It has been a wonderful week! It has been amazing to see the new humble people Heavenly Father is putting in our paths. We found out that because of a situation, one of our investigators might be able to get baptized before she moves out of her apartment. ITS SO EXCITING! She told us last time we saw her how she wanted us to know how serious she was about this. She has read like half of the gospel principles book and loves to highlight her favorite verses in the Book of Mormon. I seriously love this woman. She is sooooo amazing and so humble! O I JUST LOVE HER! She has the cutest kids too!
So its been so interesting to hear about what's going on in Haiti. Before the mission I didn't really have any connection to Haiti but now I sure do. Guillame got the phone call finally on Saturday telling him of the miracles that his whole family was safe. Others have not been so lucky. I talked to a guy on the street yesterday who said he hasn't heard anything still except that one of his sons is dead. Our stake is putting together efforts of relief and has sent out a call to all our members to fulfill their baptismal commits to mourn with those that mourn and to comfort those who stand in need of comfort. These people are so kind and loving. I love Haitian people. I pray for the comfort of those who are in need. I wish I could do more but for now I will be talking to as many people as possible teaching of the comforting power that comes through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
So another investigator is doing amazing! He is so talented. Its so funny how we meet these cool people and then find out that they are doing amazing things. Like on Sunday we had dinner at a member's house who is a ballerina for the new york city ballet company or the American one... i don't remember anyways she's amazing... everyone here is. On Sunday we had a musical number in our singles ward by a girl who is one of the lead roles in jersey boys on Broadway here. SO COOL! ha ha. Anyways back to our investigator. He is so excited for his baptism and wants his friend's brother and father to come and participate. He is still learning a lot but loves it all. What a tender mercy it has been to teach people like him
Also we had a lesson with another person yesterday. She was a lady we contacted a while back with sis ganaha who finally was able to come to church on my birthday. Then she came again on Sunday and we met with her yesterday. We asked her if she had any questions about the reading we gave her and she said "no but i do want to tell you that when i was reading all of a sudden i just felt really warm inside and some of the verses made me all teary eyed, what was that feeling?" I was so excited! She doesn't even know if she believes in God yet but she has already felt God's love through the influence of the Holy Ghost while reading the Book of Mormon! O it is sooo true!!! What a powerful tool the Book of Mormon is! Those honest seekers who are sincere and who will really accept the answers God gives can know! Those who are humble and become like a child. She still is nervous about the commitment of baptism but she is developing her understanding of our Heavenly Father! ITS SO MAGNIFICENT!
So we had an interesting experience a couple of days ago where an old man collapsed on the street and sis tai and I found him struggling. He looked homeless but said he was just coming home from the doctor and needed to take the bus home and I felt really strongly that we needed to help him. So we carried him to the bus and took him to his door. He was in bad shape and so I just kept talking to him and trying to make him feel less embarrassed because I could tell he was. He said he was almost 90 years old. I told him how I coulda sworn he was 25. haha. He was so cute. We took him home and found out he was living alone and didn't really have anyone to take care of him. He had fallen and hurt himself and decided to walk to the emergency room alone! It was an interesting experience but I learned how Heavenly Father is very aware of each of us and our needs and how we are all children of God. Even if we look or are homeless. I promise mom and dad... i wont let you go places alone! haha or get to the point you look homeless! haha!
well I am getting told I have to hurry there are people waiting for the computer. I love you all so much! Thanks for your support! I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY! i LOVE being your daughter/sister/friend!
love you to the moon and back!
sister wadsworth
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
wadddup??
So we just got back from the temple! I just love the temple. I feel like I am still so new at it all because we only get to go 4 times a year. But that will change when I get back for sure!
Some fun things happened this week! Sunday was amazing!!! I miss having Sundays like this one. One of our investigators came to church. O she was so wonderful! During gospel principles class we were talking about service and the teacher asked about examples of service and she piped up and talked about "the sisters" she talked about how we saved her life and made her smile when she never thought she could again. It was def a highlight for me! I just love her so much. Our singles ward is finally starting to form again after the holiday vacations. One of our members who is an amazing ballroom dancer brought her dance partner to church and we got to teach him afterwards. HE IS SOO AMAZING! He is from Poland (add that to the list) and just loves everything we shared and that he has learned from his dance partner about the church. I am so grateful for members who are not afraid to share their testimonies! What joy it brings to those around them!
So last Friday I got the wonderful chance again to sing in front of a world leader. Man even if I am in Manhattan my entire mission at least I have been blessed with opportunities like this. So the UN ambassador of Papa New Guinea came to meet with us. He seriously is sooo amazing. He is not a member of our church but he is Christian. He talked about how his country is founded on christian beliefs. I think what I learned most of the experience is just how there are inspired people out of the church too who have the light of Christ burning in them. I wish he was our ambassador. He was so humble and teachable. He loved to talk to us and learn from us. It was such a great experience. We had a big conference with all the missionaries in the city (maybe 50 of us or so) and then we had lunch with him afterwards. It was so cool. I love my mission. We get the coolest opportunities. We have the UN in our area. SOOO COOL!
So mom I think I told you a while back but our family ward has this super cool relief society thing that they do that I am totally goin to do in whatever wards I am in in the future. The sisters get together about once a month and there is a theme and then its either desserts or appetizers. They all make what they think is best for the theme then get together and eat and one of the ladies puts all of the recipes on a website. I am pretty sure that it is www.tastymorselsnyc.blogspot.com. Or something like that. But you should look on there. Yesterday the theme was cheese and this lady made a baked brie that was to die for!
Yesterday we had multi-zone conference and Sis Smith stood up and told us to all stand up and that she was going to play 20 questions and who ever was left standing won a dinner with her and president. Then she proceeded to ask questions to check our obedience. For example Did you plan for 30 minutes, did you only have a one hour lunch break, did you call your ward mission leader last night and so on... so mother I just want you to know ... I WON! :D By a landslide! hahaha! You always remind me to be obedient so I just wanted to make sure you know... I am!! haha. President stood up and laughed after and was like ... "somehow I am not surprised it was her". I love being obedient. It makes me happy and brings miracles! haha
So we have had a successful two days so far this week. We got two cute new investigators who have been really humbled by their environment and situations. It is so amazing to share with them the healing power of the Atonement and that it is available for all no matter how far gone they think they are. I love being a missionary! I love sharing the gospel WOOT WOOT ! I just got a letter from a friend saying that she is thinking about a mission! So cool! It's been so amazing to be a on a mission and hear about all my friends who have decided to also serve missions! What a pleasure it is. It seems like it is happening more and more now! I'm so glad I chose to even when it was not the easiest thing to and when people told me I wasn't the kinda of girl who goes on a mission... or whatever! HAHAH!
Well I love you all soooooo much! Don't forget about me out here freezing!
haha love you to the moon and back
taters
Some fun things happened this week! Sunday was amazing!!! I miss having Sundays like this one. One of our investigators came to church. O she was so wonderful! During gospel principles class we were talking about service and the teacher asked about examples of service and she piped up and talked about "the sisters" she talked about how we saved her life and made her smile when she never thought she could again. It was def a highlight for me! I just love her so much. Our singles ward is finally starting to form again after the holiday vacations. One of our members who is an amazing ballroom dancer brought her dance partner to church and we got to teach him afterwards. HE IS SOO AMAZING! He is from Poland (add that to the list) and just loves everything we shared and that he has learned from his dance partner about the church. I am so grateful for members who are not afraid to share their testimonies! What joy it brings to those around them!
So last Friday I got the wonderful chance again to sing in front of a world leader. Man even if I am in Manhattan my entire mission at least I have been blessed with opportunities like this. So the UN ambassador of Papa New Guinea came to meet with us. He seriously is sooo amazing. He is not a member of our church but he is Christian. He talked about how his country is founded on christian beliefs. I think what I learned most of the experience is just how there are inspired people out of the church too who have the light of Christ burning in them. I wish he was our ambassador. He was so humble and teachable. He loved to talk to us and learn from us. It was such a great experience. We had a big conference with all the missionaries in the city (maybe 50 of us or so) and then we had lunch with him afterwards. It was so cool. I love my mission. We get the coolest opportunities. We have the UN in our area. SOOO COOL!
So mom I think I told you a while back but our family ward has this super cool relief society thing that they do that I am totally goin to do in whatever wards I am in in the future. The sisters get together about once a month and there is a theme and then its either desserts or appetizers. They all make what they think is best for the theme then get together and eat and one of the ladies puts all of the recipes on a website. I am pretty sure that it is www.tastymorselsnyc.blogspot.com. Or something like that. But you should look on there. Yesterday the theme was cheese and this lady made a baked brie that was to die for!
Yesterday we had multi-zone conference and Sis Smith stood up and told us to all stand up and that she was going to play 20 questions and who ever was left standing won a dinner with her and president. Then she proceeded to ask questions to check our obedience. For example Did you plan for 30 minutes, did you only have a one hour lunch break, did you call your ward mission leader last night and so on... so mother I just want you to know ... I WON! :D By a landslide! hahaha! You always remind me to be obedient so I just wanted to make sure you know... I am!! haha. President stood up and laughed after and was like ... "somehow I am not surprised it was her". I love being obedient. It makes me happy and brings miracles! haha
So we have had a successful two days so far this week. We got two cute new investigators who have been really humbled by their environment and situations. It is so amazing to share with them the healing power of the Atonement and that it is available for all no matter how far gone they think they are. I love being a missionary! I love sharing the gospel WOOT WOOT ! I just got a letter from a friend saying that she is thinking about a mission! So cool! It's been so amazing to be a on a mission and hear about all my friends who have decided to also serve missions! What a pleasure it is. It seems like it is happening more and more now! I'm so glad I chose to even when it was not the easiest thing to and when people told me I wasn't the kinda of girl who goes on a mission... or whatever! HAHAH!
Well I love you all soooooo much! Don't forget about me out here freezing!
haha love you to the moon and back
taters
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Warmth.... what's that?
Hey HEY!
It has been an interesting week. It feels like we just had a pday. CRAZY! I am so glad the holidays are over and people can stop giving excuses about them. LOL!
We had a pretty chill new years also. It blows my mind that 2009 is over. I think this year will be stuck in my brain forever because it has flown by. Anyways we did get to come home early and we ordered pizza for the last time since I am now on a more strict diet. WOOT! O it was so delish! I'm so going to miss real NY pizza. There is nothing like it! Then I used Jason's recipe and made mango sticky rice... holy macaroni it was sooooo delish!!! We seriously scarfed it down. Thanks Jase and Britt! I will totally be making it again soon because its so few ingredients and we actually have almost all of them already! Also because I told my roomie about how much I love to go dancing on new years we decided to have a dance party... it was harder to do than I thought because we don't have any dance music. We tried to find an efy song that was pumpin enough but it didn't work... soooo we decided to use our key board and drop our own beats. hahaha. it was a blast. Just imagine 4 sister missionaries dancing around the apartment to someone pluckin out some beats on an electric keyboard... it was momentous! haha!
Things have been kinda dry with investigators. It's been a rough month. Finally our single's ward is starting to come back! yay! We had to drop one of our family ward investigators. O its always sooo hard because you love them so much and know how much the gospel will bless them but they choose to not do the things that will make them happiest! ugg... but one cool thing we finally got ahold of another investigator again. I hope that she can be strong enough to do what's right so that God can more fully bless her as I know He is anxious to do.
I have been working hard this week to refine my focus. Its been a weird month with the holidays and all my buddies going home and I have found myself not being as focused as I want to be. Not that I am not working hard but more that my heart is not as in it as I want and need it to be. So I have been studying and praying a lot about how to be focused and I have just learned about the power of continual repentance. Its such a blessing to know that God doesn't expect us to be perfect all at once and that we can always be better as we rely on the Atonement. I hope that I can always rise to the challenge and do what God wants me to do and if I don't make it the first time I know I can the next time!
So today we are going to go ice skating at Rockefeller Center as a zone! Pretty cool! I just hope I can afford it! It has been SOOOOOOO cold. I think that is part of the reason I have not been super focused because all I can think about is how cold I am. hahaha. Its sad but true. I stop people and try to talk to them and they will just say "no way... too cold". It's wonderful... not. haha. My eyeballs feel like they are freezing. Its really only like 20-25 degrees right now but when that wind comes up off the water around us... o man its bone chilling! I don't even know how to describe it. I am tempted to ask you to send me some of kyle's Russian hats. Everyone wears them here so I guess I could do it too! haha
Well I sure love you guys I hope all is well! I pray for you and each of your challenges! Thanks for your love and support!
love you guys to the moon and back.
-taters
It has been an interesting week. It feels like we just had a pday. CRAZY! I am so glad the holidays are over and people can stop giving excuses about them. LOL!
We had a pretty chill new years also. It blows my mind that 2009 is over. I think this year will be stuck in my brain forever because it has flown by. Anyways we did get to come home early and we ordered pizza for the last time since I am now on a more strict diet. WOOT! O it was so delish! I'm so going to miss real NY pizza. There is nothing like it! Then I used Jason's recipe and made mango sticky rice... holy macaroni it was sooooo delish!!! We seriously scarfed it down. Thanks Jase and Britt! I will totally be making it again soon because its so few ingredients and we actually have almost all of them already! Also because I told my roomie about how much I love to go dancing on new years we decided to have a dance party... it was harder to do than I thought because we don't have any dance music. We tried to find an efy song that was pumpin enough but it didn't work... soooo we decided to use our key board and drop our own beats. hahaha. it was a blast. Just imagine 4 sister missionaries dancing around the apartment to someone pluckin out some beats on an electric keyboard... it was momentous! haha!
Things have been kinda dry with investigators. It's been a rough month. Finally our single's ward is starting to come back! yay! We had to drop one of our family ward investigators. O its always sooo hard because you love them so much and know how much the gospel will bless them but they choose to not do the things that will make them happiest! ugg... but one cool thing we finally got ahold of another investigator again. I hope that she can be strong enough to do what's right so that God can more fully bless her as I know He is anxious to do.
I have been working hard this week to refine my focus. Its been a weird month with the holidays and all my buddies going home and I have found myself not being as focused as I want to be. Not that I am not working hard but more that my heart is not as in it as I want and need it to be. So I have been studying and praying a lot about how to be focused and I have just learned about the power of continual repentance. Its such a blessing to know that God doesn't expect us to be perfect all at once and that we can always be better as we rely on the Atonement. I hope that I can always rise to the challenge and do what God wants me to do and if I don't make it the first time I know I can the next time!
So today we are going to go ice skating at Rockefeller Center as a zone! Pretty cool! I just hope I can afford it! It has been SOOOOOOO cold. I think that is part of the reason I have not been super focused because all I can think about is how cold I am. hahaha. Its sad but true. I stop people and try to talk to them and they will just say "no way... too cold". It's wonderful... not. haha. My eyeballs feel like they are freezing. Its really only like 20-25 degrees right now but when that wind comes up off the water around us... o man its bone chilling! I don't even know how to describe it. I am tempted to ask you to send me some of kyle's Russian hats. Everyone wears them here so I guess I could do it too! haha
Well I sure love you guys I hope all is well! I pray for you and each of your challenges! Thanks for your love and support!
love you guys to the moon and back.
-taters
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Love my family!
To hear the news report Katy is talking about go to
http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/147038
You can hear her at the very end of the story.
Hello once again!
I feel like I have also been super close to you guys this week. So many appropriate times to think about how much I love and appreciate you guys. Thank you sooo much for my Christmas and birthday gifts. I'm wearing my new purple nail polish right now! :D Christmas day it was so nice to talk to you guys. That was def the best part of my day. Christmas morning we all woke up and opened our gifts and then while the other girls were opening their crazy amount of gifts, I made breakfast for them. Totally made sausage rolls. Then we spent the day with other missionaries and then we went to see Gene before we had to go in for the night. It was really nice to not get too caught up in the gimme gimmes. Then as most of you know two days later was my birthday. It is one that I know I will never forget. So it was a sunday and so we had church that day. I decided to save my gifts from you until I got home that night so I could have something to look forward to. I made my coconut cake in the morning so we could have it when we got home too (o it was so yummy too)! It was an interesting experience. I really felt like that was the greatest opportunity I have had thus far to forget myself and go to work. No one at church knew it was my birthday. Pretty much only the girls I lived with knew and I didn't tell anyone because I didn't want them to feel bad or something and so I got the great opportunity to just not think about myself on a day that that is typically all you do. Lol! That day we went to see a less active lady who we don't see too often. She was in need because of some hard things that have been going on in her life. So for about an hour I sat with this lady. I really felt so happy. I know its weird but what a wonderful gift my Heavenly Father gave me to serve. I am doing a terrible job at explaining how I felt but the whole day I just felt sooo grateful to be serving a mission. Im so grateful that God has trusted me enough to do such a thing. We came home and the sisters gave me a tshirt they made with what they thought a manatee looked like haha. I told them about my manatee shirt and how much I love manatees. It was really cute. Mom can you please send me a picture of a manatee this week... so they can see what it really looks like. hahaha.
So last week the zone leaders had a radio station WNYC shadowing them and they came with Sis Tai and I to an appointment with a recent convert and recorded us. He said he put me singing on the story... ahhh so I am singing on new york radio!! woot go me! I donno if you can get access to it but i guess you can try. I don't know when it will be finished but keep your eyes open. haha It was pretty cool.
Anyways sorry this is a jumbled email. There is so much going on at the church today. haha.
Well I love you all so much! TO THE MOON AND BACK!
-Sis Wadsworth
http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/147038
You can hear her at the very end of the story.
Hello once again!
I feel like I have also been super close to you guys this week. So many appropriate times to think about how much I love and appreciate you guys. Thank you sooo much for my Christmas and birthday gifts. I'm wearing my new purple nail polish right now! :D Christmas day it was so nice to talk to you guys. That was def the best part of my day. Christmas morning we all woke up and opened our gifts and then while the other girls were opening their crazy amount of gifts, I made breakfast for them. Totally made sausage rolls. Then we spent the day with other missionaries and then we went to see Gene before we had to go in for the night. It was really nice to not get too caught up in the gimme gimmes. Then as most of you know two days later was my birthday. It is one that I know I will never forget. So it was a sunday and so we had church that day. I decided to save my gifts from you until I got home that night so I could have something to look forward to. I made my coconut cake in the morning so we could have it when we got home too (o it was so yummy too)! It was an interesting experience. I really felt like that was the greatest opportunity I have had thus far to forget myself and go to work. No one at church knew it was my birthday. Pretty much only the girls I lived with knew and I didn't tell anyone because I didn't want them to feel bad or something and so I got the great opportunity to just not think about myself on a day that that is typically all you do. Lol! That day we went to see a less active lady who we don't see too often. She was in need because of some hard things that have been going on in her life. So for about an hour I sat with this lady. I really felt so happy. I know its weird but what a wonderful gift my Heavenly Father gave me to serve. I am doing a terrible job at explaining how I felt but the whole day I just felt sooo grateful to be serving a mission. Im so grateful that God has trusted me enough to do such a thing. We came home and the sisters gave me a tshirt they made with what they thought a manatee looked like haha. I told them about my manatee shirt and how much I love manatees. It was really cute. Mom can you please send me a picture of a manatee this week... so they can see what it really looks like. hahaha.
So last week the zone leaders had a radio station WNYC shadowing them and they came with Sis Tai and I to an appointment with a recent convert and recorded us. He said he put me singing on the story... ahhh so I am singing on new york radio!! woot go me! I donno if you can get access to it but i guess you can try. I don't know when it will be finished but keep your eyes open. haha It was pretty cool.
Anyways sorry this is a jumbled email. There is so much going on at the church today. haha.
Well I love you all so much! TO THE MOON AND BACK!
-Sis Wadsworth
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