Week 17

Well hello there! I hope you all had an amazing week cuz I know I did! It's crazy because missions make you do things that you never thought you would ever do in your life. It makes you realize the box that we put around our potentials :) This week was SO GOOD!!!!! First on Monday our zone got to go to Steilacoom beach park (sunny side if you wanna look it up) and played beach volleyball! It was sooooo fun, and afterwards we sat on the beach and made up some sweet Mormon raps! :) Such as "there once was a boy named Joe what church to join is what he wanted to know" and so on. :) It was soooo fun! :) So that was a good day! On Tuesday we had a church tour with this guy named D. (he's 32 met him on the side of the road and he's super humble and untainted by other churches) and it was my very first church tour without Sister Hall and the spirit was so strong! It was awesome, and we put him on date for the 29th :) then we went to B.’s house (a really old funny lady that loves us) and we read her 2 Nephi 31 and put her on date too!!! wooot! :) (for you michele :) ) I was super pumped that day! That night I called Sister Hall and told her about everything going on! It’s so weird that she's not experiencing every moment of my day with me anymore so I just call and tell her all of it :D hahaha! It's fun and I absolutely LOVE her companions! :) On Wednesday I did something that I never thought I would have the courage to do and put someone on date on their doorstep for the first time!! It was scary but I did it and he said yes! The spirit of God is sweet! :) haha Sister Baird and I also had to have a little heart to heart that day, she was struggling a little bit...but it was good cuz we opened up to each other and it was just awesome! Thursday was park day which always makes me exhausted because we walk all over town! We walked to the ferry in the morning which takes about 35 minutes or so and went over to Anderson Island and had way yummy food :) and we taught S. over there! She struggles with some deep doctrine things but she's doing good :) But I always love Anderson Island! I finished my penguin like 3 weeks ago but I brought it home just barely! It's so cute! :) That night when we were finding it was SO funny! These little asian boys Nicholas and Jr followed us around the whole time! haha it was so funny...they got us a potential investigator cuz they were so cute! On Friday night we went to the Agor's I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!!!! Hawaiians are awesome in the first place but they just make you feel like family and it's so awesome :) I love it :) But I'm rushing through this so I can get to Saturday!!! Saturday was the best day ever!!!!!! haha we woke up and went running and got ready and did our studies! Then I got a call from Sister Hall and she told me J. was getting baptized!!!! :) J. is a guy we met at a funeral, he lived in Tacoma but wanted to be taught by us. Then when Sister Hall moved to Tacoma she took him and he got baptized on Saturday! So I called up president and he said I could go!!! yay! :) I was soooo happy! So we went over to bishop's cuz we have breakfast with him every Saturday and he took us out to old country buffet! I had a Slurpee for breakfast. Feel free to judge me but it happened :) haha the pancakes were good too :) On the way there I got to talk to Brooke! (bishop's daughter/ bff that goes to BYU-I) I just love her! Then we got back and we went up to Chamber's Creek for the baptism! IT WAS SO GOOD!!! Sister Hall made me give my testimony on baptism and Sister Packard (her adorable companion) Sang "brightly beams our father's mercy) and it's still stuck in my head! It was amazing! And J. was SO pumped and president came to meet him! And then he got baptized!!!!! awh! I love baptisms so much!!! :) And It was so good to be around Sister Hall and her companions! I LOVE THEM!!! Of course....I feel like I love a lot of places/people/things :) haha! God has put lots of love in my heart :) It's a good thing that I love baptisms because right after that we went back to our church for another baptism! Our Investigator G. (a refferal from Sister Sweson she's a spunky woman that likes to zumba!) came to the baptism and I got to bear my testimony after they got baptized and then we gave her a church tour! And Ah!!! :) It was good :) She's a little more tough about feeling the spirit but it was still really awesome! She commited to read the BOM and pray about it!!! Then we taught N. (an 18 year old kid) and the elders came too and it was SUCH a good lesson! We taught him the first half of the plan of salvation and committed him to stop beating people up and yelling at them and loving them instead :) so that's good :) hahaha Then there was a wedding at the church and N. wanted to go so bad and he asked the bride and she said a very sarcastic yes and we laughed and walked out the door and N. walked into the wedding! I had to run back in and get him out and bribe him with candy to get him to go home!!! Crazy kid!!! :) haha oh man it was hilarious. :P oh man....that night we got to go to the beach and watch the sunset and tell each other what we're grateful for (we do that every night) and it was sooo pretty! :) Then we went home and planned and at the end of our prayer President Weaver called!!!! side note: we have mission tour this week, AKA Elder Piper is coming to check out our mission and all the missionaries and make sure we're doing everything right :) President and Sister Weaver have been stressin for weeks about this!!! haha :) I also had a dream about it...it was cool, I had a dream that Christ came during our mission tour! It was an awesome dream :) But anyways president calls and he's like "Sister Wilkins! Now I know you have a beautiful singing voice because I’ve heard it!" and I was thinking "oh dear he's gonna ask me to sing at something" and then he said "do you conduct" and I was like "yes I know how but I might not be very good at it" and he was like "well good! We want you to conduct at mission tour while Elder Piper is here!!!" AHHHHH SCARY/ INTIMIDATING. So I am conducting the music for mission tour...this is why I said that a mission makes you do things that you would never do in your life if you weren't on a mission. :) Oh man.... :) haha then I called Sister Logan and told her all about my day! I love that girl! And it's fun because it makes me feel like a normal person when I can talk to my friend on the phone :) hahaha! I love it! Sunday D. came to church and he LOVED it!!!! :) It was awesome! He was so excited about it :) and that night we went to the Brotherson's house (I’ve mentioned them lots before) and we had what I like to call a Brotherson brainstorm these people are super smart so we studied and had a discussion about "as man now is God once was and God is man may be" Mind = BLOWN! :) It was a really cool discussion :) See I'm just one of those people that accepts things that the prophets say and move on with my life but they're the kind of people who have to analyze everything :) hahaha but I loved it! :) This next week is going to be so good too! Sister Baird's birthday is tomorrow, mission tour, general broadcast (are you so excited about that cuz I am!?) and then we have another fireside! :) YAY!!! :) I love being a missionary! It’s so much fun and I seriously have learned and grown so much especially having to train :) I know that if I have a heart full of love God will take care of the rest. I know that this work is God’s work and that we are doing what Christ would do if he was on the earth. I don't care how many doors I get slammed in my face or how many people tell me I’m being led astray or why the church is wrong. I know it's true and it's worth all of that to bring one soul unto Him. D&C 18:15 I think it is? I don't have my scriptures near me at the moment...but it says something to the extent of if you will LABOR ALL your days crying repentance unto this people how great will be your joy if you shall bring one soul unto me. That scripture has proved itself to be true to me. My joy is great in this work and I love it! Of course it's hard, of course sometimes I don't want to do it. But I know that I am stretching myself and the "box" around my potential. I have gained so much more confidence in myself, in God, in others around me, and in all of you! You are the miracle!!! I hope you know how much of a miracle you are, and how much God loves you. Don't put a box around your potential with God nothing is impossible! I know all of you are amazing and I’m so grateful for you in my life! I love you so much!!! :) Keep the faith :) 

Love always 

Sister Wilkins :)

Post script: There's only one thing that sucks about having a greenie: they get like 6 letters a day and you get 2 a week! (Thanks mom and Michele :) ) *hint hint* :D hahaha! jk I know you all have lives.. :)