Hey fam bam,

Can you believe we just had our first skype call?! I loved it! I felt like I was right there with y'all on the couch watching basketball!

Lol only 2 more calls and I'll be home!!!!!  Man I miss you guys. But I'm so happy I was able to actually have a conversation with y'all:)

So let's see, after our call we had a busy Christmas Day. We went to dinner at a recent converts house, Sister C. So when we got there it was popping. So many people were there it was crazy busy. And so for dinner Sister C had a buffet of everything. Oh and she is a chef so she had made a bunch of food, like there was a Mexican section, and then like fish heads and lobster and rice, and steak, and potatoes, and shrimp, and then a big dessert table. Oh man I was so full, I got a little bit of everything and I was honestly about to throw up I was so stuffed. Lol then when we were leaving she gave us a Christmas present, which was a a really cute purple water bottle which I needed because I left mine at home. It was so sweet!

Then after that we went to a couple in our Ward, they are older like 50s or 60s and we just came to hang out. It was a lot of fun because the lady is so energetic and has so much energy, I just love her, she cracks me up. And so we ate and talked and it was just nice to relax and not worry about teaching. Oh and she gave us a target gift card:)

Then we went to another recent converts house to watch the other side of heaven. Oh how I miss so much just watching movies. So that was super nice, and she gave us slippers, I honestly was just so happy because all these people who barely know me and my companion gave us gifts and I just felt so loved and blessed! Oh it just warmed my heart!

Oh it was just such a good Christmas considering I was away from my family. But don't get me wrong I missed spending time with y'all so much but I know this is where I need to be!

So Saturday was crazy, we went to go visit our investigator, Axxx, who was suppose to get baptized on the 9th, and we walk to her apartment and hear her fighting with the man who lives above her. They were yelling and cursing and it was crazy. Then she comes down the stairs and we tried to talk to her and figure out why she dropped us and she was yelling at us and telling us that her and her friend, Philip(the one who lives above her) got in a fight and he is a member but he's not all there in the head so he smokes and stuff and so since they are fighting she doesn't want to have anything to do with him so that's why she dropped us. So sad. So heart breaking that because of a person she doesn't want to get baptized. I guess it shows that she wasn't truly converted or really had a testimony. It's still sad though.

So after that we had a lesson with a lady and her husband and while we are talking somehow she starts talking about her marijuana plant and I look over next to me and there it is. I'm sitting next to it! Oh my I was dying, anyway we have a lesson and I'm almost positive that she was high.... When we left I saw that she has some marijuana in a bowl on her desk and then I realized she probably was and it smelt like pot the whole time we were there. So then we go tract a little around the area and then we get in the car and the car instantly smells like marijuana also. We then realize that WE SMELL LIKE POT!!!! And it was so bad! Like that whole night I could just smell it coming off my clothes. Oh man I was so embarrassed and scared someone was going to ask us about it. So that was my Saturday haha....

Sunday we had to teach Sunday school and I was freaking out! But all went well haha.  Oh and then it started SNOWING!!!!! It's was so crazy, it was freezing cold but it didn't stick so that was good! But we had to go tracting in the snow and that was not fun! Lol

So yeah that was the rest of my week. Oh and that guy I told y'all about, our lesson is tomorrow so hopefully all goes well!

And so sorry about the pictures this week, I didn't realize that I didn't take very many haha sorry, I'll try and be better!  Well I love y'all so much and am so blessed to have such a great family that I can't wait to spend Christmas with!!!!

#onlyonemorechristmasawayfromhome

Xoxo
Sister Batey

Sister Finn and McKenzee

Best Christmas present ever...

Family home evening.