What a week to end this transfer with!!
The major highlight was setting another baptismal date with one of
our investigators! We are teaching a cute little family and although
the Dad isn't quite ready yet the mom has set a date and he should be
following soon (: we had a sister-wide exchange for the Brooklyn
Stake to follow up on Sisters Conference and that was super cool as
well!!
On Wednesday Sister Reynolds had all
the Sister Training Leaders come to her house for a follow-up
meeting about the conference. We got there and instead of starting
off the meeting she said "why don't we all go get pedicures?"
I've never heard grown women (including myself) scream so loud and
so long. The mission home probably hasn't had that much action in
quite a while. So we loaded into cars and went to the spa! It was
the best thing of my life, something I probably wouldn't have
appreciated so much had I still been in a car area. Guys I seriously
had no idea feet could be so nasty. Like I probably shouldn't be
talking about this in an email home but oh my heck, walking areas
straight slay me!! But yeah, Sister Reynolds is the coolest. We came
back and had dinner and our little "meeting" and then
President Reynolds walks in and Sister Reynolds was like "look
at our toes!" So we all lined up and stuck out our foot And he
was like "you're kidding me" he said it just like Pa says
it and it was SOOO funny I was dying. Then Sister Reynolds drove us
home and gave us advice about how to be a trophy wife and what to
look for in a husband. It was so presh, I seriously love her like a
mom.
We also went on an exchange with the
Spanish Sisters in Dyker Heights, we sang a musical number in
Sacrament Meeting, and about died haha ok that's an interesting
story. I got a super bad headache after the exchange but we had
people to see so when we got home we were both just wiped out. The
next morning we went to help a lady in the ward move. Oh my heck,
don't put 3 single, middle-aged Brooklynite women in the same house
to pack. Whew. It was so entertaining, they were all giving each
other so much sass, there was an unreal amount of dust, and SOOO
many cassette tapes I could barely handle it. We got to talking
about movies and music and the lady we helped move basically fell in
love with me because I know who Gary Cooper and John Wayne and
Maureen O'Hara are. She seriously thinks I'm the most educated
22-year-old she's ever met. That's what homeschool is folks! We had
a great conversation and I told her she needs to watch "The
Quiet Man" cause she'd never seen it! Irrelevant. Anyways! We
came home at like 3 and the dust had turned my headache into
writhing pain/I passed out so we asked the elders to come give me a
blessing. They came in and immediately went to our cupboards and ate
half our food haha poor guys they never have food for various
reasons that I won't state but that doesn't make me feel less bad
when they are starving. Anyways Elder Syme gave me a blessing, he is
like 18 and he just got called to train so he's like, growing up and
stuff. I don't know how to describe him but if it gives you any idea
he quotes James E Talmage and Bruce R. McConkie every other
sentence. But anyways he gave me a really cool blessing and promised
that I'd be better the next morning! I was trying not to be like
"yeah right" because blessings work according to faith. So
I was like okay! Well outside our house there was this rockin party
on our lawn and we were trying to go to sleep early when the
doorbell rang. It was our landlord Lenny (totes Brooklyn all the
way) and he wanted to invite us to the party! He said everyone else
in the house was there and we should come.
So we got dresses on and went out.
There was yummy food, lots of crazy people and...alcohol! Suprise!
Haha I've never been offered it so much in my life. We were like
"no, we're the sisters, we're Mormon" just kinda laughing
it off. Like this is right outside the door of our deck! Reminds me
of that Mormon message by Elder Packer talking about "protecting
your nestlings" haha. We had a conversation with this lady and
she doesn't believe in God cause she's "independent" I
felt so bad for her. She basically thinks that religion is a crutch
"for people who need it." She seemed so unhappy. Well, the
party got a bit raunchy and there was "dancing" so we went
back inside. It was a real wake-up call though (oh haha literally).
Sometimes you just feel like you're a terrible missionary cause you
don't talk to ALL the people you pass, you don't have a member at
every lesson, you don't have the scriptures memorized (missionary
probs) and then you get jolted back into the real world and see that
you're doing a lot better than you think you were! Living in NYC is
like living in an ongoing R-rated movie. What better place to put
the "test" in testimony than somewhere where you are
constantly being tempted and given the opportunity to stand up for
what you believe.
Anyways back to the blessing, the next
morning I woke up and the headache was completely gone with no side
effects! Like, you always know that the priesthood is real but when
you see the proof of it it's SO COOL. I am so grateful for the
blessing of the priesthood in my life. We had a cool experience on
Sunday afternoon; we went to see a less-active we have been working
with cause she is in the hospital. We had a visit and a short lesson
with her and then prayed and were about to leave. As we hugged her
goodbye she started crying and told us how much it meant to her that
we were there for her during this hard time. I can't begin to tell
you how great it was to hear that. We have knocked on so many
unanswered doors, smiled and so many indifferent strangers, and held
open so many unnoticed doors...sometimes you go home at night and
wonder if you did ANYTHING to help the Lord with His work, and
hearing it from her was worth all those other things. Isn't it so
crazy? We can go through a trial or a test that seems to last
FOREVER and when some small thing happens it makes it ALL worth it.
If I did nothing else on my mission but learn how to use the
atonement, it would all have been worth it. But obviously I have
gained so much more than that. We cannot give the Lord a crust of
bread without Him giving us a loaf in return.
I love it here, I love the gospel, and
I never want to leave my mission!! Thank you for the love and
support!!
xoxo
Sister Wadsworth
Oh PS I AM STAYING WITH MY COMP
ANOTHER TRANSFER NO BIG DEAL !!!!
1 & 2. Pedicures with Sister
Reynolds
3. This car ride was way too
fun...EFY!!
4. Mega bed 2k15 #sicklife
5. Yana, our investigator, and Sister
Arnall
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