Week 8

I'M STAYING IN STEILACOOM WITH SISTER HALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!! i couldn't be more excited! this whole week I was dreading the transfer call because I had a feeling that I was going to leave, which was actually good because i really realized how much I love these amazing people!!! which is A TON!!! During companionship inventory Sister Hall and I were both bawling haha :) I bet every girl in the mission was crying too :P hahaha anyways, this week was crazy! I'm going start on saturday (4/13) Saturday was amazing!!!! probably the best day ever. We had companionship inventory in the morning and that was good :) then we had a church tour with these guys in their late 40's named Jim and Tavo. When we were in the chapel you could really feel the spirit so strongly. I testified of the holy ghost and was crying. Jim and tavo were tearing up! (ha! I got them!) but we put BOTH of them on date for 4/27 but it will probably take longer than that because Jim is a smoker and Tavo's whole family is catholic and would kill him he says :) But i'm way excited to start teaching them the lessons this week! Jim came to the BAPTISM we had at 3 on saturday! Mike (our recent convert) his son was baptized on saturday! His name is doug he's 16 and it was such a miracle that he was baptized! the first time we met with Doug alone he was so prideful and thought mormonism would "cramp his style" and also thought that God was an entity. NOW he's a full fledged Mormon and proud of it! I was so excited! there's nothing better than seeing one soul come into the fold of God! It was AWSOME!!! :) I love baptisms :) that night we had a ward luau! I dunno if i've told you but one whole side of our chapel fills up with Hawiians and Saamoans (who knows how to spell these things? not me!) but it was SOOOO amazing! the relief society and the young men and women and primary all did a dance! and there was SO MUCH FOOD! of course... :P haha yummy pulled pork and rice and every dessert and side dish you could imagine! :) Jim came to that too and had a lot of fun! During the primary dance we got our dreaded transfer call. Sister Hall and I were jumping up and down and hugging we were SO excited! :D we went around and told a bunch of people and they were excited too! This ward LOVES the sisters :) This transfer something new is happening in steilacoom too! we are getting elders! there's 30 missionaries COMING from the MTC this tuesday 11 are sisters the rest are elders and one of those Elders is coming to steilacoom! along with Elder Torres. I haven't met him yet. But they are poor little bike elders! haha so we got a lecture about giving them rides (WE CAN'T) haha the ward isn't very excited because they LOVE the sisters so much. But I know the Lord has something great in store for the Steilacoom ward! So we're gonna have 4 missionaries in one ward! crazy stuff is going to happen!!! :) Anyways Sunday was a long day because we were so exhausted from the day before, Jim and Tavo came to church and really liked it! yay! :) then we went tracting and it dragged on haha i think we said like 5 words to each other because we were so tired :P But we went to the Brotherson's (they're awesome and we go over there the most, Belinda got baptized last month) and ate some food! It had tofu...I can honestly say it didn't bother me :) haha after that we were a little more energized. So we went to go see some people and this thing darted out from nowhere and started bolting down the road, My opinion was that it was a puny deer but sister Hall didn't agree with me :( she just laughed! haha so this dog that looked like a puny deer was on a mission. So we followed it! and it led us to a new investigators house!!! hahahah! that was the highlight of my day :) We are still teaching Rich, I think i've told you about him but he's about 71 and he's SO AWESOME! The first time we met him we didn't think he would ever start progressing but now he's getting baptized!!!! :) he has so much faith! he's read all of D&C and is in 2 nephi! This guy is dedicated! He also owns his own business and is soooo busy but still finds time to read the word of God and meet with us! We haven't set a date for his baptism because he wants to call and talk to his family about it first so they can have a chance to be there because this is really important to him! He is so solid! I can't wait for his baptism!!! :) We call him Papa Rich :P haha cuz he's like our grandpa :) he's the best :) Can I just tell you that God knows exactly the type of person sister hall and I need to teach!? Mike and Rich and Jim are all so similar it's insane! sometimes they even say the same things! it makes us laugh so hard! :) So Sister Hall has discovered how bad I am at making decisions so she's been making me make so many decisions it's driving me crazy!!! haha but it's good for me! Belinda (brotherson) told me about her "get better book" every week or so she writes down something that she can do to get better that week and works on it! So I started a get better book this morning! I feel like it will be really helpful! because there's always so many things we can work on and make better but if we write one down every once in a while and work on just that for the day or week than we can eventually get better at that thing! So I encourage you all to start a get better book :) literally write down something you want to work on that week and date it. So that when you look back on it you can realize how much you've progressed! because most of the time we don't recognize it! I learned something really cool from sister hall. I wish i could write it down maybe i'll send it to you...but I will explain it :)

All I can do + God's Grace (atonement) = Eternal Life! 

So God's Grace is infinite and so is eternal life! right? so all we have left in the equation is all we can do. Ok so lets say that my "all I can do" is a 27. What is 27 plus infinity? INFINITY! so my all i can do plus gods grace which is infinity equals infinity or eternal life. k? so lets say that president Monson's "all he can do" is 6,000! What is 6,000 plus infinity? INFINITY!!! so the moral of the story is that no matter what, if we are doing all that we can do to follow Jesus Christ, we WILL receive grace and we WILL receive eternal life! SO don't compare yourself to others! because we are all on an equal playing field. If YOU are doing all that you can do you are going to receive eternal life. It doesn't matter what the person next to you is doing! SO STOP COMPARING! :D isn't that cool? Sister Hall is pretty smart :P haha but time is running out so I must go! I love you all so much and hope you are doing all that you can do! Don't get stressed with the things of the world and don't get stressed if you feel like you aren't doing enough, the Lord knows the intents of you heart! MUCH LOVE!!! 

Love always

Sister Brittany Ann Wilkins :)