McKenzee's Missionary Moments: March 20th, 2017

Hello hello!

Alright alright, so first things first. WHAT THE HECK! Kylee is going on a mission!? I'm LITERALLY SO HAPPY!!!!!! And the Baltic's? WOW!!!! That is so insane!!!!! But amazing!!!! And I'm so excited that we get the summer together before she has to leave!!!!!!! Just remember that it's not where you serve, but it's who you serve! :) Also, I really need to understand why I am the last to hear about this?!? What in the world?!?

Okay so let me try and explain the transfer board to you guys. So the pictures that are tilted mean that they are getting transfer, as in they will be new to the area. For us, they circled our pictures and wrote tori-pan, which yes means, that me, sister Carrisoza and Sister Proctor will be in a trio. Haha apparently they need two sisters to kill me. Hahah (mission slang) So what is happening is they are combining the St. Helens 1st and 2nd Wards together and the 3 of us will be covering both wards. So we will be VERY BUSY. Which will be a good thing! Lol. And as far as I understand I will not be training. Sister Proctor has one more transfer of training and Sister Carrisoza will do the training, I will be doing something called My Plan, which is to help me get ready to come home. Of course I'll be there to help both of them out if they need anything. It'll be pretty crazy because in our trio we will have someone who just came out, someone who is half way, and then someone going home. So pretty much every aspect of missionary life lol.

So I'm guessing the reason that they put us in a trio is because there are a bunch of Sisters leaving, Sister Finn, Sister Hibbard, Sister Foster, and a bunch more, and only 1 maybe 2 coming out? So it just makes sense to put us together since we already live together. Honestly, I did not want to stay here in St. Helens, and as I was praying I pretty much told Heavenly Father that I couldn't stay and that I would go crazy and the only way, literally the only way, that I would stay is if I could be companions with either Sister Carrisoza or Sister Proctor because I already get along so well with them! And well, Heavenly Father really does hear our prayers! Lol even the crazy ones! So does that make sense about the trio now?

Alright so this week, nothing super exciting that I can remember... Tuesday afternoon we went to do a service with our district. But the elders didn't tell us what kind of service or anything so we show up to the address they sent us and it's this house in the middle of nowhere, and they have this big dumpster right in front of this house and then all around the house is just a bunch of trash, bikes, balls, tent poles, literally just random things. It was like a garage exploded! And our task was to pick the yard up and put it into this dumpster. Oh but the trick is that it's pouring down rain and we didn't know we would be outside, also everything it covered in mud. And we have no gloves. So it was a pretty crazy, we were so wet and cold by the end, oh and covered in mud! Haha it was nuts!

Wednesday night we had Book of Mormon class and we were getting all set up in the primary room when we saw a huge ant on the wall! So we kill it, then we see another, and another, we keep killing these suckers until we look up and notice they are just rolling out of this hole at the top of the wall! It was crazy! And these weren't just babies, they were the length of a nickel! So we ended up moving our class to the hall haha. It was so gross, and it made me very paranoid that ants were crawling all over me! Lol. Don't worry, we told somebody about the ants hah.

Wednesday we went on another district Blitz, this time for the St. Helens 2nd Sisters. And they just needed us to go tracting. So we go into their area and find an street that we think will be good and we just start going at it. Lol. Literally we just knocked and knocked and knocked. And honestly just about every person that answered the door was either rude, or slammed the door in our face. It was awful! I was not happy. And then we came to the last door of the area we were at and this lady answers and she looked so sad! So Sister Bevan starts going at it and talking to this lady and it sounded like she was just hopeless and like she had given up. So then I start talking to her and asking her some questions to try and see what she needs and where the gospel can help her. Anyway, she's just such a sweet lady! Her name is M and she has been through a lot in her life, she's about 50 or something. She just recently lost her house, her job, and her car broke down on her. She told us she feels like when she takes one step forward she takes 4 steps back. It was really sad. We started talking and Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and she just feels lost. After a long conversation and after she cried a few times I gave her a hug and started testifying to this lady about the power that God has and how He can do all things. I testified that I didn't come randomly to her door and that God was trying to tell her something important. It was really cool because it was like I wasn't the one talking, like an out of body experience. Then we got her number and committed her to come to church on Sunday with us, so I'm really hoping that she will be there! It was a really cool experience! And after we were driving away I got the feeling that she was why I was still here, and I also got the feeling, I kid you not, that I might be put into the 2nd Ward so I could work with her. It was crazy. But little did I know that I would be put into a trio and now I actually get the chance to teach her! So I'm excited!

Saturday was pretty fun. So right down the road from us Mod Pizza was having its grand opening and we just had to go! Haha just so ya know Mod is a really good pizza place, I went in Vancouver, it's like a Subway but for pizza, you can put as many toppings on as you want and it's the same price, oh and it's thin crust pizza. It's just so good! So we went to the grand opening and it was so much fun! 🍕🍕

Then Saturday afternoon we went to this mans house that needed some service and he was legit crazy! Lol. It was weird. Oh and his house was so gross!!! He has like 4 dogs and they all just use the house as their bathroom, seriously! He showed us his bed room and there was like 4 piles of poop all over his floor! It was bad! Also, his dishes in the sink were piled so high and they were very dirty and have been sitting there for years! Lol and then! He has this spare room that he has a bunch of food in and it's mostly all expired. It was gross! The peanut butter expired in 2012! Oh and he asked us to try and organize it and then he told us his wife had died in this room.... oh man it was so bad! The smell. Oh gosh. I get sick just thinking about it! Haha

And then for dinner we went to dinner with this family we are teaching to sunshine pizza. Yep, pizza twice in one day. Haha but it was good. BUT THEN! After dinner we were going to a lesson with an investigator and we get there and they were making dinner and they wanted us to stay for dinner, so we had to eat dinner again! Oh man, it was seriously so hard, I was so full! Thought I was gonna pop! Lol but we had a good lesson with her, ML and also her roommate, A who is now a new investigator!!!:) woop 🙌🏼

And then Saturday night was crazy, that's when we found out about transfers and when we opened the email and saw that we were going to be in a trio we all screamed and were freaking out! It was intense! Haha Sister Bevan seems pretty excited to leave, and I'm ready to be done training! I'm excited for the change!

But yeah, that's been my week!

I just want y'all to know how much I love this gospel. We had the chance to watch the restoration movie this week with our recent convert, R, and it was just awesome. The spirit was so strong and I just felt this wave of gratitude and love fall over me. We are literally so blessed to have the gospel. I'm so thankful to Joseph Smith for being humble enough to ask God and I'm grateful that Heavenly Father blessed us with the restored gospel. Not changed in anyway, but the same gospel and church Christ set up. It makes me so happy and it makes me so happy to share it with others. This week when we were talking to M she asked us why we do it and I simply told her how happy it makes me to live the gospel and then to share it! And I'm serious! It brings me so much joy and fills me with so much love! God is good!

I miss y'all so freaking much! Can't believe it's my last transfer! 😐

LOVE YALL TO THE MOON AND BACK ❤

Don't forget to remember me ;)

"Have faith, have hope, live like His Son, help others on their way."

Xoxo

Sister Batey