Hello Family!!!!!!
This will be a fun letter to write because I know you will probably actually read it (if you don't already) because mom will read it to ya cuz you are all home! I don't know how you are feeling about your first thanksgiving in 21 years without me there but you should be missing me a lot. haha. Let's just say I am glad I left on my mission when I did because I am so lucky to only miss one Christmas and thanksgiving! PHEWWW...
So its supposed to rain tomorrow... but I doubt that will stop the parade or us (a huge group of missionaries). haha. It should be fun no matter what. After that a member who is a chef (Well shes a mom now but she went to a legit culinary school) will be making dinner for us and a couple of other missionaries. It should be a party! She promised us she wouldn't let us miss out on anything. (Little does she know I will be missing out on my favorite pretzel jello). It should be an interesting day... prob way too crazy to enjoy but that's ok. I'm just not sure how we will get our laundry in. We are goin to leave the house early to save spots and do our studying on the street. haha. That will be super effective I'm sure. Then we will spend the rest of the day with members and less actives eating. WOOT!
So this Sunday was sooo cool! Our family ward had a few non members but our single's ward brought like 30 people! It was crazy awesome! Afterwards I had a massive headache from running around. Sis Tai had fun talking to all of our Chinese investigators. It was a party for sure! Now we have the duty of following up with all of of members to make sure it does not go to waste. I hope we can do it! The best part was that our rock star investigator brought a friend and he's not even baptized yet!
Tonight we have an appointment with our baptismal date and his parents are coming to meet us and ask some questions. YIKES! I pray it goes well. As long as the spirit is there, that's all that matters. Speaking of baptisms, I just found out on Monday that one of the guys I worked with on the east side is getting baptized! I guess he called the sisters in that ward now, kinda out of nowhere and was like... I want to get baptized!!! WHOO HOO! It's so cool to see people you worked with that maybe weren't ready at the time get to the point that they are. I know it will happen to pretty much all of them. I am just excited I get to go to his because I am still here.
So what is Kyle's position at INNOUT? Is he a cook or cashier? I still cannot believe that it's true. I walked past a place last week that is a totally innout knock off. Pretty much same menu with the same text and same colors... I didn't try it because I was so disappointed with them. haha. And because we don't have time just to stop and try things. lol.
We met with our new sweet investigator again this week. He said that hes going to read the whole Book of Mormon over Christmas break because he will have more time and because that is before his baptism goal. Hes very smart and is a law student. So its fun to get deep with him on doctrine because he understands the basics so quickly. Its amazing the wide range of people that we teach. You def have to be on your toes always changing it up and adapting to the needs of the person your teaching now. It's intense but fun.
I am learning a lot about the Atonement. I am really striving to use it to help me with the many things I cannot do on my own. I get so overwhelmed with my faults sometimes that its hard not to feel like a failure. But I have realized that I will be a failure unless I rely on my Savior and His Atonement. I am not supposed to do it all on my own. You can't reach perfection on our own that's where the grace (or enabling power of the Atonement) has to come into play.
Well I love you guys so much. I am so grateful for my family. I have been so blessed to have each of you in my life. I had an idea for Christmas to take pictures of things in the city that reminded me of each of you guys. I found a lot of things... everywhere. I had to give that idea up pretty quickly because I found myself thinking of each of you maybe a little too much. HAHAH. But I just really appreciate your love and support. I HAVE THE BEST FAMILY EVER!!!! I hope you have a wonderful day tomorrow. It doesn't really feel like Thanksgiving to me so its kinda nice cuz I don't feel like I am really missing anything haha. Don't miss me too much. I love each of you to the moon and back!
-Sis Wadsworth
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
HULLLO...
I am also getting super excited for Christmas because they are starting to get things all decorated here. It is fantastic. We just found out that next week pday will be moved to Thursday (Thanksgiving day) so... guess who will be at the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade?? yep yep that would be me! So if you watch it look for me! haha. I will be wearing puffy my big black coat with a yellow hat and scarf.
So this weekend was stake conference and it was fantastic. So I donno if I told you this already but our stake is doing something so magnificent. So next week they are having a Sunday called "come and see" and every ward will only be having sacrament meeting and then a linger longer afterwards. There will be special speakers and musical numbers focused on gratitude for the gospel. The point of all this is that the stake president has told each ward to double their numbers. That every member bring a less active or non member. SOOO EXCITING. So during stake conference President Buckner and the other speakers just focused on missionary work. Three different speakers talked about how the members should put their trust in the missionaries. It was pretty cool but also a lot of responsibility. I found myself at the end as we were singing the closing hymn of "Because I Have Been Given Much" crying because I was so overcome with joy. I am just so blessed to be here in this stake and the wards that I am in at this time. I just knew that we were going to see miracles involving the members. And just since then we have gotten two more new investigators that are AMAZING member referrals. We are so blessed. It gets difficult sometimes because we get rejected SOOO MUCH. We are asked to talk to someone new every 3 minutes or as often as possible and even with all the people we talk to very, very, very few are willing to give us so much as a phone number. But I know that as I continue to be obedient, even if I am not getting the people I'm personally talking to, that this is God's work and that He will provide those who are ready. I donno if that made sense at all but hey .. .what's new I am not good at making sense. haaha. So just to sum up... I am glad to sill be here in the city even if its beyond stressful. haha. We are praying that this Sunday goes as well as we hope and that the trend of inviting friends is continued forever.
We had a cool experience this week to be with the ASL missionaries as they taught one of our less active member's sister. We found out that she had a sister who was deaf and so we got the elders to teach her. IT WAS SO COOL. The spirit was so strong during the silent conversation. It was also so cool to have our member bear her testimony so that the elders could interpret it to her sister. It was not something she was able to communicate to her before and it was so neat to hear her express her love for the gospel and for her sister and see how her deaf sister finally understood. It was such a neat experience. I just love those ASL elders. They are special witnesses of Christ.
We had multi-zone conference yesterday and as we were sitting down to start one of the APs ran down to Sis Johanson (a former comp of mine) whom I was sitting next to and said... we forgot to assign a musical number can you do something? And then she made me join her and so I dragged my roomie to do it too and it ended up being really nice. I am grateful for the talents that my Heavenly Father has given me to use. I hope that I use them enough to make Him proud.
I am so grateful for this gospel. Yesterday I had an interesting contact where a lady pretty much told me that everything I believed was wrong and that I was crazy to believe such things as Joseph Smith and the need for the Priesthood (this happens a lot but she was extra intense about it). It was difficult at first but afterwards I was just thinking about how I have seen the blessings of this gospel and the joy that has poured out continually from my Heavenly Father reassuring me that I am doing what is right. I know its true. I don't have to defend truth because it does it on its own. I have felt in a very real way the cleansing power and comforting power of the Atonement of my Savior. No matter how many people say I am wrong they cannot take away my experiences and the way I feel. No one can deny me of my own testimony. I know that this church is true and that it is guided by a living prophet who teaches us how to be like our Savior Jesus Christ and how to truly follow Him. What a blessing that is. What peace it brings. I know I will be standing strong whenever the winds of Satan come because I am founded on faith in my Savior Jesus Christ.
I love you all so much. Feel better Lauren, I feel so bad. I almost get ran over by crazy delivery guys on bike all the time but my missionary angels always protect me. Crazy.
Love you to the moon and back.
Taters
I am also getting super excited for Christmas because they are starting to get things all decorated here. It is fantastic. We just found out that next week pday will be moved to Thursday (Thanksgiving day) so... guess who will be at the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade?? yep yep that would be me! So if you watch it look for me! haha. I will be wearing puffy my big black coat with a yellow hat and scarf.
So this weekend was stake conference and it was fantastic. So I donno if I told you this already but our stake is doing something so magnificent. So next week they are having a Sunday called "come and see" and every ward will only be having sacrament meeting and then a linger longer afterwards. There will be special speakers and musical numbers focused on gratitude for the gospel. The point of all this is that the stake president has told each ward to double their numbers. That every member bring a less active or non member. SOOO EXCITING. So during stake conference President Buckner and the other speakers just focused on missionary work. Three different speakers talked about how the members should put their trust in the missionaries. It was pretty cool but also a lot of responsibility. I found myself at the end as we were singing the closing hymn of "Because I Have Been Given Much" crying because I was so overcome with joy. I am just so blessed to be here in this stake and the wards that I am in at this time. I just knew that we were going to see miracles involving the members. And just since then we have gotten two more new investigators that are AMAZING member referrals. We are so blessed. It gets difficult sometimes because we get rejected SOOO MUCH. We are asked to talk to someone new every 3 minutes or as often as possible and even with all the people we talk to very, very, very few are willing to give us so much as a phone number. But I know that as I continue to be obedient, even if I am not getting the people I'm personally talking to, that this is God's work and that He will provide those who are ready. I donno if that made sense at all but hey .. .what's new I am not good at making sense. haaha. So just to sum up... I am glad to sill be here in the city even if its beyond stressful. haha. We are praying that this Sunday goes as well as we hope and that the trend of inviting friends is continued forever.
We had a cool experience this week to be with the ASL missionaries as they taught one of our less active member's sister. We found out that she had a sister who was deaf and so we got the elders to teach her. IT WAS SO COOL. The spirit was so strong during the silent conversation. It was also so cool to have our member bear her testimony so that the elders could interpret it to her sister. It was not something she was able to communicate to her before and it was so neat to hear her express her love for the gospel and for her sister and see how her deaf sister finally understood. It was such a neat experience. I just love those ASL elders. They are special witnesses of Christ.
We had multi-zone conference yesterday and as we were sitting down to start one of the APs ran down to Sis Johanson (a former comp of mine) whom I was sitting next to and said... we forgot to assign a musical number can you do something? And then she made me join her and so I dragged my roomie to do it too and it ended up being really nice. I am grateful for the talents that my Heavenly Father has given me to use. I hope that I use them enough to make Him proud.
I am so grateful for this gospel. Yesterday I had an interesting contact where a lady pretty much told me that everything I believed was wrong and that I was crazy to believe such things as Joseph Smith and the need for the Priesthood (this happens a lot but she was extra intense about it). It was difficult at first but afterwards I was just thinking about how I have seen the blessings of this gospel and the joy that has poured out continually from my Heavenly Father reassuring me that I am doing what is right. I know its true. I don't have to defend truth because it does it on its own. I have felt in a very real way the cleansing power and comforting power of the Atonement of my Savior. No matter how many people say I am wrong they cannot take away my experiences and the way I feel. No one can deny me of my own testimony. I know that this church is true and that it is guided by a living prophet who teaches us how to be like our Savior Jesus Christ and how to truly follow Him. What a blessing that is. What peace it brings. I know I will be standing strong whenever the winds of Satan come because I am founded on faith in my Savior Jesus Christ.
I love you all so much. Feel better Lauren, I feel so bad. I almost get ran over by crazy delivery guys on bike all the time but my missionary angels always protect me. Crazy.
Love you to the moon and back.
Taters
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Still here...
TADAAAAAAAAAAAA
So transfers were today and we just got home at 3:00 which means I get a 3 hour pday so this will be a little rushed. So Sis Ganaha left to go upstate and it was hard to see her go. The longest companion I have ever had. My new companion is Sis Thai from Hong Kong! Whoo hoo... She is super cute. Pretty quiet but very kind. It will be fun to get to know her better. I am excited to be in the city at least for part of the holiday season. This cycle will end a week early in order to get the missionaries going home at the end of the cycle home before Christmas. They have already started to put up Christmas lights and stuff. o what joy it brings to my little missionary heart.
So this Sunday was AMAZING! We had 6 people at church. We are so lucky to have such amazing members who are helping the work move along. A couple of days ago I talked to a guy on the street who was nice but so not interested until I told him I was with the Mormon church and he was like "O I know so and so. Who is a member of that church" then from that point on he was willing to listen and actually wants to meet with us now. I just hope that I can be that kind of member someday that when people hear the name of the church they willing to listen because of the impression I have given them. I donno if that made sense but yea... So the main reason why this Sunday was great was because it was all on missionary work. AND our amazing investigator totally spoke in church. He's not even baptized yet and he did soooo great. Then sis ganaha and I sang "a window to His love" and our other investigator played the piano for us. It was fantastic. I felt like a proud mother. I couldn't stop smiling. It was super stressful that day because we had so many people to take care of but it all worked out and our members are a wonderful support.
Well I gotta get going. Due to the fact that it is veterans day (yea totally didn't know it was either) all the libraries are closed and so I am in an Internet cafe and the guy next to me was totally looking at porn... barf. I should have only paid for a half hour instead of forty five... lame o well. Well hope everything is going well for you guys. Sure love you!
Remember: God ALWAYS keeps His promises!
LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK
SIS WADSWORTH
So transfers were today and we just got home at 3:00 which means I get a 3 hour pday so this will be a little rushed. So Sis Ganaha left to go upstate and it was hard to see her go. The longest companion I have ever had. My new companion is Sis Thai from Hong Kong! Whoo hoo... She is super cute. Pretty quiet but very kind. It will be fun to get to know her better. I am excited to be in the city at least for part of the holiday season. This cycle will end a week early in order to get the missionaries going home at the end of the cycle home before Christmas. They have already started to put up Christmas lights and stuff. o what joy it brings to my little missionary heart.
So this Sunday was AMAZING! We had 6 people at church. We are so lucky to have such amazing members who are helping the work move along. A couple of days ago I talked to a guy on the street who was nice but so not interested until I told him I was with the Mormon church and he was like "O I know so and so. Who is a member of that church" then from that point on he was willing to listen and actually wants to meet with us now. I just hope that I can be that kind of member someday that when people hear the name of the church they willing to listen because of the impression I have given them. I donno if that made sense but yea... So the main reason why this Sunday was great was because it was all on missionary work. AND our amazing investigator totally spoke in church. He's not even baptized yet and he did soooo great. Then sis ganaha and I sang "a window to His love" and our other investigator played the piano for us. It was fantastic. I felt like a proud mother. I couldn't stop smiling. It was super stressful that day because we had so many people to take care of but it all worked out and our members are a wonderful support.
Well I gotta get going. Due to the fact that it is veterans day (yea totally didn't know it was either) all the libraries are closed and so I am in an Internet cafe and the guy next to me was totally looking at porn... barf. I should have only paid for a half hour instead of forty five... lame o well. Well hope everything is going well for you guys. Sure love you!
Remember: God ALWAYS keeps His promises!
LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK
SIS WADSWORTH
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Ask and you will recieve... when you listen
Ok...
first off: I am fine. So on Thursday the doctor called and told me that my blood work looked fine and I don't have mono. He said there was something a little strange with my immune system but whatever it was I had hit the climax and it was now fine. It was so interesting to see the miracles from this experience. When I got a blessing before I even called the doctors my blessing said I would not get worse but that I needed to take a rest and take care of myself. And because like I explained last week I am not good at slowing down I did get worse and at first (Silly me) I was confused because I was like ... my blessing said I wouldn't get worse.. then the slap in the face came when right as I did as Heavenly Father asked, and slowed down to take a day to rest, SURE ENOUGH I felt better. I learned a lot through this little experience that Heavenly Father is more than willing to work miracles but we have to be willing to do our part. I know that I was sick. Sicker than the doctor found but because I got a Priesthood blessing and listened to the counsel I received (even if it was a little slow) I was healed. I know the reason that the doctor could not explain my little blip in my immune system is because there was divine help given. So thank you for all your prayers. I know God hears our prayers :D
Thanks for your note mom. I'm sorry you had to wait all week to hear this anti-climatic story :D
So today has been a crazy pday. We went to the temple today (yay) and then to the new TJ Max they just opened here and now we are emailing. I seriously hate pdays because they are so rushed and stressful. But its all good. Last week because our surprise day got canceled (we found out we were going to be in the audience of who wants to be a millionaire but President said no) we just hung out at one of the churches and then went into the condemned convent that the church owns. haha it was sweet. Its a totally legit building that the sisters used to live in until the summer of last year. It was fun and chill.
So this week we had something exciting happen! One of the people we are working with set a baptismal date for December 5th. We are so excited! The ward is so excited! Our members are so amazing they are bringing their friends left and right. Singles wards rock. As a missionary at least. haha. I love our members they are so amazing. For the first time in my mission we get fed 6/7 days a week. CRAZY! It will never happen again but I love it... my weight doesn't but i do! haha. So last week we had a very spiritual lesson with our investigator and when I was teaching about the power of repentance the spirit was so strong. I am just so grateful for the cleansing power that we have access to through our Savior Jesus Christ. The Atonement is such an amazing gift that never runs out! We felt prompted to ask him how he felt about being baptized again and he was like ... yea I was wondering when my next date was. :D IT WAS FABULOUS!
Then later that night we had to go home at 6 because it was Halloween and people here get crazy. IT WAS A PARTY! The four of us (we live with two amazing Spanish sisters) dressed up like gangsters and ordered pizza and ate hot chocolate and donuts (yea no diet on Halloween don't judge me). We played a bunch of rounds of uno and around 9 pm realized we were exhausted. haha. We are so lame. We were so tired from just hanging. LOL. We went to bed early and called it a night. But it was so fun. I will send pictures.
O btw I can't believe that they are opening and in-n-out in orem, I donno how I feel about it. haha. But I guess if it helps kyle and he can get me free food (prob not) I am ok with it.
Well I love you all... I need a nap before we gotta go out again. Hope we have time! Love you! I'm working hard
love you to the moon and back
kait
first off: I am fine. So on Thursday the doctor called and told me that my blood work looked fine and I don't have mono. He said there was something a little strange with my immune system but whatever it was I had hit the climax and it was now fine. It was so interesting to see the miracles from this experience. When I got a blessing before I even called the doctors my blessing said I would not get worse but that I needed to take a rest and take care of myself. And because like I explained last week I am not good at slowing down I did get worse and at first (Silly me) I was confused because I was like ... my blessing said I wouldn't get worse.. then the slap in the face came when right as I did as Heavenly Father asked, and slowed down to take a day to rest, SURE ENOUGH I felt better. I learned a lot through this little experience that Heavenly Father is more than willing to work miracles but we have to be willing to do our part. I know that I was sick. Sicker than the doctor found but because I got a Priesthood blessing and listened to the counsel I received (even if it was a little slow) I was healed. I know the reason that the doctor could not explain my little blip in my immune system is because there was divine help given. So thank you for all your prayers. I know God hears our prayers :D
Thanks for your note mom. I'm sorry you had to wait all week to hear this anti-climatic story :D
So today has been a crazy pday. We went to the temple today (yay) and then to the new TJ Max they just opened here and now we are emailing. I seriously hate pdays because they are so rushed and stressful. But its all good. Last week because our surprise day got canceled (we found out we were going to be in the audience of who wants to be a millionaire but President said no) we just hung out at one of the churches and then went into the condemned convent that the church owns. haha it was sweet. Its a totally legit building that the sisters used to live in until the summer of last year. It was fun and chill.
So this week we had something exciting happen! One of the people we are working with set a baptismal date for December 5th. We are so excited! The ward is so excited! Our members are so amazing they are bringing their friends left and right. Singles wards rock. As a missionary at least. haha. I love our members they are so amazing. For the first time in my mission we get fed 6/7 days a week. CRAZY! It will never happen again but I love it... my weight doesn't but i do! haha. So last week we had a very spiritual lesson with our investigator and when I was teaching about the power of repentance the spirit was so strong. I am just so grateful for the cleansing power that we have access to through our Savior Jesus Christ. The Atonement is such an amazing gift that never runs out! We felt prompted to ask him how he felt about being baptized again and he was like ... yea I was wondering when my next date was. :D IT WAS FABULOUS!
Then later that night we had to go home at 6 because it was Halloween and people here get crazy. IT WAS A PARTY! The four of us (we live with two amazing Spanish sisters) dressed up like gangsters and ordered pizza and ate hot chocolate and donuts (yea no diet on Halloween don't judge me). We played a bunch of rounds of uno and around 9 pm realized we were exhausted. haha. We are so lame. We were so tired from just hanging. LOL. We went to bed early and called it a night. But it was so fun. I will send pictures.
O btw I can't believe that they are opening and in-n-out in orem, I donno how I feel about it. haha. But I guess if it helps kyle and he can get me free food (prob not) I am ok with it.
Well I love you all... I need a nap before we gotta go out again. Hope we have time! Love you! I'm working hard
love you to the moon and back
kait
Sunday, November 1, 2009
God's mysterious ways
Well it never does fail, we had another interesting week. Here's the short simple version of the story: So a little less than a week ago I started having some health problems. Then on Saturday we helped at the mini MTC (I will explain in a bit) and ran around all day and afterwards I thought I was going to die. I was SOOOOO tired. Everyone was like what's wrong with you? Your lips are purple and you look depressed. haha. So the zone leaders told me that I needed to go home and rest buttttttt of course this I couldn't just go home. And of course in God's mysterious (or not so mysterious) ways He poses this challenge in front of me right after I promised myself I will work extra hard and do more everyday. Anyways... needless to say I finished the day up and then was knocked out when I got home. Sis Ganaha finally convinced me to call the mission president's wife and she told me I needed to call the mission doctor (eeks! not fun). So I called him and told him what was going on and he told me to do a few things and see what it felt like and then he told me to go to the doctors first thing the next morning and get some tests done and then to rest. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. So Monday I went to the doctor. Then told me to go home and rest!!! BLAH! What is it with people and this resting stuff? So yesterday I had to stay home ALLLLLL DAY! It was so boring! We reorganized our area book and cleaned the whole apartment and called every potential we could and had a really boring day. They told me that the test results wont be back for 3-4 days. So I just have to sit and wait. But I feel a lot better after resting yesterday. So we are def going in the right direction and so I am totally going back to work today. But I have become a lot more grateful for my healthy body. I have been so lucky to not have gotten sick on my mission so far. It is seriously torture to not be able to go and work. Sis Ganaha was making fun of me because I was stressing out about staying home and she said that if i didn't die from Mono I would die from a heart attack. ahaha. Shes funny. ANYWAYS... All is well in zion. I will let you know if anything exciting comes of this. I feel fine my body is just tired. So yea. Don't worry mom. All is well, all is well.
Soooo the mini MTC! So every other year the NY NY stake puts on a 5 stake event called the Mini MTC. And it is exactly what it sounds like. So they asked a couple of sets of missionaries to come teach at it and we got picked!!! We got to teach like 300 young men and young women about how to start a gospel conversation (AKA street contacting). It was soooo fun. They all got mission calls in the mail like a week before it and then they were split up into different districts depending on where they went. They had two teachers who were RMs from the areas they got their calls to. So pretty much half of our single's ward was there. I loved it! They were all dressed up and had name tags I really felt like I was back at the MTC. They learned how to street contact... then they went and did it!! IT WAS SO AMAZING! They learned how to teach a first lesson THEN THEY DID IT! Ward members pretended to be investigators and the kids had companions and they got to teach for 10 minutes. I was so blown away by the power of these kids' testimonies. They are truly a powerful generation. Their testimonies were so strong. It was so inspiring. I totally want to do this with the youth when I get home!!!
We had a great Sunday with 7 people at church (both wards together). It was such a miracle. Then on the train ride there I was talking to a guy and I invited him to come with us to church (usually they say they can't for some reason) BUT HE TOTALLY CAME!! He did have to leave early and he lives in Jersey but I know he felt the spirit and that something good will come of this. We have a new investigator that is a pianist at Julliard. SHES AMAZING! She volunteered to play the piano in relief society. Things are going so well. We had a super powerful lesson with another investigator last week. I know that he is on his way to accepting this fully. The spirit was so strong there and I know that it is through the spirit that we define our testimonies. We also have another investigator from Colombia who is doing fantastic. He came to church on Sunday too.
ok WELL sorry this letter was jumbled and confusing. That's how my brain feels right now. We were supposed to have a super cool zone activity today but its pouring rain outside so they called and canceled. So now we have no idea what to do... I'm sure we can find something.
I have really learned this week that I cannot do everything on my own. I will wear myself thin or just work myself to death. I am grateful for the power of the Atonement which enables us to overcome our challenges as we rely on our Savior's help.
Well love you all to the moon and back.
kait
Soooo the mini MTC! So every other year the NY NY stake puts on a 5 stake event called the Mini MTC. And it is exactly what it sounds like. So they asked a couple of sets of missionaries to come teach at it and we got picked!!! We got to teach like 300 young men and young women about how to start a gospel conversation (AKA street contacting). It was soooo fun. They all got mission calls in the mail like a week before it and then they were split up into different districts depending on where they went. They had two teachers who were RMs from the areas they got their calls to. So pretty much half of our single's ward was there. I loved it! They were all dressed up and had name tags I really felt like I was back at the MTC. They learned how to street contact... then they went and did it!! IT WAS SO AMAZING! They learned how to teach a first lesson THEN THEY DID IT! Ward members pretended to be investigators and the kids had companions and they got to teach for 10 minutes. I was so blown away by the power of these kids' testimonies. They are truly a powerful generation. Their testimonies were so strong. It was so inspiring. I totally want to do this with the youth when I get home!!!
We had a great Sunday with 7 people at church (both wards together). It was such a miracle. Then on the train ride there I was talking to a guy and I invited him to come with us to church (usually they say they can't for some reason) BUT HE TOTALLY CAME!! He did have to leave early and he lives in Jersey but I know he felt the spirit and that something good will come of this. We have a new investigator that is a pianist at Julliard. SHES AMAZING! She volunteered to play the piano in relief society. Things are going so well. We had a super powerful lesson with another investigator last week. I know that he is on his way to accepting this fully. The spirit was so strong there and I know that it is through the spirit that we define our testimonies. We also have another investigator from Colombia who is doing fantastic. He came to church on Sunday too.
ok WELL sorry this letter was jumbled and confusing. That's how my brain feels right now. We were supposed to have a super cool zone activity today but its pouring rain outside so they called and canceled. So now we have no idea what to do... I'm sure we can find something.
I have really learned this week that I cannot do everything on my own. I will wear myself thin or just work myself to death. I am grateful for the power of the Atonement which enables us to overcome our challenges as we rely on our Savior's help.
Well love you all to the moon and back.
kait
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