Sister Grace Tams

FRIENDS AND FAMILY, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, CHILDREN OF GOD, Hello, my week was crazy. Crazy busy, crazy fun, crazy people, just a whole lot of crazy! My companions are STLs so I went on 2 exhanges this week, plus we had zone Pday, district council, and MLC!! CRAZY BUSY! But CRAZY good! We had an awesome district council on Tuesday and we talked a lot about finding and how to find by the spirit. It is really such a cool thing to think about that the Lord is guiding my steps. If we are in tune with the spirit I can be an instrument in His hands in helping His children in anyway that he sees fit, which is pretty incredible.  After District council we had the AMAZING pleasure of bringing Sister Needham back to West Wacky with me and Sister Colipapa! What a blessing that was! I adore Sister Needham, she is SO in tune with the spirit and taught me a lot about just going with whatever thoughts we get rather than questioning if it was from us or from God. She is incredible, we ende...

FRIENDS AND FAMILY, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, CHILDREN OF GOD, Miss me? I know I know it's only been a couple of days, but its regular Pday again! It has been a busy and eventful week, most of which I don't particularly remember. Its rough having 2 Pdays so close to each other!  This week we taught Leonard and Angelo about the Word of Wisdom the lesson went so well and they said they felt so inspired to quit smoking that when they left that night they decided to have some cocaine to celebrate...so that was fun. They still have such a desire and we have been teaching them more, with a priesthood holder just in case anything wacky happens. But they are awesome, we had some great spiritual lessons this week and we got to meet some more of the AMAZING members here in West Sac!  One of those members is the Arend family, they had us over for dinner the other night and are just such good missionaries and had such good advice for us on how to unify the ward. The ward that I am...

FRIENDS AND FAMILY, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, CHILDREN OF GOD, I know you were all holding your breath, checking your email every 2 seconds, just waiting in anticipation wondering when I was going to send this email, well the wait is over...P-day this week was on Friday, do not worry I am alive and well. We got to go to the temple today with one of our recent converts named Etta. It was such a cool experience because she got to do baptisms for her daughter that passed away, her mom, and her grandma. She has back problems so she only got baptized for her daughter and then my companions did the other 2 of her names, I was only slightly sad that I didn't get to do any of hers when I got into the font and the first name I got baptized for was "Etta." God truly does know exactly where we are and exactly what we are doing all of the time. It was such a cool experience! When we go to the temple our Pday switches hence why I was keeping y'all on your toes.  Something that ...

FRIENDS AND FAMILY, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, CHILDREN OF GOD,  I AM LOVING CALI! My last few days in the MTC was bitter sweet, I miss my district and my comp dearly but I cannot say the same about the food. I flew into Santa Rosa on Tuesday and got here around 4! We spent the first night getting to know my mission president then we spent the night at a senior couple's house. The next day we got to go tour a vineyard in Napa Valley which was absolutely beautiful. I love California. Then I got to meet my trainer, I GOT SO LUCKY, Sister Bunch is my trainer and she is amazing! So obedient and patient and has SUCH a strong testimony, and I got 2 for 1!! So I am in a trio with her and Sister Calipapa! Sister Calipapa is actually a Temple Square missionary that is on her outbound mission, so for about 3 months of her mission they get assigned to somewhere in the states to get more of a mission experience! She has been here for 3 weeks and she has the SWEETEST testimony and spirit. We...

FRIENDS AND FAMILY, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, CHILDREN OF GOD!! WE ARE DOWN TO MY LAST COUPLE OF DAYS AT THE MTC!! I LEAVE ON TUESDAY!! CRAZY!! You want to know something even more crazy though...I saw the back of 3 apostles heads close up (Elder Gong, President Ballard, and Elder Soares) andddd drum roll pleaaassseeeee.......ELDER STEVENSON WAVED TO ME AND MY COMPANION!! I ABOUT DIED AND WENT STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN. It was SO SO COOL! Having the big 15 just hanging out this week was amazing! Them and all the mission presidents were here until Wednesday which was very cool, we also got to meet Elder Craig C. Christensen of the quorum of the 70!! That was also cool he chatted with us for awhile about our missions then he looked at us with such confidence and just said "Its true, It is all true" of course I already knew that but getting it from one of the 70 was THE COOLEST!  Even cooler than seeing a bunch of them up close was our devotional on Sunday. We were getting ready...