This has been the longest week of my life! Not in a bad way,
but we just had so many things happen! We didn't really have a p-day, since we
have a car we took 3 sets of missionaries to Costco (separately)...I'm actually
tired of being in Costco at the moment. We also took a member to the hospital
cause she broke her leg. Ok that's something I have a problem with as far as
city life. Most people don't have cars and NOBODY has a truck. How do you live?
What if you bought a couch and you can't just put it in the back of your truck
and take it home? I'll tell ya, you have to pay $100 for them to deliver it to
your house that's 2 blocks away. I think that's RIDICLOUS! People pay so much
to live here and none of them are even that happy. Haha
Tuesday it snowed for real, and again on Friday, so we have
been shoveling for about 2 hours a day. I seriously love it. Other than the
fact that you freeze to death no matter how many layers you put on, it just
feels so good to do actual work for once. I've made chicken noodle soup for
like 7 different people this week cause everyone is sick. Oh my I have a funny
story! So my comps favorite is octopus soup, and ain't nobody got time for the
way that stuff smells when she cooks it. So I made chicken noodle soup for
her...I'm just sayin I pretty much outdid myself...it was really good. Well she
LOVED it. She loved it even more than octopus soup. I am slowly converting her
to American food and she is cooking fewer and fewer things that make me throw
up when I smell them. She also gave me this Asian facial cause she was like
"sister, your skin looks really bad." So she rubbed the heck out of
my face for like an hour and then she was like "there, now I can stand to
look at you." It was hysterical. She is really straightforward, the other
day she called one of the elders fat and I was like "you probably
shouldn't say that." But haha I guess it's not offensive in her
culture.
So Thursday night was probably the worst night of
my life. My stomach is having problems still and so I couldn't sleep. At 11 I
finally decided to eat or drink something so I could hopefully sleep. I went
into the kitchen and turned on the light and there were literally 15
cockroaches in the sink and other ones walking all over the counters.
Insta-gag. I sprayed the heck out of them and obviously lost the appetite I
never had in the first place. Which was good cause my comp liked the chicken
noodle soup so much that she ate all of it so there wasn't any left
anyway. I got back in bed and just felt itchy all night and might have
cried myself to sleep. I love our pad. So one of the girls on the MTC told me
that you burn more calories when you're cold...awesome! The guys never came to
cover our AC units so we are still freezing away! For studies we huddle up to
the heater decked out in all our winter gear. It's nice though cause when we
got outside we don't even bat an eye cause we're used to it! Canada is gonna be
a can of corn after this.
Backtracking to Elder Hartley's palm-reading experience a
few weeks back, the exterminator came to kill our cockroaches and he saw a pic
of me and Travis on the fridge and was like "your husband?" I was
like sure, why not. Give or take a few years. He looks at me and says "he
is a very good man, he will make a good living and you will be very wealthy"
I was like how do ya figure? Apparently this fool had studied psychology and
knows people by looking at their face. He prolly should have stuck with
psychology cause we still got cockroaches comin out the walls.
Hardly anyone wanted to meet with us cause it's so cold, but
somehow we got 3 solid new people to teach! They even came to church! We did
have some awesome lessons..we talked to Neil about the temple and he is SO
excited to go. We also had a new feller from Florida move in (Melissa Hartley
knows him!) and he is excited to go back to the temple and do some family
names! We are so blessed to be serving in this branch. Even though the living
situation kinda blows it is more than worth it to be able to know these awesome
people! I love them so much and they teach me more than I feel like I teach
them! Also I can't believe how fast the time is going! It's already been 8
months! :( it's going by too fast. I love being a missionary SO much!
I have been thinking a lot about why I KNOW this church is
the only true church. We have an investigator who is really
"scientific" and likes to "prove" things to us. He is so
unhappy though! He doesn't know where truth comes from. It doesn't come from
the Internet, and even if science can prove something that honestly means
nothing to me. My faith is in God and His word, but it is manifest in the
RESULTS of living the gospel. I know the church is true because of the way I
feel. I am happy, peaceful and hopeful. This young man has none of those
emotions because he refuses to act on what we teach. The worst part is I'm just
a homeschooled girl from Nevada but he will trap himself in his words and
realize that what I said was right all along... Not that I'm smart by any means
but because I only testify that what I know is true, and it really is TRUE. I
wish more people would go to God and His prophets as their source of finding
truth, He(they)will never lead us astray.
I love this gospel and the reason it is so important to live
it is so we can all be together forever! I love you all, you're the most
awesome family a person could ask for. Have a great week!
Sister Wadsworth
Pics:
1&2: tryna get on their level and be
Asian...#forevesaskwatch
3: one of our 3 Costco trips..I love these girls!
4: most awkward picture ever taken but it snowed so who
cares.
5: the other sisters in our district. I'm basically the mom.
Yep.
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