So yes the news is true I have been transferred. I have set a record 5 companions in 4 cycles. Its crazy. I was only with sis johanson for 4 weeks. I am now in a whole new area. Its really not that different I guess because I am on the west side. I am super nervous because I am now in a family ward. I don't even know how to handle myself. I'm both excited and scared but I know that Heavenly Father will help me out. I am so surprised that things have never really settled down for me. I don't think I will ever be able to relax and enjoy an area. haha. O well. I guess I can handle change better than some missionaries because every cycle I get something new.
So my new companion is from Japan. She is very sweet. It will be interesting to have language study every morning with her now. I think grandma would be proud of me... serving with a Japanese girl. haha.(Note from Pauline - Katy's grandma was a missionary in Japan in the 50's.)
Well it was very hard to say bye to all my recent converts. They were not very happy. Dave cried. haha. Hes the best. The ward was pretty sad which makes me feel like I did a good job at least. Hopefully that is. It was hard to fit all my stuff in my luggage. I have accumulated a lot more clothes I guess. O well.
I would like to ask for your special prayers. I am a little scared. eeks. O well. I just got asked out by the guy next to me. hahaha. Guess that's my funny story for this week. He wanted to go to the movies. O man.
So we had another baptism on Saturday. It was a really sweet baptism. He has such a tender heart. He was so sad when I was leaving. He said "we have so much history together wadsworth". hahaha He also got the priesthood on Sunday and because the relief society were together with the elder's quorum I got to be there. He will be a great member of the church. He is very service oriented. President and Sis Searle came to my baptism. They are so great to come. They have been to 4/5 of mine and that's really great of them. They always bring such a special spirit with them. I will be sad to see them go. I am still going to be in the same zone and so I will still see all my missionary buddies. Yay!
Sorry this letter is so jumbled my mind is just full of a lot of different things. I got to help a member paint this week. It was so fun until their neighbors came over who were not members of the church and since we didn't have our regular clothes on and no tags either. They didn't know we were missionaries. It was the weirdest experience. I wanted to talk to them about the gospel but I felt silly doing it in my pajamas. Haha. Now I remember what its like to be a member missionary. jk.
ok well I gotta go now. I only had a short time on the computer here in the new library I go to. BLLLLLLLAHHHH.. HAHA. Its just hard thinking about what happened last week because I had to leave that area. you know what i mean? o well Love you guys so much. Thanks for your support. I will survive. doo do doooo
love you to the mooon and back.
Sis Wadsworth
Friday, May 29, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
To Family Wa
So this has been an awesome week. We now have 4 very intelligent investigators. It's really a struggle for me because I feel like I don't know my stuff well enough to teach them so I have been studying VERY hard lately. It's very intimidating but exciting also because the gospel always makes sense and it's cool to see when they figure that out too. We are just working on getting them to see the spiritual side of it too because that's what will make the difference in their lives.
So it was pretty cool we had the ambassador for Moldova come speak to us yesterday at mission conference. He is not a member but somehow the opportunity came and so the church wanted him to meet and talk to us. Moldova is between Romania and Ukraine. Which made me so happy because their national language is a lot like Romanian he said so Rachel Martel and Kimcha would be happy to know that. I was so tempted to yell out "TE UBESK" i donno how to spell it but it means I love you and its about all i know other than "Plaka de ieche"...? which is some form of get out of my face. haha.
So I contacted in sign language again!!! O it was sooo amazing. I saw these two cool lookin guys signing and I said a little prayer and went up to them and contacted them. OOOOO the spirit was so strong. It is such a pleasure to be an instrument in God's hands especially when I can help out the ASL elders who have such a hard time finding people to teach. They work so hard to find people too so this was such a tender mercy!
We also had a really cool street meeting this week. (A street meeting is where a bunch of missionaries get together and contact as many people as possible). We did it near ground zero and instead of me contacting people the elders in charge asked me to sing hymns with a couple of other elders. At first I was like ... wow this is weird. But then It was SOOO COOL. People would stop and listen and even on this busy New york street I know people were able to feel the spirit as we sang the hymns. We had a lot more people stop and talk to us than usual. It was awesome. Music invites the spirit soooo well.
So funny story. We went to visit a recent convert a couple of nights ago. I cannot express how much I love this girl. She is so funny. So she was showing us some flyer thing and there was a beautiful woman in a tiny bikini on it striking a pose. And i was like" woah scandalous!!" And she was like 'what? the girl in the swim suit?" and I proceeded to tell her how it was provocative and such and she was like "no way when people look at this they think (.... haha) wow, i really want to go swimming". HAHAHAHAH. I felt bad but I could not contain myself I just laughed and laughed. I was like are you sure they are not thinking "Wow I really want to swim with HER?" Then we all laughed and it was just awesome. I hope that did the story justice. But it was too cute. I guess there is nothing wrong with be scandalous as long as it is all in the name of going swimming!!! hahaaa
Today the weather is super nice so sis johanson and I are going to write letters in central park. :D be jealous! JK.
love you all to the moon and back
-sis wadsworth
So it was pretty cool we had the ambassador for Moldova come speak to us yesterday at mission conference. He is not a member but somehow the opportunity came and so the church wanted him to meet and talk to us. Moldova is between Romania and Ukraine. Which made me so happy because their national language is a lot like Romanian he said so Rachel Martel and Kimcha would be happy to know that. I was so tempted to yell out "TE UBESK" i donno how to spell it but it means I love you and its about all i know other than "Plaka de ieche"...? which is some form of get out of my face. haha.
So I contacted in sign language again!!! O it was sooo amazing. I saw these two cool lookin guys signing and I said a little prayer and went up to them and contacted them. OOOOO the spirit was so strong. It is such a pleasure to be an instrument in God's hands especially when I can help out the ASL elders who have such a hard time finding people to teach. They work so hard to find people too so this was such a tender mercy!
We also had a really cool street meeting this week. (A street meeting is where a bunch of missionaries get together and contact as many people as possible). We did it near ground zero and instead of me contacting people the elders in charge asked me to sing hymns with a couple of other elders. At first I was like ... wow this is weird. But then It was SOOO COOL. People would stop and listen and even on this busy New york street I know people were able to feel the spirit as we sang the hymns. We had a lot more people stop and talk to us than usual. It was awesome. Music invites the spirit soooo well.
So funny story. We went to visit a recent convert a couple of nights ago. I cannot express how much I love this girl. She is so funny. So she was showing us some flyer thing and there was a beautiful woman in a tiny bikini on it striking a pose. And i was like" woah scandalous!!" And she was like 'what? the girl in the swim suit?" and I proceeded to tell her how it was provocative and such and she was like "no way when people look at this they think (.... haha) wow, i really want to go swimming". HAHAHAHAH. I felt bad but I could not contain myself I just laughed and laughed. I was like are you sure they are not thinking "Wow I really want to swim with HER?" Then we all laughed and it was just awesome. I hope that did the story justice. But it was too cute. I guess there is nothing wrong with be scandalous as long as it is all in the name of going swimming!!! hahaaa
Today the weather is super nice so sis johanson and I are going to write letters in central park. :D be jealous! JK.
love you all to the moon and back
-sis wadsworth
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Love at Home
Dear Family,
It was such a delight to talk to you guys on Sunday. I am a little sad that I am such a blabber mouth and didn't stop to let you guys talk. O man. Guess I haven't changed that much yet. haha. It really felt like we haven't been apart. That was a relief. I know life is going on back home but one thing I will always have is you guys. :D Thats all I need haha. Thanks for all your words of wisdom and upliftment. It was very motivating. Because we had a rough Sunday. We had such an amazing week with finding new investigators that Heavenly Father knew we needed a reality check. haha. None of our 6 new investigators came to church. We worked sooooo so hard to try and get them to church. It was especially hard because of mother's day. But I know that if we press forward in faith we will see our "reward".. meaning 13699345783497 people at church next sunday! haha.
So funny story. Sis Johanson and I were walking quickly to an appointment when we saw a lady in front of us dump a huge beautiful boquet of flowers in the trash. We both looked at each other in awe.. So sister Johanson was like "i really want those" and so I said "DO IT! " and she proceeded to turn around and retrieve a large bundle of flowers from the trash. HAHA. I wish I know why she threw them away but Sis Johanson was so happy she carried that huge thing of flowers the rest of the day with a huge smile on her face. Everyone we went to see thought they were for them. I thought it would be fun to hand them out to people but if you saw how happy sis johanson was holdin those flowers... you would have let her keep them too.
We are teaching this new guy. He was a guy we talked to on the street and then he came to church on sunday and we taught him after church. He was very hesitant and really said he didn't believe in God at all. But we taught him the restoration and gave him a book of Mormon and really tried hard to bear strong testimony so he could feel the spirit. Thennnnn... yesterday he calls us and said he was reading and wanted to know more about Joseph Smith so we gave him some places to read and hung up. Then like 3 hours later he called and said he had been reading that whole time and had a load of amazing questions and said "Man if this is true that would be so amazing!" Then he told us how much he loved it and wanted to read more. I know he is going to come to know it as truth and follow through with baptism. Its so awesome the power the Book of Mormon has in bringing people to truth. It is such an amazing tool that I think a lot of us take for granted.
We are also teaching this other really cool guy. He has a photographic memory. How cool is that? He is so smart. We were telling him the story of Adam and Eve and he said he had done a lot of research and read a lot of different versions of the story but that he had come to a conclusion and then he proceeded to tell us exactly what we have come to know as truth. IT WAS AMAZING!!! He is hesitant about God and organized religion but I know that once he comes to understand the doctrine he will be next in line to be baptized and to accept Christ fully in his life. :D
Today is going to be so fun. We are having a zone activity. Our whole zone is coming together and we are having a BBQ and playing pool and ping pong and all that good stuff. Its going to be so fun! We really do have the coolest zone because we have english, sign language and chinese all together. I have gotten to know so many great missionaries from all over the world. Most of our missionaries are not from the US. I have two elders hovering over me waiting to take their turn. One is from South America somewhere and the other is from RUSSIA. Sweet huh?
Well I love you all so much. Keep up the good work and dont forget to pray. There is no connection more important than that with our Heavenly Father.
Love you to the moon and back
-Taters
It was such a delight to talk to you guys on Sunday. I am a little sad that I am such a blabber mouth and didn't stop to let you guys talk. O man. Guess I haven't changed that much yet. haha. It really felt like we haven't been apart. That was a relief. I know life is going on back home but one thing I will always have is you guys. :D Thats all I need haha. Thanks for all your words of wisdom and upliftment. It was very motivating. Because we had a rough Sunday. We had such an amazing week with finding new investigators that Heavenly Father knew we needed a reality check. haha. None of our 6 new investigators came to church. We worked sooooo so hard to try and get them to church. It was especially hard because of mother's day. But I know that if we press forward in faith we will see our "reward".. meaning 13699345783497 people at church next sunday! haha.
So funny story. Sis Johanson and I were walking quickly to an appointment when we saw a lady in front of us dump a huge beautiful boquet of flowers in the trash. We both looked at each other in awe.. So sister Johanson was like "i really want those" and so I said "DO IT! " and she proceeded to turn around and retrieve a large bundle of flowers from the trash. HAHA. I wish I know why she threw them away but Sis Johanson was so happy she carried that huge thing of flowers the rest of the day with a huge smile on her face. Everyone we went to see thought they were for them. I thought it would be fun to hand them out to people but if you saw how happy sis johanson was holdin those flowers... you would have let her keep them too.
We are teaching this new guy. He was a guy we talked to on the street and then he came to church on sunday and we taught him after church. He was very hesitant and really said he didn't believe in God at all. But we taught him the restoration and gave him a book of Mormon and really tried hard to bear strong testimony so he could feel the spirit. Thennnnn... yesterday he calls us and said he was reading and wanted to know more about Joseph Smith so we gave him some places to read and hung up. Then like 3 hours later he called and said he had been reading that whole time and had a load of amazing questions and said "Man if this is true that would be so amazing!" Then he told us how much he loved it and wanted to read more. I know he is going to come to know it as truth and follow through with baptism. Its so awesome the power the Book of Mormon has in bringing people to truth. It is such an amazing tool that I think a lot of us take for granted.
We are also teaching this other really cool guy. He has a photographic memory. How cool is that? He is so smart. We were telling him the story of Adam and Eve and he said he had done a lot of research and read a lot of different versions of the story but that he had come to a conclusion and then he proceeded to tell us exactly what we have come to know as truth. IT WAS AMAZING!!! He is hesitant about God and organized religion but I know that once he comes to understand the doctrine he will be next in line to be baptized and to accept Christ fully in his life. :D
Today is going to be so fun. We are having a zone activity. Our whole zone is coming together and we are having a BBQ and playing pool and ping pong and all that good stuff. Its going to be so fun! We really do have the coolest zone because we have english, sign language and chinese all together. I have gotten to know so many great missionaries from all over the world. Most of our missionaries are not from the US. I have two elders hovering over me waiting to take their turn. One is from South America somewhere and the other is from RUSSIA. Sweet huh?
Well I love you all so much. Keep up the good work and dont forget to pray. There is no connection more important than that with our Heavenly Father.
Love you to the moon and back
-Taters
Friday, May 8, 2009
OOOO HAPPY DAY!
Dear Family,
I am loving my new companion. Which is horrible to say because that kinda jinx myself to getting transferred or something. But I have such a strong testimony of perfect obedience. She is such a powerhouse and obedient. And I feel like Heavenly Father was just waiting for two missionaries who are obedient to let the area catch fire. We are seeing so many miracles. We have found so many amazing new investigators who are GOLDEN!!!! We are having so much success (not boastin I promise) That we are going into other people's areas to help them. I know that all the success we are seeing is really Heavenly Father's doing because I am not doing anything different really. haaha.
We are teaching a girl. SOO cute. When we taught her the first lesson we committed her to baptism (we always do that on the first lesson btw). So when we asked her "Will you follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized?" and she like put her head down and made a big sigh. I didn't really know how to take it at first but then she looked up with a big smile and said "I have been wanting so badly to get baptized but I have never found the right church" She then went on thanking us sweetly for finding her. It was such a tender mercy! I know that there are people all over the world just waiting to hear the gospel. People who want to fully accept Christ and his Atonement but don't know how to. Some may already have their own ideas about "the mormons" but they too can come to know the truth of this gospel. I am so grateful for the understanding I have of this gospel and that I can turn to my Savior with pure confidence to know that He can remove my sins and imperfections. What peace that brings to my soul.
It has been rainy all week so we haven't gotten to go running in the mornings. Which I love/hate to do. You guys would be proud of me. I go running about 4 times a week. We exercise everyday of course but on running days we go outside and get a major work out. haha. Its so great because we have a cool trial right by our place that runs next to the east river. Its so beautiful to see the sun rising every morning. I try to clear my mind and just think about life and/or nothing but it never works I just end up singing a church song or thinking about an investigator. Which is good and how it should be. Its really funny though because I will try to think of nothing... it doesn't work.
So new record this week. I have not receive any mail except my tape this week. CRAAAAAAAAAAZY... and not fun. But hopefully I will get stuff today. I know Krista's my faithful writer so... I'm good.
So today for pday we are mostly just chillin but a lady from the family ward is going to have us over so she can teach us how to make her famous salsa!!! Yay... so how do breakfast burritos sound on christmas day family?? I know how to make homemade tortillas now and here comes salsa!! haha.
Ok funny experience of the week. We were contacting in the rain one day. And this lady came up to my companion crying like BIG TIMe. And she then proceeded to tell us that Oprah only had 3 years to live. AND she just didn't know how to deal with it. .... after we tried to calm her down she moved on still crying. We both looked at each other and laughed and then stopped and said. I wonder if she really is dying... So please let me know if she really is dying so I can either continue laughing or to join my dear friend in crying. What would the world be like with out Oprah??? I don't even want to think.
We had an interesting experience this week. Our investigator had brought one of his cousins to a lesson once and she was super cute and we gave her a Book of Mormon. Then a couple of days ago he called us and told us that she had OD'ed and was in the hospital. He wanted us to come pray with his family. So we called the elders and they came and gave her a blessing in the ICU. It was pretty intense. The family was pretty sad. But they were so grateful. I am so grateful for the power of the Priesthood. To know that when these worthy young men give blessings it is truly done by the power of God. The family is Catholic and they said they know the blessing was of God because they had a family member sick a long time ago and a member of our church came and gave him a blessing and he was healed. Anyways it was really amazing to see the faith of our investigator. He said he was just thinking and the idea came to his head to call us. He is so tender hearted I will be sending a picture of him soon.
Well everyone I love you so much. Thanks for your prayers and support. I know this is the greatest work I could ever be doing but its hard and so your love means a lot.
Talk to you all soon
LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK
-sis wadsworth
I am loving my new companion. Which is horrible to say because that kinda jinx myself to getting transferred or something. But I have such a strong testimony of perfect obedience. She is such a powerhouse and obedient. And I feel like Heavenly Father was just waiting for two missionaries who are obedient to let the area catch fire. We are seeing so many miracles. We have found so many amazing new investigators who are GOLDEN!!!! We are having so much success (not boastin I promise) That we are going into other people's areas to help them. I know that all the success we are seeing is really Heavenly Father's doing because I am not doing anything different really. haaha.
We are teaching a girl. SOO cute. When we taught her the first lesson we committed her to baptism (we always do that on the first lesson btw). So when we asked her "Will you follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized?" and she like put her head down and made a big sigh. I didn't really know how to take it at first but then she looked up with a big smile and said "I have been wanting so badly to get baptized but I have never found the right church" She then went on thanking us sweetly for finding her. It was such a tender mercy! I know that there are people all over the world just waiting to hear the gospel. People who want to fully accept Christ and his Atonement but don't know how to. Some may already have their own ideas about "the mormons" but they too can come to know the truth of this gospel. I am so grateful for the understanding I have of this gospel and that I can turn to my Savior with pure confidence to know that He can remove my sins and imperfections. What peace that brings to my soul.
It has been rainy all week so we haven't gotten to go running in the mornings. Which I love/hate to do. You guys would be proud of me. I go running about 4 times a week. We exercise everyday of course but on running days we go outside and get a major work out. haha. Its so great because we have a cool trial right by our place that runs next to the east river. Its so beautiful to see the sun rising every morning. I try to clear my mind and just think about life and/or nothing but it never works I just end up singing a church song or thinking about an investigator. Which is good and how it should be. Its really funny though because I will try to think of nothing... it doesn't work.
So new record this week. I have not receive any mail except my tape this week. CRAAAAAAAAAAZY... and not fun. But hopefully I will get stuff today. I know Krista's my faithful writer so... I'm good.
So today for pday we are mostly just chillin but a lady from the family ward is going to have us over so she can teach us how to make her famous salsa!!! Yay... so how do breakfast burritos sound on christmas day family?? I know how to make homemade tortillas now and here comes salsa!! haha.
Ok funny experience of the week. We were contacting in the rain one day. And this lady came up to my companion crying like BIG TIMe. And she then proceeded to tell us that Oprah only had 3 years to live. AND she just didn't know how to deal with it. .... after we tried to calm her down she moved on still crying. We both looked at each other and laughed and then stopped and said. I wonder if she really is dying... So please let me know if she really is dying so I can either continue laughing or to join my dear friend in crying. What would the world be like with out Oprah??? I don't even want to think.
We had an interesting experience this week. Our investigator had brought one of his cousins to a lesson once and she was super cute and we gave her a Book of Mormon. Then a couple of days ago he called us and told us that she had OD'ed and was in the hospital. He wanted us to come pray with his family. So we called the elders and they came and gave her a blessing in the ICU. It was pretty intense. The family was pretty sad. But they were so grateful. I am so grateful for the power of the Priesthood. To know that when these worthy young men give blessings it is truly done by the power of God. The family is Catholic and they said they know the blessing was of God because they had a family member sick a long time ago and a member of our church came and gave him a blessing and he was healed. Anyways it was really amazing to see the faith of our investigator. He said he was just thinking and the idea came to his head to call us. He is so tender hearted I will be sending a picture of him soon.
Well everyone I love you so much. Thanks for your prayers and support. I know this is the greatest work I could ever be doing but its hard and so your love means a lot.
Talk to you all soon
LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK
-sis wadsworth
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