Week 50

AHHH!!! Family!!!! :) I feel like it's been forever since I have gotten to talk to you!!! But here we are at the beginning of another week! and I get to come and talk to you! So sadly I only have an hour at these Olympia libraries...so I am going to make this fast! And now you must write me letters! mwahahaha! so first of all I LOVE Olympia! it's like a farm town with long roads and TONS of trees! The roads literally go straight for MILES! and it's beautiful! Day 2 of being here we saw a Chicken cross the road!!! :) It was hilarious! :) I forget that I haven't even told you about my companion! haha My baby is Sister Kelli Horgesheimer! yes that's a mouthful! (her mom's name is Kristi if you look her up on FB)  haha she's 19 and she's from bountiful UT. She was a cheerleader at woodscross HS and I love her to pieces! She's great! :) she told me about why she came on a mission and it was so precious! :) She was actually blind when she was born, and she had to go through all sorts of surgeries to get the eye sight she has now, she still struggles sometimes, but she feels like since God has blessed her so much she wants to show her love and appreciation by serving him! Isn't that the sweetest thing?!?! I just love her to pieces! We are having a lot of fun! And she loves to work hard which is awesome and great! I have been praying that I would get a companion that would work hard and I did! :) Being doubled in is a CRAZY adventure! The Sisters that were here before us left us 4 investigators but not much else than that, not even addresses...so we've been relying a lot on the ward to help us and they have been great! :) Our area is huge, we've already driven 500 miles this month, haha ... :P since we have the YSA ward we are technically allowed to drive anywhere in Lacey or Olympia! Our ward is way awesome! It's small, but that might just be my view since there was like 3 inches of snow on the ground yesterday and church in Lakewood was cancelled and so not a lot of people came, but all the ones that I met were way nice! We get fed pretty much every night! And lots of people are willing and ready to help! Our "pool house" is a bit of a problem...we are actually moving in like 2 weeks according to president. But, we used to not have any blinds and there are a lot of windows...aka we don't have a ton of privacy but we have enough! We don't have carpet or a heater or a stove or oven or washer and dryer. We do however have a rug and a gas fireplace and a hot plate and a sweet Older Sister missionary does our laundry for us! :) SO there's pro's and con's to it all but all in all I LOVE IT!!! :) It's definitely NOT like Tacoma at all :) haha The alexander’s live in a "mansion" their house is giant! haha and they are the nicest people I've ever met! they don't charge the church to let us live there! It's so sweet! :) Bro alexander is an orthodontist and I dunno what sister alexander does...but they aren't home a ton! haha but they said if we needed anything we could just walk to the back door and they would help us out. Very very sweet people :) haha I'm telling you, other than not having a stove I have 0 complaints! I LOVE this place!!! :) So now I'm going to tell you about the week! On Tuesday we have transfer meeting and the new missionaries get there and we go at 2pm so in the morning I got to say some goodbyes. Then we went to transfer meeting and I got Sister H (that's what I'm going to call her because it takes way too long to type Horgesheimer) And we had transfer meeting and it was way good! Then afterwards we drove out to Olympia I was scared outta my mind and had no idea where I was going...thank heavens for GPS's! haha And we get to the house and take out our luggage and find a place to go out knocking! we had about 15 minutes left when we got there so we knocked on 2 doors and the 2nd one I made sister H talk and she rocked it! we got a new! :) haha She's a rockstar. No joke! :) Then we went and met one of our Investigators! His name is Gary and he's about 60 something and I love him to death! Sister Hardy (who is my sister in the mission since she was trained by hall) found him when she was here about 4 transfers ago. And he is the sweetest man! but he is also a stubborn man! But I am bound and determined to get him baptized this transfer! :) He is awesome! :) Then we went and tried to meet some people in the Ward council our bishop of the family ward was out of town and so was our branch president from the YSA branch. So we went and visited the RS pres. and she is WAY sweet! Then on Wed. we had district meeting and on the way that's when we saw the chicken crossing the road!!! haha our district is made up of 4 elders and then us 2 sisters! luckily we have 6 sisters in our zone! haha but I actually really like the elders in my district! Our zone leaders call us like every night to check up on us and I love them! :) haha I think God needed to send me to an all elder district to show me that not all elders are immature :) haha I love the elders. :) Then we taught a less active whose name is Axle. He's WAY sweet! You can kinda tell he's had a rough life, and you wouldn't really label him as "Mormon" of you looked at him but he is so sweet! He was baptized when he was 8 and then his family fell away from he church but now he's coming back so we are teaching him the lessons! :) He's great! :) Very sweet. Then we got to meet with our ward mission leader and bishop! Our WML is like over 6 ft. and our bishop is like 5 ft.! haha very funny! Bishop Neely is way awesome though and Brother Duvoe is our WML and he is way sweet and loves to help us and we actually have ward missionaries in this ward! YAY!!! :) haha we had them in Chambers, but they weren't active :P one of them is Sister Mcowen. I don't know her maiden name....but she used to live in Springville by art city! She was a senior when I was a sophomore and she's way sweet! :) I didn't know her before but it's cool to have connections! :) haha On Thursday we had the new missionary meeting and that was fun! that pretty much took all day and Friday was weekly planning then Saturday it was the craziest thing! IT SNOWED! for the first time in the year I've been here! And it was like 7:45 and the flakes were large and the roads were slippery and so we got a text and they told us we had to go home so we went and sat by the fireplace and updated the area book that hasn't been updated since November. Like I said the missionaries before us didn't leave much.,.. :) But I really want to get to Sunday! IT was the greatest day! 7 hours of church man! haha we have PEC at 7:45 and we drove on the snowy roads! :D be proud of me! I survived! haha then we had our family ward from 9-12 and YSA branch from 1-4 it was way fun! The branch is tiny...haha but it'll do! and then at 4 we got to go to TACOMA for a FIRESIDE!!! ah! My heart became a puddle I was so excited! :) Juan Jon Kyle Anthony and an investigator Travis and some of the Rodney family and the Pryor’s and the hartzells and a bunch of other people who I love from the Chambers Creek ward were all there! I was SO happy! I'm gonna be honest and tell you it made me a little Tacoma homesick. haha Juan walks in with the giant candy bouquet and I just LOST it! I can't even express how much I love these people! they will always own a piece of my heart! I Love being a missionary guys! Because you get to just love so many people! and I do! I love these people with my whole heart!!!! I am so grateful for these people. But I am so grateful that I have this opportunity to love more people here in Olympia. I already love it here. And I am just excited to grow. I am already growing a ton. I forgot how much training takes it out of you! haha but it's so worth it and so rewarding! My baby memorized the first vision this morning! I am a proud mama! :) haha we;'ve been working on that like every tracting session! :) and we've gotten 7 new investigators this week! I am so excited to just work hard and work with these wonderful people whom I already love! :) I have to go, Ah! This hour thing makes me stressed! haha but I guess I might have to write you more letters too...we'll see :) haha anyways I hope ya'll have a wonderful Valentine’s day and hope you know how much I LOVE and APPRECIATE you! Which is like TONS and TONS! :) haha I am so grateful for you all! keep saying those prayers for me I'm gonna need them :) haha LOVE YOU LOTS! :)

Love always

Sister Wilkins :)

Me daja chipman and shabaz! :) From last week :) In CC

what the heck is a speed hump?! haha :)