Sunday, October 18, 2015
Monday, October 12, 2015
Oct. 12, 2015
Dear Mum, :) (and whoever else is reading this)
I'm surviving. I don't have blisters on my heels, which is actually kind of a miracle I think but it might be that I've started wearing tights everyday- and I have no idea where they might be you'll just have to search through all of my stuff, ask Ally she might know where to start. That's really funny last week dragged on because to me it went super fast. (I think that's because Benson prays for me) We usually start our day catching a bus and going to the Dudley town square to find people, then stopping by less active members or potential investigators houses to teach something, or going to the chapel and teaching lessons there. setting up appointments and crying when nobody shows up. That's usually what Sister Lee and I do everyday. Sometimes we go tracting and that's always interesting. That's so exciting about football- here the sports are soccer and rugby and I kind of miss watching people hit each other over a ball. But that's ok because I have better things to do. Tell NAtty good luck on her band concert, I know that she'll sound great even if nobody else does. :) And Who is the third person you have? I only know Ashton and Keldyn and the girls. My companion is awesome. She really pushes me to do better rather than stay in my comfort zone (which is really small so just everything she makes me do is helping me improve) Our flat is pretty small and its just us two staying there. I always have to correct Sis. Lee whenever she calls the fridge the freezer though. and we had some troubles with our oven last night but we got it sorted out.
THe food is good, We eat mostly frozen meals and stuff like that because that's the closest store, Iceland. and we went to the chippy a couple of times this week for kababs. :) But English food is really just meat and potatoes and that's it. and gravy. I got my letter this week too and that was the best! Thanks for the pictures! I'm still missing a couple of them though. I wrote you a letter back, but I haven't posted it yet. Maybe jsut sent recipies for cookies and pizza dough and biscuts and gravy. THe ward is having a dinner and I'm trying to think of something that's american that I can make because the only thing that I think I could really do without a recipe is pizza and I'm not even sure about that.
Oh, and if you want to learn more about where I'm at and what the people are like, you should look up black country because I guess we're right in the middle of it. And then you should email what you learned so I don't feel dumb asking people about it. :)
And for a miracle this week, We met a guy on Wednesday, who some Elders referred to us, and he's pretty golden! He was really sincere and had gotten himself into some really bad habits like gambling and was really ready to listen to our message. We taught him about prayer, and then he asked about repentance so we taught that too! It was so cool. :) Hopefully our next lesson goes as well as the first one did.
I think that's it. I don't know about anything else to tell you except to keep up the good work! You are such a great example to me, mom, and I love you so so so much! (but I think you already knew that).
Cheers!
Sister Wadsworth :)
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Monday, October 5, 2015
First letter from the mission field
Dear mom and dad,
How's it going? Did you get an email from the 70 who served in dad's mission? I thought that would make his day. 😀 because he thought dad was really awesome. it's crazy being out in the field. I'm in the Birmingham area, woodsetten b. So I'm in Dudley Tipton and sedgley if you want to look it up. My trainer is sister lee. She's from South Korea and is pretty cool. ( seriously) were sharing the ward with some elders and they're also pretty chill. I have not gotten any letters yet but I'm excited for one to show up. My address is
flat 4 an afield court
Tipton street
West Midlands
Dy3 18y
For the next 12 weeks. I am trying to get used to being always cold, and I need you to send me my tights. I forgot them I guess because their nowhere in my suitcases. Oh and tell bishop that there should be a good picture of me on the mission blog so he can use that one.
My day is mostly riding buses to get to one place to the next between cities, and finding people to teach because we have no referrals from anyone. I only taught one lesson so far and that was my very first night and it was kind of terrifying. But we've been finding a lot of people so I guess it's not too depressing. We've met some interesting people.
That's about it so far. That's exciting that the boys won their game, and ally's doing so good in cross country. I'm sorry that you had to drive so long but it was worth it! I love you! Tell benson I miss him and that he should write to me! And natty and everyone else.
Love you,
Sister Wadsworth 😀
Sent from my iPad
Thursday, September 24, 2015
What a pleasure it was me to meet your daughter yesterday in the Preston, England MTC.
Following the Devotional, she mentioned that her father had served in the same mission and
asked if I may have known him!
When I looked at her name I exclaimed “of course” and described you to her.
Although we never served around each other in Georgia, and possibly never even shared a
personal conversation, I always recall your testimonies from Zone Conferences. Despite the
difficulty it clearly was to testify, you always felt the need and had the courage to do so -
a great example to us all.
You have clearly brought up a wonderful daughter who is faithful and well-prepared to serve
in the mission field.
I hope this photograph is a tender mercy and a reminder of how small the world is in the church.
Kind regards
CH
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
MTC week 1
Dear mom,
England is crazy! The MTC is amazing. and I'm terrible at football (soccer). Its so weird to think that I've only been here a week, since everyday feels like a lifetime. There's so many things to get used to. Even the toilets are different. they hide the back part in the wall. its so weird. :) My companion is Sister Larsen and its been awesome getting to know her and to learn how to teach people with her. She's amazing. Anyways, you just learn so much everyday, and all of it is useful. Usually we slap our foreheads and ask ourselves why didn't we know this before?! THis would have been so useful for our investigators! haha. (even if it is just the teachers pretending). The teachers are so awesome too! And my district. There are seven of us. Sister Larsen and I, sister Pike and Sister Vousden, and then there's Elder Ebisch (say it Abish), Elder Davis, and Elder Udy in a companionship together. Sometimes its a wonder how we ever focus and get anything done. because we're all such really good friends already and we feel like we've all known each other forever. (And Elder Ebisch is really, really easily distracted. He reminds me of Brandon Jackson so much, but German.)
The mtc is really small and PResident Preston is really amazing. the first day here he told all of us americans to try and stop using slang words like cool, awesome, guys, and dude because it ruins the English language. IT's hard to stop that habit, though. and trying to learn all of the English ways from Sister Vousden since she's from England already. SHe probably get a million questions everyday from our district on just how to eat the right way. :)
Ummm, anyways, the mtc is incredible, if you want to know the church is true, go on a mission because you recieve that confirmation every second of every day. Its the best thing ever. Its really amazing to see God's miracles, because there's an Elder here who when he got here, he didn;t speak any English at all, but he can carry a conversation to you know and you would never know that. It's just amazing. there's so many different things like that everyday that are just little miracles.
Oh, and I left my pictures of you guys! I think they were in that note book that I took out, or one of them. Could you mail them to me? THose are important things to have. If there's anything else that you think I might need, but those are the most pressing.
I'm really sad that I missed the primary program. I'll bet is was amazing, and I wake up every morning at 2 or something because I'm still getting used to the time difference. And everyone crashed sometime in the afternoon and it's a struggle to stay awake for a couple of hours. I can't get you any pictures because I don't have a camera, and the laptops here don't allow you to attach or upload pictures, so in two weeks. And Ally's date sounds like it was fun. I haven't got an english accent yet, it depends on what I'm doing and how long I've been around the people who talk cool. (But my journal has one) but sometimes the accent just slips out or you find yourself using the phrases like "pop to the Loo" or something like that.
Oh, and there are so many sisters going to my mission. THere's eight, and only one elder, Elder Celestini. haha. I felt so bad when we play football and I'm really bad because I've never played but he's really good at it. BUt I'm getting better! My football skills will be great by the time I leave the mtc.
I think that's everything. THe food is great so far, I still pick out the steak parts though. Elder Ebisch is hilarious, I miss you guys, and the Gospel is true! There's nothing more important that understanding that! Also that I'm definitely here for a reason, I just don't know what it is yet. Being a missionary is so hard but fun and worth every second at the same time.
I love you guys and I miss you!
Love,
Sister Wadsworth :)
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Thursday, September 17, 2015
On her way . . .
Well, I survived and made it to the mtc. England is beautiful. Everything is green! also, everyone sounds really cool and I have to focus really hard to pay attention to what they're actually saying. President Preston said that we needed to write that the sky is blue (even though its actually cloudy and wonderful), and just that everything is great. There are four other sisters who are all going to the birmingham mission and They're all pretty cool so far. I'm really tired because the people on the plane to england that were next to me talked the entire way there so I really didn't get much sleep. BUt I had a really cool experience where I got to try to teach them about the Church. I don't think I did a very good job though because I haven't been trained yet. (that's why I'm here!) Tell Sister OIsen not to worry about the plane the landing is the scariest part and that's only because it made me feel carsick. There's still a bunch of other things I guess I have to do, so I love you! Tell everyone hi for me.
Love,
Sister Wadsworth :)
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