Chips, Grapes, and Cheese Pizza

 Sister OG-Will's letter 5-31-21

Hello everyone!! I hope your weeks were amazing:))

I'm in a new area now, which means that once again everyone is losing their mind over my last name hahaha. What I love about this area is that these people don't even try to get it right. I pronounce it for them, they look at my tag, they look back at me, they look at my tag again, and then they ask if they can just call me by my first name. We've hit a healthy compromise and now they just call me "Sister OG-Will" (Sister Ainsworth's proudest name creation😂)

Sister Ainsworth is my new comp and I. Love. Her. I've seriously been blessed my whole mission with stellar companions. She's hardworking, BFFs with basically everyone, and she can belt like nobody else - it's a party all the time!

This week was kind of a crazy blur. We planned transfer logistics (how missionaries will get to and from each area when they switch places), said goodbye to the finishing missionaries, and welcomed the new ones in. 

One kinda funny thing is an Elder coming into the mission was kind of picking around at his food. We asked him if he was okay, and he said he was find, he just didn't like cheese that much. We asked him about a bunch of possible different foods we could give him instead and he didn't like any of them. Finally we asked him if there was anything he DID like - he had to have a top 10 foods list at least. After pondering about it for a longgg time, he came up with 3 entire options - chips, grapes, and cheese pizza. (Don't ask me how that works with hating cheese...I'm confused too). Anyway, apparently that's all he ever ate before his mission. I was laughing about it a little bit, becase although he was extrememly lucky to be called to Boise, Idaho, I was pretty certain that odds are low he will get fed pizza, chips, and grapes for dinner. 

Shortly after this conversation we left for our dinner appointment. A sweet lady let us in and told us that they have a family tradition where every Friday night they enjoy the same meal all together. I was excited to see what it might be! We walked around the corner into the kitchen to see a wonderful layout of - you guessed it - chips, grapes, and cheese pizza. 

I though that was a pretty funny coincidence, but I didn't think about it much at all...until our dinner for the next night was dropped off.  

Chips, grapes, and cheese pizza. Now this was getting weird.

The next night I forgot all about it, until dinner time rolled around and we had *drum roll please* 

Chips, grapes, and cheese pizza. 

I was kicking myself for even THINKING about teasing that elder about it- Nampa is on a roll, and obviously God has a sense of humor.😂Apparently he'll be better off than I thought hahaha.

A highlight of the week was that on Wednesday we were asked to give a 10 minute training for the incoming missionaries. As we went into a room to plan altogether and to pray, I felt such a strong feeling of peace and of love wash over me. It was the strongest I've felt the spirit in the long time. In that moment, I gained a deeper understanding of what I've always known - God loves His missionaries!!

Although that's a super obvious truth😂 it hit me a little harder this week. 

Before I came on a mission, I thought that I would only be talking to people who didn't know much about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But here it's been cool to have my focus expand to include those who are doing the actual teaching. 

He loves and prioritizes us all!  He won't let anyone slip through the cracks. It's been really fun for me to see that more than ever this past week!

Love you all!

-Sister Gwilliam

Pics

- the Quad-panionship😎

-Sister Knudsen♡

-Puppies!!!

-Me and Sister Ainsworth