McKenzee's Missionary Moments: March 21st, 2016

Helloooo fam bam,

This week was a little cray, haha as usual.

But omg, I'm so busy that I completely forgot to mention that Monday
was my 5 month mark!!!!! 5 months people!!!! I made it to a week and 5
months!!! Haha I feel so accomplished!

So anyway, Monday we got our doterra massages, which are oil based and
they are just so awesome and relaxing. I was definitely on an oil high
lol lol. The lady who did them told me it happens a lot actually! Haha
then we just hung out with her and her family. They are just the
cutest, they are in one of the pictures I sent home. Love them, remind
me a lot of our family in different ways. Oh and the two older boys
wanted to play me and Sister Richards in basketball and so we did and
we crushed them! Hahah it was cute, they are like 11 and 13. But no I
was dying hahah, and I hated it because it had just rained so every
time we bounced the ball it just kept getting wet and I hated having
my hands all wet because then they were also cold and the ball just
kept slipping right out of my hands! But anyway, it was still a lot of
fun and reminded me of home. :)

Tuesday, we had to go to the doctors for sister Richards to get a
referral for her neck/back so she could go to physical therapy. So we
are driving to the dr and at first we didn't know where it was but as
we continued driving and got closer I realized that it was in my old
area in the fairway village Ward! I completely forgot that the mission
doctor was in my old area! Lol it was just so fun to be in my old home
and it was also a tad bit weird haha. But it was awesome but I texted
Sister S and I got to meet up with her after the appointment! :) So that
made my day! But oh man, the dr itself was an adventure. Hahaha so we
go and Sister Richards is just like me and she doesn't fill out her
own paper work, she said her mom usually does it which usually happens
with me too haha. So I agreed to help her out and I was filling out
some of her forms haha. Then we go back to the room and they have a
student doctor examine my companion. Hahaha and well he is a big
goober. Lol we were just dying. And the more he examined her the more
it was just so uncomfortable for the both of us. Haha I don't even
know how to describe it. Just strange and awkward. And so he isn't
a real doctor, he said he also does something with chiropractic's so
he asked if he could "manipulate" her neck and back where it was
hurting and so he had her do all these weird moves and he was popping
her back and it was just so funny, man I wish I could have recorded
it. I guess looking back this isn't funny at all, lol sorry, my guess
it's one of those had to be there moments.... Anyway this appointment
literally took all day, so we got out way passed our lunch so we went
to eat ASAP and that's where we met Sister S! Oh man it was so awesome to
see her again! Hen we went and had dinner and had a few appointments.

Wednesday, we had district meeting and I had to give a training on
revelation through church attendance. I was super nervous especially
since I only had a day to prepare but my companion told me I did a
good job! So did Sister Finn, but I feel like they are obligated to
say that since they are/were my companions. Haha then after that we
went to go to serve for a family in the elders Ward. And what it
consisted of was moving big logs of wood and then using a machete to
chop up blueberry bushes! #igottouseamachete #nbd lol And oh man, dad
I'm sure you had to do that at least once living in Oregon. I guess
it's a pretty common thing for people in the PNW. Haha so we literally
spent the whole entire day doing that. Which really wasn't bad at all
because it was an absolutely GORGEOUS day outside, no coat needed. The
sun the shining and it was actually hot!!! Oh man I was in heaven! It
felt amazing! The only thing that didn't feel amazing was every time
the thorn from the bushes poked you. Which was so often, especially
when you put a bunch of 19-21 year olds to do this. Haha we were not
very good at keeping the horns off one another lol. But the funniest
part was Elder Petitta in my district, the biggest one out of all of
us, is deathly afraid of spiders and it just so happens spiders like
to be in the garden where we were working and we saw so many and
every time he would just about die! Haha it was absolutely hilarious.
We started putting them in jars to watch them fight each other. He was
such a baby though. Haha so then after all of this service we had to
take pictures of course haha. But as we were doing so Elder Petitta
thought it would be funny to throw a caterpillar on sister Finn (and
sister Finn does not like caterpillars) while she was holding the
machete and well as a result she ended up whacking him in the neck
with the machete!!! Everyone of us scream and start freaking out and
he is just holding his neck with his hand and we all just freeze to
afraid to look at his neck! But everything was okay. No blood. He
lived. Haha don't freak out. He just had a little bit of a red mark
and a slash of dirt on his shirt from the machete. Oh my gosh it was
the funniest thing ever. Hahah

So after that we went home to change because it was time for dinner so
we rushed over to the members who were suppose to be feeding us(we
called her the day before to remind her) and we knock and she was so
excited to see us and had us sit down and tells us she was just about
to eat her late lunch... It was 5:30.... But with daylight savings it
was still super bright and looked like it could be noon.... Anyway
long story short we didn't end up having dinner with her because she
forgot I guess. So we are just chilling at the table watching her eat
her lunch at 5:30 and my companion and I are just dying! Lol lol so
funny

Thursday an older lady in our Ward was having a birthday party for
herself and invited us to come. So we go over and it's just a bunch of
older lady's haha. And it was so awkward! Lol like I don't even know
how to explain it, it was just such a weird thing. And so it was lunch
time and so we all sit down for lunch and the old lady's are talking
and well the birthday girl was trying to have everyone listen to a
song for her birthday so she had everyone stop talking and it was so
awkward. Haha then for lunch we had sloppy joes and beans and potato
salad. My companion and I lean over to each other and we both say
how much we don't like beans or potato salad but we both get some to
be polite and well Sister Richards hurried up and ate the potato salad
to get it over with and the birthday girl thought that meant that she
loved it and made her get a second helping and I was laughing so hard
because it was not very good. But all the old lady's kept saying how
great it was and got 2,3,4 and some got 5 helpings of it. We were just
in shock because our stomachs were doing back flips because it was
just not liking it. Haha finally after a while we got to leave to go
clean the windows at the soccer place. That was fun. That's when we
got that big group picture. Nothing else really happened that day.

Friday, Sister Richards had a physical therapy appointment so we went
to that and that took a long while and I was just waiting there while
she went back and did her thing. Although the mission nurse came with
us so I was talking to her. That was fun. Then for lunch we went to
the mission office and had a picnic with our district and that was
really fun. That's the other group picture I set home. Then we did a
bunch of weekly planning. Oh and that night we went to a less active
couple to share the new Easter message with them and while we were
leaving my tag accidentally fell off and I didn't know it, so when we
got home the man called us and told me I left my tag and when he
brought it to me the next day it had a bunch of bite marks from their
dogs:( so now it's pretty ruined and looks bad:( #idonotlikedogs

Saturday, was a great day! We started by contacting a bunch of
referrals and we actually ended up having short little lessons with
them! That was super exciting! And one referral was this super old man
and he had a really cool accent and well he was hilarious and creepy
at the same time. He let us come in, we had another sister with us,
and we were talking about religion and we have him the restoration and
he was just funny and kept telling us he wants to move to Utah so he
can have 3 wives and we told him over and over that that's not how it
works haha. Then we just kept talking and he was just very funny,
kinda had to be there again...sorry lol I'm not good at explaining.

Then we had our baptism :) D is 10 and just such a little
sweetheart. He lives with his grandma and she got baptized right
before I came into the area so it was exciting for him to finally get
baptized.

Then we had a few lessons, then we went to the D Family for dinner
and a lesson. They are the best, love that family! And it was just so
funny because they told me the Spurs and golden state were playing
while we were eating and of course I'm a spurs fan and they like the
Warriors only because of Steph Curry, but I was so excited because I
just had a good feeling that the Spurs were going to win. Anyway we
stayed there for a lesson while the dad was watching the game and
every so often the little boys would go and check the score for me and
I was just so pumped because they were doing so well! Then they came
and told me they won and I was just freaking out! I was so happy and it
was funny because they were all so sad and sour! Hahah I was loving
it! Then at church on Sunday I wore Spurs colors just to rub it in
because everyone always asks me if I like the Spurs when they find out
I'm from San Antonio and I was just so proud:) hahah #gospursgo

So yeah, that was my week:) the sun was out most of the week which was amazing:)
Well I love y'all to the moon and back and miss you guys tonsssss!!!!
"Don't forget to remember me"
Xoxo
Sister Batey