Emily Woodham

Despite his Protestant convictions, two of his closest friends at the school were Catholic. “One kept telling me about this guy, Father Nathan Dail, and the wise things he’d say. She also told me about this thing called ‘Adoration.’ She would just go and sit with the Lord in adoration in peace and quiet, and she would cry with the Lord. I never heard of anything like that in my life.”

Paul Kim, a Catholic international speaker, musician and comedian, will lead a day retreat Saturday, Sept. 25, at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Boise. Kim’s first talk, “Meant to Live More,” is from 10 a.m. to noon. His second talk, “Bulletproof Your Marriage,” is from 2 to 5 p.m.

“Everything was perfect until a Mass during Lent in March of 2022,” she said. “I was at the Cathedral with my boyfriend, went up and received Communion and then went back to the pew. As soon as I knelt down, there was this deep stirring in my heart. I just knew it was the Lord telling me to slow down. As if He was saying, ‘Pump the brakes.’”