Week 66

Hello Family!

Well this week was better, haha I love my mission so much and even when there are hard times it doesn't matter because I have so much hope and faith that it will all work out! :) Not a whole ton and a half happened this week, because we were working a lot on finding new people! :) But I'll give you an update on what has happened! :) First of all Jesus is finally home! Crystal is so happy haha she has a different light in her eyes! We had dinner with her on Tuesday night and it was way fun and he came home Thursday night! . They're so cute! :) We stopped by last night to set up an appointment and Sister Jensen finally got to meet Jesus. I love them!  A family showed up with 3 plates of food on our doorstep one day and so we gave the 3rd plate to a homeless guy named Chris :) Nyah and Alaisa are going to get BAPTIZED! We’ve taught them all the lessons and set up their baptism for the 22nd! That was a big fiasco...it was supposed to be the 9th but it didn't work out :( They're getting baptized 2 weeks later now! But that's ok because they're getting baptized :) they are the sweetest little girls! :) I need to take a picture and send it! They are the cutest little girls ever! I really like teaching children haha :) we haven't seen Gary at all. or Maria. We are praying for them lots though. I still have faith that one day when Gary's life is in line he will accept the gospel. I know he knows it's true. He is planning to move to Oklahoma though to take care of his parents. Brooklyn Falter decided that she was going to go to Oklahoma on her mission! That’d be funny! :) She still hasn't gotten her call yet :( we're hoping for this week though! :) She's been the best missionary this week! We are teaching 2 of her friends and hopefully one more! It is amazing! :)  Transfer calls are this Saturday Btw. Sister Jensen feels strongly that she'll leave and I feel like I’ll stay again. :) But we will see what God has in store! I would be really sad if I had to leave Olympia :( but God knows what's best! :) President Weaver is pretty awesome! :) On Tuesday night he called up Sister Jensen and me and decided he wanted to take us out to Grandpa's ice cream! haha It's this amazing ice cream shop down town that's owned by the stake patriarch! :) I love it! :) I am surely going to miss them a lot. They are leaving on the 27th of this month and I will probably cry for days! But only 9ish short weeks after that I will be coming home as well. It seriously blows my mind how fast my mission has flown by! What happened?  We actually have been having a lot of success in the YSA branch this week! It’s been weird :P haha Our main investigator is a girl named Sabrina. She is like Olympia Washington in a person according to Brooklyn! But she's so awesome! She goes to Evergreen College and is a writer. She is 21 and has the most amazing vocabulary I've ever heard of! She has come to church 2 times already and yesterday she got up and bore her testimony in sacrament!!! It was so awesome! She just said that she was grateful for us teaching her the gospel and that she feels she is more open to it right now and that she is grateful for the community of people supporting her!  It was amazing :) I was so tired yesterday there were no investigators at the 1st ward and that bummed me out so much. It really is such a vulnerable thing to sit in the chapel waiting for someone to show up and just praying and praying that they'll come and then they don't and it's devastating but nevertheless it was a good day! :) I just read that sweet Brother Moody had passed away, give his family my love! Ever since I was able to receive my patriarchal blessing from him I felt such a great connection with him and even secretly wished he would be my grandpa haha I will keep his family in my prayers! :) Saturday was awesome! it was such a chill day! We had breakfast with bishop, then we went to a ysa ward bbq with Sabrina and it was way fun! Priest Point Park is great :) then that night we had a pizza party with the ward missionaries! It was supposed to be for new members and a few investigators too but no one came. One of them, Brother Murray has a pizza company and it's made in a brick oven and it's SO good! :) So we were fed for all 3 meals!  I have been reflecting a lot this week about temptation. And how Satan loves to tempt us! I'm not going to lie, sometimes people get on my nerves and I just wanna be like "SERIOUSLY?!" and sometimes, in my weakness it comes out  but I have been praying that God would help me withstand the temptations of the adversary! and it has been working quite well :) But I know God has been helping me a lot with Patience and Charity and Kindness and Understanding :) I'm about out of time; I just want to tell you that I love to struggle. Because it makes me grow and I have a lot of hope that soon we will just be so happy! I know that God brings us low before he can bring us higher, sometimes we have to be compelled to be humble so that we are grateful for the outcome of our trial. I am so grateful for the power of prayer. My night time prayers just keep getting longer and longer, but I am so grateful I have the opportunity to converse with the most powerful being as my Father. I know that prayer works. And that through such channels we can receive great revelations and blessings for our lives! :) So I challenge all of you to pray every day! I am running out of time, but just know I am happy and doing awesome! :) I am just trying to work hard and put my heart into it! :) I pray for you every day! And I love and miss you more than you know! :) The gospel is true! And it works! :)

Love always

Sister Wilkins :)

These are my boys! Domonic, Denari and Keenan! The littlest one has a crush on me haha he's always wanting to sit by me :)