December 15 2014

 #UPDATE

 Should I give you all a run down on this amazing week?! OKAY :)

1. We went to the mall for P day last week. Of course we had an amazing time! SHOPPING :)

2. We had an awesome Relief Society dinner.. except I still don't know what people are saying so that's always good. haha  The picture was taken of Hermana Huntsman and Hermana Agyin and I at the party :)

3.  On Wednesday we biked all day long.. and we were biking to an appointment with one of our super GOLDEN families who are amazing might I add.. so we were biking, biking, biking...  We had about 20 miles under our belt  that day.. haha and YOUR HOMEGIRL got a flat tire about a mile away from our investigators house. So we of course walked... and walked.. AND HAD A BOMB LESSON :) So worth it. Then we we had about 4 miles to walk home.. in the dark.. but don't worry mom we were picked up by amazing members :) about 2 miles away from home :) So it was a good work out.. and oh yeah even though it is December. MOSQUITOES ARE ALIVE AND BITING. yeah got a few bug bites that lovely night.

4. RAUL GOT BAPTIZED.( hence the super cute pictures :) He is amazing.. he is 69 and is  the most amazing older man ever. He can even touch his toes! :) and do pull ups.. haha 

5. We got to read scriptures and hang out with little kids.. hangout as in PLAY FUTBOL.  All those little kids are BOMB at soccer... yeah it is in their blood. haha soooo cool :)

Amazing week of miracles and lessons being learned and taught :)

Cant believe next week is Christmas!! what... weird. 

Enjoy the pictures!

Remember I love you all! and if my emails annoy you.. please let me know! I aint got time to be annoying people :)

WHOOT LOOOOOOOVE YOU :)

The mission is great.

Love Hermana Kaylee Widdison

Shopping on P day

Relief Society dinner

FLAT TIRE

Companion fixing that flat

Back in business!!

  

 Raul is awesome!

Did I mention Raul is AWESOME!

Baptism day

Spreading some Christmas Service cheer

soccer with the kids

                                                                                                                         Dec 8 2014

 

     We got tea from an investigator.

                                                                                                                             
 TEA :)


Well..  Nothing happened this week. So this email will be brief :)

1. It's finally December.

2. umm.. Oh yeah!  RAUL IS GETTING BAPTIZED THIS THURSDAY :) So that's cool. I'm not really sure how that went down because I was on exchanges when it happened. 

3. I went to the police station.

4. I went to the court house.

Let me explain 3 and 4.  There is a member in our ward who was wanting to get a divorce and a restraining order. So we went along for moral support.

5. We have this super golden investigator :)  ______ She is amazing and we are just loving her...

6.. ummm Oh yeah, I got tea this week from an investigator. haha 

 I have no idea what even happened this week ..

BUT I LOVE YOU ALL:) 

Christmas is coming  and your favorite missionary loves mail ;) 

Hermana Kaylee Widdison

Texas Houston So. Mission

602 Eldridge Road

Sugar Land, Texas 77478

LOVE
HERMANA WIDDISON

Oh my heck how did I forget.. HARRIS MY FAMILY.. this street sign is for YOU :) 

I Got Coffee 

 Looks like another week under my belt!

What a wonderful week it was too :) Thanksgiving! CRAZY DAY!! I had 3 dinners. What! Such a bad idea just to let you all know. Don't ever think you can eat three Thanksgiving meals, because you cant. I had two traditional American dinners, then one Hispanic meal too! I am so grateful I got to eat a Thanksgiving meal. It didn't even feel like Thanksgiving.. it was 70 degrees.. hahah but hey it was such a fun day :) 

So right now.. oh wait COOL STORY:)

So we are teaching a man named RAUL. He is sixty-nine years old. There is something with old men. They love the sister missionaries! He calls us his daughters. Super precious! Anyways,  Raul has been taught  for about a year or so, and last week we asked him if he wanted to be baptized and he FLIPPED.  He was like no no no no no no.. kind of like that.. more or less ;) so we gave him his space and let him cool off. But then he came to church yesterday and we were sitting in sacrament meeting and he just starts bawling his eyes out.  I'm like what the heck is going on?! Because first off, I can't understand Spanish so I couldn't really understand what the talk was about. Then I was freaking out cause Raul is crying, and seeing old men cry is a sad sight let me tell you! But he was fine. He would just give us the thumbs up. So anyways sacrament meeting was done, and he just went home.

So then that night (Sunday night) all our set appointments cancelled on us so I said, "Hey lets go see Raul" So then we went and saw him and he was so happy, and I said "Hey Raul we just want to talk to you about one thing tonight and that's baptism". He got the biggest smile on his face, and said, " I want to be baptized for my Christmas present.  I know this because God told me today during church."  LIKE WHAT!  SO COOL..!!  Then we just talked to him and he really struggles with drinking coffee. So you know me, being quite bold as always. I made him give me all of his coffee.  I just took it from him.  He was happy  because he wants to do anything he can to be baptized :) SO YAY!  He is getting baptized December 20th.. ya know cause its almost Christmas!

Hopefully that story made sense.. if not ask me in 15 months and I will explain it :) 

 Everyone go check out this cool video..

christmas.mormon.org

 #sharethegift

go social media ;) 

I love my mission!!

OH I HAVE PICTURES!!

1. here is my cute zone! I don't know if I'm allowed to say cute.. but I don't care we are cute! Its the Galveston zone! oh yeah, I went to Galveston! It is so pretty! 

2. Our little bit of coffee :) 

LOVE YOU ALL :)

more adventures to come next week :)

oh and I have my voice back again! whoot!

LOVE
HERMANA WIDDISON ;)

                                                November 24,2014

#chocolate swirl

Hello Hello!!

What a wonderful week it has been! 

except I was TRANSFERRED! and you bet I balled my eyes out leaving my last area. I grew so close to the members of the ward, and to all of the people who we taught. I was heart broken to leave! but I guess I am needed somewhere else..

That new place is called.. KEMAH SOUTHWEST!  I am close to Galveston! but really I have no idea where in the world I am.. haha but I love it already! I am in a branch! Which means there are about 30 people who go to church! Be grateful for English wards!! I got a new companion. Her name is Hermana Agyin, She has been out for 10 months! She's from california. She is super nice and tall!! We are both tall! plus shes black and I'm white.. therefore CHOCOLATE SWIRL hehe so funny! but shes awesome! Her Spanish is bomb! Its hard leaving old companions, but I am trying to LOVE her as much as I can!! She is awesome! The work here is awesome too! Its a big adjustment.

OH MY GOSH, Name something funnier than a missionary with no voice. Nothing is funnier than that! So this past week I have been super sick, ew gross I know! I have like a smokers cough, and an awful voice.  YESTERDAY I woke up with no voice. seriously no voice. How does that even happen. So all day yesterday during our lessons I was silent. I have like a solid whisper voice. yeah so the missionary work is at a silent level with your home girl right now. I have no voice.. but yeah.. I'm trying to get better. I eat about 10 cough drops a day!

 I think I know why I'm sick too.. because we biked in the POURING rain. haha it was seriously so much fun!!  we biked all day.. and only got one lesson! So much for biking 25 miles and 1 lesson. But it was fun! I was soaked and covered in mud!! I would wave to everyone, I had over 50 people wave back to me! they probably thought how silly it was to see a girl in a skirt biking in the pouring rain, but hey they waved and it was fun! :) 

I love the area I am in! I am slowly but surely getting to know those whom I serve here. We have one guy, LUIS! He is straight out of CUBA and his Spanish is like.. not Spanish haha it is so hard...  but hey I extended a baptismal date too him, and BOOM he accepted it! amazing amazing :) oh yeah December 21st :) 

Oh and another thing, the gift of tongues is real. its amazing. 

I love my mission! except when I have no voice.. but hey they can feel my love at least :)

You guys are all awesome!! Enjoy Thanksgiving.. pray I don't eat any tortillas for thanksgiving :(

I LOVE YOU ALL :)
Enjoy Thanksgiving :)

Happy Birthday LIL RED. I love you!!

Hermana Kaylee Widdison

#WHITE

Hello my people :)
 Just your weekly email from your favorite missionary ;) 

This week has been the best week on the mission thus far for sure :) 

 Amazing! I have no idea how else to express how amazing it has been.  It has been bomb!!  Yesterday, we had a baptism :) yup you read that right.. BAPTISM... so cool!

The baptism was for ____ and _____ they are 14, and 12!  They are awesome.  _____ already started saving up for his mission...  how crazy is that?  I just think about how many lives will be changed by just these two lives.. Their mom is working out a few things before she is baptized. She has such a strong testimony of the gospel. She was bawling her eyes out at their baptism. I was like wow this is so cool. Being a missionary is cool! Changing lives is even cooler! The baptism was amazing!

 Then PICO, my favorite person ever, (he was baptized in September) and he received the PRIESTHOOD yesterday too!  cool right?! He was so nervous and just had to be soooo prepared!  He was so ready and he is amazing.

This week has just been a week of miracles. It has been such an amazing week. The best week of the mission thus far! and I think I know why.. BECAUSE I AM GETTING TRANSFERRED :(  yup I am off to a whole new area with a new companion. I am so heart broken.  Sooo heart broken. So if you were going to send me love notes, I will send my new address next week ;) 

I have grown to love this area and the members of this ward and all the people! I am so happy I was able to teach those I came in contact with. However, I am NOT grateful for the dogs that have chased me in this area.. haha  

 One funny thing that happened.  Our zone leader Elder Dennis came with us to the families house to interview _____ and_ ____ for their baptisms. Well he went to go get a chair from the kitchen, and hes a tall kid, and the ceiling fan hit his head HAHAHAH and then we were just laughing so much, and then five minutes later he touches his head, and he is  bleeding! Its running down his neck.. hahah okay you just had to be there. but it was dang funny. So even though we are missionaries, bad stuff still happens. Like tall kids and ceiling fans. :)

An amazing week! and now I am leaving this area.. couldn't be more sad!  seriously.. so sad! 

I love my mission! I say it every week but I do.  I truly do. Lives are being changed and it is great to be part of that.

I hope everyone is doing well! Enjoy the snow where ever you may be! 

Oh my heck listen to this, so we have to bike once a week... and your girl doesn't have gloves, because I wasn't aware it gets freezing cold in Texas. So I rode my bike.. WITH SOCKS ON MY HANDS. hahah I didn't want cold hands. so yup, I had warm hands :) 

LOVE YOU ALL
Enjoy your week! Talk to you soon :) Thanks for all the support :) 

 My mission home address is:
Hermana Kaylee Widdison ;) 

602 Eldridge Road 

Sugar Land, TX 77478

LOVE YOUR FAVORITE GIRL EVER

SISTA WIDDISON

Baptism day for this family. So happy for them!

 

I just love PICO. He is amazing. I am so excited for him.

I love mail! Keep them coming.

My new sweet little friend!

Just so you know.. PEPPERMINT SHAKES.. Christmas is coming!

SWAG FACTORY


First off, can everyone send me their addresses!? Por favor!! Especially if you want some love from your favorite missionary. ;) 

Okay, so much happened this week!!

The best thing that happened this week,

OUR INVESTIGATOR AND HER WHOLE FAMILY CAME TO CHURCH!!! What! What! so crazy awesome! we looked back, and she walked in with her kids. ahw such a blessing. So happy. Best day ever. So glad they came to church. She is making so much progress, it's so cool!!! Her kids have so many questions. I love teaching families, because it reminds me of my family! Go families!!!

Oh, but a huge bummer. I don't know when she will be able to get baptized. Because shes married to some guy who is in prison, and she has no idea what prison. She doesn't know how to get a divorce. ugh.. so basically mi comp and I are finding so much information about filling for a divorce hahaha fun. not. bummer. anyway, they are an awesome family!!

 We got to go to the temple on Tuesday with the mission! It was  amazing. So cool!! The president of the temple did the session with us and we got to have a Q&A with him afterwards too. So that was cool and confusing at the same time! Another thing that was cool was that my mission president said that during our session he felt like there were angels in the room, so he look around and was surprised he didn't see any. LIKE WHAT! that's so cool!!! 

I also got to do something super cool. I went on exchanges with another sister. SISTER HUNT! She is over a YSA branch, and yeah it was English speaking so that was super weird. We taught a guy who was on drugs too.. Oh and that was interesting for sure! on his door it said.. swag factory.. hahaha! 

Me and sister hunt went to lunch, and someone paid for our food!!! That was such a blessing! like amazing, such a cool feeling! So if you ever see missionaries, pay for them. You will receive blessings and they will feel your love. Because I felt like crying it was such an amazing feeling!! 

Another week! Crazy how fast time goes!!

LOVE YOU ALL!!!

Love,

Hermana Kaylee Widdison ;)

RITA'S... The best place ever!

SWAG FACTORY

We picked up some chicks on the mission.

BUMMER

It's already November!
It freaks me out how fast the weeks go by here.

Let me think of what even happened this week!

Oh biggest bummer this week  happened yesterday for sure. So a family that we are teaching struggle with a lot, so they didn't have enough money for gas to be able to drive the 35 miles to church this Sunday, so we were like hey we can find you a ride. So we found them a ride and she was so pumped. but then, at 10:30 she called us and told us her husband said no, and that their kitchen floor fell through. what?! How does a kitchen floor fall though?! I will tell you how. Satan! That's right! That's all I've got. We were super bummed she couldn't come to church!! Plus she wanted to come so bad!  So that's a BUMMER, but next Sunday she said she could come! So I am hoping she really can! Because church is great, and so confusing, because I don't know Spanish.  Hopefully they can come to church and receive all the lovely blessings of going to church! whoot go blessings :)

 Spanish, okay get this, I LOVE THE MEMBERS of my little ward! pretty sure it's about to be turned into a branch, but I love them. You may ask me why I love them so much, well let me tell you. They recognize I am learning Spanish for them, so they help me as much as they can. I practice Spanish and they practice English! plus my favorite person is Hermana Juarado! and get this, Hermana Taylor (mi companeria) says she has never fed the missionaries before and guess who shes feeding this week? yup us! Because Hermana Juarado loves me! whoot whoot!!

Oh and one thing, for Halloween, I was super sad because I couldn't have chili.. but hey get this, we had zone conference and for dinner a member of the English ward made CHILI and CORNBREAD. Awesome Halloween:) hahaha how silly am I?

The mission is great! I wish more happened this week but I am still doing work everyday, keeping busy, being humbled and learning lots :)

go missionaries!!

You love me and I love you!

LOVE,

HERMANA KAYLEE WIDDISON!!

dinner  time

mission time

You know I love my  Buffalo Wild Wings!

Halloween socks from home.

 Halloween treats from home.

Thanks mom!

Some fancy Halloween decorating.