Wow can't believe it's already November! Only 2 weeks until my birthday!🎉
Time is just flying!!!!!
So on Monday night instead of going out since it was Halloween we got
to just hang out with our zone at the church! It was so fun but also
slightly different because we aren't use to just hanging out! Lol We
carved pumpkins which was fun, I think mine was the best lol. Then we
had a big dinner/pot luck together and watched Ephraim's Rescue. It
was a lot of fun to get to watch a movie again, although I felt kinda
like mom when she watches movies, I felt like I needed to get up and
go do something productive lol. It was weird.
Tuesday we had district meeting again and I didn't have to do anything
this time which was nice and relaxing:) lol. Then again we were biking
to our 1:30 appointment from the stake center a few miles away and we
checked our phone and again the lady canceled:( We were pretty upset
again but we kept biking for a few more miles and decided to go
farther into our area than we originally planned. So then we get off
our bikes and go knock a few doors and we decided to knock this green
house but no one answered. So we walk back to our bikes and put on our
helmets and we were about to bike away when a car drives past us and
his windows were down and the man driving points and yells at us, "hey
missionariessssss!" Then he pulls into his driveway which happens to
be the green house we just knocked. (God doesn't do random people!!)
lol he then gets out of his car, oh and his stereo is blaring and he
walks over to us and starts dancing hahaha. Then we ask if he's ever
talked to missionaries before and he's like, "oh yeah I'm Mormon".
Well we start talking to this guys, his name is R and we get his
whole like story basically in 45 minutes. And it was just such a great
conversation with him. He told us he was adopted and has like 7
siblings who live in Utah and who have been on missions and he told us
he's from Texas (small world lol) and he tells us how he's kind of
fallen off and made some mistakes but how he is trying to find his way
again. He even said he would make us a deal. He said he would do
anything we ask if we do what he ask. So we said we wanted him to come
to church on Sunday and he was like oh dang! Are you sure? Haha it was
funny, apparently it's been awhile since he's been but he agreed. Then
he told us to read John 15 and call him and tell him our thoughts
about it. Then we got his number and told him we would call him later!
It was such a cool experience! And it was just so funny that it
happened again to us! Just goes to show Heavenly Father has a plan
when our plans don't work out!
Wednesday we went back to the older lady in our Ward to help her make
bracelets again and it was just as hard lol, I had no idea what to do
and she told us that we just needed to start over, so she made us cut
the string so we could try again because we messed up our brackets so
much hahaha. The funny thing is I stopped working on it and would have
her "show" me what to do and basically have her do it because I didn't
want to get it wrong. So actually she was the one to mess it up haha.
Anyway we start our bracelets over and we still haven't finished
them... Lol to be continued.
Then that afternoon we went to help a lady in our Ward paint her
kitchen cabinets. She's redoing her kitchen and asked us to help her!
So that's really fun getting to help her paint! Then that evening we
did lots of walking and knocking. Haha we were so dead tired that
night! But the nice thing was it didn't rain:)
Thursday we had a really cool opportunity to have a hand off lesson
with another set of missionaries. And they happened to be, Sister Finn
& Sister Michaud!!!!!!!!!! Omg it was seriously SO COOL to be able to
teach with them again! They are companions in the young single adult
Ward and they found and have been teaching a lady who is married and
wants sister to teach her and so we are the closest and so we get to
teach her. So they picked us up and we all went and had a lesson with
this lady. I just loved getting to be with them, it was like a dream
getting to teach with them! BUT, let me tell you. This lady they found
she is tough! Kinda reminds me of a nicer and more sincere version of
E. She really wants to know if the Book of Mormon is true and she
is reading it so fast but she is also being very picky and is
analyzing everything!!! So she is definitely going to be a tough one.
Hopefully we can find some answers for her. After that lesson we went
home and had lunch then since it was such a beautiful day outside we
decided to help P and give her dog Zoey a bath! Oh wow, let me
tell you, it was an adventure and I didn't love it. Lol. Zoey is a
black lab and currently she is shedding her summer fur and so as we
were scrubbing her, all of her hair was just shedding like crazy! So
our hands looked so so hairy and I just was gagging the whole time
hahah. But P really needed help so we figured we would.
Dinner that night we went to a Thai place with our Ward mission leader
and his wife. And man oh man, I don't know why but I just have a very
low intolerance for spice things because while we were eating my mouth
was on fire while everyone else was fine. It was crazy! But it was
good food, I think we had curry... But it wasn't my favorite haha.
Saturday we went to do service with Sister T. We worked on my
quilt and I'm just sooo excited for it! We cut out all the squares for
it and put it in the pattern I want and I'm soooo pumped! It will look
so cute:) I'll send you a picture of the pattern.
Oh and Saturday night it was pouring rain and we didn't have any
appointments so we did a lot of walking in the rain and because it
rained to much all the worms came out of the ground and decided to lay
on the sidewalk to try and not drown well, we felt bad because we had
to walk on the sidewalk, we couldn't walk on the road because it was
busy with cars but it was also so dark so we couldn't see the worms
except when the light from the cars drove past and the worms were just
COVERING the sidewalks. And we had no choice but to step on them
because we couldn't see them. It was gross because you could just feel
them with each step. Haha it was grossss.
Then Sunday!!!! Omg so Sacrament meeting was seriously the best!!!!!
It was fast Sunday and so we had testimony meeting and all morning I
just felt like a needed to go up and so of course I got up and bore my
testimony of the Savior and it hit me that I only have 5 more
testimony meetings as a missionary!!!! Only 5!!! That's only one
hand!!!! It kind of freaked me out so that made me want to go up more.
Lol But here's the best part!!! So we worked with this one lady who
just recently started coming back to church and who just moved in with
her inactive brother. Well we visited her a few times but then we had
to stop meeting with her because it sounded like her brother wasn't
all on board. Well Sunday we see the lady at church, she comes every
week, with her mom and then in walks her brother and his wife and son.
Our mouth dropped because we thought we'd never see him! And then
during testimony meeting he gets up and bares an amazing testimony!!!!
He said he felt like he came home being here and he said he wants to
continue learning because he has some questions. It was so great!!!
Also I don't know if you remember me talking about one of my favorite
families, the L family? We watched general conference with them
and he is the big duck fan. Well anyway, so he gets up to bare his
testimony and it was just the cutest, most tender thing ever! He talks
about his calling and his family and then he starts to talk about
missionary work and more specifically us. Then before he could finish
his sentence about us he gets all chocked up. Then he proceeds to say
how we will never know how much he appreciates us and all that we've
done for his family. And then he tells the congregation how they
should be inviting us over and having us in their home. And he ends by
thanking us for showing his family what cool is. Oh my lanta, sister
Hibbard and I were in shock with tears of our own in our eyes. It was
seriously the best thing ever. And it meant so much to us because we
just love that family, and also because he pretty much told the Ward
to step it up. It's been hard because this Ward isn't very warm and
friendly and wanting us to come into their homes. So for him to say
that it was just awesome. It just goes to show how important members
are in missionary work! We literally couldn't do it without them!!!!!
It just makes me so happy and feel so blessed for members like them:)
I'm just so grateful for this gospel. I love it so much and it brings
me so much happiness:) I also know that my Savior lives. I know that
He died for every single one of us and our sins. This gospel is all
about change and becoming better and I'm so thankful for the change
that I've made in my life and for the blessings I've seen. I know that
Heavenly Father has a plan for us and that it truly leads to joy! This
life is meant to be joyful and we can find it in the church. I'm so so
grateful for a prophet today and for the restored priesthood. I've
been reading in John this week and I just love reading about Christ
and the many miracles he's performed. It truly amazes me and brings so
much love into my life. I love my Savior and I love my Father in
Heaven. I love my family and am grateful for every single one of y'all
and for each person He has placed in my life, God is so good😊
I miss you all TONS and love y'all to the moon and back:)
Don't forget to remember me this week;)
"Have faith, have hope, live like His Son, help other on their way."
Xoxo
Sister Batey
All smiles...all dry...and riding in a car.
The quilt McKenzee is making.
McKenzee and Sister Hibbard's pumpkins.
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