Hi everybody. If for some reason some of my words are spelled wrong, its because this keyboard is not nice to me. In particular the "Y". Most of my words are missing a "y" or I have to go back and type it in again. Sorry in advance.
On Monday, we ran all over town doing errands, but we got everything done! We couldn't believe it!!!
Tuesday we be-bopped everywhere again, and it was our most productive day. We
had some good lessons and good visits with families we had not been able
to contact in a while. The most fun thing that we did was a lesson with
Dylan and Blair. We wanted to focus on scripture stories, but not have
it be too intimidating and lesson like, because they would both walk out
and shluff us off if we made it too stiff. They have a pretty good
background with some of the stories from the Gospel Art Book, so someone started describing a picture/story, and everyone else would have
to draw it. When their picture started to look familiar, they would yell
out what the scripture story was and then tell the rest of us how it
went. They really enjoyed it. I can take no credit for the good idea, it
was all the Spirit.
Wednesday is when everything started falling apart.
We had a fantastic Plan of Salvation lesson with Jennifer, the super
excited Book Of Mormon reader who wants to learn everything. She is
awesome. Sister Isaacson is doing so great with teaching. We had her take
over and do most of the teaching, and she is a total natural. But then
EVERYTHING CANCELED!!! Everything. The day looked really full and it
went to nothing. We became so discouraged,because nothing we tried
resulted in anything. We were so distraught, that we sat in the car and
said a prayer for encouragement. Mid-prayer the heavens opened and
started a DOWNPOUR!!!! Sister Isaacson had to yell to finish the prayer. We
spit out Amen, and then burst into laughter. "OK Heavenly Father! We
get it! Just laugh about it and move on!"
Oh, Wednesday night we had dinner with the Eager family,
and it was the BEST DINNER ALL WEEK!!!!! They made Honey Lime
Enchiladas. Mom and Ashlee Barrow, do you hear this? GO AND FIND
THE RECIPE FOR HONEY LIME ENCHILADAS!!!!! Those are the best enchiladas I
have ever had!! You will love them!!! Plus, they are in love with the
Piano Guys!! and they had some of the classical stuff in the background!
HOLY COW!!! I NEED THAT MUSIC!!! SOOOO WONDERFUL!!! Its so uplifting
and so beautiful.
So, Thursday was supposed to be really good and
full...and district meeting was...but the rest of the day went a lot like Wednesday. At district meeting we had been asked to study the atonement,
and prepare a 5 minute talk in case we get picked to give it....I got
picked, but the spirit prompted me to change it all right at the last
minute. I thought it was for someone else in the room, but when I was
the only one bawling during it, I realized I was the one the lesson was
changed for. We also had a cool activity that I had read about before,
but never experienced first hand. The district leader brought donuts,
but if we were going to get one, his companion would have to do 10
pushups for us. "Would you like a donut?" yes "Elder, Gaukner, will you
do 10 push ups so they can have a donut?" Then he would do it. "Do you
want a donut?" No. "Elder Gaukner, will you do 10 pushups for the donut
that they don't want?" and then he would do it. It got hard to watch Elder
Gaukner struggle, because towards the end it looked agonizing. The poor
guy was struggling so much. Even though I understood the principle of
the lesson from reading about it a while ago, it was so much more
powerful in person.
Thursday was a crappy day, but it ended with lots of
screaming. We were driving home and ran into a FREAK hail storm. It was
so instantaneous and so powerful, that we could not see out of the
window. Our wipers were going as fast as they could, and the defrost was
going full blast, but it was not helping. There was no light outside and
all we could see was the continuous blur of splattered hail on the
glass. It was nasty. I have never driven in such bad weather. But we
made it home, crawling at 5 miles and hour.
Saturday night was stake conference, and we got to
go because we had investigators and recent converts coming. It was
FANTASTIC!!! I have never gone to an adult session because I always had
to work in college. Its the Saturday night, without the kids where the
deep doctrine and fun stuff is! We were in awe the entire time. I had 4
pages of notes from one 20 min talk!! Yayyy!!!! We are so focused on the
simple teachings that we never get very deep stuff...so it was AWESOME
to get to sink our teeth into some really intense stuff.
Well, that was my week. now my fingers hurt from all
the typing. I'm sorry for the lack of "Y"s in this. Love you lots! (Oh,
and the "e" has trouble too!)
Love,
Sister Wilkins
1 comment:
Wilkins Fam- I randomly found a recipe that might resemble the one Sister Wilkins mentioned in her lesson. It's from the 2011 Encinitas Ward Cookbook. The recipe was submitted by Angie Curtis. I'm going to make it this week! Let me know if you would like the recipe!
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