Sister Kierra Wadsworth's Mission Blog: June 1, 2015

Hey Family and Friends!!!

This week has been full of fun adventures!!

On Monday after emailing we went to a memorial day picnic that the ward was holding. We ate some food then we played a game of basketball. It was fun but the men wouldn't pass to the sisters so we kinda just stood there :) But it was fun. After that we payed softball. It was lots of fun :) We played for like 2 hours!!! Then we went and got our groceries. We went and tried some less-actives.

Tuesday, we went to ARC and did service. We detailed cars again :) Then we went and saw Sister Southern. Her health is really bad :( She isn't doing very good. She is at home now but she had to go to the hospital because her blood pressure was SUPER high!! Hopefully things will get better with her. After that we went home and had lunch and Sister Landa did her language study. Then we went to the library to do some training for our iPads. Our investigator Jessica was there and she talked to her mom about learning more with us and she was not happy!! Her mom threw her Book of Mormon away.. So we just asked Jessica if there was anything that we could do for her. We did our training and Jessica came up to us and asked if she could talk with us. So we went out side and talked with her and she said that she was still interested in learning more and asked for another BOM!! It was awesome :) After that we went and tried a potential that we talked to last week and she wasn't there but her husband was. So we were talking to him and he asked us why we were there and we told him that we were missionaries and he asked us what we wanted and we told him that we wanted to teach Georgette (the potential) more about Jesus and he got mad and yelled at us and said that we needed to leave that Georgette didn't need Jesus. It was funny to us because he is super old (like 92) and he is not all there... HAHA after that we went and walked around by his house and got in the car and we were plugging and address into my GPS and Georgette came home and she came out a couple of minutes later and told us she was sorry for what her husband did and she said that he gets heated about everything!! HAHA :) Than we went and parked at a grocery store and walked around for awhile. We were walking by this house that we knew that there were African American people and so we purposely walked by them and one of them was sitting on the porch so we went up and talked to her. Her name is Dawn. We talked with her for awhile and we gave her a BOM and she said that she would read it. She told us that she was interested in changing at this time but when she is ready she would give us a call. So dad we tried to get a black investigator :) HAHA. We had dinner at the Cagnons that night and we had wings. They were really good :):) We went and visited a less-active after that.

Wednesday, we went and tried to see Nancy and then her son pulled in the driveway and the spirit told both of us not go in, so we didn't. We went around the corner for a couple of minutes and started walking back and Nancy walked our to throw something away and so we got to talk to her for a couple of minutes. Oh how the Lord blesses us :) After that we went and were trying a lot of less-actives. We tried this awesome family, the Reedy's, they said that we could come back. Sister Reedy said that the reason they went less-active is because she was working a lot and now she doesn't work anymore. They are so prepared :) We kept trying a ton of less-actives and most of them weren't home or they were not interested anymore. We went and tried this other less-active and Sister Landa got stuck in their driveway!! HAHAHA :) The Cagnons said that they needed help with laundry and so we went over there and they already did the laundry and then Susan said that we could help her fix a dress. But we ended just sitting there and talking with her. Her daughter said that she would feed us but she left and dinner wasn't even being made and so we just decided to leave. So we went and tried some less-actives and one house didn't exist and the other one we tried didn't live there anymore.

Thursday, we had our studies and then we went out and tried a couple of people. First we went and saw Megan and we talked with her and we asked that if she would be interested in taking the discussions and she said that she would talk to her husband and then give us a call if they were interested. After that we went and tried a couple of people and they weren't home. Then we went to the library and did some things for iPad training. After that we went to see Pam Allison. Her dog had a really big tumor on her stomach and it is leaking blood all over, its super gross!! But we were able to share a message with her then we went and tried a less active but the house didn't exist but then we found out that we had the wrong house number. But we were right by the Potts so we stopped by and talked with them for a little while and then tried the less active, she only lived a couple of houses down but she wasn't home. Than we went to this trailer park that we found and went and knocked on a couple doors and some of them were a little sketchy! But no one that we talked to was interested. Then we went and tried another less active and she didn't live there anymore. After that we went and tried some more less actives and one of them was home and he said that we can come back and share a message with him! After that we went and saw Gretchen. We talked with her for a bit and shared a message. Then we went to dinner at the Kalamafonis, they are Tongan. We had little Caesars pizza!! After that we went to the church because we were meeting sister smith there. So we met up with sister smith and we went and tried this new family that just moved in and they were not happy AT ALL that we stopped but. They were mad! It was the Boyers.. After that we went and tried another less active and she was super nice! She is from St.Anthony!! She is not interested in coming back to church right now but hopefully some day they will want to come back. After that sister smith took us to Dairy Queen to get some ice cream :)

Friday, we went to district meeting and we got trained by the zone leaders about the safeguards for using our iPads. It was really good. It took most of our morning. I am so excited for iPads because it truly will help hasten the work. After district meeting we had a couple of appointments to go to and sister kelso came out with us. We went and saw George. The lesson with him was ok, he just thinks he knows everything and he does know a lot but he doesn't understand the difference between our church and others and we tried to explain to him that we are different because we have the proper priesthood authority but I still don't think he understands all of it hopefully he will pray about it and get an answer that it is different. After that we went and saw sister Schmitt. Sister smith wanted us to go see her because her visiting teachers haven't visited her for a really long time. She is pregnant and she is soooo cute!!! She is so tiny! She is moving to Ogden a month after she gives birth. I don't think I could do that... After that we went to the Robinson's for dinner. We had hamburgers and some other stuff and it was super good!!! We shared the restoration message with them and they thought we were asking lame questions and I'm pretty sure that they thought we were just newbies and didn't think they knew anything... Haha it was funny :) After that we came home and Sister Landa did her language study.

Saturday, we did weekly planning and then went to a baby shower that we were invited to. After that we went to the library and updated some things for our meetings for church. Then we went and tried a potential investigator and I'm pretty sure that he was home but wasn't interested because no one answered the door. We tried some more people and one moved and another one wasn't interested. After that we went back to the trailer park I talked about and there were some Hispanics outside talking. So we went up to them and Sister Landa was talking to them and one of them is interested!!! He said that the only day he has work off is Sundays. He told us that when we come over that we need to bring a couple (that could speak Spanish) because he didn't want others thinking that he was cheating on his wife, he said that if he had just girls walking in that others would judge him. So that was awesome :) After that we went home and finished weekly planning and had dinner. That night I got a call telling me that I am getting transferred this week. So that's crazy..

Sunday, we had church. It was CRAZY!!! Sister Landa and I said prayers for sacrament meeting, I bore my testimony because I am leaving, we had to teach sharing time. It felt like we were running all over the place!! After church was Kenny's baptism!!!!!! So we helped get all that set up and Sister Landa and I gave talks. Oh that morning President Johnson called us and said that they were going to try to make it to the baptism, and they did, but he also talked to Sister Landa and told her that she is going to be training a new Hermana (sister)!!! She is so excited :) So President and Sister Johnson were at our baptism. Then we went and said goodbye to the Potts family. They texted you :) After that we had dinner at the Williams, barbecue :) YUMMM!! Then we went and said goodbye to Gretchen. That was a really hard goodbye! We both cried :( I truly will miss her sooo much!!! Then we went and also said goodbye to the Halonis.

Sounds like you are having a fun time riding and going to Utah spending time with the family. Going to the cabin and just getting ready for the summer!! Life is going good, excited to go to a new area and meet lots of new people :) I will probably be able to email you my new address this week. Also, I can read my email everyday but I can't email back. So you can email me everyday! :) If you want!! :) Well I love you all to the moon and back :) Hope this week is a good one for you! Be safe :)

Love, Sister Kierra Wadsworth