Hey family and friends!!!
This week has been another great one!!! Thank you sooo much for my package I loved it :) To be honest I cried :/ but that's life :)
Well on Monday after emailing we went to the church and did sports with our district. I wish that emailing back and forth would have worked better but it's alright!! We hung out at the church for a little bit and went home and had some dinner. When we went and did our shopping we stopped at a thrift store and there was a Mennonite lady that had 3 little kids one in a stroller and I could see that she was struggling carrying everything so I offered to help carry something for her and she let me!! So I carried a tote out with her to her car :) It was awesome, I got to talk to a Mennonite :):) So after dinner we went and tried to see Sister Hackman but she wasn't home. Her son Austin (who we teach as well) was there with his friend and so we just talked to them for a little bit. We had exchanges so we came home and did that. So I went with Sister Jarvis and I was nervous because I have heard that she isn't the nicest but people were soooo wrong! I love her soooo much!! On the way back to her area we talked a ton! She gave me some great advice for my area and my companion :) I just love her soo much!! :)
Tuesday, so the alarm wasn't set and we slept in until 7:00 oops.. But we hurried and got up and got ready. Then we did our studies and they do their studies differently and I really liked how she did companionship study and so I have been trying to implement that into Sister Blake's and I companion study :) So after our studies we went and tried some people and we actually got into some houses and taught people who Sister Jarvis has never met and she has been there for like 3 months ish. It was good!! We had like 4 lessons we taught, it was great!!! :) We went and helped one of their investigators fold clothes for her and then shared a message that was unexpected so that was good!! We were walking down the street to go get some lunch and there was this lady that we stopped and talked too and we showed her the video Because He Lives and she loved it!! She asked us "how do I get that?" and so we helped her download the gospel library app :) It was great!! Then we had some lunch. We had a Philly cheese steak and it was OK, the meat was SUPER chewy.. And it hurt my stomach really bad so that was no bueno. But it was good :) Then went and got some frozen custard at Rita's, have you ever heard of that? It was good, not as good as Nielsen's though. Then we had a couple more lessons and had to go back to my area. So Sister Jarvis is actually from Idaho Falls!!! She went to Hillcrest haha :) But it was awesome! So when we got back there was a HUGE storm! People told us that there was a small tornado but didn't touch down in Lancaster! It was crazy!! We did our exchange back and then we had a dinner appointment. So we left and the road that we had to take was closed because a huge tree had fallen down because of the storm so we had to take a detour and we were late to our diner appointment... It was crazy!! But our dinner was good and we had a great conversation about the Gospel with her :) So when we were driving home I had this feeling that we needed to go see Sister Hackman and so we did and seriously, we couldn't have showed up at a better time because she was struggling really bad and we were able to help her with some things that were on her mind and we had a great lesson with her on having faith and standing up for what we believe in :) IT WAS GREAT. The spirit is key in everything!! And never not follow a prompting!
Wednesday, we did our studies and we did the new way for comp study that I learned from Sister Jarvis and it went well!! We go through each lesson we plan to teach and make a plan and write it in our notes so we can use it during the lesson and it works great!! I love it :) After studies we went to district meeting and that was good :) We talked about ways we can get the ward members to come out with us and we got some great advice!! :) Then we went and had a lesson with Sister Lewis, and that was good!! After that we went to the library and did more of our area book transferring! Then we went to Sister Hackman's because she was feeding us dinner. She was in such a better mood and happy again!! :) We had eggplant sandwiches.. they were different! Sister Blake sneakily threw hers away.. Afterwards we helped her mow her lawn. Her son had a push mower that had an engine and I used a push mower from back in the day that you have to push it to make the blades turn! It was awesome :) After we were done there we went and had a lesson with Sister Batista and that was good :) We came home, did a little bit of area book transferring and then did our daily planning. So I finished my tube of toothpaste that I got the day I got to Washington, so I went through a whole tube of toothpaste in 5 months #nocavitiesforme!!!! haha :)
Thursday, we did lots and lots and lots of area book transferring!!! I got the package from you guys and I loved it :):) So my stomach hasn't been doing much better and so I called Sister Johnson and she said that I probably should go see a doctor... :( We went to go see MaryAnn and we even had a member with us!! So we walked up to her door and there was a bag hanging on the door knob with a BOM and pamphlet in it and a note taped to the door. We opened the note and it said "sisters here are your books back, don't come back.." So she isn't interested anymore... That was fun! We went and saw a former investigator and set up a time to go see her this week:) That was good!! We did more area book stuff and then had a lesson with Austin, it was AWESOME!!! We talked about the temple and he wants to go :) Then we had a lesson with the Burds and it was good :) They were calm!!
Friday, we pretty much worked on the area book all day! We did have lessons with the Parkers, they are recent converts and they are AWESOME!! They fed us dinner and during dinner they got an invite to a surprise b-day party for a lady in our ward and the invited us to come and we had a lesson planned for Darla and we called to make sure we were still on and she cancelled because she was super busy, so we went to the party and it was a lot of fun!!! It was good :)
Saturday, we got up early and finished our area book!!! One of the teaching records I put in consisted of 130 lessons that I had to individually put in.... IT WAS CRAY!!! Then we went and helped a family in our ward move for a couple of hours then we went to subway for lunch. Then we went to a baptism for an investigator that some Elders from our district is teaching. It was great :) There was a couple that had brought an Amish boy (16 years old probs) and after the baptism they were talking to him about the BOM and they asked him if he wanted one and he said yes so I pulled out a BOM from my bag and gave it to him :) I GAVE AN AMISH A BOOK OF MORMON!!!!! I was sooo excited :):) But ya that was a cool experience!! After that we went and a lesson with Brother Olsewzki and basically told us that coming back to church right now is not one of his priorities:( It was sad...Then we went home and did our weekly planning. Then we had a lesson with Safi it went well!! It rained pretty much all day! It was fun... haha
Sunday, we went to church and then had PEC. We had a late lunch early dinner at the Singers. It was good, we had hamburgers and ribs :):) We shared a message with them about family history and Brother Singer rebuked us and told us that nobody has time for family history! It was funny :) Then we went and had a lesson with Stephan and taught him the restoration. It was good, he is interested and has lots of questions!! :) He has a pet tarantula and I took pictures of it :) But didn't hold it... The lesson went we well :):) We went home and finished our weekly planning :)
Well lots of stuff, long email!!! :) Love you all and hope you have a great week :):)
Love,
Sister Kierra Wadsworth
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