange coincidences with missionaries in the past. We stopped by and met her, and she told us that this was the first time she had been home in months because she had been at her daughter's house. And we just happened to show up on the right day. It was way cool, and she told us she had been reading from the book of Mormon and she wanted to be taught the lessons. I'm real excited to see where this goes!
It's been a good week. It's felt very long, with Elder Gong coming and all the busy little things we've been doing. It's good to be busy! This upcoming week we have Zone Conferesnce and then this thing called 'Mini MTC' and Sister Young and I have been asked to go! I'm excited but I don't actually know what we're supposed to be doing, so that'll be interesting! Road trip to Elizabethtown! Oh, and Zone Conference is in Hurstbourne! I have to drive in Louisville! Please pray for us!😓
Seriously, thank you for all the prayers. None of this is possible without prayer. None of this is me. The tender mercies and miracles I've seen here and over the course of my mission were not brought about by me or my companions, but by those praying for us and for missionary work, so thank you! There's a saying going around the mission that God loves answering prayers, He especially loves answering prayers said for other people. God's answering your prayers! Y'all are amazing!
I love you all and I hope your week is beautiful!
And Happy late Valentine's Day!
With love,
Sister Wilcox 😍😍😍
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