New Area

HOla fam!

Como estan??? On man. I have to tell you about the past week.

Well first off, I was transfered to a new area today! When I found out I was SOOOO not happy to leave the zone. I cried. I LOVE this zone so much and definitely didn't feel ready to leave but it's obviously what Heavenly Father wants, so I feel comforted.

I was actually praying for a confirmation to know that this was what was supposed to happen and to know that my purpose here had been accomplished. I've felt completely at peace about it after shedding a tear hahha and on Sunday my prayers were answered.

Our ward mission leader in El Dorado was the BEST. He is so funny, him and I got along so well instantly! When I told him on Sunday that I was leaving he got all sad and told me that I had had such an impact on the members. He told me things they had all said and that I have touched their lives. He said that I have a gift of being able to touch people's hearts and that they would miss me so much, and that I was going to have success wherever I went. All of this was such a surpirse to me because I was so worried that I hadn't done enough in El Dorado, that the members wouldn't even remember me being there and that I had just failed so much. Hearing him say those things was an answer to my prayers and now I can rest in peace knowing that I did what Heavenly Father wanted me to do there. I'm going to miss it SOOO much.

Okay, so moving forward-- I'm now in South Tucson, in the Sahuaro Branch, spanish speaking! I'm SO STOKED to be here because EVERYONE speaks Spanish. I wanted to stay in Tucson soooo bad for as long as I possibly could and I got my wish! I LOVE this valley. I'll be sad to ever leave. I can't wait to do some finding though, every time we would ever meet anyone in my last two areas who was interested and spoke Spanish they would always say "Oh, I live in South Tucson." Welcome to the motherland of Mexicans, Sister Wadsworth.

So, my companion's name is Sister Roberts. She is the SWEETEST thing in the whole world. All of my past companions have served with her or known her well enough to tell me plenty of stories, so I feel like I already know her. She really has the biggest heart and is just so sweet and I'm so excited to be her companion, it will be such a pleasure to work with her. Su espanol es muy bien y estoy animada porque tenemos la meta juntas para hablar solamente en espanol para crecer nuestro entendemiento. Mis companeras pasadas no hicieron esto conmigo y necesitamos hacerlo para aprender el lenguaje. Hna Roberts me dijo que mi espanol es muy bien para (por?) mi tiempo aqui. Este me da consuelo. El paso proximo es entendiendo mejor!

Sister Roberts and I are doing what's called "pinkwashing." Normally it's called white washing when two missionaries completely replace a companionship in an area but when sisters replace elders it's pink washed. I'm way excited because this means that we will be completely equally yolked. None of us will know anything at all about anything here and will be able to really work side by side in everything rather than one companion following behind, just trusting the other. I can't wait to hit the ground running. We are both growing to grow SO much.

We got to our new apartment this morning and it was SO GROSS. The old elders left the trash cans overflowing and didn't clean the sink or counters or even shower or toilet! Soooooo we're going to deep clean the place for our P-day today. Bleh.

Thanks so much for the emails last week everyone! Grandma and grandpa, I really, really appreciated your email. It really put things into perspective for me.

Mom, all that good news is so awesome! You doing Jenny Craig is so legit. Keep it up.

Last night, we had dinner with a family in the stake who are the parents of my friend Sarah from Provo. Sarah and I were in the same single's ward in Provo for over a year and were pretty good friends, we had all the same mutual friends and prepared to serve a mission at the same time. We actually roomed next to each other in the MTC, and I was the missionary who escorted her when she arrived. I knew she was from Tucson and she told me I HAD to find her family so they could feed me hahah. So they fed us last night! It was so awesome to meet her family and see her neck of the woods. They got your email and I think they are going to send you a picture of us. Small world! There are so many blessings to serving stateside! I can never go anywhere in my life without finding connections to people I know with common friends and so I can't imagine being somewhere for a year and a half without doing that. I'm so thankful that I'll be able to visit my mission often when I go home and have so many connections. In cast you didn't know, finding/having connections with people is my favorite thing to do.

Our new District leader Elder Hill and his companion Elder Cruz are so awesome. They helped us from the transfer site and helped us take all our stuff to our new place and even came to pick us up to follow them to email since they know that we both have no idea where the heck anything is. Elder Cruz is from Ecuador and I don't know where Elder Hill is from but they are both so humble and kind and I can't wait to serve with them.

I really want to step it up this transfer. Transfers are SUCH a mixture of emotions but always an amazing new start. I learned SOOOO much last transfer with Sister Encinas and I want to realize all the mistakes I made and things I want to change to do differently going forward. I feel really ready to really work harder and I think the Lord has blessed me to do so by letting us pink wash. It's gonna be an adventure and I can't wait! I'm also so thankful for Sister Robert's attitude. She is ready to hit the ground as well with new goals and a desire to work hard. We wanna tear this place up. I think we'll be a great team.

I don't remember if I told you about the blessing I got from President Killpack last transfer. It said that I was exactly where Heavenly Father wanted me to be in my life, that I was exactly in the right place at the right time doing the right thing. That's all I ever need to know in life and I'm okay. That's kind of what I learned from Hna Encinas last transfer, that even if the success seems slow or nonexistent, your efforts are exactly what is needed and Heavenly Father is so pleased. I've realized that He knows exactly how I need to grow and so as long as I know I'm doing what He wants me to do I can be happy.

So in this new area we live in an apartment complex with a GYM. I'm STOKED because last transfer, living with members, we had to make up our own exercise routine. That's REALLY hard at 6:30 in the morning! We couldn't run or really do much of anything together because Sis Encinas had alllllll sorts of very serious problems with her feet, knees, joints, wrists. We finally got a member to give us p90X, which we've been doing for maybe the past 3 weeks now. The guy on it is so funny, he reminds me of our zone leader we just had in El Dorado. So funny. It's awesome! It's def hard but it's perfect for having structure. It's exactly what I needed. I would switch back and forth between plyometrics and yoga cause that's all we had. I wish we had ab ripper or some of the other ones!!! But now that we have a gym exercise will be SO MUCH BETTER. I've also been "intuitive eating," and I've def lost weight but I don't know how much because we don't have a scale. But I feel so great. I also drink a gallon of water every single day. It makes all the difference in the whole entire world in my energy level.

Well I have to go but I love you so!!!!

I emailed Jennifer at Marinello requesting the tax documents, and gave her your email/address/cell phone.

Oh by the way the Lord poured out blessings on our whole district lately--we found 4 new investigators in one day last week!!!!!!!

LOVE you :)

Kelsie

I mean....Sister Wadsworth

PS tell Albert CONGRATS for me!!!!!!!