DAVID
IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!! I got a call from Oly 3rd Monday night and after
that fireside last Sunday, when we sang Beautiful Savior, turns out
that is his most favorite song and us singing it was like an answer to
prayers and Sister Rea called and said, "Sister Wilson, David has
decided to be baptized and I'm going to need you to be here on November
8th" Little did any of them know it would be my birthday, but I can't
think of a better day! :D David has come so so far and it is pretty much
the most amazing thing in the entire world and I am SO excited for
Saturday where I get to go back to Olympia and see him get baptized!!
AH! I can't even tell you! We put so much prayer and fasting and tears
and effort into helping him and even when he dropped us so many times,
the Spirit was seriously working on him. He is the biggest testimony to
me that we really don't do anything - the Spirit is the one that is
converting people. Honestly there is no way in the world that I would
have been able to do anything to help a grown man with a master's degree
in theology and who had been studying ministry his whole life, but I'm
so so glad that my little testimony was able to help him somehow. Being
out here is the most wonderful work I have ever done. I've just been
thinking lately how strange it all is - I have met and talked to more
people in the last 3 months than I have probably in the last 3 years.
(probably more like 10 years really) It's pretty much super fun :)
Everybody needs to go hear the talk "The Missionary Next Door" - listen to it for FHE or something, cause it is just the best.
A
Washington thought - you know how when it rains all the worms come out?
I just would like you let you know that worms come out here, too.
Except they are the size of my forearm. (no joke). Family- remember that
one time we were driving somewhere and the street turned yellow with
all the thousands of caterpillars going across it? Imagine that, except
with every few feet is a worm that looks like a snake. haha. (all the
creepy-crawlies here are just magnified to AZ I suppose). People also
who have lived here forever say "Warsh-ington" it's pretty funny.
The
work here is in a sort of recoil phase and is about to explode. We have
a lot of potentials we are working with - I think 3 of them are
part-member families and we have like 3 other people we knocked into. So
I'm excited. We set a goal for 4 baptisms this month (it was cool -
during weekly planning last week when we were going to set this goal we
each said a little prayer about it and thought for a minute and both
wrote down 4 - "indigestion")
OH! Speaking of! Halloween was
SO fun. We all got put on lockdown in the stake center with our zone
from 3-8 (for safety and so we were all accounted for so no missionary
could be blamed for anything) and we played Mafia (missionary style -
gadianton robbers and district leaders.. i was the seer/revelator. lol)
and had pizza and watched the Best Two Years. It is even funnier as a
missionary, lemme tell you. So every time me and my comp will both feel
like we should do something at the same time we have always said
"indigestion" and now my comp understands why ;) ha!
So
anyhways, I just want you all to know that this is totally God's work.
It is the coolest thing seeing the Spirit in action with people and
seeing them change. Being an instrument for Him is amazing, and I hope
and pray you can have missionary experiences and feel that power too!!
Repentance is just a fancy word for change. I am so so blessed to be
here. I love you all! :)
Oh btw, I cut off 12 inches of hair today.... I'll send pics :)
I LOVE YOU!
Sister Charity Wilson
this is a pretty typical tracting
(before daylight savings - which is rather sucky, btw.. it's just dark always now)
# stevens takes selfies
# stevens takes selfies
and this is me and some cow-friends
and my hair this morning..... pre-chop
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