April 11, 2016

Dear everyone, hope that your week was really good, though some of them sound crazy. mine was alright. like a typical englishman, I'm going to complain about the weather and say it rained a lot this week. actually- it hailed. and we were out in it both times that day! :( but there were also a few moments when the sun was out as well, so I cant complain too much. there were a few testimony building experiances that I got to experiance this week, or just yesterday. we were visiting a less active family with 7 kids (remind you of anyone, mom?) and like typical wadsworth luck, they had been having problems where everything just seems to break at once. so they finally got a new washing machine and when we were over it suddenly stopped working. first wash she ever did. so we tried to help. finally, we asked one of her boys to pray about it because he was the closest thing to the priesthood we had. so a few minutes later, the machine started working again. :) I love the power of prayer. :) its so cool. you can just pray about it and then see what happens. another testimony builder was that we are teaching this couple, who are planning on being baptised into the church, though they need to do a few things before it can happen. it was my first time teaching them, becuase they have a habit of cancelling on us. but we shared some scriptures with them to try and answer one of their many many random questions, and we left their home later, with a bit of shaky peace and commiting them to pray about it. well, we went and visited their nan (who is a member, though doesnt come out due to health issues) later in the week, and she had given them some pretty solid advice when they had asked her about it. it was a relief to know that they have someone to turn to besides us who can give them some answers. we are also really going to try and better focus our next lesson and hope that we can do so much better! because we know that as we teach the doctrine, their questions will be answered. so we need to do that. though I am sorry to tell you I am very far from perfect (but I suspect you already knew that) and that I am very happy to report to you that it is through Jesus Christ that miracles and conversion actually takes place. it would be a little awkward for someone to be converted to me, not the gospel... so, yup. that was the most exciting thing happening this week. we are slowly working on getting people closer to baptism, because patience is one of many christlike attributes that is best to achieve before you come on a mission, because so so so much is required. but I love you all and hope that you have a fantastic week and get to tell me all about it for next week :) love, Sister Wadsworth did you ever get the package I sent you? and yes I did get your email, but could you keep me updated every now and then on how much I still have left?but thank you so much for being my personal finace secretary for me. 😘 I am so sorry you had to get up so early, I have to admit I had great joy in the fact that many people had to get up early this morning because their two week school break ended. we got to teach sharing time again, and got to sing do as Im doing with the primary kids. I still love primary, every time I go in there i still love it. I do agree that the great wall of china sure does look like a girl swinging, but Chelsey might disagree with you. haha that puzzle. its so weird to think that I am going to be 20 next month. It still feels a lot like I just left.. love you back! rachel On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:52 AM, kelly wadsworth wrote: Dear Rachel and Chelsey, Looking back over last week, it doesn't seem like it was too bad. But, boy, it was rough getting through it at the time! I guess going in to the week without recovering from the week before just made for a rough week to start with. So . . . Monday. Regular day. Just extremely tired from being sick the week before, and a crazy weekend. Tuesday. Taryn and Ashton from 6:30 am to 5ish pm. Plus all the other regulars. And not feeling all that great. Looooong day! Wednesday. Started normal, then we got your buddy Ramon for a few hours. He had a lot of fun, but trying to keep up with 2 2year olds (who can both open the front door and leave any time they feel like it) and Ramon, who has only been here a handful of times, and a baby, and Keldyn. That's a lot of stinky diapers (all except Keldyn were in diapers). Thursday was blessedly peaceful and normal. Mostly. Friday. We slept in. Yeah! Then did some cleaning, and then started raking weeds. That turned into burning weeds and raking most of the hill. I started, then got Ally and Natty to come help. Then Jacques came and helped. But when I was ready to quit, Jacques kept going, so then I felt bad leaving him, so I kept going too. I have such a blister on my hand from the rake. Ouch. Saturday. Funny story. The boys had a track meet in Milford, UT. They told me they were leaving Panaca at 4 am. So we left here at 330 so they could get there to help load stuff. Only, when we got to Panaca, there was no one there. We passed the bus driver going to start the bus. They had the time wrong and weren't leaving until 4:30. Then when they got home, they said it was a rotten track meet, and totally not worth getting up so dang early. But Natty and Ally and I enjoyed our boy-free day and got the house clean and mending done and all that good stuff. It has been raining and overcast all weekend, I love it. I don't dare clean out the firewood, because it is supposed to be like this all week. And a slight chance of snow next Friday. Spring in Lincoln county. Today was Fast Sunday. Bro. Lister talked about how he loved the weather and the hymn "There is sunshine in my soul" (Ithink it was that one). I wanted to go up and teach him my song. I am happy today for the sunshine. It seemed to fit better because we have sun and rain going on. Then in Primary (jr) we were learning a song, but the kids were pretty restless, so we did the "Little Seeds Lay Fast Asleep" song. The Bishop walked in while we were singing, and he got down on the floor with the kids and grew into a wild flower. It was funny, and the kids loved it. Then he pulled up a chair and sang with them. I loved it too. Dad was supposed to come home Friday, but he was able to get some extra work, so he stayed up for the weekend. So, Chelsey, I will deposit that money when he gets home. Rachel, let me know if you got the email about your loan payments. Natty finished her puzzle. After I messed it up trying to move it. she had to fix it like 3 times. The Great Wall of China looks a lot like a girl on a swing. I still haven't finished my puzzle. Natty won't help me. It got put back in the bedroom, and now it's "out of sight, out of mind." One very monumental thing has happened this week. Jacques has homework!! Mrs. Lee (Tia) finally got him. He has bragged so often about his time management skills and never having to bring any homework home, that it is quite funny to me! Poor Jacques. The dance recital was this weekend. I don't think there were any Frehners in it. They all did dance team, but not classes. I will send you a picture of Remi that her mom put on facebook. I can't think of anything else. How are things in England and China? Chelsey, did you get your taxed filed? Rachel, I will either file yours, or file and extension and get them done later. Rachel, we signed up to feed the missionaries on May 4th for your birthday. I will get a small package in the mail this week. Tell us lots of details about what you are doing. I love you. (both of you) Mom

April 4, 2016

Dear Everyone, this has been such a weird week.. between bible bashing and actually doing some tracting, and the sun shining, its just put us out of the swing of things. but I was super excited for the WAY spiritual experience of general conference to put me right back! Just how did we get there though? that was a really big question weighing on sister woolsey's and my minds all week. most of the members here decided to watch it at home in their jammies.. and we could not find a lift there or back at all. the worst part is that the trains run differently on sunday, so we would end up waiting at the train station for an hour or two to get home. it was stressful. but *miracle* we went on saturday with a prayer that we would be able to make it in by 9, and we got there, (not really the problem) though an hour early.. the session was great. It is still weird to only watch on session on saturday night (the sat. morning session) and thankfully it ended a bit early and we left straightaway and walked to the train station- if we had been even a minute later, there would have been no train for another hour. we made it home just fine and on time. :) Getting there sunday was the worst part. we did end up waiting for a train for an hour when we had to change, but there was no rush and we still were way early for the sat. afternoon session. but this time the church was unlocked from the priesthood session. sunday was great. and during the last session we were able to watch (sunday morning) some of the members from our ward offered us a lift home! it was the miracle we had been praying for and what we had been stressing out about all week. so, miralces happen, prayers are answered and We go to listen to ALL of general conference (well, most of it.. they dont show the last session because of the time difference)!!! and be uplifted by the words of our living and breathing prophet on the earth today. it was great. other highlights of the week were some other miracles like the miracles of allergy pills at dinner appointments. and that one of the less actives we are working with is excited to do missionary work! now if only we could get him to church.... I love the gospel, I love what it teaches and that we as people can live for better tomorrows because of it. :) its so amazing. and I loved listening to the prophets and apostles speak and my favorite speaker was the Holy ghost because He was the one doing all of the teaching. I love you all and hope you have a great week! and do something fun like eat some tacos or ice cream, or even chocolate and sing frozen songs at the top of your lungs because I love all of those things. :) do something to make you happy because i love you and you deserve it. :) Love, sister wadsworth Dear mom, I'll let you know when I meet the other sister wadsworth. transfers are weird now so it could be a while. but I will take a picture of elder halverson and I just for you because we're serving in the same ward! the first time you mentioned it, I thought I would probably never actually meet the greenie, (even though he is not training anymore, he still is green) but here I am, and so your prayers have been answered. haha love you loads! rachel On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:23 AM, kelly wadsworth wrote: Dear Rachel and Chelsey, Did you get any good April Fool's jokes? The only good one I heard about was on Facebook. It was an LDS magazine or something. They announced a 6th session of conference for Sunday evening. There was another one that announced a temple in Disneyland, but it wasn't as believable. Grandpa Frehner didn't even get us this year. So how has your week been? I hope you had a better one than I did. After working on Monday, I ended up sick, sick, sick. I think it was the actual flu that people get the flu shot for. Oh, it was no fun at all. Then Wednesday afternoon, it was like someone flipped a switch, and poof! I felt better. So weird. So I got to take Tuesday and Wednesday off. Natty had half days on Wed. and Thursday. I told Keldyn last week that he would get to play with Natty, and he was sooooo excited! I was really hoping that I would be better so he could get at least one day to play with her. Natty rode home with Grandma on Thursday, and there was much rejoicing when she got here. Then since I didn't have Reiko, and didn't have to run down to Panaca, Remi got to come out and play with Natty too. The little kids sure love her. Natty got to go to her first official Wednesday night Young Womens' at the church. Ally taught about Family history, and now Natty is excited to get started on hers. Except that she signed up for her lds account, and now can't remember her username and password. Friday that boys had a trackmeet in Boulder City. They left at 9 in the morning, and didn't get home until 4 am. ShaRee offered to bring them home. I love ShaRee!! Natty had her orthodontist appt. Friday morning after we dropped the boys off. She got green and teal. When we got home, we just had a relaxing day. A little mending and sweeping. Natty mowed the one little lawn. We are pretty boring, remember. Saturday was Jr/Sr Prom. Ally went with Andrew Hansen, and Jacques took Josee Burgess. They were in the same group with Jesse and Derek and Asia. Jacques hasn't said much (does he ever?), but Ally said she had fun. Dad was here to be her escort for the promenade. The Jr's didn't do the promenade, so I was off the hook. You should be home next year, Rachel, so I hope you will be Jacques' escort, and I don't have to. We had a birthday/adoption day party for Pants on Thursday. Can you believe it's been a year? Can you believe she is still alive? I had my doubts when we brought her home, but she belongs now. Saturday we watched conference. I started a puzzle, but then Natty started her own. she is doing the one Kelsey gave you. Neither of us finished, but Natty got more done than me. We all watched together today. I think everyone mostly stayed awake. Even the boys. Even dad! We had biscuits and gravy between sessions. Dad just left for work, and everyone else is going to bed. Next week should be a little easier. No more prom stress. I hope everyone stays healthy. Back to normal. I will send the pics from the prom. and forward Chelsey's letters. Have you met the other Sister Wadsworth yet? That is so funny that there are two of you in the same mission. If you ever run into the red headed missionary that looks like Andrew, can you get a picture with him? Chelsey, have you met anyone over there that you know, or that knows someone you know? It's so funny that we meet people all over the world that way. Anyway, I had better get some sleep. I love you. You are on my list of heroes. Just thought you'd like to know that. Loveyou mom hpaich on

March 28, 2016

Dear mom, This has been a pretty interesting week. And by week I mean Friday, and by interesting, I mean crazy. But I'm at least glad that it was all in one day and it was a bit of a testimony builder. Haha anyways, we just met a crazy lady who yelled at us in the street and on our way back (thou we will now avoid that corner like the plague..) we met someone who just wanted to bible bash. The spirit wasn't there at all and we just politely listened to him talk, and later I read one of the chapters he had mentioned (Romans 8 is now a favourite..) and it was talking about all the things that he had been trying to disprove! It only goes to show that you can't really trust those newfangled modernised scriptures, can you? Another great thing from this week, at least the beginning, was that it felt like spring! It was so warm this week and this morning we woke up and it was snowing outside. If you want to make friends with anyone quickly, all you need to do is to complain about the weather.. Unfortunately, I did not get the chance to watch the general women's session, it's the second time I've missed it because I didn't watch it in the mtc either. We can't even find a ride to Lichfield, the stake centre, for conference and we might end up watching it in members homes. My Easter was great, though we didn't get any twice baked potatoes. 😭😭 but we dd make ourselves a lovely roast dinner. With apple crumble for pudding. And Easter eggs. 🐰🐰🐣 it's nice to have a companion who loves to cook, though there is also the downside that we end up eating a lot... I'm really mad at Caitlin now for not telling me about this life changing decision. It's not ok. And my companion is great. She's from Utah, she really loves trucks and want to be a mechanical engineer or something.. She wants to rock crawl and then be able to fix the trucks she smashes up doing it.. But at the same time, she loves baking and crafts and kinder surprise eggs too. I keep telling her she would make a really great "I'm a Mormon" profile. 😊 Sorry you didn't get any pictures last week, we email at the library so it's on computers instead of the iPads. But since today is a bank holiday and everything is shut we came to the chapel. Yup. So this week was really good, I loved Easter and especially learning and focusing on the atonement this week. I came to the realisation that Christ did not only what he did to take our pains and trials away from us, but also so that he can know how to support us through all of those things that we go through in life. I love it. I know it. Love, Sister Rachel Wadsworth 😊 Sent from my iPad This mornings snow, Thursday's blizzard (not quite) , and last week when it was Spring.

3/21/2016

Dear Everyone Cannock it great. Its smaller than my last ward, but also more alive because there are more young families than before. I'm starting to find my way around again and not having to depend too much on my companion to get me to the town centre or the church at least. The most disappointing thing was i thought we would be biking, but it turns out that we just walk everywhere. at least its smaller that Woodsetton. the hardest part is getting across the roundabouts everyday. The work is great. we are mostly working with the less active members and part member families (digging the gold mine) but we have also been doing some street contacting, or attempting it.the town centre is super small, but we have had some success that we are willing to keep trying. Its so hard to have to learn and love new people, but its so great at the same time. my favorite new person is our thai investigator, who is always happy to see us and reads her book of mormon when no one is in her shop. she got past jacob 5 and is now somewhere in mosiah. My companion is great. shes going home in a few transfers and so shes really more focused on that than her purpose as a missionary, its going to be an interesting transfer.. there are miracles that happen every day though. and I know the lord blesses us for our efforts when we do try our best. I love being a missionary and its so great. Can you believe its been 6 months? it has just flown by so fast. My funny story for this week is going to be when we gate crashed a less actives visiting teaching visit. but that was also one of my favorite moments too. It was sooo good to see them encourage and support her especially with her desire to come back to church. Love you all, and hope you have a great week! Sister Wadsworth :) hey, are we related to any Wadsworths in winnemucca? theres a sister wadsworth coming from winnemucca in april? i think, and the ap keeps asking me if we're related, but I dont know who it is. and I sent home some clothes that Im not ever going to wear here, but it got marked as a gift even though its not.. and dont let all wear my graduation dress!! On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:44 AM, kelly wadsworth wrote: Dear Rachel and Chelsey, Happy birthday again, Chelse! From your email, it sounds like you had quite the weekend. I'm glad you had a chance to do something fun and exciting. We thought of you all day, but we didn't have a chance to skype cuz we were either driving, at the poetry thing, or you would have been asleep. We have had another busy week. Monday was dress rehearsal. It didn't go too late, so we were able to have FHE. We watched the lamb movie. Tuesday was opening night plus they did a matinee. One of the boys was on grade check, so Mr. Lester had to (got to) be in the play. He made a pretty good suitor. The did really good that night. There weren't very many people there, but that was good. We got to sit right up front. This was late night #1. Wednesday they did even better. Natty got to go to the play for YW. Her third time. Dad was there that night. He'd had some problems getting his pickup back together, so he missed the first night. Late night #2. Thursday, they did a good job again. Adam forgot a few lines in a song. Nothing too big. Natty's fourth time, my third. Late night #3, and then we stayed up to watch a movie after we got home. Really late night. Dad went back to work Thursday, so he only got to see it once. Benson never did see it. He just stayed and played basketball. I was so glad to see Thursday come. It was a loooong week. Everyday felt like Monday. Friday, when we finally got up, we got ready to go to Reno for Poetry Out Loud. I told everyone we needed to leave by 11, and when we got out the door at 11:30, l felt like we got away on time. We took the boys to Henry and Shawns' house, so they wouldn't need rides to the bus for the track meet (Benson) and the play. It's a good thing Shawn loves us. We made it to Reno about 7:30, got checked in to the hotel, then went for a drive up to the temple. It was dark, but still really pretty. Then we went to Denny's, and did a little more exploring. A lot has changed up there. Then we went to bed. Yeah!! We stayed at a different hotel than last time, and it was a lot nicer and the bed was really comfortable. Saturday, we got ready, and went to the PBS station where they taped the competition. It was a lot nicer than when Cami did it. But still long and boring. Sorry, Ally. It was boring. Natty thought so too. Ally didn't place in the top three, but she did a good job. There are some schools that really get into the competition. Elko won. I think they did last time we were there, too. We found the Kratt brothers while we were there. One of the kids from Eureka was LDS. It was great to see such a clean cut young man in his BYU sweatshirt. His dad asked if we were related to Pres. Wadsworth who was the temple president up in Reno. We are. After the competition, we stayed long enough to eat, then hurried home. We did get stopped twice, because we still have one headlight out. Both officers were really nice. Just wanted to make sure we knew the light was out. After we left Ely, we saw an elk, some antelope, some deer, and hit 2 rabbits. All the big animals were right alongside the road. Our guardian angels must have been holding them back, just a couple of steps further for any of them would have been ugly. We made it home just before midnight. Benson had begged a ride home from Justin, so the lights were on and there was a fire going. It was nice. Jacques was stuck in Panaca, and Shawn must have gotten tired of him, cuz she was taking him home. We passed them going down the hill to Panaca. So we turned around and met them, then turned around again and went home. Church today was really good. Having Sacrament meeting first really helps when you are tired. We had High Counselors, and both of them were interesting. Pancakes for Sunday dinner. Chelsey, Marie says she and bodie are getting along great. Grandpa Wadsworth is back at Eve's house. He was at Sara's for a while. He's been having pains and cramps in his legs, and not able to get out of bed for a while. I don't know how he is now. Spring Break is this week. Ally and Jacques will be going to Reno for FFA on Tuesday. So it will just be Benson, Natty, and me. We do get Taryn and Ashton on Tuesday, but other than that, just us. We will have to think of something fun to do. Maybe a short campout, or a trip to Cedar or something. I guess that's about it. This is quite a letter for me. The next one won't be nearly as long. We will be back to boring. Rachel, how are you doing in your new area? Tell us all about your companion, and apartment, and neighborhood, and everything. Keep up the work. it is a good one.. Love you!! mom hpaich on

3/14/2016

Hi Everyone! This has been a pretty crazy week with a lot of surprises and miracles and blessings. :) We have had some really great spiritual expericences as well as some that will always make us laugh... For the spiritual side, I have applied what it means to be bold with love, and challeging a less active to go back to the temple and be sealed for her parents and then feeling the spirit in her home was so great. We also got to have a baptism this week, though we had to stop counting it in our numbers because its technically a ward baptism. but it has been so good to have a less active family start coming to church again, and then to make the decison to work towards the temple as well has been another incredible experience. I love the gospel. for the funny part of the week, we were buying some chippy to eat with a less active, and sister francis asked for some "chips and meat" but she got some "chips and mint" back.. and I jsut asked for the same, so we got a whole lot of chips with mint sauce and we had to explain and it never would have happened if we had just waited 5 minutes and gone to our ususal chippy... patience is a virtue. though the chips werent that gross, they were still eatable thankfully. :) For the surprising part of the week: Im being transferred! Im going to Cannock and serving with sister woolsey. since they have changed dodge night to saturday and transfers to tuesday, I get to tell you before I leave. It was a surprise, since sister francis is going home, and we thought I would probably be staying one more. But I guess not! I'm exticed to get to know the members in Cannock as much as I love the members in woodsetton. :) Even though is is literally the other side of wolverhampton... the blessings that I have seen this week was seeing the chapel full! since we had a baptism, all of his family came to support him and it was such a good thing to see, and hopefully it planted some seeds that future missionaries can reap soon. :) Love you all! Sister Wadsworth that picture of benson made me laugh so much, though I agree that its sad. when you are in the service of others, your own problems seem to go away. I got to go to sharing time again this sunday, and I love hearing the primary songs again. they will always be some of my favorite songs. last sunday, not this sunday, was mothers day here in the uk, and it was so weird to have people passing around flowers when it wasnt even time to think about that.. but Im glad american mothers day is closer to my birthday because that will be the biggest present ever. :) and if you could send me some of the potental canker sores, I would love you! they dont have those here.... I hope Jacques hand is alright. and that nobody else feels poorly this week. love, Rachel :)1) Saying goodbye to Diana. 2) telling sister Francis that in 9 months she'll be married with a baby. Dear Rachel, and Chelsey, How do we get back to Sunday so fast? I swear that I just wrote yesterday, and here I am again. I could probably just copy last weeks letter and it would work for this week. Not much different. I think we are all finally over the sicknesses. Reiko was back last week, and no one else has come down with it. Cross your fingers, and say your prayers. It has been a bad year for the sicknesses. Play practice was all over the place. Some days right after school, and some days late. But costumes are done, it wasn't a lot of sewing this year, which was nice. The kids have pulled it together (mostly). I think it will be good. By the last night, they should have it down! The boys had a track meet Friday. Benson hurt his ankle on his first jump, and was done for the day. And Jacques managed to step on his own hand with his spikes and from his story, there was a LOT of blood. He says he did pretty good placed 5 or 6th or something. I never know what to believe, though. His pretty good and my pretty good, are sometimes different. Ally, Natty, and I got to spend a nice quiet day at home. It was Natty's birthday, but we didn't do anything very exciting. We did play hide and seek. That was our excitement. Saturday was play practice all day. Funny story: It is the Young Men's turn to clean the church this month. Jacques stayed in Pioche at Camden's house after play practice, but Benson was at home. Dann came by to pick up boys to help, but Benson did NOT want to go. Begging, bribing, threatening, nothing was going to get him to go. Not ever brute force. He was hanging onto the door and wall. It was funny, but also sad that he wasn't willing to help. He has been very grumpy and mean lately. If a large box shows up, it might be Benson shipped to you. It was good to go to church today. It always is after missing a week. I love being in Primary and doing the singing. Sometimes the spirit is there so strong just from the kids singing, and I love that feeling. Music is such a good way to share my testimony. Chelsey and Cami were able to skype with us on Natty's birthday. Not together, but one right after the other. Chelsey, it feels like you are just in Twin Falls most of the time. Once you got settled in, I haven't been worried about you hardly at all. I guess my "mom nerves" have settled down. I The play is next week, then Ally goes to Reno for Poetry Out Loud. And after that it will be Spring Break. Jacques and Ally will be in Reno for FFA during the break, so I don't know what we are going to do. Benson will more than likely find somewhere to be , so Natty and I will be here alone. I might just bore her to death someday. I guess that's about it. I love to get your letters. I will forward Chelsey's again. or Chelsey, you could just sendRachel a copy. Whatever works. I love you both. Be safe. mom ps chelsey, can you get on lds.org over there? all the primary songs are on there. You could also do the frog song or the ducks.

3/7/2016

Dear mom and everyone else, This week was a pretty good one. I'm honestly still trying to get used to having to coordinate things with the elders again. Everyone in the ward is pretty excited that they are back. What did I even do this week? I know it was good, and we were very busy all week, but it all just kind of runs together until I pull out my planner and see what I actually did this week. The most exciting moments from this week are that the ward held a talent show. Most of the primary kids and the youth performed, and I gotta say, this is a talented ward. ❤️ another one is that Constantine came to church! He is being taught by the elders now, and it was one of the saddest moments of my life to walk away after introducing them to him and seeing the. All go inside his home for a lesson. And we had to walk away. But he came to church and it was so good to see him there. 😊 We were also able to have a last minute volleyball on Thursday, with the elders. That was a lot of fun. The craziest (or at least one of them) thing that happened this week is that we stopped by a potential, and they let us in, and they started doing my companion's hair. It was the weirdest thing, but they really seem to love her and are sad she's going home. (So am I) And today, we went with most of our district and got Chinese food in Birmingham. It was good. I never thought I would ever willingly eat it again, but I enjoyed it. What I learned form this week was about humility. What it truly means to be humble, it to show others that what you have been given, everything, has come from the Lord. I know that my efforts to bless and serve others has not been me alone, I am just doing my father in heaven's will. Love you all!! 😊😊❤️😘 Sister Wadsworth Ps. Dodge night has been changed to Saturday, so I can let you know on Monday if I'm staying or going. 1 buss selfies. All the rest- why do I always end up taking pictures of food? Bullring

2/29/2016

Message body Greetings (still) from woodsetten! This week was just another good one. Haha I think every week is good. I think that s because I'm always learning so much from week to week and I just love life. I love seeing the miracles that happen all over in unexpected ways. Monday- we finally were able to spend some time as a district and make some pizza and play some chair football. Lots of fun, but I think we all forgot to take any pictures because we were enjoying our delicious pizza so much. #pizzaloverforever 🍕🍕⚽️ Tuesday- we were actually able to spend some time around Dudley, which is good, and we had a great time getting lost and walking trying to stop by some referrals/less actives/members. #noonewashome 🙁 we were also able to teach our new investigator that night and I'm so grateful for that miracle. 😊 #miracleshappen we had some time before that appointment, so (this was inspired) we stopped by a less active family who was planning on feeding us dinner the next day before they could cancel on us (like they always do) Wednesday- we went to do service for a less active again. I'm kind of frustrated with her because we show up to help and sometimes she will just sit on her phone talking to her friends the whole time and we barely manage to squeeze a spiritual thought in at the end. But it's been getting better. We also were able to see our Romanian friends #doorsteplessons #cantgetamemberesent I love those people. Even though there is a huge language barrier and you really have to rely on the spirit to teach and pray they will understand you. Thursday- we had our district meeting, we met Bobby again after a very long time. We also went back to our less active family who we are teaching so our baptism can happen on our scheduled day. 😊 Friday- we were working in Wolverhampton when our district leader called us to let us know that the woodsetten elders were coming back today! #welcomeback so it's a huge blessing to finally not have to travel as much, but most of our new investigators live in that area. So now we get to start all over again to find new people to teach. Oh, and we had two!! Dinner appointments that day. One was a lunch (we had carvery) and the other was Indian food (words cannot express how much I love Indian food. #whendidthishappen?) I got to try dosa, which was really good. After that we got to meet our new elders, and i really hope they can figure out their way around soon. It's a really confusing area and the busses aren't too good where they live... Saturday- a special day, where we get ready for Sunday... We went back to do more service for the same member on Wednesday, and then we took the elders to meet our Romanian friend, Constantine, because he love in their area. It was so sad to introduce them and then walk away as the elder went inside (they can actually do that) to teach him and we went home a little after that to eat lunch. Then we met our miracle again and went to the Saturday evening stake conference with her, though she didn't come to the Sunday one.. It was a really good spiritual experience. I love hearing words from general authorities, and area 70's. Sunday- we went to stake conf and learned more! This time we got a lift from other member am the himans. And then we had dinner with them. Then we went to the one Romanian friend we are still going to be teaching because it will be easier for us to visit her than the elders anyways. And she told us she would like to have us still come instead of them. 😊 but we are still going through the restoration with her because of a huge language barrier. She speaks very very little English. We are trying to teach her a little English by going through the resto pamphlet both in Romanian and then in English. So this week was another good one. Transfers are coming either on the 15 or the 16, and it's so sad to see my companion starting to pack. I feel like there's not enough time with her to accomplish the miracles I'm pretty sure we can do together. I love you! Sister Wadsworth 😊 Luca is one cool kid😎