Missionaries Set On Fire This Week: 1

So after I wrote on P-day last week we went to the beach for a little

volleyball. I think the Lord is trying to humble me cause I got the

ugliest tan lines out of everyone from here to Breezy Point. The weird

thing is that I'm not even mad about it haha. We might have done a

little shopping at this janky boutique and I might come home wearing

some crazy New York clothes....you'll still accept me for who I am

right? We knocked a ton of doors but people either wouldn't let us in

or else "weren't home." Finally we came back to the church and

practiced our song for next week. A General Authority is coming so

talk to us. I'm pretty sure if we mess up they'll send us home (just a

heads up). Sorry Mom and Dad.

Tuesday we had district meeting and then went to the Mission Home in

Rego for an iPad instruction thing. We came back and visited two of

our ladies with baptism dates the 8th and the 15th. We are so excited

for them! On Wednesday morning I started talking to a lady at the gym

and she said she'd come to church!!! It's so fun finding people

unexpectedly. Cosmo and I get checked out/yelled at/commented on

pretty frequently (in the ghetto usually). I say this because it goes

to show that you can be hot while being modest...ha ha. #creepedout

#daily

So like Wednesday is our service day and I wish I could say that it

was better than our experience last week with the bug spray but uh it

wasn't. We went out to Breezy Point to help remodel houses with

Friends of Rockaway. So Cosmo and I are working with this chick and I

don't wanna be mean but she was a vegetarian and that says a lot about

a person. So we are putting in laminate flooring and she is just

hovering like a helicopter this girl. Man I love hippies. Anyways she

finally left and Cosmo and I finished up the floor in like 2 hours! I

almost killed a guy with the table saw but it was just some internal

bleeding so he should be fine. IM KIDDING GUYS COME ON. So anyways we

get home and we are just covered in filth. I notice that my knees are

wet? It's probably just sweat right? Nope you're wrong my knees are

covered in blood. Praying is funner this way. Oh and my face is

peeling from being burned on P-day so I'm sure people are gonna be

totally receptive to the gospel when it comes to them in this form

right? Anyways if anyone wants their floors redone just call the Belle

Harbor sisters k? We pro.

On Saturday we had a going-away party for one of the senior couples.

It was from 5-9 and we didn't start eating till 7, so I guess you

could say it was getting crazy. People were hungry..it was hot..the

usual. There are like 50 people packed in the bottom floor of the

building we use for church. There are like 20 people in the hallway

kitchen. All the sudden one of the ladies' shirt caught fire and

before we knew what was happening she started stripping. So we have a

half-naked lady in the kitchen, stuff is starting to catch fire, and

nobody can get out. I might have been getting nervous at this point

cause I'm at the back of the kitchen. So she's waving her shirt around

trying to get the fire out of it when she lights Elder Durkin on fire

in a very bad place for a guy to get lit on fire. {shake my head} this

is going nowhere good. The fire finally got put out and there were

only some minor burns...I can guarantee that wouldn't happen at no

Fallon 2nd ward party.

We have been in the sketch part of town a lot more this week, we went

to the tenth floor of one really crazy place to look up a referral

with the Branch President's daughter and as we stepped into the

elevator we all pretty much threw up...I looked down at my feet and I

was standing smack-dab in a puddle of pee on the floor. I didn't know

I could hold my breath for so long but I totally did. Everyone has to

hear the gospel, no matter where they live, so I should probably get

used to it haha. I had Jamaican food, it's really good...especially

the ox tail. Yum yum?

Remember how I hate to play the piano? Well once again The Lord is

humbling me because I play in sacrament meeting, Sunday school, and

RS. Good thing I'm so good at it???...eh.

So I dunno if I told y'all this but my companion is seriously the

best. She is a great trainer and an even better friend. I wanna cry

when I think about leaving her, but that's a long way off so it's

fine. She is the most considerate person I've ever met and she is such

a good example to me. People would be stupid to hard pass her if ya

get what I'm saying.

Well if I get killed in a sketchy elevator this week I just want y'all

to know that God is our loving Heavenly Father and that this gospel is

true. It is crazy to think that there are 1 million people in our

stake and we are lucky if there are 5 or 10 families that come to

sacrament meeting each week. There is so much work to do here but He

is preparing His people to receive His gospel in His own way and time,

Cosmo and I just have to be the ones that give people that choice. We

know that if we are doing the right things and being obedient we will

be led to people who are ready. I am forever grateful for the

knowledge I have of the gospel and that I can tell others about it. So

happy I have a family that is freakin cool and I wanna be with

forever. You are awesome keep it up!

xoxo love you! Sister Wads

If you want some bomb meatballs, this is Sister Dibble's recipe. You

won't regret it.

six pound bag of costco meatballs

2 bottles of Heinz chili sauce

32 oz bottle grape jelly

Combine sauce and jelly in a large crock pot.  Whisk together until

smooth.  Heat for 3 hours or until hot. Crock pots vary in size and

heating speed.