A week full of miracles!!!

My Dear Wonderful Amazing Crazy Lovable Family,

So this week has just been so incredible. Heavenly Father is definitely playing a huge role in the success that Sister Parkinson and I have been having!

Monday was P-day, but we had Brother Bender's baptism, so we only got a couple hours of P-day in, which was fine because, HELLO! BAPTISM!!! We were pretty excited(: everything went super well with that and it was all wonderful.

Tuesday we did a lot of tracting. We went and visited Sister Lipps, who had hurt her back so she hadn't been able to get out much. She said she had gotten priesthood blessing though and was feeling a little better. Then we went and visited Sister LaFleur and got to do some service for her. We helped her sort bottles and cans. She does it every year so she can earn money to go to Hawaii! It's pretty neat.

Wednesday President Tilleman came! It was so incredible to just feel the power of his calling while we were in his presence. He helped us talk to one of our investigators who is having a bit of trouble committing to be baptized. President Tilleman helped him understand the importance of it a little better than we could though. After that we went and visited Robin, a recent convert who is still having trouble with quitting smoking. President Tilleman said that we couldn't stay if he was going to smoke in front of us so we left and got some lunch. Sister P. and I were a little surprised because we had never just gotten up and walked out on him because he smokes all the time during lessons with us. President Tilleman said it is very important to have him realize he can't have the companionship of the missionaries there with him and have the Spirit be that strong if he is going to smoke. So that was a good learning experience. President Tilleman is so Christ-like too. Robin said he couldn't go to church because he didn't have a white shirt, so President Tilleman gave him the shirt off his back. He also gave Robin his tie and name tag as well. President Tilleman just changed into a golf shirt and had an extra name tag, but it was incredible to see how much love he had for someone he barely knew at all and how important is was to him that Robin went to church.

Thursday was weekly planning. We went and visited a couple members and did some tracting. Again, not much to talk about for Thursdays haha.

Friday we went and visited some former investigators just to see how they were doing. We were able to do some service for the Benders and help them clean their house a bit before their family came to stay with them for a few days.  Our branch mission leaders took us to dinner. The Whitesells are just so incredible and are always taking such good care of us as missionaries. They are the best mission leaders ever. We found out Robin was in the hospital so we went and visited him with the Whitesells. We went and visited some less-actives later that night as well.

Saturday we went and saw Robin again with Sister Ang. We read the Book of Mormon with him and talked about the importance of prayer during hard times. He has pneumonia and will probably be there for a few more weeks. It was so miraculous though that Sister Ang was able to go with us. She works for four jobs and so she's pretty busy most of the time. We were trying to find out who could go with us to visit Robin though and she called to tell us she could go without us even asking her first!! It was amazing. We went and cleaned Sister Barclay's house for her that night and then her daughter agreed for us to come help her clean hers on Wednesday!!

Sunday Brother Bender got confirmed! It was great. We went and visited Sister Lipps and she said that she had prayed this morning that the missionaries would come over and visit her and so she had made us cinnamon rolls this morning! It was so amazing. Her and I are like the same person because we are so assertive and positive. We then were walking to a house to go talk to some friends of a refferral we'd gotten. We were walking past a less-active/part-members house and the husband invited us in. We had an amazing lesson on the Restoration with the husband and wife and I invited Andy (the husband) to be baptized!! He said he would pray about it, but the Spirit was so strong and I just loved it!! 

The church is true. Heavenly Father makes everything happen just the way it is supposed to and we must always recognize His hand in EVERYTHING that happens!! I love you all so much(:

Love, Sister Brittany Anne Larsen(: