Sister Brittany Ann Wilkins: Week 38

Well Hello Family!

This letter is going to have to be short because we have some appointments :)

My stomach feels as if an alien is about to burst out of it! I'm a so nervous because I found out YESTERDAY that Sister Packard, Sister Esplin and I are going to sing in transfer meeting TODAY! :) That's in front of about 300 or so people and that is SCARY! haha So I am a little fidgety I guess you could say :)

So the subject of my email is very fitting, Saturday (which was the greatest day ever) was transfer call day and I was laughing at everyone cuz they were all nervous about calls and such and I was like "haha I already know mine!!" and all chill and such and then at 10:00 that night we got a transfer call and I am going back to steilacoom!!!!! :) haha jk I wish though :) But the real story is that I am going to be in a 3 some again...! woot.. :) haha I am being truthful and will tell you that I do not like 3-somes because someone always feels left out. But I am determined to make it not be so! :) So, Sister Chipman and I are getting Sister Fabis :) I've talked about her before she was the sister I went on my very first exchange with. She's from Spanish fork and she is just so fragile. I talked to the office secretary Sister Jones about it and she said that sister Fabis just needs some TLC.

Tuesday morning was so sad :( I miss Sister Packard SO much. I realize we can't be companions forever, but I wish we could be! haha I haven't ever had a friend like her, we got super close, and so it feels really weird to not have her around...but I’m not wallowing in my own self-pity haha I'm still working hard! I just miss her like crazy! So on Tuesday morning during study sister Packard and I just both cried. Then we get ready and go to the mission office and we are there for a while and then president is like ok get outta here! So we say goodbye and I started crying again haha So he gave me a hug and said get to work! So I did. :)

Sister Chipman is awesome though! She's from Alpine Utah! She graduated in 2011 so she knows all my friends! (Chelsey, Rachael, Rachelle, Paige, Cambria, Cody, Dylan, Blake) It's pretty weird :) haha she knows about like half of my life :) the Mormon world is SO small :) haha But its fun! We have just been working hard together :) she's a great teacher and we already work really well together :) Pretty much in unity, you can always work on that but we do pretty good :) so that's always good! It really helps when you can do things in unity...

Tuesday night was pretty interesting...we went to the church to meet with our ward mission leader and he never showed...so we left and I get a call from our investigator Felisha and she wants us to come over. So we go over there and find out that her husband got way mad and started packing up his stuff and baby Andre’s stuff and then went and picked her up from work and got mad and threw her phone out of the car and then proceeded to throw her out of the car and she killed her foot pretty badly. And she was doing perfectly fine. IT was SO cool! :) It reminded me of Mosiah 24 because she was going through a hard time but she prayed and could bear her burdens with patience and with ease. She amazes me! :) She also came to church on Sunday!!!! YAY!!! :) So that was awesome :) her and Andre are doing better now, so that's good.:)

Wednesday was awesome nothing too exciting happened then Thursday we had MLC and it was AMAZING! :) haha Elder Ballard came and talked to the mission presidents and so we talked about what he talked about which is how we can create a celestial culture in the mission and such things. :) It was pretty funny president made fun of me a little :P He read acts chapter 8 and read about Phillip. Phillip is having SO much success on his mission and he is loving it and doing so good and then he gets a transfer call :( haha so President says "and I'm not just reading this for you sister Wilkins" haha oh man he's just the funniest man of my life :) I love him! but it was an AMAZING meeting! I literally took 6 pages of notes :) haha that'll tell you how awesome it was :) After MLC They took us to round table! It was yummy! It’s kinda like pizza pie cafe but not as good :) haha but man I just love this mission! It’s the greatest mission in the entire world!!!! :) Then when we got home it was park day! And it was the coldest park day yet! I froze my little face off! But it was awesome!!! :) We went over by a bunch of apartment complexes and just knocked! And luckily we got a ride home and I have pepper spray :D haha yes I am somewhat protected!! :) But it was a fun day and we met some really cool people :)

On Friday we were supposed to do exchanges but one of the sisters was sick :/ sad days! but it turned out to be a really great day! We taught Michael Brandon! He's still on track to be baptized. Not this weekend because he has to come to church again so hopefully on the 23rd! That will be an amazing day because guess what?!?!???!!!! ONE OF THE 12 IS COMING TO THE WA-TAC!!!! :) :D man I am SO excited! They told us on Halloween and I forgot to tell you :) haha but we don't know who yet but they will be here on the 23rd and will speak to US the missionaries from 10-12! It is going to be amazing! I am PUMPED!!! :) See? Being a missionary is literally the greatest thing ever! :)

haha anyways...we also taught Travis Ellison :) he's still doing good and will hopefully get baptized next week as well :) Then we had an appointment with someone we met on park day named Hailey Davis. She's awesome! She’s 19 and married :) haha and her husband is in the military. But we taught her the restoration and it was super spiritual. She's pretty solid :) So that's good :) also Friday night at like 8:30 we had like nothing to do...so I was like ok let’s go visit Jamie Compton this girl we had knocked into my first transfer here and it never went anywhere so we go there and find out that her boyfriend’s mom is a member and just got there the day before and was trying to figure out where the church was! It was crazy! :) haha God is mindful :) that's what I learned :)

Saturday Was AMAZING! :) First of all we did weekly planning cuz we couldn't do it any other day haha then we went to George’s baptism! It was awesome! He was SO happy! :) It was a nice service and then he went and got baptized and afterwards he comes in pumping his fist with the biggest smile on his face!!! It was the cutest thing EVER!!! :) haha I love George so much! :) George sat down and said that he felt "better than great!" The closing song was amazing grace and of course we all cried. I went up to George afterward and he said with tears in his eyes "I’ll cry when I get home" It was so precious! The fact that he got baptized that day brought him such overwhelming joy! It was amazing!!! :) Man, it's so cool that I get to have such amazing relationships with these people! I am spoiled! I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY! There’s nothing better. :) It was also good to be able to see Sister Packard again: D haha What am I saying it was awesome!

haha so after the baptism we went knocking on doors. Oh I forgot to start this story, so during weekly planning this guy named Rodney called us. Sister Packard had found him on an exchange so I had never met him. But he called and wanted to come to church but he didn't know where it was. The sunset Elders were going to have a baptism at 6 that night so I invited him to that and he said ok! So we got him a ride and we got to go to the baptism! Which I was so happy about because it was Victor's baptism! I think I told you about him! He's in the nursing home that we go and sing at and the Sunset Elders have been teaching him for a long while. And victor is the most PRECIOUS man I have ever met in my life! He is just so sweet...I can't adequately tell you how much I adore this man. :) haha I went and said Hi to him and asked him if he was ready to be baptized! And he says "I am so ready to accept Jesus into my life and my heart"! awh! Then we had a surprise and were told that me sister Chipman, Allred and Davis were singing for victor's baptism :) haha so we sang I am a child of God and I just couldn't help but smile at victor the whole time! Elder Poulson and Elder Rich both baptized him because he is very old and fragile! But oh my goodness it was the most precious thing of my life! I cried! haha :) afterwards I asked Rodney how he felt and he said that he just felt like there was a lot of love in the room :)

Then we went to Juan’s house and Jon and Kyle and Juan’s daughter Kyle were all there and we had a thanksgiving FEAST! I am not joking it was quite the feast and it was delicious! I LOVE our recent converts so much! I can't even tell you! They are amazing! :) I am running out of time since we have to go to an appointment but I just want to tell you all that I know this church is 100% true. There's nothing wrong about this gospel. I am so grateful for it. I am grateful for my savior, for the Atonement, and how it empowers me to overcome anything. I can have JOY because of my Savior. I can tell you I have never felt as much joy as I do now being a missionary. It is amazing. It is true. And I will work with every fiber of my being to help others have the same joy that I feel right now. :) Ok I gotta go before I start to cry haha :) I love you all and miss you like crazy! but guess what?! My "hump day" (halfway mark) is in 8 days! I really don't like that at all...not that I don't love you but I would be a missionary forever if they would let me!!! :) haha I can't believe I'm almost halfway done. It's gone WAY too fast! But anyways that is all! :) haha LOVE YOU!

Love Always,

Sister Wilkins :)