So literally as we speak a blizzard is happening in St. Helens!!! Snow as been coming and going all week! Needless to say it's freezing and I'm so ready for the warm weather! lol I miss the sun and the heat so much! This Texas girl needs the sun back into her life:) Although we just went and took a bunch of pictures in the snow! It was so pretty but freezing!!! Haha you guys just barely missed it!
So this week, let's see if I can remember what happened!
St. Helens is not as exciting as Portland so my letters might be boring so just a heads up:) haha
Tuesday we drove down to Vancouver, which took about an hour and 15 minutes, for our trainer/trainee meeting. It was so great being back in Vancouver! And where the mission office is, is right around Hazel Dell and it just makes my heart sooo happy to be back around one of my favorite areas! I just wish I was able to go say hello to my peeps! I'm way excited to see everyone again one day!
So anyway, we had our meeting and it was so good! It took pretty much all day! We didn't get back to St. Helens until around 5:20 but we didn't really mind. I've actually missed being able to go on road trips and just taking a long drive. So I really enjoyed the time in the car! And the meeting was really helpful! Not in the way where it told me how to be a trainer but I just felt that some of the trainings that were given were specifically for me and to help calm my nerves. So that was really nice. I love how Heavenly Father works like that. :) oh plus I got to see Sister Reeves who I served with and lived with when I was in Portland. So that was really nice. I was able to talk to her about the area and it was just nice to see a familiar face!
When we got back to St. Helens we went to dinner with a really great family in the Ward! They took us to a Country Inn and the food was so great! I had French toast with Nutella and it was a little taste of heaven in my opinion. Haha but I felt guilty later that night because it was so sweet. The rest of the week I tried to eat healthy:) haha. After dinner we had a few lessons and they were pretty good:)
Wednesday we had interviews with President McAteer in Rainier, which is about a 45 minute drive from where we live. Everything if so far from us it's crazy! We drive a lot out here, which isn't awful, just so different, especially coming from my last two areas where we didn't have a car the whole time. Lol. But interviews were great! I love getting to talk to president and such.
After interviews we had to drive back and we had a lesson right after so we had to eat our lunch in the car! Haha life of a missionary. So we were pretty busy having lessons and stopping by people trying to get to know more of the people in St. Helens. It was good.
Oh and the best part was I GOT YOUR BOX!!!! 😊 oh man, it seriously was so perfect!!!! Thank you so much!!!!! I loved everything in it!!!! You guys are the best! My favorite part was all the hand written letters! So thank you again! I just love y'all so much! Oh and I hung up the pictures on my wall from Nixon and Liam:) it was so great❤️
Thursday we had district Meeting, and I got called on to share a little training and I think it went pretty well. Idk ahah. Then after that we had a service project with our district. A lady that lives in our area got evicted from her house so she needs help cleaning it out and such. We started by helping her outside. We tried to organize all the junk she had in her yard and and it was so awful. First of all it was freezing cold outside and second of all we were basically moving a pile of junk to a different side of the yard. It was bad haha. Then we opened her freezer that was outside and let me tell you, it smelt like death. It was so bad! Then come to find out her dog died a few weeks ago by getting hit by a car and so she is keeping its body in the freezer until she has enough money to cremate it... CREEPY!!!! Oh and the body was in a big hot dog box... how freaky... Then we went inside to help her inside, and we were really hoping for it to be warm because our bodies started going numb because of how cold it was! But anyway, inside was no warmer at all. And her house was just filled with junk. And it smelt worse than the dead dog in the freezer! Lol. Luckily we had a lesson so we had to get going haha.
Friday we had weekly planning but for dinner we went to Sunshine Pizza. So here in St. Helens we go there on the first Friday of the month and our Ward goes too and we get to spend time with a bunch of families and it's so much fun! I really enjoyed it. And the Ward is so sweet and pays for us. Anyways, it was a lot of fun! Slowly we are getting to learn more people! Lol and that night we had a few more lessons which was really nice!
Saturday was busy:) we had two lessons in the morning. One was with a lady and her son, they are from Hawaii and they are super cute. The mom gave us a kiss on the cheek when we got their and she just told us all about her life. She's pretty old and blind but she had the biggest heart and testimony. Then our second lesson was with an older lady who has the mouth of a sailor and is very much intimidating. Haha it was funny. She's very different but she's sweet. After that and after lunch and training we went to a nursing home nearby to visit with a lady in the Ward. She's really cute! She was wearing a sweater that she knit and was so proud. But it's really cool because where she lives she has such a perfect view of the Columbia! It's really breathtaking. But the funniest thing is the home that she lives in. So obviously all of the people their are losing their marbles and it's fine ahah, but there is this one old lady who is always carrying this baby doll. Well this week she decided to start passionately kissing her baby doll. lol I was dying. And the way that I was sitting she was always in my line of sight. Hahah it was so strange. I felt bad for her though.
After our lesson it started snowing and by the time we got home it was back into a winter wonderland!
Oh and then Sunday we woke up and church got canceled because of the snow! Again, it was so weird not going to church on Sunday! It didn't even feel like sunday! It was weird! But by the afternoon it had all turned to slush! I was really sad though not going to church because I need to meet more people! I'm hoping we have it next week! Lol
But today we woke up and everything was completely covered with snow! We couldn't believe it! So basically it snows and it's bad then it rains and turns it all to slush and then it starts to snow again. It's this cycle over and over and over again! Hahah it's getting really annoying! But hopefully it will all be over pretty soon! Lol
Well I'm still pretty stressed but I think I'm doing better. We are still very different from each other and I don't know what to say half the time but hopefully it will keep improving.
I still love this gospel. The church is still true. I love my Father in Heaven and my Savior, Jesus Christ. I'm so grateful for the time I get to serve His children and to share the gospel. Life is so good and God is good. If I've learned anything at all on this 14 month(I hit my 15 month this week) journey it would be to trust God. He knows all and He cares so much. Turn all things over to Him and things will work out. I'm so blessed to have the knowledge of the restored gospel in my life. I'm so grateful for my many blessings and especially for my family!
Please don't forget about me because there hasn't been a day that I don't think about y'all. So many people have touched and blessed my life and I am forever grateful. Y'all rock for putting up with a snotty nose kid like me. Thank you!
LOVE y'all to the moon and back ❤️
Miss you guys more every day!
"Have faith, have hope, live like His Son, help others on their way!"
xoxo
Sister Batey
Woke up to snow...
Playing in the snow...
All the sisters McKenzee is with this transfer...
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