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
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Hello ALLLLLLL YALLLS!
O it has been another CRAZY week. It is always difficult to get a new companion but you do learn a lot about yourself. It has been exciting to have my temple square companion for this short time. Temple square sisters serve outbound for up to 4 months. My companion has been here for about that long and so it was a big surprise that she got transferred this last time to me with only two weeks left. But it has become clear to me why she needed to come here. We both have things we need to learn from each other even if its in a short time period. It was really sweet yesterday we had zone conference and that is when we have our interview with President Searle. I have been a little down because we have not been having too much success finding new investigators the last two weeks but I have been trying to be positive, especially with President because he has so much to worry about already. But he just told me to make sure I don't beat myself up too much and then he just told me how much he appreciated what I do. He said thank you like 10 times and pointed out that he has been giving me a lot to handle. It really was just so sweet of him to say that so that I know that he knows he can count on me to help (even if my contribution is small). Anyways that wasn't to boast or anything it was just a very tender moment for me.
We are excited to have another baptism this weekend. Our next convert's big day is finally here!!! She is just so cute. Satan is working really hard on her though. She has been down on herself lately and then has a seizure yesterday (she has epilepsy ... spell check please! haha). But she is so dedicated. She is grasping so tightly to the gospel and the knowledge that she not only can be relieved of her sins but that she can truly become a new person. Her past problems and burdens will not be part of her. She is so full of life and excitement I cant wait to see what she brings to the ward.
I am so excited about Kenton. He is going to LOVE the MTC. I would like his address please! Tell Heather congrats and that I love her and Mark too now haha!
I cant believe that BYU is already done! I cant believe I have already missed a whole semester! It blows my little sister missionary mind. The end of a semester was always so fun though. Like you get to start fresh.
Lately I have been studying a lot about self mastery. This life is the time for us to learn how to control our bodies. How to let our spirits (the good part of us) take control of the natural man. We have our agency to choose what we want to do and so its all about making good choices. Some choices are easier than others and that's why we have to keep practicing self control. We will be happiest when we allow our wills to be one with God's because He knows best what we need. He can do a lot more with us then we can do with ourselves.
Well I love you guys oooo so much. To the moon and back even!!!
Have a great week don't forget to be nice to the missionaries!
-sister wadsworth
O it has been another CRAZY week. It is always difficult to get a new companion but you do learn a lot about yourself. It has been exciting to have my temple square companion for this short time. Temple square sisters serve outbound for up to 4 months. My companion has been here for about that long and so it was a big surprise that she got transferred this last time to me with only two weeks left. But it has become clear to me why she needed to come here. We both have things we need to learn from each other even if its in a short time period. It was really sweet yesterday we had zone conference and that is when we have our interview with President Searle. I have been a little down because we have not been having too much success finding new investigators the last two weeks but I have been trying to be positive, especially with President because he has so much to worry about already. But he just told me to make sure I don't beat myself up too much and then he just told me how much he appreciated what I do. He said thank you like 10 times and pointed out that he has been giving me a lot to handle. It really was just so sweet of him to say that so that I know that he knows he can count on me to help (even if my contribution is small). Anyways that wasn't to boast or anything it was just a very tender moment for me.
We are excited to have another baptism this weekend. Our next convert's big day is finally here!!! She is just so cute. Satan is working really hard on her though. She has been down on herself lately and then has a seizure yesterday (she has epilepsy ... spell check please! haha). But she is so dedicated. She is grasping so tightly to the gospel and the knowledge that she not only can be relieved of her sins but that she can truly become a new person. Her past problems and burdens will not be part of her. She is so full of life and excitement I cant wait to see what she brings to the ward.
I am so excited about Kenton. He is going to LOVE the MTC. I would like his address please! Tell Heather congrats and that I love her and Mark too now haha!
I cant believe that BYU is already done! I cant believe I have already missed a whole semester! It blows my little sister missionary mind. The end of a semester was always so fun though. Like you get to start fresh.
Lately I have been studying a lot about self mastery. This life is the time for us to learn how to control our bodies. How to let our spirits (the good part of us) take control of the natural man. We have our agency to choose what we want to do and so its all about making good choices. Some choices are easier than others and that's why we have to keep practicing self control. We will be happiest when we allow our wills to be one with God's because He knows best what we need. He can do a lot more with us then we can do with ourselves.
Well I love you guys oooo so much. To the moon and back even!!!
Have a great week don't forget to be nice to the missionaries!
-sister wadsworth
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
TIME IS FLYIN
Helllluuuooo Family!!!
So time is flying by and if you didn't already know 6 weeks have gone by and yet another transfer day has come. Sis Miller and I were working so hard and not really thinking about transfers that we completely forgot until we got the call from our district leader telling us he had news for us... Sis Miller has been transferred. I donno if I smell bad or something but my comps keep leaving me! haha. It has been very humbling. This really doesn't happen that often so I don't really know what to make of it. But right now I am actually in a library in the Bronx sitting across from my new companion Sis Flores. She is actually a temple square sister. She is amazing and super cute. I am the senior companion CRAZY! I was in shock when they called my name first at transfer meeting. The crazy thing is she is going back to temple square in two short weeks. Like I said.. I don't know what the Lord has in store for me. haha. So in two weeks I will get another companion. I don't know who it will be really but I will keep you posted. Its gong to be a crazy couple of weeks but I am going to make sure we work super super hard so that sis flores gets all she can out of her outbound call before she goes back to temple square. She also gets to help me with my spanish which is amazing because they are opening a zebra area (one spanish one english) in the..... DRUM ROLL PLEASE.... BRONXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX AHHHH MONCION FAMILY HERE I COME!! Both the APs and Zion Sisters were like. ... guess what Wadz its coming. haha I am so excited! I know what you are thinkin mom but just so you know the part of the bronx I would be in is actually nicer than where I am now. I donno if that makes you feel better or worse but o well .. im a servant of the Lord I will be protected! DUNN DUNN DUNN! It was so weird/sad to say goodbye to sis stirling today. O how i love that girl. I don't think I will ever forget here. She has played a huge role in my life. Its crazy she will be home.. hugging boys tomorrow. ahahah.
So enough with the transfer crazyness. Our area is doing AMAZING!!! We have an investigator getting baptized on the 25th. She is doing so well with the Word of Wisdom. She is so amazing. Heavenly Father loves her so much. I know that because I can feel it when we teach her. And now we have another baptismal date for May 15th (Crazy MAY?). He is so awesome. He is HUGE. Like 6' 7". Its nuts. But he is like the most gentle person ever.
So here is the story of the week for you. *shivers*. So last night I was helpin sis miller pack and she asked if she could use one of my big envelopes so I agreed and went to my carry on luggage thingy that I keep under my desk to hold my books since I don't have shelves. And so I opened it and sware I saw something move in it but i closed it and then pondered on what I just saw. Little black things ... and possibly movement. Then I said "sis miller I think there is a mouse in my suitcase" So we braced ourselves and opened it up and sure enough OUT FLEW A MOUSE!! RIGHT AT ME! o man did I SCREAMMM!!! I told my comp it was Karma for saying that I thought mice were kinda cute earlier that day. NOT ANYMORE THOSE DIRTY LITTLE POOPY STINKERS (oops i think poop is an uh oh word... owell). It was horrible and of corse in the midst of my screaming I lost track of it and it is now somewhere in our apartment. The funny thing is. As i was cleaning out my suitcase I found wrappers and pieces of two chocolate kisses that the mouse had gotten out of my package (in a separate box) they were still in the plastic bag btw and he carried them into my suitcase and had a little snack. Sadly I had to throw the candy away. Too nast to think about. Sis Dantes one of my roomies (the one from Hati) is certain I brought it with my from the MTC... not possible since It was empty for some time when I first got here. haha She is funny.
I'm so excited for Devan. I love Kelsey so much I am so glad missionary dreams do come true for some people ... haha. I am excited to hear more news about it.
Good luck with finals all my BYU buddies. When you are stressed and studying for 8 hours straight... think about how i am .. not :D for 1.5 years :D haha. Then decide to serve a mission. hahaha jk. It really is nice to have a break from that aspect of life. I hope you are all doing well. I love you all so much and appreciate the letters I get :D hint hint. Packages are ALWAYS welcome haha. I am so funny with my mail. It drove sis Miller crazy that I would pace myself and read them like a day later or that night or save my package to open on Easter. I like to look forward to stuff. For example I save Krista's letters for the night before pday usually. I LOVE YOU ALL. Keep workin hard and relying on the Lord. He will make someone much better out of you then you ever could (no offense but its true!!!) I am learning that very quickly here on a mission.
LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK
-Sis Wadsworth
So time is flying by and if you didn't already know 6 weeks have gone by and yet another transfer day has come. Sis Miller and I were working so hard and not really thinking about transfers that we completely forgot until we got the call from our district leader telling us he had news for us... Sis Miller has been transferred. I donno if I smell bad or something but my comps keep leaving me! haha. It has been very humbling. This really doesn't happen that often so I don't really know what to make of it. But right now I am actually in a library in the Bronx sitting across from my new companion Sis Flores. She is actually a temple square sister. She is amazing and super cute. I am the senior companion CRAZY! I was in shock when they called my name first at transfer meeting. The crazy thing is she is going back to temple square in two short weeks. Like I said.. I don't know what the Lord has in store for me. haha. So in two weeks I will get another companion. I don't know who it will be really but I will keep you posted. Its gong to be a crazy couple of weeks but I am going to make sure we work super super hard so that sis flores gets all she can out of her outbound call before she goes back to temple square. She also gets to help me with my spanish which is amazing because they are opening a zebra area (one spanish one english) in the..... DRUM ROLL PLEASE.... BRONXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX AHHHH MONCION FAMILY HERE I COME!! Both the APs and Zion Sisters were like. ... guess what Wadz its coming. haha I am so excited! I know what you are thinkin mom but just so you know the part of the bronx I would be in is actually nicer than where I am now. I donno if that makes you feel better or worse but o well .. im a servant of the Lord I will be protected! DUNN DUNN DUNN! It was so weird/sad to say goodbye to sis stirling today. O how i love that girl. I don't think I will ever forget here. She has played a huge role in my life. Its crazy she will be home.. hugging boys tomorrow. ahahah.
So enough with the transfer crazyness. Our area is doing AMAZING!!! We have an investigator getting baptized on the 25th. She is doing so well with the Word of Wisdom. She is so amazing. Heavenly Father loves her so much. I know that because I can feel it when we teach her. And now we have another baptismal date for May 15th (Crazy MAY?). He is so awesome. He is HUGE. Like 6' 7". Its nuts. But he is like the most gentle person ever.
So here is the story of the week for you. *shivers*. So last night I was helpin sis miller pack and she asked if she could use one of my big envelopes so I agreed and went to my carry on luggage thingy that I keep under my desk to hold my books since I don't have shelves. And so I opened it and sware I saw something move in it but i closed it and then pondered on what I just saw. Little black things ... and possibly movement. Then I said "sis miller I think there is a mouse in my suitcase" So we braced ourselves and opened it up and sure enough OUT FLEW A MOUSE!! RIGHT AT ME! o man did I SCREAMMM!!! I told my comp it was Karma for saying that I thought mice were kinda cute earlier that day. NOT ANYMORE THOSE DIRTY LITTLE POOPY STINKERS (oops i think poop is an uh oh word... owell). It was horrible and of corse in the midst of my screaming I lost track of it and it is now somewhere in our apartment. The funny thing is. As i was cleaning out my suitcase I found wrappers and pieces of two chocolate kisses that the mouse had gotten out of my package (in a separate box) they were still in the plastic bag btw and he carried them into my suitcase and had a little snack. Sadly I had to throw the candy away. Too nast to think about. Sis Dantes one of my roomies (the one from Hati) is certain I brought it with my from the MTC... not possible since It was empty for some time when I first got here. haha She is funny.
I'm so excited for Devan. I love Kelsey so much I am so glad missionary dreams do come true for some people ... haha. I am excited to hear more news about it.
Good luck with finals all my BYU buddies. When you are stressed and studying for 8 hours straight... think about how i am .. not :D for 1.5 years :D haha. Then decide to serve a mission. hahaha jk. It really is nice to have a break from that aspect of life. I hope you are all doing well. I love you all so much and appreciate the letters I get :D hint hint. Packages are ALWAYS welcome haha. I am so funny with my mail. It drove sis Miller crazy that I would pace myself and read them like a day later or that night or save my package to open on Easter. I like to look forward to stuff. For example I save Krista's letters for the night before pday usually. I LOVE YOU ALL. Keep workin hard and relying on the Lord. He will make someone much better out of you then you ever could (no offense but its true!!!) I am learning that very quickly here on a mission.
LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK
-Sis Wadsworth
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Sorry late
Dear Family,
so sorry this is a day late. We had the sisters luncheon yesterday all the way in Scarsdale a two hour train ride there and two hours back and so we had no time for anything else. So the president gave us permission to use our lunch break to email... and now of course its just my luck a worker here just came by and said he is closing all the computers down in 20 mins... ahh. Ok
So my brain is so jumbled now I can't even think. haha
Conference was amazing. It was so sad when they said the closing prayer. It broke my little heart. It was awesome to just listen for once. We also had mission conference on Tuesday. We talked a lot about being a charitable missionary vs a dutiful missionary and I have decided to make that the focus of my mission. I will send a copy of the talk home for you. Its so great. It talks about how we have to dedicate our hearts and minds too not just our might and strength because that's when we can truly become what God wants us to be. Our wills are the only things we can give God that He doesn't already have (or has really given us).
So two quick funny stories before I get kicked off...
1. So like 3 times a week we have street meetings where all of our zone or district gets together in one spot and contacts as many people as possible. So we had one at union square this week. A very liberal and diverse area (mostly scary) haha jk. lots of college students. But that day was especially crowded because of some big event. So I am speeding along trying to be urgent (like they tell us to be). That day I decided to wear a skirt I found in the closet again. It was prob bigger than my usual skirt but i figured I could pull it off... so back to speeding along... all of a sudden something feels kinda strange and right as i look down.... down goes my skirt!!! ahhhhhh... i looked around and picked it up... and my slip slid up with it causing it to stick out every where on the top. o man there were people every where. my companion laughs soooooooooooooooo loud and everyone turns around. So I punch her in the arm and go on my merry way. I laughed pretty much the rest of the day.
story #2 so there are security guards at our complex. They are all big black guys who are generally very kind and we love to say hello to them. They wait for us to get home every night. its kinda fun. Till one day one of the guards asked us if we could get married I said yea after we get home and went on my way. My comp lingered behind and one of the guards said good because I want to marry one of you. She asked who and he said "her" pointing to me a few steps ahead. EWww... I didn't really think anything of it till two days later we got in our elevator to go home and then all of a sudden it makes a funny noise and starts to go down to the bottom floor. Right when we we get to the bottom floor the doors open and sure enough that security guard had called the elevator down and handed us his card and said "I would like to take you guys to dinner sometime".... I said only if we talk about Jesus and then closed the doors... O DEAR his card is so funny too but the time is running out so I got to go.
The work is going great. Im working super hard. Doing my best. I know Heavenly Father loves each of us. Thanks for all you do. Our convert told us he and his member friend are talking about MARRIAGE!!! AHHHHHH SO great!
love you to the moon and back.
so sorry this is a day late. We had the sisters luncheon yesterday all the way in Scarsdale a two hour train ride there and two hours back and so we had no time for anything else. So the president gave us permission to use our lunch break to email... and now of course its just my luck a worker here just came by and said he is closing all the computers down in 20 mins... ahh. Ok
So my brain is so jumbled now I can't even think. haha
Conference was amazing. It was so sad when they said the closing prayer. It broke my little heart. It was awesome to just listen for once. We also had mission conference on Tuesday. We talked a lot about being a charitable missionary vs a dutiful missionary and I have decided to make that the focus of my mission. I will send a copy of the talk home for you. Its so great. It talks about how we have to dedicate our hearts and minds too not just our might and strength because that's when we can truly become what God wants us to be. Our wills are the only things we can give God that He doesn't already have (or has really given us).
So two quick funny stories before I get kicked off...
1. So like 3 times a week we have street meetings where all of our zone or district gets together in one spot and contacts as many people as possible. So we had one at union square this week. A very liberal and diverse area (mostly scary) haha jk. lots of college students. But that day was especially crowded because of some big event. So I am speeding along trying to be urgent (like they tell us to be). That day I decided to wear a skirt I found in the closet again. It was prob bigger than my usual skirt but i figured I could pull it off... so back to speeding along... all of a sudden something feels kinda strange and right as i look down.... down goes my skirt!!! ahhhhhh... i looked around and picked it up... and my slip slid up with it causing it to stick out every where on the top. o man there were people every where. my companion laughs soooooooooooooooo loud and everyone turns around. So I punch her in the arm and go on my merry way. I laughed pretty much the rest of the day.
story #2 so there are security guards at our complex. They are all big black guys who are generally very kind and we love to say hello to them. They wait for us to get home every night. its kinda fun. Till one day one of the guards asked us if we could get married I said yea after we get home and went on my way. My comp lingered behind and one of the guards said good because I want to marry one of you. She asked who and he said "her" pointing to me a few steps ahead. EWww... I didn't really think anything of it till two days later we got in our elevator to go home and then all of a sudden it makes a funny noise and starts to go down to the bottom floor. Right when we we get to the bottom floor the doors open and sure enough that security guard had called the elevator down and handed us his card and said "I would like to take you guys to dinner sometime".... I said only if we talk about Jesus and then closed the doors... O DEAR his card is so funny too but the time is running out so I got to go.
The work is going great. Im working super hard. Doing my best. I know Heavenly Father loves each of us. Thanks for all you do. Our convert told us he and his member friend are talking about MARRIAGE!!! AHHHHHH SO great!
love you to the moon and back.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Taaaaaaa Daaaaa
Sorry if these seem kinda choppy at times. I try and edit out most names for people's privacy. (Don't know if that is necessary, but I figured I would do it.) So if things sound kinda funny, it's probably me. Thanks, Pauline
Hello Family,
So my letter is coming later than usual today because when we came to the library this morning there was a two and a half hour wait. So we decided to reserve the computers for right before we had to go back out and work. :D So here we are!!
So this Saturday was a baptism. Its hard to type how she talks but she is a cute little black girl. 21. Born and raised in the ghetto... She has a huge personality and a huge testimony so she just loves to steal the show during church. Its refreshing to have her most of the time at church because she's not what you usually expect. She says "O yea" "YEA" and "O I'M SORRY" all the time during the lessons randomly. She gets to the church and we show her the font and she says "WOW... THAT'S SEXY" haha. Then after our ward mission leader baptizes her she turns around and says "can you shut the doors? Travis and I are going to go for a swim!" HAHAH. Then during her testimony she just kept saying "wow... isn't that beautiful? and "you know wha I meeeeean?" . She is so amazing. Im so glad that she now has the gospel to lean on.
So ... good news everyone.. Trader Joe's was a hit. That was our pday activity last week and IT WAS AMAAAAZING!! They actually have reasonable prices. I bought 14 things and only 4 of those things were more than 2.00 AHHHH... I almost had a heart attack right there in the aisle (?). 19 CENT BANANAS!! can you believe it? O mom you would be proud to know I am now a big banana eater. O they are fantastic.. sadly though I have also become a big oreo eater... missions do weird things to you. I have never liked oreos but now i cant eat enough of them!
So another funny thing that happened this week was we went out to lunch with our April baptismal date... and we told her she could choose the place, so she told us and we told her we would meet her there... so we walk in the place. Its called "the taste of seafood"... and its packed first of all but when we walk in two blond very white girls in dresses and clunky shoes... the whole place pretty much turned around and jaws dropped. We were for sure the only white people to have ever eaten there. haha.. but we just walked in... dooo do doo.. ordered some fish and chips with some mac and cheese and proceeded to eat. We asked around for opinions on what we should eat first. It was funny to see people's reactions when we would walk up and talk to them but then they would just be super nice and give their favorite dishes. It was so fun. We asked our investigator if she was ashamed to be with the only white people in the place and she just laughed and said... no one cares. And really they didn't. I love Harlem!!
Well the amazing investigator's baptism is this Saturday. I think he should marry one of my roomies. Hes totally going to be at least a stake president. We just told him that he still had the chance to go on a mission and he was so excited/scared!!!
This week has been a very interesting week actually. We had an amazing district meeting where we talked about exactly what I needed to hear. I didn't even know that's what I needed to hear so good thing my district leader man is so inspired. (His name is Elder Raymond by the way. He wants to play football for BYU.. so if he ends up doing it I just wanted to say his name in my letter for proof that I actually knew him. haha.) Anyways we talked about those times where we felt the worst. Like the times when we "disappointed" our parents and we got the "i expected more from you" talk. And how heartbreaking it is to hear that. Sorry mom and dad btw for all the times I did that. But we paralleled it to our Heavenly Father and how badly we as missionaries need to strive to never let Him say He expected more from us. You should always do what is expected of you. Then it is up to you to do more then what is expected.
We also talked about how our missions are our greatest opportunities to become who we really want to be (who God wants us to be). Sometimes I get frustrated with whats happening and whats not happening and I ask myself... is this really worth it? Is this what I want. And then I realized that this really is what I want. I asked Heavenly Father to help me become more charitable, more patient, more Christ like over all and its not just going to happen at the snap of my fingers, it will happen over time as I work hard and rely on God. That sounded a lot less cool then I wanted it to but just know that I am understanding how God works more and more everyday. We have to have a good attitude about things, do our best and then leave the rest to Him. That's how things get done. God will always guide our path in the right direction, we just have to be willing to keep moving our feet, no matter how hard it is.
We get to go to the temple with our ward to help them do baptisms this Friday. Which is very rare. But because the ward asked us to go because they needed endowed sisters we got permission to go !!! YAYA! We get to see one of our converts go to the temple for the first time. Its going to fantastic.
Keep the mail coming friends and family!
ok well I gotta go,
I love you all to the moon and back
Sis Kaitlyn Wadsworth
ps tell linsey cahoon to go to byu so she can be my roomie when I get back and then she can help me with my hw :D:D
when does kenton leave? did he leave already? because justin from work is in the mtc right now!!
Hello Family,
So my letter is coming later than usual today because when we came to the library this morning there was a two and a half hour wait. So we decided to reserve the computers for right before we had to go back out and work. :D So here we are!!
So this Saturday was a baptism. Its hard to type how she talks but she is a cute little black girl. 21. Born and raised in the ghetto... She has a huge personality and a huge testimony so she just loves to steal the show during church. Its refreshing to have her most of the time at church because she's not what you usually expect. She says "O yea" "YEA" and "O I'M SORRY" all the time during the lessons randomly. She gets to the church and we show her the font and she says "WOW... THAT'S SEXY" haha. Then after our ward mission leader baptizes her she turns around and says "can you shut the doors? Travis and I are going to go for a swim!" HAHAH. Then during her testimony she just kept saying "wow... isn't that beautiful? and "you know wha I meeeeean?" . She is so amazing. Im so glad that she now has the gospel to lean on.
So ... good news everyone.. Trader Joe's was a hit. That was our pday activity last week and IT WAS AMAAAAZING!! They actually have reasonable prices. I bought 14 things and only 4 of those things were more than 2.00 AHHHH... I almost had a heart attack right there in the aisle (?). 19 CENT BANANAS!! can you believe it? O mom you would be proud to know I am now a big banana eater. O they are fantastic.. sadly though I have also become a big oreo eater... missions do weird things to you. I have never liked oreos but now i cant eat enough of them!
So another funny thing that happened this week was we went out to lunch with our April baptismal date... and we told her she could choose the place, so she told us and we told her we would meet her there... so we walk in the place. Its called "the taste of seafood"... and its packed first of all but when we walk in two blond very white girls in dresses and clunky shoes... the whole place pretty much turned around and jaws dropped. We were for sure the only white people to have ever eaten there. haha.. but we just walked in... dooo do doo.. ordered some fish and chips with some mac and cheese and proceeded to eat. We asked around for opinions on what we should eat first. It was funny to see people's reactions when we would walk up and talk to them but then they would just be super nice and give their favorite dishes. It was so fun. We asked our investigator if she was ashamed to be with the only white people in the place and she just laughed and said... no one cares. And really they didn't. I love Harlem!!
Well the amazing investigator's baptism is this Saturday. I think he should marry one of my roomies. Hes totally going to be at least a stake president. We just told him that he still had the chance to go on a mission and he was so excited/scared!!!
This week has been a very interesting week actually. We had an amazing district meeting where we talked about exactly what I needed to hear. I didn't even know that's what I needed to hear so good thing my district leader man is so inspired. (His name is Elder Raymond by the way. He wants to play football for BYU.. so if he ends up doing it I just wanted to say his name in my letter for proof that I actually knew him. haha.) Anyways we talked about those times where we felt the worst. Like the times when we "disappointed" our parents and we got the "i expected more from you" talk. And how heartbreaking it is to hear that. Sorry mom and dad btw for all the times I did that. But we paralleled it to our Heavenly Father and how badly we as missionaries need to strive to never let Him say He expected more from us. You should always do what is expected of you. Then it is up to you to do more then what is expected.
We also talked about how our missions are our greatest opportunities to become who we really want to be (who God wants us to be). Sometimes I get frustrated with whats happening and whats not happening and I ask myself... is this really worth it? Is this what I want. And then I realized that this really is what I want. I asked Heavenly Father to help me become more charitable, more patient, more Christ like over all and its not just going to happen at the snap of my fingers, it will happen over time as I work hard and rely on God. That sounded a lot less cool then I wanted it to but just know that I am understanding how God works more and more everyday. We have to have a good attitude about things, do our best and then leave the rest to Him. That's how things get done. God will always guide our path in the right direction, we just have to be willing to keep moving our feet, no matter how hard it is.
We get to go to the temple with our ward to help them do baptisms this Friday. Which is very rare. But because the ward asked us to go because they needed endowed sisters we got permission to go !!! YAYA! We get to see one of our converts go to the temple for the first time. Its going to fantastic.
Keep the mail coming friends and family!
ok well I gotta go,
I love you all to the moon and back
Sis Kaitlyn Wadsworth
ps tell linsey cahoon to go to byu so she can be my roomie when I get back and then she can help me with my hw :D:D
when does kenton leave? did he leave already? because justin from work is in the mtc right now!!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
So on to some good stories. I had so much I wanted to say these last two weeks that I didn't get to. So I fell down some stairs in the projects last week, my companion got smashed by some subway doors, I trip alll the time, o man ... its all just so funny. Here we are trying to be dignified representatives of the Lord but because we are so tired we are just clumsy and silly looking haha. I love it.
I am so excited!! We have a baptism this Saturday. She is so excited! She is helping us teach her best friend and she is so cute when she talks about the gospel. We told her friend about the Restoration and Joseph Smith and our sister that is getting baptized commented after we told Joseph's First Vision and she was like "OOO man thats sexy" hahaha. O I bet Joseph was up in heaven laguhing saying man I have never heard that one before. Really though she was so cute just testifying in her own way that she knew that it was true to her friend. So sweet. She also said she wants to go to BYU now because we talk about it so much. She is just too cute for life.
Another investigator is set on his baptism on the 28th. I can't even tell you how excited I am. It was so cool to have sis Stirling back for a couple of days so we got to meet with him like good ole times. He took her departure pretty hard but he is doing good now. It was so exciting to talk to him about what is going to happen and who will do what. He has his Mormon friends from Provo and Texas all coming. One of his new little buddies will be baptising him. He asked me to give a talk. eekkks. haha. He really is so amazing. It has been such a blessing to be part of his conversion. I have no doubt in my mind that he will be a strong member for the rest of his life. I know he will be married in the temple and prob be a mission president one day. haha. Its very humbling to know that I in a very small way helped him progress towards happiness that will last forever. That I was able to help him live with God again. *SHIVERS* wow.
I got the socks mom. Thank you so much. they are perfect. I unfortunately didn't get my package because the APS forgot to give it to me and so sis stirling is going to get it for me next time she is at the misison office so I don't have to wait over a month for it. I love having hookups :D The mail has been coming slower and slower... I guess everyone is already forgetting about me. hahaha jk. I think its God's way of making sure I am really relying on Him 100% not my letters. jk.
So I don't know if anyone got to read the story in the Ensign this week called Learning to Share the Gospel but you really should read it. Its such an amazing talk. It has helped me a lot this week to continue to talk to everyone I can, even when I am tired because it talked about how when we are diligent in anything like talking to everyone we can God will see that and then trust us with more opportunities to share the gospel. So if he sees us working hard... we will find the people that we deserve to have but if we are not working hard... we wont find anyone in our sporadic efforts. We must be consistent in our service to the Lord. Don't' just do it when it is convenient.
I really would love some more pictures from everyone. I miss all your faces. Especially Janson pictures. I love the ones I have but more would be fabulous.
I got to work yesterday with sis stirling's new comp. She is in the spanish program and so she has been helping with my spanish. I have been having the strange desire lately to read from the spanish book of mormon and to work on praying in spanish. Just kinda as a fun challenge for me. We work with a lot of bilingual people and so I think it would be cool to be able to talk to them in their native language even if only a few lines or so. She said she was impressed with how much I already knew and that I just needed to work on learning Gospel associated words! yay! So that's a new development.
I just wanted to take this little extra time I have to tell everyone who reads this how much our Heavenly Father, God Himself, loves you. I am so grateful for the opportunity I have had to in a small way see everyone as God sees them. There are so many lost and confused people in the world. I sometimes wonder how God could love the man who just yelled profanity at me because he thought Mormons worshipped Joseph Smith. But then I see that God loves him too because he is one of his children. No matter how far we wander he always loves us and always wants us to be happy. He always provides a way for us to come back to him, no matter how lost we are. That is through Jesus Christ and His Atonement. Christ suffered all for us so that any imperfections we have that bring us sorrow can be erased. Not just covered up, but erased. I doubt I will ever fully understand the Atonement but I know that it is real and that it is beautiful. I know God loves us and that Jesus Christ to loves us. They would do anything for us, even send a scraggly sister missionary, to new york to share her small but firm testimony with a man who likes to yell profanity so that he has the chance to have the same happiness that she already knows. Thank you for all your support as I go about this great and marvelous work.
Ok i am off to trader joes which turns out to be the cheapest grocery store in NEW YORK... who woulda thunk?? haha
love you so so much.. even to the moon and back,
Love Sis
I am so excited!! We have a baptism this Saturday. She is so excited! She is helping us teach her best friend and she is so cute when she talks about the gospel. We told her friend about the Restoration and Joseph Smith and our sister that is getting baptized commented after we told Joseph's First Vision and she was like "OOO man thats sexy" hahaha. O I bet Joseph was up in heaven laguhing saying man I have never heard that one before. Really though she was so cute just testifying in her own way that she knew that it was true to her friend. So sweet. She also said she wants to go to BYU now because we talk about it so much. She is just too cute for life.
Another investigator is set on his baptism on the 28th. I can't even tell you how excited I am. It was so cool to have sis Stirling back for a couple of days so we got to meet with him like good ole times. He took her departure pretty hard but he is doing good now. It was so exciting to talk to him about what is going to happen and who will do what. He has his Mormon friends from Provo and Texas all coming. One of his new little buddies will be baptising him. He asked me to give a talk. eekkks. haha. He really is so amazing. It has been such a blessing to be part of his conversion. I have no doubt in my mind that he will be a strong member for the rest of his life. I know he will be married in the temple and prob be a mission president one day. haha. Its very humbling to know that I in a very small way helped him progress towards happiness that will last forever. That I was able to help him live with God again. *SHIVERS* wow.
I got the socks mom. Thank you so much. they are perfect. I unfortunately didn't get my package because the APS forgot to give it to me and so sis stirling is going to get it for me next time she is at the misison office so I don't have to wait over a month for it. I love having hookups :D The mail has been coming slower and slower... I guess everyone is already forgetting about me. hahaha jk. I think its God's way of making sure I am really relying on Him 100% not my letters. jk.
So I don't know if anyone got to read the story in the Ensign this week called Learning to Share the Gospel but you really should read it. Its such an amazing talk. It has helped me a lot this week to continue to talk to everyone I can, even when I am tired because it talked about how when we are diligent in anything like talking to everyone we can God will see that and then trust us with more opportunities to share the gospel. So if he sees us working hard... we will find the people that we deserve to have but if we are not working hard... we wont find anyone in our sporadic efforts. We must be consistent in our service to the Lord. Don't' just do it when it is convenient.
I really would love some more pictures from everyone. I miss all your faces. Especially Janson pictures. I love the ones I have but more would be fabulous.
I got to work yesterday with sis stirling's new comp. She is in the spanish program and so she has been helping with my spanish. I have been having the strange desire lately to read from the spanish book of mormon and to work on praying in spanish. Just kinda as a fun challenge for me. We work with a lot of bilingual people and so I think it would be cool to be able to talk to them in their native language even if only a few lines or so. She said she was impressed with how much I already knew and that I just needed to work on learning Gospel associated words! yay! So that's a new development.
I just wanted to take this little extra time I have to tell everyone who reads this how much our Heavenly Father, God Himself, loves you. I am so grateful for the opportunity I have had to in a small way see everyone as God sees them. There are so many lost and confused people in the world. I sometimes wonder how God could love the man who just yelled profanity at me because he thought Mormons worshipped Joseph Smith. But then I see that God loves him too because he is one of his children. No matter how far we wander he always loves us and always wants us to be happy. He always provides a way for us to come back to him, no matter how lost we are. That is through Jesus Christ and His Atonement. Christ suffered all for us so that any imperfections we have that bring us sorrow can be erased. Not just covered up, but erased. I doubt I will ever fully understand the Atonement but I know that it is real and that it is beautiful. I know God loves us and that Jesus Christ to loves us. They would do anything for us, even send a scraggly sister missionary, to new york to share her small but firm testimony with a man who likes to yell profanity so that he has the chance to have the same happiness that she already knows. Thank you for all your support as I go about this great and marvelous work.
Ok i am off to trader joes which turns out to be the cheapest grocery store in NEW YORK... who woulda thunk?? haha
love you so so much.. even to the moon and back,
Love Sis
Thursday, March 5, 2009
AHHH CRAZYNESS
Ok family sadly this will be the shortest letter ever because I have to share my small amount of time with my new companion. YEA CRAZY HUH??
OK sooo.... we were sure neither of us would get transferred because we were both new to the area and my comp is leaving next cycle and I am a greenie... so transfer call day comes around and sis stirling got called to be a zion companionship (never done before with sisters that's how amazing she is). That means she travels around and trains people. No area assigned to her and her new comp. So that meant I had to take over the area!! AHHHH SO CRAZY!!! My comp is obviously still the senior comp but now I have to lead her around and have been asked to take care of all our amazing investigators. I was so shocked and still am but after talking to the APs and the president they reassured me that they know I can do it. AHHHH !! SO CRAZY! I was so sad to see her leave but I know I will survive!
So some random things for this week:
We challenged one investigator to decide about baptism and yesterday he told us ... I'm so close sisters I know it!! ahhhh so happy!
Our other investigator took us to Spanish Harlem to get our nails done. hahaha. She wanted us to get really long ones like hers but that was not happening!!! I don't even know how to tell you they were like swirly and sparkly!!! so ghettto fab. Loved it!
So it has been so cold lately so much snow and cold wind. One especially wet day I realized my feet were sooo amazingly cold that I didn't understand so we went to the Church and I took my "water proof boots" off to find all 3 pairs of socks soaked through!! ahh so we went to a close by member's house and blow dried my feet warm and then put plastic bags over my socks... too funny because later we were asked to take our shoes off at an appointment. Boy did they get a surprise. You really have no shame as a missionary... i might as well have worn the grocery bags on the outside. HAHAH
love you alll to the moon and back.
Siswa
OK sooo.... we were sure neither of us would get transferred because we were both new to the area and my comp is leaving next cycle and I am a greenie... so transfer call day comes around and sis stirling got called to be a zion companionship (never done before with sisters that's how amazing she is). That means she travels around and trains people. No area assigned to her and her new comp. So that meant I had to take over the area!! AHHHH SO CRAZY!!! My comp is obviously still the senior comp but now I have to lead her around and have been asked to take care of all our amazing investigators. I was so shocked and still am but after talking to the APs and the president they reassured me that they know I can do it. AHHHH !! SO CRAZY! I was so sad to see her leave but I know I will survive!
So some random things for this week:
We challenged one investigator to decide about baptism and yesterday he told us ... I'm so close sisters I know it!! ahhhh so happy!
Our other investigator took us to Spanish Harlem to get our nails done. hahaha. She wanted us to get really long ones like hers but that was not happening!!! I don't even know how to tell you they were like swirly and sparkly!!! so ghettto fab. Loved it!
So it has been so cold lately so much snow and cold wind. One especially wet day I realized my feet were sooo amazingly cold that I didn't understand so we went to the Church and I took my "water proof boots" off to find all 3 pairs of socks soaked through!! ahh so we went to a close by member's house and blow dried my feet warm and then put plastic bags over my socks... too funny because later we were asked to take our shoes off at an appointment. Boy did they get a surprise. You really have no shame as a missionary... i might as well have worn the grocery bags on the outside. HAHAH
love you alll to the moon and back.
Siswa
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