Week 18

Well Hello! I feel like I need to come up with more creative ways to start my e-mails...but I’m really not that creative, so you get what you get :) This week was....well unexplainable so I'll just tell you about it :) haha So Tuesday was Sister Baird's Birthday she turned 22! Wow she's old! It was a really great day though! :) We got attacked by a few psycho dogs :) I'm not even kidding! Everyone has dogs! The other day we saw this sign "beware of dog" while we were tracting and then we saw the gigantic animal and ran away! haha :) I have learned that I hate dogs :) and I get lots of exercise from running from the doggies :) haha but don't worry I will survive!! :) Oh on Sister Baird's Birthday the Elders attacked us with silly string :) It was quite fun but took us forever to get off and then we had to go wash our car :) haha but we have fun! We taught the little activity days girls (ages 8-11) and they are my favorite!!! I seriously LOVE them! haha we taught them the plan of salvation and they are SOOOO smart! :) Crazy! haha But It was so fun :) I wish that I could just teach children all the time :) I HAVE BEEN OUT FOR 4 MONTHS!!! Crazy! haha Lots of things are crazy, :) but it seriously feels like yesterday that you guys dropped me off at the MTC! But it was 4 months ago...haha it's going way too quick!!! :) Elder Piper came for mission tour on Thursday and he is super LEGIT!!! It was such a good day! So he basically just made us teach ourselves about how to be better missionaries :) He says "if you give a man a fish it will feed him for one meal, if you teach him how to fish it will feed him for the rest of his life!" so thus he taught us about hope. I talked a little bit about hope in the cards I sent each of you...I think :) haha (I sent a letter with a card for each family and pictures :) ) But it was really cool. He talked about what we are putting our hope in and if we didn't have hope then what would we have??? Think about what each of you are putting your hope in. :) because without hope we have nothing. He talked about how after the Soviet Union fell people in that area had a horrible life expectancy. It went down 6 years in 8 years, on average it goes down a year per century. And then he talked about why, it's because these people's hopes were lost. They didn't have any jobs and they didn't know how they were going to stay alive. There hope was gone... so hold on to hope :) Keep trying! Don’t give up! Life is hard and sometimes you don't always get what you hope for, but one day the sun will rise and you will always be able to hope for a better morning :) So hold on to your hope! It will get better! :) Haha something funny Elder Piper said was "I don't answer specific questions, that's why we're general authorities not specific authorities!" :) haha I thought it was pretty funny! Papa R. is still doing so good! We taught him on Thursday and he is getting so excited about family history! It's so awesome! I am so proud of him! It's just amazing how much of a miracle he is and that God was able to work through me to help this man come into the fold. Faith brings miracles! :) I testify of that! :) Speaking of which the other day (specifically Friday) I was driving down the road when the spirit (I swear) literally drove me to a potentials house! haha Sister Baird and I didn't wanna go because the first time we talked to this girl it was super awkward! haha But we went, and she was home and we asked her if she had ever wondered where she was before this and why she was here and where she was going and she was like "oh all the time" Cha-Ching! Plan of Salvation pamphlet! haha So we gave her that and set an appointment to go back and see her! :) Crazy what happens when you follow the spirit :) So.....that was some broadcast last night eh?! haha I don't know how I feel about the electronic stuff, on one hand it will make missionary work easier, but on the other hand It's nice to not have that stuff in my life right now! (cuz you know I was a FB addict :) ) haha But it's what the Lord wants and it will be good :) I bet Sister Baird 10 bucks that you guys were crying during the missionary medley :) Cuz i was ;) haha it was so amazing! 70 thousand missionaries!!!! HOLY COW!!! When they showed the choir from the MTC I chocked up because THAT is amazing!!! Literally! I love knowing that there are over 70 thousand other people my age doing the same thing I am doing and going through the same things. Crazy! I would encourage all of you to watch it and although you may or may not have non-member friends you can boost up the friends that you do have. The gospel changes lives, and if we are living it with others who are living it we will be stronger! So do-good work and watch the broadcast if you didn't!! :) haha After the broadcast we had another singing fireside!!! AHHHHHH I LOVE THEM!!! :) haha We rode up with Sister Logan and her companion we had so much fun! It was raining BUCKETS on the way back from the fireside luckily I wasn't driving, Sister Baird was :) haha but we all made it home safely :) Ah the fireside is just what I needed! I love music so much! :) Especially amazing grace! :) haha I also love President and Sister Weaver! Oh my goodness I love them so much!!! hahaha They are amazing!!! :) And do so much good work for us. I have never seen a set of people have so much love in their hearts as they do. It's amazing :) ANNNNDDD I love Sister Logan! haha She's seriously my best friend :) haha the Elders are making fun of me for this novel I am writing :) But that's about all I have to tell you :) and I’m going to be kicked off soon :) but I am doing awesome and great and I know the Lord is guiding me! I love you all so much! Thank you for your love and support and love and letters :) haha! talk to you soon! :) 

Love always 

Sister Wilkins :)