September 7, 2016

Hey family and friends,

This week was another great one!! We have been pretty busy and I love it so much. We have great things happening!!!!! 

So on Monday night we saw Darla and was a little frazzled because they were a lot of things going wrong with her house and she was having to clean a lot of stuff up!! She is loving learning though. She told us that she was going to read her BOM right after we left :):) 

Tuesday, we had service at Ephrata Manor!! I was able to play the piano again :) I love the piano so much!!! We went to Young Womens and played some volleyball with the girls. 

Wednesday, we had district meeting and it was great!! We had 13 missionaries there because the Zone Leaders came. It was fun, we played signs afterwards! Talk about CRAZY!! Haha :) We had a lesson with Amanda our new investigator!! She is seriously so prepared!!! She wants to be baptized and she is already in 2 Nephi 30 in her BOM reading. We had dinner with one of the ladies in our ward. She hasn't fed the missionaries in like 2 years.. It was sooo fun :) She is great, we just sat there and talked with her for awhile. 

Thursday, we had a couple of lessons with our less-actives and tried some other people.  We saw the Burds and their daughter just had a little baby boy and he is so cute!!! We actually are going to do service with them this week and I am so excited!! 

Friday, we did some weekly planning. We had a lesson with Ethan for the first time as him being a member :):) He is still going great!! He tells us that he feels so good! He is doing good!!! :) Sometimes it is a little hard to teach him because we have to teach him so simply but we are working on it! We had another lesson with Amanda and she is doing good as ever! We then went home and finished weekly planning. 

Saturday, we had correlation then we had to finish up weekly planning with companionship inventory. It was great, Sister Zaugg has been going through a struggle this week and we were able to talk about it and we found out today that our prayers have been answered! I love seeing prayers being answered. I have grown such a stronger testimony of prayer as I have studied a lot about it!! It is real :) That night we went and tried some less-actives. We parked down the road to walk up to the house and there was this guy throwing some garbage away and so we decided to talk to him. He is Jehovah Witness, we had a great discussion on religious topics. They believe a lot of the same things we do. He was interested in learning more about what we believe in but we had a great discussion with him :) 

Sunday, Amanda came to church!!! She LOVED it :):) We had a lesson with Ben, we haven't been able to have a lesson with them for a couple of weeks and so we were a little worried but he is doing great!! He really opened up to us about his concerns that he has. He truly wants to know the truth and it is going to take awhile and he knows that and is ok with it! He is great :):) We had dinner with the Nielsen's, Sister Nielsen's mom and dad live in nanas neighborhood. It is seriously so fun at there house!! It's like being at our home just having a grand ole time! We joke with each other and tease!! HAHA it is so fun!!! We went and saw one of our less-actives and spent most of the time playing with her 2 little girls!! :) We spent the night at the Sisters in Lancaster apartment. We are probably going to do that every p-day :) 

This morning our whole district exercised together :) That was fun! I am doing really good!! Thank you for the package, I loved it so much :):) I am loving Ephrata, I never ever want to leave! It is so good!!! :) This week I realized how much I truly have grown since the first few transfers. I am much more confident in teaching and I'm not afraid to open my mouth and be bold!! HAHA:) Not overbearing though ;) I am still growing a stronger testimony EVERY day!! I have been trying to read a chapter from the Book of Mormon and the Bible every day and it is great!! I am so grateful for the resources I have to study from (iPad-gospel library). I have been using the Institute manual as I read the scriptures and I am understanding sooo much more!!! It's great :):) 

The church is true and I know that WITHOUT A DOUBT!!!! I am so glad for the many experiences that I have had and for the growth that I have made!!! I love you all SOOO much and I hope that you have a fantastic week!!! 

Love Sister Kierra Wadsworth 

Amanda

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