March 30, 2015

Hey family!!! 

This week has been good!!! We had some great things happen! monday we went and saw one of our less actives and she has people come to her house to help her cook food and there was an aid helping her and we were able to share a message about the bom and we gave her one and she was interested!!! it was pretty cool :) then we went and saw our investigator marie and we were able to have a good lesson with her and we were able to answer some of the questions she had!! on tuesday we had zone conference!! it was so awesome!! we talked about using our time wisely. we went to olive garden with a lot of other missionaries for dinner!! on wednesday we went and did service at arc and then went and finally finished cleaning our old apartment and had the landlord walk through with us we are officially out!!! sister palmer got sick so we went home and she slept for awhile. thursday we had a super busy day! we went and saw some of our less actives and 2 of our investigators and we had some really good lessons with them!! our recent convert bill took us out to dinner to a restaurant and pub. it had a hockey stadium in it and we were able to watch little kids play hockey, it was lots of fun!! there was a live band and their music was SUPER loud so we had to yell to talk!! haha it was awesome :) friday we did our weekly planning and later that night we went and saw marie and gretchen (less active). when we were at gretchens house her little boy jet likes to play around with  us so we had a sword fight and then a pillow fight!! it was so much fun :):) it felt like i was home playing with the boys :) saturday we went out and tried a lot of potential investigators and we do this thing called tract five which means that after we contact the person we go and knock on five doors around them. and one of the doors we knocked on they were a little family and they were interested and said we could come back!! then we went and saw some less actives and marie. that night we went to the womens broadcast and it was so great!!!! i loved it!! it was great to hear how important families truly are! sunday we went to church and then saw some of our less actives! 

our investigator marie is not really progressing right now.. we might have to drop her :( so we wont have that many investigators that we are teaching but there is this older couple in our ward that their daughter and her family arent members and they said that they want to start coming to our church so we will probably pick them up as investigators in a couple of weeks!!!! YAYY it is a family of five!!! 

me and sister palmer have been butting heads a little bit and we are just taking our stress out on each other but we had a really long chat today and we got those things out of the way!! other than that i  have been doing good!!! being a missionary is not the easiest thing but it is truly worth it!! i love it so much!!!  

i cant believe cameron is already home!!! that is awesome :) thanks for the pictures and dad thank you for the video i loved it :):):) looks like you have driven a lot this past week!! putting the new car to use!! hahaha!! so dont know if you have seen the new video that the church put out for easter but i encoruage you to watch it and share it to as many people as you can!!! it is such a great source to invite others to come unto christ :) the website you can go to is : helives.mormon.org it is so awesome :):) 

well i love you all soooooo much!!!!

Love sister kierra wadsworth 

March 23, 2015

Hey family!!!

This week was good!! We had a couple good lessons. Tuesday we did service at arc, where they have little jobs for special needs people and we help them with their jobs!! it is sooo fun!! :) we went to the arp class which is always good. our recent convert goes to it and he said that he loved it!! on Wednesday we are doing this new thing called "walk Wednesday" where we are just walking all day so we can save miles :) so on Wednesday we just walked around canonsburg where we live now, and it was awesome because you see so much more when you aren't in a car. that night we went and cleaned our old apartment and there was a bag of garbage on the counter and sister Palmer went to move it and a mouse jumped out! AHHHHH we screamed so loud!! ewww! we had district meeting on Thursday which is always awesome!! we talked about leaving commitments and following up on them. i is so important to leave commitments because the people have to learn for themselves and so when we leave those things to read and study they will be able to have their own understanding and be able to feel the spirit, and the spirit is what converts people to the gospel! after district meeting we had a lesson with Fran and Anthony.. Anthony is super creepy and he said that he loves us so we had to pass them off to the elders because Anthony likes the sisters to much!! then we had a lesson with bill. he actually took us out to dinner at applebees and i got the fiesta lime chicken!! YUMMM and then we had a lesson in the restaurant. it was so hard to not get distracted but it was a really good lesson with him!!! on Friday we did weekly planning. after we were done with weekly planning we went and finished cleaning our old apartment.. it is so gross compared to our new apartment.. that night we had exchanges and one i stayed in Washington and sister Palmer went to their area. so i was lead on Saturday and it was such a great experience for me. i have been having a hard time about feeling inadequate and feeling like i am not doing anything and just feeling like i wasn't being a good missionary and i couldn't do it on my own. but exchanges showed me that i can totally do it!!! so that was great :):) we had quite a bit of lessons too!! that night we had the adult session of stake conference that we were able to go to!! it was great, they talked about the importance of ward council and family council. as missionaries we are part of the ward council and it was just great to see them stress how important it is for ward council and the purpose for it!! on Sunday we had the general session of stake conference where i was able to speak! it turned out really well!! a lot of people complemented me so i guess i did a good job haha!! i talked about being converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ. then we went to the church to prepare for our ward mission conference for that night. we then had the conference, it was great. we just talked about the importance of member missionary work and how we have all been invited to do the work of salvation. it was good!!! then we went home and did a little bit of training. so for training we have a booklet that has a 12 week program that we go through the lessons and learn how to teach them. it is such a good program!!! 

so you got a mini van!!! crazy... hahaha we are both driving a mini van now!! i am glad that you like it so much :):) it surprised me that you guys got rid of the pilot!! haha you should send pictures :) mom i am glad that you had a good time at time out for women!! it sounds like it was a great conference :) well tell Bruce happy birthday for me :) i have birthday cards now that i still need to send to dad Barbara and Bruce now :) im terrible and sending things sorry...  sounds like you guys had a great time on the ride :):) crazy about Bruce getting the ticket!! haha that is crazy! is he now thinking of getting a new bike?? glad you are all doing good!!

when you are on a mission you are teaching a lot to people about the gospel and you start wondering if you believe in those things and if they are really true. i have experienced this a lot and i have been on my knees A LOT praying to heavenly father, asking him so much about the gospel. i want you to all know that i know, i have felt the holy ghost testify to me that this is the true church and it is the only one! that Joseph smith is a true prophet and he did restore this gospel, and that Thomas s monson has been called by god to guide us and i know that he is a true prophet! i know that the Book of Mormon is true and it is the keystone in our religion and it is the word of god!! i know that the savior Jesus Christ did complete the atonement for all so we can repent and become clean again so that we can make it back to our father in heaven and that we can have eternal life in gods presence and without the atonement we would not be able to make it back to him. i invite you all to pray to Heavenly Father with a sincere heart, with real intent, and having the faith in Christ and ask him if these things are true and by the holy ghost you will be able to know these things are all true!! (i referenced moroni 10:4) i want to promise you that if you do sincerely pray that he will let you know that these things are true!!! and if you have some things to ask forgiveness for i encourage you to do that as well because after we are forgiven we will be able to have the spirit with us so much more!!! i leave you with these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

 I love you all soooo very much!!!!!

Love Sister Kierra Wadsworth 

March 16, 2016

Hey family and friends!!

This week has been good and bad. I had really bad back problems and i was in a lot of pain! i got a blessing from the elders and i am doing better. i have these exercises that i can do that helps a lot!!! i have been doing them and taking some ibuprofen that helps as well!!! but other than that is has been a good week!! on monday for pday sports the member that does it with us brought a football!!! so i got to throw the football and we played some 2 hand touch!!! it was so fun!!! i LOVE football!!! tuesday we had a SUPER good lesson with one of our new investigators nancy!! it was good :) then we went back to our apartment and i layed on a rice pack that sis palmer has for my back.. then we had a dinner appointment with the torres. they are in our ward and they are from puerto rico!! we had rice and beans ( i really liked them, weird i know!!), chicken that had plantains in them and it was wrapped in bacon!! YUMMMM for dessert we had homemade flaun!! :) then we went to ARP (addiction recovery program). Wednesday we went and saw some less actives had some great lessons with them!!!! we had a member take us out to dinner that night. we went to a Chinese buffet.... wasnt my favorite but i was still grateful :) that night we had correlation witch as always was good :) the ward mission leader is GREAT!!! thursday we went and saw some of our new investigators fran and anthony and it was good!!! then we moved back into the behlings house and had dinner with them!!! we had steak!!! it was sooooo good :):):) that night we went and saw some less actives and she really wants to come back to church :):):) friday we went and looked at an apartment that the mission was trying to get for us and they gave us the keys!!!!!!!!!! so we started moving and cleaning up a little bit :) we had a lesson with bill at starbucks! it was a super super good lesson with him :):) that night we went and saw marie one of our investigators and we had a really good lesson with her too. we had a recent convert come with us and they connected super well!!! on saturday we moved almost all day! our ward mission leader and the elders helped us!! it was great to be moved in to our new apartment!!! it is super nice!!!! no more mice! haha!! sunday was ward conference and it was great!!!! (we have stake conference next week)afterwards one of the stake counselors came up to me and asked to speak to me and sister palmer so we went into a room and he started with a prayer and he looked at sister palmer and then right at me and said "sister wadsworth will you be willing to speak in stake conference this week?" so i am speaking in stake conference in the general session and is being broadcasted!!! CRAZY!!! i just spoke in sacrament too!! i get to speak for 10 min about being converted to the gospel :) im excited!! so yesterday we went and saw some less actives and went and tried some potential investigators and none of them were home :(  that night we had another lesson with bill at the behlings house!! it was good :) i will send pictures of our new apartment next week because i dont have any yet!! our apartment has a huge gym!! so we are waking up at 6 and working out :):) i have been growing a lot!! my testimony has truly been strengthened and i am getting more confident in my teaching and i am able to listen to the spirit better!! 

i am so glad that you were able to have fun on your ride!! i love seeing pics!! :) i did get your video :) thank you!! hope you are all doing great!! i will try to right a letter! i am so terrible! sorry :( i love you all so much!!!!!!! :):):) 

Love Sister Wadsworth 

3/9/2015

Hey family and friends!!! 

 This week was great!!!!! On monday after pday we had a lesson with marie and it was pretty chaotic at the beginning but bot sister palmer and i were praying in our hearts that we could get in a lesson and all of the sudden it got really quiet and she was asking us questions and we ended up having a super good lesson!! After emailing we went and got our hairs cut!! i cut about 2 inches but not to much :) This week we were able to pick up FOUR NEW INVESTIGATORS!!!!! It was awesome!!! We had a lot of less-active lessons which were great too!!! We went on exchanges this week and i went to bethel park with one of the stls. it was good!! i was put in charge of the phone and i had lost it so we spent an hour looking for it and we finally found it. we had gone to a less actives home and i had dropped it in the snow!! CRAZY!! but other than that it was great!! saturday we were able to go to a missionary fireside in west virgina and president and sister johnson were there so that was great!!! we drove with the elders (little and miller) just then before we left they told me that i was speaking in sacrament! so that night i wrote my talk on forgiveness and i spoke in sacrament!! it was awesome!! our investigator marie is having a hard time right now and she asked the elders for a blessing yesterday so they gave her a blessing and it was so great!! she loved it and she is feeling a little bit better! but other than that it was a great week!! 

I am so glad that you were able to go to the meet!! record setting attendance.. CRAZY!!!!  i bet it was a blast!!!!!!!  so there are now a lot of elders from our ward that are home! crazy!! how is garret? thats not fun about grandma and having to sell her house. i really hope that she will be able to! does she get social security or disability?  do you have to get the car fixed? so about the red car, the other day i was thinking about it and all of the sudden i got this feeling that you should actually to help you guys out!! i think that selling it is a good idea. i hope all is doing well with you all!! i am doing great!! we are living in our apt now and we have been for the past week but this wednesday we will be moving back into the members home. you can still send stuff to my apartment because we still go and check it :) we wont be moving into our new apt for a couple of weeks. so are you able to get a gps?? i dont mean to be needy but it is just a really useful tool while driving :)  i am using sister palmers but when she gets transferred i wont have one.. i keep meaning to write a letter it is just hard to find time, but i will get one out soon!! so what is all going on with tina?? how is joey doing? are they going to adopt him? well i love you all!!! 

Love sister wadsworth 

3/2/2015 part 2

A sweet email we received from Kierra's companion

Hello! 

This is sister Palmer, sister wadsworths companion! I just wanted to tell you how great sister Wadsworth is doing! She is such an awesome missionary already. She is just so willing to jump in and do whatever is asked of her! I have loved being able to train her! It has been such a blessing to me and she has taught me so much! She is such an awesome sister! You have a wonderful daughter! Well I hope that all is well for you both!! Have a great day!! :)

-Sister Palmer 

Mar 3, 2015

Hey family!!! 

This week so good/hard!! As you know we had to drop some investigators so we havent had a lot of people to teach.. We worked really hard and we still haven't found more people to teach yet but we are still trying as hard as we can!!! 

Monday, night we had a lesson with Marie and I invited her to be baptized but she said that she doesnt want to because she has already been baptized. We are still trying to work with her and we have a lesson tonight so we are going to talk about it more with her. 

Tuesday, we went and contacted A LOT of people and hopefully they will be interested!! We had a dinner appointment(DA) and we went to a restaurant called ponderosa. It was a buffet and it was ok but not the best food i have had.. we were still very grateful!! i was able to have mountain dew :) 

Wednesday, we had district meeting and on the way back we were stuck in traffic because a semi had rolled of the road.. it was a hill and the semi had rolled down the hill!!! it was crazy, we went 2 miles in 2 1/2 hours!! it was crazy!!! but that night we went to bob evans for a DA. its a really popular restaurant here and its super good!! we went to a relief society pres. meeting because they wanted to know how they could help us in our missionary work so we did that then we went to correlation. It was fun :) 

Thursday,  we had a lesson with Bill at the Behlings house. It was a great lesson but it went on for 2 hours!! they usually want us to only teach 45min- an hour for lessons.. haha it was good though!! then we went and saw a less active family. they are Tongan and they are super awesome!! they said that we were inspired to go there because they were in need of some help getting back to church!!! it was super sweet and we set up a time to go and have a FHE with them. we went and saw gretchen(LA) she is so fun!!! its just her and her son and they had a nerf gun war in the house!! it was so funny!!! I started driving!!! YAYYYYY 

Friday, we did weekly planning. we were focused and got it done!! i really like weekly planning because it helps me to see what are week is going to be like and i can know what is going to happen because we already have a plan!! :) after dinner we went and saw sister southern. she was in a rehab facility because her health is doing so good but she is getting better!! we read with her 3Nephi 11:11-15 remember that's what i shared with y'all the night i got set apart!! it was really awesome :) We went and tried to contact some people but they weren't home :( 

Saturday, we went to burgettstown which is the highest point of our area and it is far away, but we went and contacted a referral. her name is paulette.. we went into their house and we asked them if we could share a message and her husband said yes but not for him because he told us that we couldnt convert him.. we start to share a message about the BOM and we asked her if she was interested in reading it and she said no that she wasnt even interested in our beliefs because we have polygamy and she was way into the Methodist church.. and they just started to bash on our church and the husband said that we have like temple mormons and that they werent interested because of all these things! it was a SUPER hard lesson.. i wanted to cry :( that night we had a cake auction for boy scouts and yw. they are super into it! they spend so much money on desserts! the highest bid was $170!!!! crazy! there were these homemade sticky buns that were everyone's fav so me and sis palmer wanted some.. some people had given us some money we had $60 and we would try to bid on them but they would always go sooo much higher! so one of the sons there ( their is a family in our ward that have a lot of posterity in our ward and the mom of the family made them) he bid on the last one and he gave it to us!! he payed $140 for them!!! crazy but they are SUPER good :):) but it was just a fun night!! 

Sunday, we had ward council then sacrament meeting. then we went and did the FHE with the vaea's. we taught them about eternal families..( a little background on them: so there are about 5 families that are living in the house, they are all related. the dads are in the oil fields and their families come and stay sometimes so they can be with them. so there is an active family that wanted us to talk about eternal families because they want the others to be sealed.) so we talked about that and it was super good!!!! the spirit was so strong!!! they signed up to feed us like 5 times!! super awesome!! but we were leaving and we were shaking hands and they said thank you sooo much and it was much needed!! so that is good :) that night we did some tracting around the behlings neighborhood and hopefully we will be able to teach some of them!!!

that is so crazy about mom and the pressure cooker!!!! scary i hope that it gets better soon! how are you feeling now?? i think that you helping grandma out is awesome!!! keep up the good work :) but hopefully she wont loose her new teeth hahahaha!!!!! dad you got to the house in 5 min CRAZY!!!! how fast were you driving?? and you passed someone in the median?? CRAZY!!! haha!! so are you still keeping the other cars?? what does the accord look like? if you want to sell the red car you can.. i would like to have it when i get home but do what you need to do :) 

that is awesome that jared likes driving the blue car :) how is he doing with drving? do you let him drive a lot? how was visiting john and tyrel dad? how are they? it is so crazy that you havent gotten any snow and its that warm.. wow!! mom thank you soooo much for the quotes i love them :) hope you all are doing good love you so much!! im doing good the infection is gone so no more sickness!! YAYYYY!!!! :) 

"so i forgot to put this in my email but when we went and saw gretchen her son has a toy spider that moves with a remote control and he put it in my had and turned it on and it got stuck in my hair!!! hahaha "

LOVE YOU!!!!

Love, Sister Wadsworth  AKA KayRayRaySha!! HAHAHAHA :)