Well I am currently in my bed feeling pretty miserable with either the
flu or a really bad head cold. Either way, I feel awful so please bare
with me as I try and write this letter. Lol
First off, what time do y'all want to skype on Christmas? I have church
at 9am, so I think I'll be free anytime after that:) what will work for y'all?
Oh and before I forget, this is important information about next
week!!! So next Monday we are having a Mission Christmas Conference
from 9-4 so my Pday won't start until 4pm my time on Monday and it
will end at 9pm. So I just want to let y'all know so you don't freak
out when you don't hear from me until later!
Also, their are a bunch of Sister missionaries going home on the 13th
(they are done with their missions and want to get home before
Christmas) and they are leaving mid transfer and because of that we
are guessing that there will be a bunch of ETs (emergency transfers)
happening and I'm pretty sure that since there is 2 sets of sisters in
the Mt. Scott Ward that two of us will be leaving... So I'm nervous
that next week will have some big changes... I'll keep you guys posted
if I stay or go!
Alright so Tuesday we had a lesson with a little girl that we teach
and as I walked in the little girls grandma looks at me and tells me
she has something for me from my mom and then she proceeds to hug me.
Haha so mom, I got your hug. How in the world did you talk to this
lady? My guess is Facebook but who knows! Lol
Wednesday we went to Meals on Wheels again which I really love
doing. It's been such a great experience being able to help out the
community. So we usually help prepare the food and get everything
ready and then about 11:30 the bell rings and all the old folks start
lining up and we get to serve them lunch. It's a lot of fun getting to
see them and how happy they get when they get to eat a warm meal:)
Makes me very grateful for all the dinners I get every night as a
missionary. I really feel so blessed:)
After Meals on Wheels we went over to do some service for a lady in
our Ward. She hates wrapping and has 3 kids and so she asked us and it
was great! It totally put Sister Crawley and me in the Christmas
Spirit! It also makes me remember all the times I would help mom wrap
and it made me so happy! So that was fun!
That night we went to go make some rice bags because I've been having
lots of back and should pain and we've been sharing one so we decided
to make one for each of us. Although the fabric we ended up using was
apparently not very good because after we took it out of the microwave
it just starting basically sweating... Lol the whole bag just felt
like a wet dog, it was awful. So hopefully we can get different fabric
to fix them lol.
Thursday Morning we went to help a lady in the Ward clean her
apartment. And omg, I just don't understand how people can live like
that. It absolutely blows my mind! I just know that when I get home I
will never keep things that serve no purpose. Like seriously, this
lady had a big calendar from 2002 that she never even opened and also
she has tax papers from the 90s!!! It was ridiculous!
Then that afternoon we helped the lady who we helped last week and her
house was destroyed again! It seriously blew my mind. And this week
she just had us shove things into her closet! Literally shove and then
push the door shut. It's crazy!!!
Then we had a lesson with an investigator and she has like a million
family members living with her and one of which is a little 12 year
old boy and he was wearing an ankle bracelet!!!! I had to do a double
take! It was so weird! I couldn't believe it!
Friday we had planning and all that jazz. At dinner the members wanted
to show us a video and it ended up being that video that we saw a few
years ago, the song is Healing waters or by small and simple things or
something? You would recognize it if you watched it, but anyway it
made me really happy to see it again because I feel like it has a lot
more purpose in my life now. For anyone who hasn't seen it, it's about
a girl who carries her BOM with her and she accidentally leaves it on
her desk after she's done with her desk and the boy she was sitting
next to finds her and returns it and the girl gets a prompting to
write her testimony in it and give it to him. Well the boy ends up
reading the book and then his whole family takes the missionary
lessons and then they all get baptized. Anyway it's an amazing video
about missionary work and how it all begins with a prompting and a
book. (Dad is there a yay you can send me the video?) well I love the
video because missionary work is not just for missionaries. And this
video just goes to show how important members are and especially how
amazing the Book of Mormon and gospel of Jesus Christ is. I just love
them both along with my Savior. I love how much hope and happiness
this gospel brings:) which leads me to Saturday... :)
Saturday was the best day!!!! So I don't know if you guys remember
"I", she was from the Fairway Village Ward (my second area) and she
was baptized the week before I got their but I ended up teaching her
all her member lessons and spent a lot of time with her. Well she's
literally amazing! And Saturday she went to the temple to receive her
endowments!!!!!:) and Sister Finn and I got to go with her!!!! It was
honestly like a dream. It was just perfect (besides me having woken up
sick...lol) So Sister S and P came to pick me up with Sister
Finn! And we were able to be companions for the day! It was so much
fun!!!! And it was so great to be able to go through with P and
B (especially since I wasn't able to go through when P went).
But "I" was just so happy, she was glowing and it just made us so
happy to be able to see how far she has come! She's really just
blossomed in the gospel and I feel so blessed to be able to be apart
of her journey!:) And to make it even better, so many people from the
Fairway Village Ward came so I got to see so many familiar people:)
Like Mama H:) After the temple we went to eat at Applebee's and
it was so great!!!! Ahhh I just can't describe how happy I was! :)
The only sucky thing was how sick I was feeling. When I got home from
the temple I took some medicine and just crashed.
Then Sunday I felt worse but I went to church because I haven't missed
a Sunday in 13 months and I can't stop now. Lol oh and I ended up
giving the closing prayer in sacrament meeting. Haha what are the
odds. After church though I came home and slept for like 3 hours, then
we went to dinner and the Christmas Devotional and then we came home
and I crashed again. I've slept so much the pass two days but I'm
still so tired and sick. It's annoying. Then this morning I woke up
even worse. It's awful. Hopefully I will get feeling better! I'm
staying home today, still in bed in fact. Haha
So that's my week! I hope you guys are doing well! I miss y'all TONS!
And I love y'all to the moon and back! I wear my necklace just about
everyday mom:) Don't forget to remember me;)
Oh and figure out what questions you want to ask me when we skype:)
Have the best week ever:)
"Have faith, have hope, live like His Son, help others on their way."
Love
Sister Batey
Hot Chocolate and cake pops.
Old friends...
Old and current companions.
With Sister Finn!
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