Hey Y'all!

I can't believe its week 8 here on the mission! i have been here for 8 weeks! woot! i have survived the worst part of the mission! we heard a statistic that 20% of Sisters go home before the first two months! thats so crazy! This week has been a week full of miracles! 

 The sunday after heathers baptism was fast sunday. we all had dinner at the Parkers and we were all joking about fast sunday. When tristan politely asked how many meals we skip we said 2 and he said easy im in. so he fasted on sunday . we were asking him how fasting went and he said it went good so we were discussing what we fast for and why we fast. then we taught the plan of salvation he really like the plan of salavtion and we got to the end and we were talking about the Kingdoms of Glory and asking him which on  he wanted to be in. He said the celetrial kingdom. I asked him, what kind of people got into the celestrial kingdom, he explained back to me the people who got baptized and stayed faithful! it was set up soo beautifully! i coudn't resist not asking him to get baptized so i did! guess what he said! he said yes!! he is on Date for November 29! how crazy is that! he only needs to come to church twice! we were telling him he needed to get work off and come to church. so we were convincing him to ask his boss. then saturday night i texted him asking him if he got work off he said he hadn't so we went to bed a little bit disappointed. so we got up the next morning and as we were weekly planning i said, you know what would be cool if tristan just showed up to church. what if he surprised us? we laughed it off as we walked inside to ward council and we actually handed Tristan off to the elders before we committed him but elder roy was sick so they were discussing investigators and tristan was brought up we told every one he was on date and he just needed to come to church but it was going to be hard because he works every sunday from 8 am to 6pm. They were discussing how the parker family is an awesome family and how they are going to change the ward. Ward council ended and we walked into the chapel to put our bags down and none of our investigators were there and sister Arbon needed to use the bathroom so we went to the bathroom and after we walked back into the sacrament room and guess who was there??? TRISTAN! it was a huge miracle! he got off work early! heather was shocked too! she said he just came home from work and said whens church? she told him 1:30 and he went and got ready! it was a miracle! 

Miracle Number 2 and 3 happened on saturday! 

Saturday is when we play soccer at 10 am. we are suppose to bring investigators to it but no one was coming and we debated on whether or not to cancel but we just decided to play. as we were playing we saw this little kid playing soccer around the fence so brother whetten went over there and asked if he wanted to play, he had to ask his dad but then he came and played! he was so good!! it was lots of fun! brother whetten said next time you do the recruiting! we had been playing no more then ten mins when another guy walked up to us and sister kelly asked him if he wanted to play he said no. i just want to watch my family play soccer. we all kinda looked at each other and shrugged our shoulders and continued playing. after a while we stopped playing and went to talk to him. His name is Dickson and he is from Nigera. he has only lived in georgia for 10 days. He comes to the church everyday for 5 house waiting for some one to talk to him. A lady came up to him earlier in the week telling him to come on sunday at 1 because that's when church is. so he kept reminding himself to come at one. Brother Whetten was like how about we give you a church tour? so we did. He sat in the sacrament room and he began to tell us how it feels like home and that we are his family and how you need to be worthy to take the sacrament! this guy is awesome! he came to church on sunday! we believe he is going to be baptized in two weeks!  

The third one happened in our apartment complex! His name is Drew he caught us washing his car and he came over to talk to us and we asked him if he wanted to come to church with us and he said yes!! it was awesome! he came to church and he liked it so much that he's coming again next week! we believe that he is also going to be baptized in two weeks! 

On Sunday it was super cool. they did the YW in Excellence program during sacrament meeting. it was so spirtitual and a lot of memories came flooding back of my years in the YW's program! each of the girls gave little talks and they sang songs and did piano songs. it was soo good. it made me remember the year the Girls and the leaders got into a competition of whoever took the best pictures! i wish i could go back. it was awesome. 

I got sick this week too. Not too sick but i had awful headaches and some days migranes and i was sneezing and coughing like crazy! i felt bad for my companion because one day i didn't want to go biking because i was struggling breathing when we were walking a ton. haha but im doing better. 

I appriciate all the prayers! My quote/spiritual thought this week is:

Once you get your House in order Everything will be perfectly fine! -Heather Parker

we were talking about the future one night and how life is really stressful. heather told us that house = you. which makes sense. Once you have everything going good for yourself as in prayer, scripture study, going to church etc. everything will be okay. Always Give 110% and God will make up the Rest! 

Stay strong! i love you all and am always praying for you! 

Love Sister Hanks