Here is the letter we received this week from Katy.


OOOOOOOOOOOOO HELLO FAMILIA!!!

I dont know how I feel about this email only thing. I think you should send me stuff in the mail too! :D Because sadly I have gotten no mail my first week except one letter from Sis Woods. Which was so sweet by the way. I need mail.. man its no fun having a rough day then opening the mail to see that everyone but you got mail... again! HAHA its ok I am sure I will get used to it. I should be more positive.

Well... lets see I dont even know where to begin. ITS ROUGH. haha. But I figured it would be. White washing in your first area is not easy. We are both pretty lost but are really determined so its all good. My companion is from Gilbert Arizona and she is a doll. Very sweet and spunky. Our mission President said we are quite the power house together. I think he meant that in a way that we are both crazy!! haha.

So ... New York is big, cold, dirty, stinky, and pretty cool. I think it will take some getting used to (like pretty much everything on a mission).

So I had my first piece of New York pizza a couple of days ago. OOO it was so good. We don't have much time to stop and eat because we run around working so much but we stopped quickly to grab a piece one night and i just loved it. There are so many places I would like to eat here but there is just no time. haha. We are so busy it's nuts. We are constantly working. Which is so good because it keeps my mind off being worried or homesick. We do 3 min contacting here. So every three minutes we have to talk to someone (at least) so that we know that we did all we can to contact the people we asked God to put in our paths. It's pretty sweet but also very hard. Because almost all of them reject us or say something rude about mormons. I have never felt so rejected in my life. I love it :D haha. My companion just came from upstate and so she missed contacting in the city. She is like a little tornado on the subway. Talking to each person she can. haha. I am still warming up the the subway thing. SUBWAYS ARE CRAZY! They are so packed full and bumpy I have to hold on the the rails for dear life most of the time. I have a hard time thinking about anything but not falling. haha. But I have been praying to be more comfortable with subway contacting because it really is a perfect time to do it. People cant run away from you! Its funny how people would rather risk their lives by running into on coming traffic rather than talking to me. HAHAH. NICE!
We have a mission goal to get a baptism every month and then our ward wants to have 6 more baptism by March and so we are working really really hard and praying really really hard. My district is soo cool and my zone is even cooler. We have Chinese and Sign Language Missionaries. It's awwwwwwwesome. They asked me to bear my testimony at Zone Conference to bring the spirit back after lunch (I donno why they asked me, I must need the practice) and it was soo crazy (and hard not to get distracted) to watch them interpret what I said into sign language. HAHA. So sweet.
So we walk A LOT. Because I am in a singles ward we cover 2/3 of the city and a small island. It's crazy. My feet are so torn up :D Love it... ahah. Our ward is so cool. So missionary minded that it is such a blessing. I really love it. The ward members are all so different and in their careers. Its cool because they actually feed us sometimes and they like to take us out to eat. Tonight we are going out for crab. I kinda feel bad but when we are so busy we skip meals a lot so i love the excuse for a forced meal :D. So I really dont think I will have a problem with gaining weight :D.

We have a baptism already set up for next month with a sister. O she is just so grand. I love her. She started with the previous missionaries and we inherited her. O she really just makes me so happy. We have a lot of new potentials that we are working on so pray for me to be able to work with them well and teach them what they need to hear. I need all the help I can get.

Well I hope that I have said what you wanted to hear. Sorry im not super exciting like I said... im still adjusting. I do love it and am getting more used to things but Wow... its a lot of new stuff :D haha. I love you all and cant wait to hear from each and every one of you :D

LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK
-Sister Wadsworth

Made it to NYC!

 Hello family!!! I am finally here in NY safe and sound! I am actually in the mission office now writing a quick letter. We had to come to the office because .... Not only are me and my trainer white washing an area, part of it is a new area. SO CRAZY!! This letter will be fast because they are waiting to take us to our apartment. I am over a singles ward. They tell me its a richer area so I have to dress nice! LOL! I don't really know how things work but everyone keeps telling me how my trainer is the best here. She seems to be everyone's favorite (including the president) so things should work out GREAT! She is spunky and fun. She makes sound effects for everything like i do :D She is one of the most baptizin sisters out so im sooo excited to DOMINATE!!

Please send any mail to the mission address. They forward it the day they get it to our current address, as so to make sure it goes to the right place.
I am soo excited it almost hurts!

Things have been crazy and non stop but I'm loving it. The first night we were here we did what they call "fearlessing" which it pretty much was. We went street contacting in a sweet place in Harlem with people runnin around everywhere. LOVE IT!! NO FEAR HERE! hahaha!

WELL I LOVE YOU ALL TO THE MOON AND BACK!!
-TATERS

1-14-09

Here's some excerpts from this week's email..... We sure enjoy getting them!

Thanks sooo much for all the packages and letters. I am overwhelmed by the love I feel from everyone. I was worried that it might be distracting or make me homesick but every time I get a letter I get SOOO PUMPED!! I just want to make all of you soo proud. I want to use every second to work hard so that you guys will be proud of me. Also please send any MTC mail by Friday (in the mail) because I leave Tuesday morning at 4 AM for NY. Unless you do Dearelder.com that comes the day of so the last day for that will be monday! Seriously you guys are so amazing. I don't know what I did to deserve friends like you. But KEEP THEM COMING!! They make me just soooo HAPPY!! :d

I love love love the MTC. The spirit is sooo strong and if you do all you can to learn and work hard Heavenly Father will bless you with all your desires and goals. SO because I realized this fact... get ready for this one mom... I have been relearning to play the piano.. .DUNN DUNN DUNN!! haha. My comp is teaching me again and its going well. I figured there would be no better time to develop this talent if I had righteous desires than when the Lord was helping me.

I also saw Daniel Huntsman and Brandon Stirling. They were both so cute and bright eyed cuz they were new. Its so funny to watch them adjust. Im sure I was the same way. LIKE TOTALLY FREAKED OUT THEn slowly they realized... o this place rocks. HAHA! I don't think anyone will ever quite understand this place till you are here experiencing it for yourself.

So this Tuesday we had a surprise guest speaker... Elder Holland! IT WAS SOOOO AMAZING.

I am learning so much and I cant wait to go to NY. Heavenly Father will always answer your prayers you just have to be willing to do whatever it takes when He asks. He expects great things from us and especially me as a missionary. Pray for people in your area to have their hearts be softened and that the missionaries will be directed to them.

First Week at the MTC

So I hope I can get out everything I want to say. So I have been here for a whole week!! Its so crazY!! So right after I left you guys I followed the signs for new missionaries and got to a little registration place and the old guy there was like "Wow you really took that band aid analogy seriously didn't you? You're the first one here!" (Insertion from Pauline. They said saying goodbye is like taking off a band aid. Sometimes the faster you do it the more painless it is.) It made me happy. haha! So I'm not going to lie things have been pretty rough and intense. BUT... I have been praying hard to feel like I am supposed to be here and that I will do well in my studies and I am feeling much better now. I know Heavenly Father is proud of me and He only asks me to do my best. I have the greatest companion ever. She is super upbeat and lovable. She keeps me moving but I feel like she is sooo amazing and that I can't reach to her level. Then this funny thing happened yesterday. She told me she felt the same way about me. HAHA! Who woulda thought? Shes adorable and we get along sooo well.

So the studying is intense. It's really crazy to have to focus on the spirit 100% and learn more and more about the gospel. I LOVE IT! One thing I don't really love about the MTC is the food. I hate having to eat 3 times a day when they tell me to. I have not had time to breathe from all the food they give us. I actually lost a little weight (weird I know) but the food here is NUTS! So many options! HAHA!

So being a sister at the MTC is awesome!!! Its like being royalty (says my companion). There are like barely any of us and so the boys always open doors for us, take our trays after we eat and stand up when we come to the table. They are sooo awesome. It was really weird for me at first because I dont usually like that kind of intense attention but Im getting used to it. The elders in my district are SOOOOOOO amazing. I really love love love them. (not that kind of love) just like a spiritual kinda love. We will be at dinner all sitting together laughing our HEADS OFF (o man they are so funny) and people will walk by and be like "wow looks like were missin out on something" and I totally agree with them cuz WE ROCK! We have a huge spectrum of personalities. It is so awesome how God knows who you should be with. One of the teachers told us that it actually done randomly by a computer but that computer is the most inspired computer I have ever heard of. We call it God's computer with a holy ghost chip! 

And thannk you soooo much for your letters! The elders all call me miss popular because i get the most mail most of the days so far. But I try hard not to dwell on it. I am working really hard to make sure that I obey all rules and so one rule is that you cant read your mail during the day time because you should be using it to study or listen in class and its sooo hard but I have waited. EVERYDAY till I got home to read your mail!
I love you guys so much and I love mail. You guys are amazing thanks for the support. Heavenly Father is sooo amazing and He will give you anything you need! 

Love you to the moon and back,
Sis. Kaitlyn Wadsworth

She's official.

Anyone who would like her MTC address, email me at wadsjk@gmail.com.