Hello hello,
So this week was filled with some crazy stuff happening and also some
miracles. It was great!
Tuesday morning we went out with Sister T, she's a lady in our
Ward who is an amazing missionary! She will literally pull over when
she sees someone one the side of the road and she will be like, hey do
you go to church? Haha it's awesome, we get a lot of referrals that
way. Anyway so she met a man named M at a gas station and he told
her that he has been looking for a church so she says she has some
missionaries she will bring over. So he tells her to come to his
mechanic shop where he works. So Tuesday morning we go into his shop
and he's a really sweet guy and so he has us sit in his lounge of his
car shop and we teach him about the Book of Mormon and we give him the
book and he was all excited to read it. Yay:)
So this week was filled with some crazy stuff happening and also some
miracles. It was great!
Tuesday morning we went out with Sister T, she's a lady in our
Ward who is an amazing missionary! She will literally pull over when
she sees someone one the side of the road and she will be like, hey do
you go to church? Haha it's awesome, we get a lot of referrals that
way. Anyway so she met a man named M at a gas station and he told
her that he has been looking for a church so she says she has some
missionaries she will bring over. So he tells her to come to his
mechanic shop where he works. So Tuesday morning we go into his shop
and he's a really sweet guy and so he has us sit in his lounge of his
car shop and we teach him about the Book of Mormon and we give him the
book and he was all excited to read it. Yay:)
Then we had exchanges with the STLs again, and it was fine. We did
some service for a lady in our Ward. She helped her clean her house
and then we helped her with some of her garage. Then we had dinner and
these people had artichoke and I'm pretty sure I've never eaten one
and they were freaking out saying I had to try it and so I did and it
was fine, idk what the big deal is haha, its a weird food. Anyway,
after that we had a bunch of lessons and we had a lady in our Ward
take us out so that was nice.
Wednesday we had district meeting and sister Richards and I had to
give the restoration. We nailed it if you ask me;) lol then after our
meeting we went to do some more service which consisted of taking out
blackberry bushes. Which means lots of pokies in our legs and arms and
it's just not very fun. Lol it also was like 88 outside, which was
nice because I've missed the sun, but also not so nice because it was
so so so hot and we were just drained by the time we were done. Oh and
we did that for about 4 hours! I'm getting pretty good at doing yard
work, specifically taking out blackberry bushes. Haha
some service for a lady in our Ward. She helped her clean her house
and then we helped her with some of her garage. Then we had dinner and
these people had artichoke and I'm pretty sure I've never eaten one
and they were freaking out saying I had to try it and so I did and it
was fine, idk what the big deal is haha, its a weird food. Anyway,
after that we had a bunch of lessons and we had a lady in our Ward
take us out so that was nice.
Wednesday we had district meeting and sister Richards and I had to
give the restoration. We nailed it if you ask me;) lol then after our
meeting we went to do some more service which consisted of taking out
blackberry bushes. Which means lots of pokies in our legs and arms and
it's just not very fun. Lol it also was like 88 outside, which was
nice because I've missed the sun, but also not so nice because it was
so so so hot and we were just drained by the time we were done. Oh and
we did that for about 4 hours! I'm getting pretty good at doing yard
work, specifically taking out blackberry bushes. Haha
Thursday, oh yeah, Thursday was such a good good day!!!:) we had 8
lessons just on Thursday! Which is great because that is almost half
of our lessons for the week! We had 22 lessons total at the end of the
week! Anyway so we have 3 lessons in the morning before lunch then we
went to go clean the windows at the soccer place. THEN we went to a
lesson with our investigator T and had a really good lesson with
her. THEN we hurried up and went to another lesson with M, remember
him? So we went back to his shop and we sat in his lounge and taught
him the restoration which was awesome because he had some questions
and he really wants to find the truth. And it's so funny because
during our lesson his customers kept walking in and out. Well anyway,
during the middle a lady comes and sits down(we are in the lounge hah)
and we are talking about Joseph Smith and this lady asks us who he was
so then we give her he restoration!!!! It was so exciting! Lol THEN we
stopped at the gas station and THEN we talked to this man there and we
talked about the Book of Mormon and we set up another lesson with him!
AND THEN we went to a lesson with a man who speaks another language
but for the most part we can understand each other haha. For dinner it
was really awesome because we got to go eat with Elder and Sister
Burgoyne, they are in the mission office staff. It was SO FUN!!!! I
just love them, they are like family out here in the mission field.
They've been out on their mission for 17 months and they are going to
be out here for 23 months. Anyway I love them:) but yeah we had so
many lessons that day and it was amazing!!!!:)
Friday was a good day too because in the morning we went to the church
to have a zone comp study with President Taylor. It was cool
because he just let us ask him any question we had and he would answer
it. It became a really good discussion and I learned so much. Haha
it's funny what you come to enjoy on your mission but I just really
love learning from other people. Anyway it was great! Then we went to
do some more service which was helping these newly found less active
couple move out of there apartment into a new one. It was so so crazy.
After helping so many people move I've come to the conclusion that I
just don't need to keep anything haha. So yeah, I'm definitely going to be throwing
out everything when I get home hahah. After that we went and helped
some lady weed her garden. Then we went to Izzys AGAIN!!!! Hahaha lets
just say I filled up on salad.
Saturday, omg, guess what we did, MORE SERVICE! Hahaha don't get me
wrong, I love love love doing all his service, but at the same time I
don't know how much more my poor body can take! Lol;) kidding....kind
of ;) anyway so we went to take down these 15-20ft shrubs. Oh man it
was crazy! We had to push them down/shovel them/ax them/ pull them
out. Anything we could do, we did to try and get them out. Oh man we
should have gotten a picture because we were just covered in all the
stuff from these shrubs because we were shaking them so much! Hahaha
and it was so so so funny because an egg fell out of the tree and fell
onto sister Finns arm! Omg we were all dying laughing! Lol
Sunday night after we did some much needed weekly planning we went
over to the D Family and had a little campfire outside with them and
roasted some mallows. Mmmmm it was so great and yummy and I loved
being by he fire. Reminded me a lot of when we use to do it at our old
house. I loved it. So then we had to share a spiritual thought and we
related the fire to our faith because you can't just ignore he fire or
it will go out, just like our faith. We have to keep adding wood into
it and the fire will continue to burn. Just like out faith, we need to
do things to add to our faith like going to church, praying, reading.
Anyway it was really cool to see the kids understand it.
SO TODAY, hahaha the reason it's taken me so long to write y'all is
because we just got back from going on a HIKE to some WATERFALLS!!!!:)
oh my gosh you guys, it was just so beautiful!!!!! I loved it even
though I thought I was going to die a few times hahaha. It was really
fun because a bunch of us missionaries went and it was just so awesome
once you got to the top, which is like life a lot of the times, the
journey can be hard but the reward when you make it to the top is so
worth all the pain. I just love that. it made me think that WE CAN DO
HARD THINGS!!!! Hahaha, does that sound familiar mom?? Anyway it was
just so beautiful and I was so excited to do it. I'll send lots of
pictures, don't you worry dad;) oh and Sister D came with us
so that was great:) I just love her and I just love Sister Richards.
We are so similar and we get along so well! She is so funny and we
just literally laugh at everything because it's always so funny! And
we can just give one another a look and know that we are both thinking
the same thing. It's great! Lol
So yeah, that was my crazy busy week:)
I miss you guys so much and I love hearing about your weeks
I la la love you guys to the moon and back
lessons just on Thursday! Which is great because that is almost half
of our lessons for the week! We had 22 lessons total at the end of the
week! Anyway so we have 3 lessons in the morning before lunch then we
went to go clean the windows at the soccer place. THEN we went to a
lesson with our investigator T and had a really good lesson with
her. THEN we hurried up and went to another lesson with M, remember
him? So we went back to his shop and we sat in his lounge and taught
him the restoration which was awesome because he had some questions
and he really wants to find the truth. And it's so funny because
during our lesson his customers kept walking in and out. Well anyway,
during the middle a lady comes and sits down(we are in the lounge hah)
and we are talking about Joseph Smith and this lady asks us who he was
so then we give her he restoration!!!! It was so exciting! Lol THEN we
stopped at the gas station and THEN we talked to this man there and we
talked about the Book of Mormon and we set up another lesson with him!
AND THEN we went to a lesson with a man who speaks another language
but for the most part we can understand each other haha. For dinner it
was really awesome because we got to go eat with Elder and Sister
Burgoyne, they are in the mission office staff. It was SO FUN!!!! I
just love them, they are like family out here in the mission field.
They've been out on their mission for 17 months and they are going to
be out here for 23 months. Anyway I love them:) but yeah we had so
many lessons that day and it was amazing!!!!:)
Friday was a good day too because in the morning we went to the church
to have a zone comp study with President Taylor. It was cool
because he just let us ask him any question we had and he would answer
it. It became a really good discussion and I learned so much. Haha
it's funny what you come to enjoy on your mission but I just really
love learning from other people. Anyway it was great! Then we went to
do some more service which was helping these newly found less active
couple move out of there apartment into a new one. It was so so crazy.
After helping so many people move I've come to the conclusion that I
just don't need to keep anything haha. So yeah, I'm definitely going to be throwing
out everything when I get home hahah. After that we went and helped
some lady weed her garden. Then we went to Izzys AGAIN!!!! Hahaha lets
just say I filled up on salad.
Saturday, omg, guess what we did, MORE SERVICE! Hahaha don't get me
wrong, I love love love doing all his service, but at the same time I
don't know how much more my poor body can take! Lol;) kidding....kind
of ;) anyway so we went to take down these 15-20ft shrubs. Oh man it
was crazy! We had to push them down/shovel them/ax them/ pull them
out. Anything we could do, we did to try and get them out. Oh man we
should have gotten a picture because we were just covered in all the
stuff from these shrubs because we were shaking them so much! Hahaha
and it was so so so funny because an egg fell out of the tree and fell
onto sister Finns arm! Omg we were all dying laughing! Lol
Sunday night after we did some much needed weekly planning we went
over to the D Family and had a little campfire outside with them and
roasted some mallows. Mmmmm it was so great and yummy and I loved
being by he fire. Reminded me a lot of when we use to do it at our old
house. I loved it. So then we had to share a spiritual thought and we
related the fire to our faith because you can't just ignore he fire or
it will go out, just like our faith. We have to keep adding wood into
it and the fire will continue to burn. Just like out faith, we need to
do things to add to our faith like going to church, praying, reading.
Anyway it was really cool to see the kids understand it.
SO TODAY, hahaha the reason it's taken me so long to write y'all is
because we just got back from going on a HIKE to some WATERFALLS!!!!:)
oh my gosh you guys, it was just so beautiful!!!!! I loved it even
though I thought I was going to die a few times hahaha. It was really
fun because a bunch of us missionaries went and it was just so awesome
once you got to the top, which is like life a lot of the times, the
journey can be hard but the reward when you make it to the top is so
worth all the pain. I just love that. it made me think that WE CAN DO
HARD THINGS!!!! Hahaha, does that sound familiar mom?? Anyway it was
just so beautiful and I was so excited to do it. I'll send lots of
pictures, don't you worry dad;) oh and Sister D came with us
so that was great:) I just love her and I just love Sister Richards.
We are so similar and we get along so well! She is so funny and we
just literally laugh at everything because it's always so funny! And
we can just give one another a look and know that we are both thinking
the same thing. It's great! Lol
So yeah, that was my crazy busy week:)
I miss you guys so much and I love hearing about your weeks
I la la love you guys to the moon and back
Xoxo
Sister Batey
Sister Batey
Kenzee and Sister Richards at the start of the hike.
All the sisters in the area.
Sister Richards and McKenzee.
The 4 Sisters.
All the missionaries from the area.
Kenzee and a gecko.
McKenzee and a dog that is almost as big as her.
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