This will be trippy but we have half of our P-day today and
the other
half..(who knows when?...maybe Tuesday) because of some
crazy
scheduling and exchanges...mind you I still expect my email
to be blow
up haha.
We were able to have a training meeting with the senior
couples, APs
and President on Tuesday. President said that, like
parenting, we
would never appreciate our trainers until we became
trainers, and then
told us to stop judging our trainers. I'm just sitting there
like,
dude I need to stop worshiping Cosmo and then start judging
her so I
can do like President said and stop judging her. Seriously
though, she
is the cat's pajamas that girl. I could tell you good things
about her
for days. It feels like we've known each other for years,
not weeks. I
just wuv her. Wow this is fruity I should probably cool it.
So we go to this lady's house, she used to be a JW but she
in the YW
presidency now and super cool. She starts talking to us
about her
college days, and before we know it she's pulling out her
belly-dance
performance videos. She insisted that we come back to learn
some
moves. She also told us that belly-dancing originated from
an exercise
for pregnant women to sooth the baby. I'm like seriously
considering
starting a class for pregnant mamas when I get back. But we
are
sitting on her couch for what seemed like forever watching
this stuff
and then she's like getting out the bells and the scarfs and
shiz. We
were so slayed we couldn't stop laughing. She almost
convinced me it
was an art after we saw a gay guy do it. Uh not. Not quite
converted
to that yet hah. We talked to her about For the Strength of
Youth,
she's in YWs and has never heard of it haha oh my goodness
I'm just
dying thinking about it. We also went into a bar for one of
our
service activities cause they were feeding us there. Like
seriously,
the stuff you do as missionaries is just a riot.
The members here are crazy. Everyone in the branch has been
baptized
for under 5 years, so it's like Grand Central recent convert
Station
at church each week. When we got out of the temple my first
week here
one of the ladies who just went through was like "oh
are you new
girl?" I said yes and she's all "aw hell yeah
girl!" Inside I'm like
dude we just got out of the temple cool your jets that's
like a swear
word and I'm homeschooled. It's so funny but cool to be
around, they
are all so pure in heart, their prayers are all so sincere
the spirit
is really strong in church each week. Especially when no one
gets lit
on fire. Like literally. The members here feed us too
sometimes! We've
had fried caterpillars and cow intestine/goat/fish soup with
fofo. I
hope you can sense my enthusiasm all the way from F-town
cause it was
nastayyyy.
The weather here cannot make up it's mind. Seriously just
like a
woman. When we did service we broke the rules and went
swimming....IN
SWEAT. It was so hot. Then the next day when we took the
ferry to the
temple it was cold and windy and raining. As if I already
didn't have
a hard enough time deciding what to wear in the morning
sheesh. Okay
but the ferry ride though? SO BEAUTIFUL. We went past Coney
Island
(#dreamy), Staten Island, and NJ and got off by the Brooklyn
Bridge on
Wall Street and took the tube up to the temple. The temple
was amazing
as always, and we had a little time till the ferry left so
we went to
Chipotle. While we were walking down the sidewalk we see all
these cop
cars and a person on the sidewalk with a sheet over them. I
guess the
lady jumped out of the 8th floor. It was so sad to see that
people
have so little hope for their lives. We saw a lot of other
crazy
things too sheesh. Wall Street is so cool. If I wasn't gonna
be a
trophy wife I'd def jump on a job there. Being in the city
makes you
realize how lucky you are to live in the country though. A
lot of
people tell me they hate it here but they stay because they
make a lot
of money. It's like they're trapped in their own life. All
about that
redneck life doe. The Stach of Lib is pretty legit, and it
was so cool
to see in person. I saw Central Park too! It's like
everything
happened on one day opsies shoulda saved some for the rest
of the
mish. I seriously love it here though, it's so pretty in
it's own way.
And. The traffic. When I first got here I thought all the
missionaries
were completely irresponsible drivers because they did the
most
ridiculous things, but holy cow, they were being defensive
drivers! If
you don't go fast, you die. End of story. And your life if
you're not
careful. We got hit yesterday by this blonde chick
(self-explanatory).
We were stopped and she just slowly pulled into our car! She
knocked
our mirror in and Cosmo was honking and the elders are
banging on the
windows but she kept slowly driving into us! Like dude you
are just
chapping my cat right now. Pay attention! Then she just
drove off. See
ya lata ya home and car wrecker. Forget about it.
But we are alive so that's ideal, and we have had an amazing
week, I
got to teach my first real lesson! We found this girl
Jah'Leah, she's
like my age, and her dad is a bishop for a diff church, but
she said
that when we came and were telling her about how the Book of
Mormon
would change her life she had a good feeling, so we taught
her the
Restoration on Friday night and saw her again Saturday and
it is going
really well! She "lost" the five Book of Mormons
we gave her and her
family (there are like 15 of them in the apartment) but I'm
pretty
sure her dad threw them away haha we'll see how that turns
out. Other
than that we have been in Belle Harbor, chatting it up with
people on
their porches trying to get them comfortable with the
Mormons so that
they might come to church someday. Cug. It's been amazing to
be able
to study every morning. At first I didn't know how I'd use
up a hour
by myself but now it's not enough time! I'm learning so much
and it's
seriously such a blessing to be out here. It's weird cause I
could
write to y'all all day long about the things I've learned,
but that
means nothing. People have to learn and study for themselves
to truly
understand the gospel. I hope y'all can take some extra time
out of
your lives to study the scrips some more, it really is a
blessing to
have the word of God on the earth today through a living
prophet. The
church is truuuuuue!
Have a great week kiddos.
xoxo
Sis Wads
Sister Sariah Wadsworth
New York New York South Mission
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