Week 55

So...I've decided sister Logan and I are starting a colony! :) hahaha Baby #4 is on the way tomorrow! Yep that's right! I'm TRAINING!!! AGAIN!!!! haha oh heavens...and so is sister Logan! that's why I said we are starting a colony! haha we have both trained together every single time! I am staying in Olympia 1/5th which I am way happy about! I feel like I'm not finished here yet....I feel like I have a lot of work here to do :) It's probably the hardest knocking area because we've only gotten 1 new this week! But I am still way pumped to stay here! I love the people we are working with! I am way pumped to train again too! I have learned SO much from Horge that I am just so excited to learn from another greenie! I love their greenie faith! and I feel like I already love the one on the way!!! :) haha I have been praying that I can just LOVE her. This transfer has been a huge learning transfer...they keep getting shorter and shorter :) I can't even believe it...I only have 4 left! Which is kinda good because if I keep getting surprises like this I might DIE! :) hahaha I have learned so much from Sister H about just being yourself and embracing the weaknesses that you have. I was absolutely amazed by the way she just hit the ground running and is already a stellar missionary! She teaches like a champ! :) I'm sad because I feel like with the move and everything else it was just so crazy and we didn't have as much time to just get to know each other, but I love that girl to DEATH! She is the cutest and sweetest ever! :) She taught me a lot about humility too, every time I would tell her something to work on she would say "you're right I do need to work on that" She took it like a champ! She is on her way to be follow up trained at the other end of the mission in Port Angeles by Sister Gherring! She came out with sister
Baird and sister Chipman! :) She's way sweet and I know that sister H will love her! It's funny because Sister H is so worried that Gherring isn't going to be as bold as I am hahahah I didn't know that I was even the slightest bit bold! but whatevs :) I am so happy and excited! :) I love Sister H and I am going to miss her like crazy! But I am excited for a new adventure! It was so weird, usually I am way nervous about transfer calls but this one I just felt so calm and I instantly knew that God had a perfect plan for me. I think I am coming to trust in Him more that I am just ready to do whatever He needs me to do! Haha I guess that's a good sign right!? Also good news is that sister Logan and Elder Genereux and Pierce are staying too!!!! SO EXCITED!!! :) I dunno if Juan posted it, but I got to go to Tacoma this weekend! It was SO AWESOME!!!! :) We went up there at like 3 and got home at 9! haha First we went to this baptism of Lindsey. She is in our ward boundaries but she was poached from us! and taught in Tacoma. (her fellowship was there..) but she has 6 UBC's! (unbaptized children) age 9-20 So we are hoping that we will be able to start teaching them, and helping them be baptized as well. That's why we got to go though, President wanted us to be there for her and it was a way sweet baptism! Then Nichole Fordham from chambers creek finally got baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have been working with her since I was with Dean and Packard! haha She was a part member family and her husband wasn't very active either. His parents were though! and they were in the sound view ward which goes to the same building as Chambers. anyways, it took a long time, but Aaron (her husband) got to baptize nichole! It was SO special and way sweet! AND I got to sit by Jon, Juan, Anthony and Kyle!!!!! AH I love those guys so much! They bring me so much joy! Seriously I was smiling like crazy! :) I love those people so much! :) It was so good to see them again, it felt like going home. (only you weren't there.... :( ) but really! I can't even tell you how happy and excited I was! :) haha It was SO awesome! Saturday was like the greatest day ever! :) (I guess I'm starting this e-mail backwards :) ) Also! On Saturday we had a baptism for the Olympia ward! Ok, so this is kind of a crazy story, but a way big blessing from God! :) So on Tuesday I get a call from president Weaver (I love that guy!) and he asked me if I knew a Mary Boyd and I was like no I have no idea who that is. So he talked to me for a while and hung up :) Then the next day the Zl's texted the zone and asked them to look at their ward list. So I did and guess what?! Mary Boyd was there! haha so Mary had an 8 year old son, who turned 8 on Thursday and he wanted to be baptized. Now, Seth’s father lives in Oregon and can't leave, so he wanted to get baptized in Oregon but we had to meet with him and interview him first. So we went over there Wednesday night and started talking about the restoration and he basically taught us all 4 lessons! He is way smart and such a good kid! On Thursday Elder Pierce Interviewed him, he left to Oregon on Friday and got baptized on Saturday! It was awesome! Haha president was so excited and happy to find out that Seth was in my ward, because He loves me :P I love him so much! haha but it was such a huge blessing from God, because we have been trying SO hard to get a baptism here in the month of march and it's been a struggle, but we have been working diligently and being obedient and that's what matters. Miracles are the natural result of true principles applied. And so we got to help Seth enter the waters of baptism, even though we didn't do much, I still feel like it was such a blessing and I freakin love that kid!!! haha As far as the rest of the week I got to go on an exchange on Friday with sister Langi! She was being trained in Lakewood zone when I was being follow up trained by sister Hall. She's so funny! I haven't laughed that hard in SOOOO long! It was so fun! It was kinda weird because I felt like I was the one who still had to be the example...haha :) but it was a good learning experience and I think that's the reason for them, to learn from the other missionaries! :) Wow this time is going so fast! :) I am going to have to print out pictures and send them to you :) Gary is getting SO close to being baptized! He is so ready! We are going out to desert with him tonight! I love that guy so much! I think he is one reason why I am staying here. He and I just have a really great connection. I love him so much and I just tell him exactly how it is and what I think and he loves it! haha :) Ah man he's the greatest ever! :) We went to his house on Saturday and watched the Restoration movie and he realized that Joseph smith wasn't really his big concern (which I knew) But that he didn't feel like he would fit in. So I just printed off the "come join with us talk" and we are going to get him baptized!!!!! gosh dang it!!! :) hahaha Every day's a good day! :) So today we get to do something fun! that's why I'm e-mailing so late! But the past 6 weeks we have been doing some intense PMG assignments and we turned them into the office and everyone that did it gets to do an activity paid for by the weavers! :) and we also get to go to lunch since it's the last p-day of the transfer! :) haha so this morning we went to this place called Tugboat Annie's and it is right on the water so pretty! And they have the most GIGANTIC hamburgers I have ever seen! we got 3 of them and shared them between 14 people. That's how big they are! hahaha :) SO GOOD! :) And then after this we get to go bowling! Since I did all the assignments I get to go and I am so excited! We get to wear jeans! That will be way weird! hahaha but it will be fun! :) Other than that, just the usual happened this week, nothing too crazy (which was good :) ) haha No more shootings or car accidents! Let’s just say I've made sure to be EXACTLY obedient and I am a good driver already but now I'm even more careful and defensive haha :) Anyways, I just am excited for this new transfer! I hope that I can get some energy because I feel like I am just getting more and more tired! haha you know the feeling I'm sure! I am just ready to hit the ground running and work hard and love this new missionary! Pray that I get a good one! hahaha I have decided that I'm never going to be just a normal missionary :) I guess God had different plans for me :) But that's ok! I love it! And I am so excited to continue doing His work! This transfer is going to be SO GOOD!!! we get to go to the temple this transfer! I am So excited! :) So get ready for a good one :) haha I just want to tell all of you that I absolutely love being a missionary. There is no greater work. I know that this church is true, I know that because of Joseph Smith, we can be baptized, and sealed together forever as families, we can also access the Atonement in our lives to bring to us guidance, love joy and healing. We can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and we can have immortality and eternal life. I think a theme sick scrip from his week was moronic7:33

                                         

33 And Christ hath said: ^aIf ye will have ^bfaith in me ye shall have power to do whatsoever thing is ^cexpedient in me.

If we have faith in Christ, not in Sister Wilkins, not in ourselves, but in Christ, we can and WILL have power to do whatever God wants us to do. :) We can do all things through Christ! I know that I can handle whatever comes my way not because of my own strength, but because I've got God on my side. Follow Him love Him, lean on Him. LET HIM HELP YOU. I love y'all SO much!!!! have a wonderful week! :)

Love always

Sister Wilkins :)

Week 54

Well hello family!!!

Well to tell you the truth, this week has been one of the hardest weeks of my mission. and really, it wasn't that hard :) haha but a lot of crap happened :P But, it was also one of the most sacred weeks of my mission. I do have to tell you that we have AMAZING members of our ward! haha Sister Woolf came last Monday and helped us clean the alexander's pool house and then she came over with bags full of dishes and such and desks! Holy cow!!! :) She is an angel! And the rest of the ward gave us everything we need! they are amazing and so great! Sister Howe is putting together a party to make mixes for the missionaries so we can cook stuff! :) haha I'm stoked! Now both of us our hoping that we don't get transferred! haha Transfer calls are THIS SATURDAY!!! craziness :) I also have to tell you all about Gary! Oh my goodness I love that man so much!!! he's doing so good and getting so close to being baptized!! :) And for some reason he and I just have a connection, haha he made me say both the opening and closing prayers in his lesson this week! :) man, I just feel the spirit so much when we go to his house and I just feel like God is talking to him through me and it's amazing how much I feel that God truly loves Gary so much. And my love for him continues to grow as well! This week I challenged him to finish the Book of Mormon on my birthday!!! haha he only has like 195 pages left so he can totally do it :) I believe in him :) I'll tell you more about his lesson later but I just wanted to add the fact that I love that man so much! :) So Wednesday was my year mark in the WA-TAC. It was a pretty good day we ate a meconies, had a lesson with Axle about the priesthood. But then we went tracting...and we were on Legion street (which I realized afterward that that's the name of the deamon in mark 5! :) ) and on the street there was just a lot of really rude people. One guy wanted us to prove that God was real but he wasn't going to believe unless God showed up on that doorstep with us then another guy just yelled at us for 10 minutes about all of the horrible things that have happened in his life and how he has NO faith. And the list goes on. it was a bad street. Then it gets to be about 6pm and we knock on this door and no one answered so we rang the doorbell and then we hear this giant BOOM that scared the crap out of us and I told Sister H to run and we quickly walked away and as we were walking away I saw the window cracked open and smelled the smell of smoke. Some guy shot a firework at us! no I don't know what's wrong with people. Haha so I called The zone leaders (Elder Genereux and Pierce) and told them about it they were worried sick haha sister H and I were crying and freaking out a little bit. :) So we moved to a different street and continued. That night elder genereux called again to make sure we were ok and made me call president! haha so I called him and told him about it and he asked if we would be ok doing 5-7's still and I told him of course! because I didn't want to get emergency transferred :) haha then I called Genereux back and we asked him for a blessing. Then Thursday was a way awesome day! It was sunny outside and we did weekly planning and then we went and visited this part member family and we are going to start teaching 2 of the kids in the family!!! :) Jordan (17) and Savannah (11) :) I'm so excited! :) and during tracting we found 3 more new investigators and it was way awesome! Happy day! haha but we had to leave 10 minutes early from tracting because sister H got scared. On Friday morning I woke up feeling like crap due to endometriosis and I was actually quite afraid that if I wasn't 100% obedient something bad would happen to us (that firework shook us up a bit :) ) so I had worked myself way too hard. So we called the Zone leaders and asked them for a blessing. But before that we went to the hospital with them and they gave this man named Michael Forrest a blessing. Michael is a Christian and has terminal cancer. And it was one of the most spiritual blessings, afterward Elder Pierce told us that he felt that while he was giving the blessing that he was standing on air. :) It was so cool! And Michael was way nice. We are teaching him now. :) Then we went to the church to have the Elders give us a blessing. We talked for a minute and I just started crying and told them how I was afraid and felt like crap :) haha so Elder Genereux gave me a blessing and it was such a good blessing. I just felt so strongly that my Heavenly Father loves me, and was aware of me and was proud of me. Which made me cry even more! haha And he also told me that God is giving me these trials because He knows that I am strong. And that reminded me of D&C 136:31 which tells us that we must be tried in all things so that we can be prepared for the glory which God has prepared for us. He also told me that Heavenly Father was grateful for the work I am doing. And that when I got through these hard times He wants me to remember Him. And to lean on Christ and remember His sacrifice for me. After that I felt like I was on could 9! I was SO much happier and felt like a giant burden had been lifted off of me. So we went to Gary's house and had such a spiritual lesson about the Priesthood. I told him about our experience with the blessings we had just gotten and how Gary needed to let God help him. And he said that's exactly what he needs. He is working so hard! We talked to him about praying and reading the book of Mormon and he said that he had been slacking in that a little and he felt so bad, so I challenged him to read it by my birthday and then we are going to call him every day and make him a prayer rock so that he will remember! It was a way good lesson. Guys, I just want to bear you my testimony that I know that Joseph smith restored the priesthood; I know that it's 100% real. I know that when we are struggling or when we are sick that we can turn to the men in our lives who let God work through them and God can help us and heal us as long as we have faith sufficient to be whole. I know that it works. And I know that God did not send us down here to be sorrowful, or to hurt, or to be afraid. But He sent us here to learn, to grow, and to come to know happiness. And I tell you right now that it can be hard, it's ok to have bad days. But in those days we keep our Savior close to us and we remember Him and rely on Him. And He will give us strength and help when we feel like no one could help us. He is the truth and the way and He lives and loves us so much! Christ already suffered all of the things that I went through this week and He knew exactly how I felt. And when I turned to Him and asked Him for help he gave it to me instantly. The Priesthood is real. So now that we have that high note another trial came into my life! 20 minutes after Gary's lesson we got hit by a car. haha (aka our car got hit by another car) AGH!!!! I was so mad! Why in the world did Satan have to ruin my day?! I stopped the car and honked for literally 3 seconds and he still ran into me! I was shaken up again and I was just upset. No one was hurt, but I was just like...UGH! haha luckily the person who hit us was a member of the church so he was way nice and we got everything figured out, after that it was dinner time and we didn't have anyone so we just went home and I lay on the floor and just cried to elder Genereux on the phone. haha I was just sick of it. Why in the world was this happening to us?! When was my bad luck going to end?! We went out knocking and I honestly just did not feel motivated, I felt sick. but we went and did anyways. Then we had an appointment with a YSA with the Elders (Genereux and Pierce) and they could tell that we were kinda bummed so Pierce bought us frosties! haha seriously he is the greatest and kindest kid. I love these elders so much! But I literally just wanted to go home and go to bed so I could have a new day :) haha So Elder Genereux talked to me and made sure I was doing ok and I just told him how I felt and he reminded me of the blessing and what it had said and so we left and I really pondered it. The next day we woke up and I was so pumped! Fireside night! We went to church and it was good, I wrote a poem called "It can be hard" and it made me feel a lot better about things, I'll have to send it to you in a letter because I'm running out of time :) But anyways we went to the fireside and it was absolutely amazing. it was exactly what I needed. Some things that were said just hit me right on the nose and told me that you know what God really does love me! :) I tell you all of these unhappy things not to make you stressed or feel bad for me because right now I feel better than ever! I am so happy! I tell you these things because I know that we all have hard times, we all have stressful days and I know that it's not easy. Life just isn't easy sometimes. Satan sucks!!! :) But I want you all to know that I know that God loves you. I know it. He is very aware and mindful of you. He knows your pain. He knows. Part of my poem says "Remember the drop of blood on olive leaves, a man down on his knees in agony. And it's all for me. In these times of test and trial when bad things seem to come in piles, He walks next to us for miles and miles Remember Him." I testify to you all that Jesus Christ is your personal Savior. He knows all that you feel. He knows what you are going through. And I promise you that if you keep Him close during these times of trial the sorrow will only last for a moment and at the end of it you will feel more joy than before. I know that these things make us stronger. I am so grateful to be a missionary. I am so grateful I have the opportunity to bless the lives of others. There is nothing better than the joy I feel in this gospel. It is the best thing that could've ever happened to me. I love it so much. It's not the end if it's not ok because in the end it will all be ok. I testify to you that It will all be alright :) Life is amazing! And there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. The Savior will always be there for you, you just have to let Him in. Be not afraid, only believe. I know that my Heavenly Father loves me and He loves all of you so much. I love all of you and miss you :) And I can't even tell you the joy I feel when I think of the fact that I am a missionary, and I have this opportunity to learn and grow more than ever before. I am so happy! I am so joyful! Because I know that I am a disciple of Christ. I LOVE IT! :) And life will always get better! :) And I love you!

Love always

Sister Wilkins :)

P.s. don't worry about me because I seriously am doing SO great! :) :D Happy as ever! :) Love love love! :)

Week 53

Hello Family!

Today is a special day! It is a day where I start the program which we call "6 months to sexy" haha! In exactly 6 months I will be on a plane coming home to you! It's kinda crazy how flippin fast this time has flown by! I can't believe that I have been a missionary for over a year! :) You already know I love it so much! :) I am so grateful I still have 6 months left because I never want to not be a missionary! haha I'd knock on doors for the rest of my life if I could! :) But I kinda like you guys and want to see you again. I do miss you a lot and always keep you in my prayers! I hope you are receiving blessings and recognizing them in your life! I know that as you strive to live the gospel, you will receive even more blessings :) By the way...I moved! haha my new address is:

606 Lilly Rd Ne Apt 425       

Olympia WA 98516

It's a pretty nice apartment! We are on the 2nd floor so we have someone above us and someone below us so we try to be quiet :) haha they are nice apartments though! they're called "Arbor square" there are a lot of old people that live there. We also have the Mcowen's in the stairwell next to us and the senior couple Clarkes just a few stairwells down from us so we are safe and in good company! :) It was weird to move everything. It took time out of proselyting and I didn't like that! haha we moved on Saturday and our ward mission leader and a ward missionary came and helped us. All we could take were our beds and the stuff we brought! So we didn't have any furniture to bring other than our beds! haha It took about an hour cuz we had already packed pretty much everything. So we just hauled it all over and threw it in the apartment and went to work! haha so it's still pretty messy! The ward has been so supportive though, it has been wonderful! They are having a house warming party for us on Saturday so that we can get some furniture and kitchen stuff :) The Mcowen's were so sweet and they bought us a table! So we have that and it's been good :) haha I have some pictures of Christ and I started decorating the walls as soon as we got there! :) I decided I should just do interior design! haha jk :) so now we have carpet and a stove and a bedroom and privacy! :) haha My favorite part is the bedroom! I don't remember if I ever mentioned this. But I learned something very special from Sister Packard in Chambers Creek. We would each have our "sacred space" at night that we could be alone and pray. So I sang a hymn and prayed out loud. And I just have to tell you the spirit is so strong and my relationship with Heavenly Father increased so much. Which I didn't really realize how extremely important it was to me until we moved into the pool house and I had nowhere to pray alone. SO SAD! :( But now I do! :) Saturday night I literally prayed for 30 minutes! haha It was so good! :) I can't even explain it, but you should try it! Praying out loud helps you focus on what you are saying and helps you to be more sincere! Something else I do while I pray is always have a journal open in front of me. So that If I have questions or thoughts I can write them down! It's amazing how much more revelation God is willing to give you when you are writing down what you receive. It's wonderful!!! :) We also have a big living room so I can dance around it just like I did back home! :) haha So yes, I love the new apartment and I feel very safe and sound! :)

    So this week was a doosy I don't even know what that means but it sounded like it would describe the week well :) haha it was a weird one... but still so good! On Monday we went to the Capitol building for our zone activity! It is so beautiful! :) and it was fun to rub George Washington’s nose :) haha we then got a call telling us we were moving on Saturday. that night I got to hear a really amazing conversion story. Elder Genereux! He was totally going to go home from his mission, he had the ticket and everything and then he didn't and his conversion since then has been absolutely amazing. He is the only active member of his family. So it's so amazing. by the end of the 20 minute story he just told us "I just want you guys to know that the gospel is true." And both Sister H and I were crying our eyes out. The church is so true guys! :) On Tuesday we met these people named "the Boths" they have Mormon sons and daughters but they are Lutheran. We knocked into them and visited with them for like an hour! and they're going to invite us over for dinner soon! Which is cool! We are totally going to convert them! They're so funny! they're in their 70's and the man has all sorts of good quotes and stories and jokes! He told us this one that I thought was pretty funny! :) “A young man asked God "God how long is a million years to you?" and God replies "eh, like a second" the young man then asked "what's a billion dollars to you?" God answers "Eh like a penny" The young men then asks if God will give him a penny and He answers "sure, give me a sec!"" HAHAHA!!! I thought it was pretty funny :) there's your laugh for the day :) Wednesday we had a way fun district meeting. Sometimes role plays are hilarious! We had to do a door approach and introduce the Book of Mormon and Elder Holt (our District leader) was such a good actor! We were all rolling it was way fun! See? I'm getting along with Elders :) haha I'm nice to them sometimes! :) Meh I just hate disobedience and no offence but some elders like being "funny" and disobedient. But these ones are pretty stellar :)  I enjoy the district! :) haha On Thursday I got a surprise call from Tierra! A recent convert from Steilacoom whom I love so much! She went to my old apartment in Chambers Creek to try to find me and then I get a call from there and it's Tierra! I WAS SO EXCITED!!!! :) haha so then on Friday she came to Olympia and we went to lunch together! She is doing so well and I'm so proud of her! :) I LOVE that girl so much! :) It was a lot of fun to see her. That night we started teaching a part member family and they are awesome! Michael is the dad and he's not a member and he just wants to know if it's true! :) So I'm excited to teach him :) Saturday we had breakfast at bishops and then we moved and then we went and saw some people! This week was weird. All of our appointments fell through so we just went and visited people a lot :) haha That night we had a miracle. After falling in a large ditch we found another part member family the Morrissey’s! They reminded me of TC because they had coke stuff all over the place :) haha but they are super sweet! The wife never came to church cuz she didn't want to be alone and we are hoping to teach the husband, but we'll see. It's so sad to see families torn apart because they don't have the same religion. it's so hard for them and we see it all the time here. It's just not the same as if you have the same values and goals. Saturday night we got a call from Elder Generuex telling us President was asking the whole mission to fast for an increased desire and commitment to baptize in March. So I don't really have a giant and strong testimony of fasting. I know it's a true principle....I just don't feel it as much as I want to...so I asked him for advice and I got a little lesson over the phone. So after we hung up he had me read Isaiah 58 and pray my little heart out. Which I did, and yesterday was SO spiritual. I felt the spirit so strongly and I knew that because I was sacrificing something for the Lord he was blessing me with His spirit more abundantly. It was wonderful!!! :) So fasting works! Wow. this is really short but I only have a few minutes left and I've typed the whole time! haha sorry :) Sometimes time just goes too fast! I hope you all have a wonderful week and know that I love you! Keep looking for the constant miracles in your life. I know they happen. And I promise you that you will be happier as you look for miracles and live the gospel! :) I love you SO much!!! :)

Love always

Sister Wilkins :)

Part of the capitol you can't see the top cuz of the clouds! Haha

The dome :)

The seal :)

Me and sister H giving a speech :)

Me and Logan! I love her! :)

G Washington! his nose is shiny because people always rub it for good luck! Yes I rubbed it! :) 

He's the only man I can kiss :) ha-ha!!!

Me and Tierra! I LOVE HER SO MUCH! :)

Me with June and Don! The oldest members of our ward! June turns 99 in June!!! :)

Week 52

So I e-mailed you on Wednesday and not a ton happened this week :) But I will just tell you what did happen :) I can't even fathom the fact that I've got 6 months left next week...All of my friends have 5 months left! haha It's so crazy...I never thought this day would come it seemed so far away and now it's here and I'm just freaking out :) Haha on my year mark day I may or may not have wallowed in my own self-pity :P haha jk I just don't ever want to not be a missionary! :) haha I love it too much! You guys can just come to WA :) haha But I just reflected on the person that I am. Being in Olympia has been a learning experience but I feel like I lost a little bit of my focus when I got here. :) I get distracted by friends and such. And I pondered this week a lot about my character...I think this is something that I just like to think about a lot....but It's because I do not want to come home with changed habits, I want to come home with a changed nature! :) So I pondered on that a lot.. I of course have changed SO much about me and who I am and now I think I just need to refine that. Because now that I have a greater self-confidence I find myself being a bit prideful sometimes. And well that's never good :) haha SO I am refining who I am. I picture myself as a little old lady who is meek and patient and every little kid loves to come over and I just don't see myself as that yet so I'm working on it :) haha of course Training is trying my patience and meekness :) Its fun and I LOVE sister H but it's easy for new missionaries to get upset with learning and such. Sometimes I make her make decisions and she hates it! :) haha So I have to be very patient with her sometimes :) and I of course did the exact same thing with Sister Hall :) haha but it's so good for me to learn these things again. Isn't funny how you learn things over and over and yet you still forget? So crazy! :) haha Anyways so this week was fun on Tuesday we had zone conference and President made me lead all the music which I totally sucked at but it was quite fun! :) There's no way in a million years I would've stood in front of a bunch of missionaries and acted out "once there was a snowman" a year ago...see! I'm growing! :) haha But I actually am so glad that I get to be out of my comfort zone so often on my mission because that is where I learn the most! :) Thursday was my year mark day and it was pretty uneventful...we did teach Axle who is a member but he's basically an investigator. He was baptized but knew nothing about the church until a couple months ago and now he is such a good member! :) He's so awesome! :) Then we had dinner at the Mahoney's they are the cutest little family and so sweet to each other! I seriously learn so much about families out here and what I want to do with my family :) It's a lot of fun to see the different ways people raise their children :) That night we went with Elder Genereux and Pierce to see some YSA people :) Honestly the YSA branch is a little bit of a....well let’s just say that we don't really have success in that area :) Except we are teaching a girl named Allison with the Elders right now but that's about it :) haha On Friday we had dinner at the Mcowens! (the wife is the one who's from Springville) and they are the greatest people in the world! :) They are so sweet and so helpful with the work! They gave us a George foreman and a waffle iron because this girl likes to cook!!! :) (me) and all we have is a hot plate :) I never realized how much I loved stoves! haha :) So we will be eating more than just quesadilla’s now! :) That night we found a ramtha guy while tracting! Their beliefs are pretty interesting....he told us about our 3rd eye and how Christ has a twin brother and a wife and children and told us over and over to read the white book! (which we wanted to pull out our white handbooks and say we have!!! :) haha ) He said all sorts of weird stuff though! But he went to the ancient school of wisdom! Elder Genereux told me that in order to get into the school you have to pay $3000 and they write your name on a paper and put it in this field with all sorts of bushes and trees and stuff and give you 24 hours to find it and if you find a paper than you can be in the school. I dunno if that's true but it's just so interesting to learn about how different people do different things and believe different things. :) The world would be so AWESOME if everyone was "Mormon"!!!! :) haha It was fun though! I really actually like finding out peoples different ideas! :) It's so interesting! :) haha On Saturday we got to go to a fireside practice for the fireside that we had in Lacey last night! It was fun :) Then we went and Saw Gary again! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!! he is the biggest sweetheart and I just want him to be baptized! He always calls me pushy and so I keep telling him that one day I'm just going to push him into the font :) hahaha not really but I wish :) :P Gary is still working for March 15th, but he is struggling. He has to quit smoking and Coffee and tea. And he still struggles with Joseph Smith. I just tell him that he's being stubborn but I know that it's a huge struggle to quit smoking. So I am praying very hard for him that he'll be able to let go and let God help him :) Sometimes that's the hardest thing because we are all prideful. but I believe in him so much! I know that I still have that problem sometimes...where I just can't seem to let God help me. But that's the whole point of the Atonement. He can help us with everything. Isn't it cool? We can be so happy in this life if we just let go and let God help :) But I love Gary so much :) He is like my pride and joy :) Our other investigators were either sick this week or out of town :/ so that was a bummer...but I am excited for this week! It will be good :) haha That night we had dinner at the Howes who are a Part member family and they are so awesome! I love them a lot! Sister Howe has been going through radiation and she told us about how when she has to do the radiation (which she does every single day except for weekends) She pretends like she is looking at Christ's eyes and just focusing on Him and then she related it to when Christ walks on the water and when Peter comes out of the ship and is walking to Christ and when he has his eye's fixed on Christ he's fine but as soon as he looks away and is afraid he starts to sink. But Christ will always reach out and catch us when we start to sink. And it was so amazing! I got chills! That is like my favorite story in the bible! :) I love it! :) On Sunday we had to speak in the YSA ward...that was fun! I talked about our responsibility as finders...you guys better be doing work back there! :) haha Then we got to go to the fireside that night and papa Rich came! My RC from Steilacoom! :) I love and miss him SO much!!!!! I freaked out when I saw him and immediately gave him a hug! haha He is getting ready to go to the temple! He was baptized May 26th so he is planning on going asap! :) I AM SO EXCITED!!! :) And Gary came and he Loved it! :) it was a lot of fun! I haven't smiled that much in a minute :) anyways I am out of time it seems! I hope all of you are doing wonderfully! I am missing you and always praying for you! I Love you so much! :)

Love always

Sister Wilkins :)

Also on my year mark :) In our pool house lookin good :) haha

Also on my year mark :) we still get to see the sound! :) Every once in a while :) haha

This was on my year mark :) I liked this old tractor so I took a picture by it :)

Me and Sister Logan :)

                               Gary's study desk :)

GARY!!!!

PAPA RICH!!!!! I love him so much! :) haha and His granddaughter Emerald :) She wouldn't stop moving! :) haha but Papa rich is getting ready to go to the temple! May 26th!!!! :) I am so excited and SO proud! :)

Week 51

Geez guys! I leave and all sorts of exciting stuff happens!!! :) hahah I guess that happens when you leave for 18 months and you've been gone for a year! Sorry for the serious delay...We of course had the holiday and then yesterday we were at Zone conference all day! :) haha so today we are e-mailing! :) But at least you get an e-mail :) To tell you honestly there's not a ton of stuff going on in my life :) I am making way good friends and I love the people here :) I am still loving Olympia! We actually have a way big area...the biggest one I've had so far. And it's awesome :) we still get to see the water! We can drive out to this place where they dock all the boats and its right by the capital! SO beautiful! The ward is seriously so great! I love them! we get fed every night except Monday, because we eat during our p-day time :) But it's awesome! I think it's the smallest ward I've been in...I feel like it anyways from church...It feels small to me. So obviously there's a lot of work to be done in this area! since it's quite large and the ward is small! :) Speaking of the work I love our investigators right now! It's pretty cool getting doubled in. I didn't have a moment to "adjust" I just had to jump right in and hot the ground running! :) But since we came here we have found some Amazing investigators!  We have Somon and her daughter Isziah. Somon is married and has 3 girls! Isziah (9), Amiah (6) and Janiah (3)! :) haha they're way cute! And we also found them knocking not too long ago! (obviously...since I've only been here for like 2 weeks haha) And they're so awesome! :) I LOVE LOVE LOVE them! Isziah had already taken the lessons in North Carolina with her Grandma. So somon's mom is a member! And Isziah wanted to be baptized, but Somon didn't know about the church and so she didn't let her. But now they are both on date for the8th of March!!!! :) AHHHH!!!! We have also taught them the restoration and plan of salvation and they have loved it! they couldn't come to church because Somon had to go on base (she's in the military) But they are coming this week! :) So exciting! We are also going to teach them tomorrow! And I am so pumped!!! :) haha I love these people so much! And then we have Gary! :) Gary was found by Sister Hardy (who was also trained by Sister Hall :) ) about 3 transfers ago! So he's been to church like 15 times and he loves it! I know he does! But Gary is a stubborn 60 year old! Whom I love dearly with all my heart!!! :) haha he was the first person we met in Olympia and he told us the first night to push him. Well I told him that was a bad idea to tell me that because I am pushy! :) haha I was trained by Sister Hall! Of course I am :) Anyways we had a lesson with him on Saturday and it was SO good! I flat out told him he needed to stop procrastinating the day of his repentance. :) He says he doesn't believe in Joseph Smith, but I don't believe that's his real concern :) Haha but he is praying about being baptized on March 15th! WHICH IS HUGE!!! :) I am so excited! :) He is totally going to get baptized :) haha He says that I scare him :P Haha! I just love him so much! And I'm bold and upfront with him :) And he knows that he knows it's true :) That's why I scare him :) haha  But seriously I love these people so much! :) Those are the main people we are working with right now! :) On Wednesday we had district meeting which was way good. Elder Genereux who is my zone leader and good friend is going to make me sing a solo next week at district meeting. Yuck :) haha People like to make me do things out of my comfort zone :) And we are also teaching a less active named Axle. he was baptized when he was 8 but his family stopped going and he went down some wrong paths but now he's coming back and he's way awesome! :) Thursday was the one and only park day! We spent a lot of the day with the 98 year old recent convert named June! She's adorable! :) Valentines was pretty uneventful, people didn't really like us that day...but the handy's a family in our ward had us over for dinner and it was WAY nice! They gave us lots of treats :) Saturday was one of the greatest days of my life!!! :) I found out on Thursday from Sister Chipman that Daja and Nicole were going to get baptized in Saturday!!! dhasjkdgdhfk;sdyhafuieyahrjkeawhfueiwlafudsalhfjdkslah8u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is my excited gibberish! :) haha I was STOKED! So we drove to Tacoma in the morning and we got there and Daja just ran and jumped into my arms! Cutest thing ever! And Nicole was so excited! the Service was way nice When Daja got baptized, she was just giggling and giggling! It was so cute! :) I can't even express how much joy I felt at that baptism! I love them more than words can express and I got to see mah friends! :) :) I love them so much as well! haha Especially Juan, Jon and Kyle! :) My heart was a puddle times 12!!! :) I just can't even express how great it is to be a missionary! It really is the greatest thing of my entire life! :) I have seen so many people enter into the waters of baptism in the past year and It is absolutely amazing. I have come so close to heaven. By seeing these people's first glimpse of heaven's light! I am over joyed when I think about the past year and how much I have grown and changed and become. It has been one of the greatest journeys of my entire life. I honestly wouldn't trade it for anything in this world. I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!! I am so grateful for this opportunity. It has been such a blessing. I cannot even put it into words. But I can't even accept the fact that I've been a missionary for a year! It's insane! :) I miss you all so much and I am so grateful for y'all! I love you more than you could ever know :) This may or may not be a lame e-mail but I'm out of time and I will e-mail you again in 5 days!!! haha But I just wanted to check in and tell you I love you and Miss you and am doing SO good! :) I would not choose to be anywhere else :) I know the church is true! It is displayed to me on a daily basis. And I love it with all my heart. I just want to give my all the next 6 months and come home EXHAUSTED! So that's my goal! :) haha Anyways! I love you tons and tons! :)

Love always

Sister Wilkins :) 

Happy Valentines!

Daja and Nicole's baptism! :)

Daja and Nicole's baptism :)

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 :)

Week 49

Hello Family! Well this is going to be my short e-mail because I have been DYING to tell you about my transfer call! :) I'm not good with suspense :) haha! SO Saturday night we get a call from the AP's and to tell you honestly I am still in shock! haha I was not expecting this one! AT ALL!!! :) But.....*drum roll* I have been called to serve in the Olympia 1st/5th ward and I am TRAINING!!!!!! we are getting doubled in tomorrow! :) I am way nervous but so excited for this new adventure! :) I know this will be a good way to start the last 7 months of my mission. I am ready to work hard and I'm excited to have somewhere that's fresh and has lots of new doors for me to knock on! :) I already know I am going to learn a ton this transfer! I have heard that the missionaries there now weren't the hardest of workers...So I am preparing myself to start basically from scratch. I know one of them was way good, but the other one didn't like to get out of bed :) haha so anyways, I am just praying that my baby will be a good one that will work hard and be obedient! But, I am ready for whatever challenge comes my way. I am SO excited! :) My new address will be: 

Sister Brittany Ann Wilkins

4124 Huntermill Lane NE 

Olympia, WA 98516

I will be living in a POOL HOUSE! :) haha in the back of a members house :) I have heard that the house is like a fish bowl, lots of windows and it's out in the forest! Olympia is known as a place with a lot of granola people (aka hippies, hobo's etc.) I am ready to just hit the ground running and take on this new challenge that God has given me! I am so humbled and grateful that He is trusting me with this sacred opportunity. :) I have also heard that the capital is in my area! so that's really cool! :) haha Sister Chipman was in Olympia in the ward right by my new one! So she's told me a lot about it :) And I also found out that Sister Logan is finally going to be in my zone! YAY! :) I'm excited :) haha Oh! Also I am going to be serving over a YSA ward and a Family ward! :) So that will be a lot of fun! Lots of members to work with! :) haha I have no idea what I’m going to be doing but I know that God will strengthen me. This morning I was reading in 1 Nephi 17:3 which says "and thus we see that the commandments of God must be fulfilled. And if it so be that the children of men keep the commandments of God, he doth nourish them, and strengthen them, and provide means whereby they can accomplish the thing which he has commanded them; wherefore he did provide means for us while we did sojourn in the wilderness." Which is also like 1 Nephi 3:7 "And it came to pass that I, Nephi [Sister Wilkins] said unto my Father [Mission President]: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." I know that God will help me on this new adventure :) I thank you all for your love, support and especially prayers :) Please pray for my Greenie! :) haha 

This week just flew by! I'm not really even sure what all happened, I've been distracted a bit with goodbyes and finding new people and packing! haha that's pretty much what we've been doing :) But, I will try to give a good accounting of everything :) Tuesday was a pretty good day! :) On Monday night our investigator named Faith had her car broke down. Faith is searching so hard to find faith. Kinda ironic, but she is so sweet, she has a lot of health problems, but she still works her butt off to provide for herself. She's a personal assistant and when she's not doing that, she's doing housekeeping. She's hardly ever home. But her car broke down so on Tuesday she was really stressing out. She had to go the doctor for her skin and bone disease and this doctor has a long waiting list, and she didn't have money for the bus and she didn't have money for food for the next couple of days, she usually goes shopping every 2 days, because she's never home and doesn't want things to go bad. So we went over there and talked to her and got her a ride to the doctor and stopped by Fred Meyer and got some bread and milk, and then took some extra stuff we had at our apartment over there later. It was very sweet though, just to be able to serve someone makes my heart a puddle! It brings so much joy and helps you feel the love that God has for that person :) I love Faith though! She was so grateful and she was just crying because people don't ever give her things. It was a very precious moment. :) I am going to miss her so much. That night we asked Sister Weaver to come to a lesson with us, but she broke her nose and was having a hard time so she couldn't come, so President came instead! haha I was nervous! But the guy wasn't there :( Then President starts talking about transfer calls and he told me he was going to send me far far away and then Sister Weaver told him "she can't go far away sweetheart! She sings!" haha so I was saved from opening up the Sisters area in Adna :) haha! :) just kidding, I don't know where he was going to send me. But literally I am still a little in shock :) Then that night we went and saw Daja! We now have best friend’s necklaces! I LOVE that little girl so much! It is going to break my heart to leave her....But I hope that I can come back for her baptism. :) I'll only be about 45 minutes away from Chambers Creek :) So that's not too bad! Just a drive up to Alpine from Springville :) haha I made that drive a billion times! :D Then on Wednesday we had district meeting and at the end we did this little spiritual thing where Elder Hughes had us think about why we came on a mission and why we are still here. And then he took us to a room with a candle lit under a picture of Christ and he talked about how a candle is one of the only forms of light that can give light and it won't dim its own light. And he associated that with the light of Christ. And he gave each of us a little tea light and asked us to bear our testimony and share what our thoughts were about why we were still here, and then light the tea light and set it on the table. So it's this really great and awesome spiritual moment and I am of course crying :) (yes everyone has seen me cry...its fine :) ) And a few of us have said our testimonies and Sister Chipman bears her testimony and then goes to light her tea light and freaks out because she feels the fire from another tea light and her candle falls and extinguished the light of Christ! :) haha it was so funny! Everyone was laughing :) Yep, that's my companion :) she's hilarious; I'm going to miss her dearly! :) Thursday was an interesting day...I went on an exchange with Sister Ryser. She came to Chambers. And I was a little bit afraid about this exchange, Sister Ryser and I did not get along in the MTC. I don't think I really let on about how much I was not enjoying that companionship. haha, but it was actually a very nice exchange :) we had fun! Sister Ryser struggles a bit, but I love her nonetheless :) That night we went and saw Daja and we started teaching her 16 yr. old Uncle Shabaz! :) haha he's way funny and he's a hip hop dancer so I was excited and talked a ton about dancing and taught him how to do whacking :D But little Daja sang and danced for us! She's got some soul! She's so not even a 9 year old. Haha she's so smart and way talented! AH! I love that girl SO much! :) During tracting we got a call from President Weaver and he asked us if a sister could come with us the next day while her companion went to the temple (her companion is going home tomorrow) and we of course agreed! 

I'm gonna send this and then try to log back on because I'm on a one hour computer :) LOVE YOU! :) Be right back :) haha

Ok good! I got to log back on :) haha you just get a lot of emails from me :) Anyways so Sister Tanner comes with us in the morning and I decided we should play a prank on sister chipman :) haha so we go to pick up Sister Chipman and exchange back and I have Sister Ryser and Sister Tanner go in and I'm standing right outside the door and Sister Ryser hands Sister Chipman the keys and says "oh! by the way sister Wilkins had to get emergency transferred to southworth so sister Tanner is going to be your new companion!" And she totally bought it! :) haha this goes on for about 2 minutes and then I give in and walk in and say "just kidding!!!" :) haha It was SO funny though! I think I may or may not have given Chipman a heart attack :D It was way funny :) I'm still laughing about it :) Then that afternoon we got to go to the Rodney's house! :) and it was a lot of fun :) We watched the restoration movie with them and the spirit was there and we took a picture :) haha That night we had a lesson with Luis and Timothy! I love them SO much! you don't even know. Saturday was like, the greatest day ever! Juan had us over for dinner and he had all the recent converts come! (Jon, Kyle, Terrance, Anthony, Luis, timothy) It was SO fun! We had dinner and just laughed and had a good ole time! Then they showed me this video where all of them had said something to me! And it was SO sweet! I laughed, I cried, it was amazing! :) Man, I love those guys so much! If there's one thing that is going to make my heart break when I leave this place it's them. I can't even express the love and appreciation I have for them. I am NOT going to enjoy leaving these men. But, I know that God has more people for me to love. I swear, every time I leave an area it's like having a farewell all over again. Michael Brandon was crying and Myk was crying. That just broke my heart! AGH! It is always so hard to leave a place that has owned your whole heart for the past 6 months. These men are the evidence of my assurance. I love them more than I can express! But then I think about all the people in Steilacoom who I love so much and miss like crazy! But, I never would have met these people in chambers creek if I hadn't of left Steilacoom. I had to give my testimony yesterday in Sacrament and I was bawling, and I’m pretty sure there wasn't a dry eye in the room. I am going to miss this sacred space. and the amazing people who are here. But I am also looking forward with faith and positivity. I know whatever happens will be what I need for my own Character and growth. I am SO EXCITED for this new adventure! I was exhausted yesterday because I couldn't sleep Saturday night! My mind was running thinking about what my baby is going to be like, and what I’m gonna do in Olympia and planning stuff like that. And so I couldn't sleep :) haha that's how excited I am! :) GO SEAHAWKS! yay! :) haha yesterday we were on lock down from 3 to the end of the night. Luckily our zone got to go to the mission home! All the zones did a potluck and a scripture bowl from 4:30 to 7 :) It was a lot of fun! :) then Sister Chipman and I also got to be live at conference call because we lost our phone! :) haha (it is found now :) ) It was a great day! :) This morning we went and ran the narrows bridge and I ran the whole thing, but on the way back my (what i think is an ovarian cyst) side acted up and I was in a lot of pain so we walked the way back :) I felt so bad...but I could not run. But I’m fine now :) haha Then on the way home the power went out for who knows why and so we had to get ready and study in the dark! :) haha then we went to the mission office to pick up sister Stuki because her companion is leaving to Brazil today! So we get to be in a 3 some until tomorrow! :) and that's why this is shorter because we gotta go! :) haha but, I love you so much and I hope you have a great week! Remember you can do hard things! You can do all things through Christ! :) Love love love!

Love Always 

Sister Wilkins :) 

P.s. I read this talk this morning and absolutely loved it! SO you should read it! :) 

http://www.lds.org/liahona/2014/02/living-a-life-of-peace-joy-and-purpose?lang=eng&query=fining+peace+joy+and+love

Chambers Bay :)

The Hartzells! :) I love these people! Doesn't brother hartzell remind you of Elder Eyring? :)

My Chambers Family! :)

                                       The rodney family! :)

LONG roads with trees that line the sides :) This is by our bishop's house :)

Meconi's is the BEST sandwhich shop in ever :) haha better than quizno's even! And we are going there today after e-mail! I have been hooked! :) Jessica when you come to WA you HAVE to go! :)

Our poolhouse :) yes our bedroom is in the same room as our kitchen and living room :) nbd :)

I look really creepy but it SNOWED!

Juan jon Anthony and kyle making me cry all over again! I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!!!! :)

I just took this in the library :) haha we've been too busy to take pictures! :) but this Is me and my new baby! :)