Sister Mitzi Gates // Week Thirty-Five

Hello! Still no baby yet? I was hoping to be overloaded with pictures

in my email from Kambree being born! I'll keep praying;)

Another great week in Lebanon!

Well on Monday we tracted into these sweet old black women. One was a

baptist preacher, they were sisters. We talked about the plan of

salvation and they pretty much believe the same thing except for the 3

degrees of glory.

We visited a less active lady Ruth Dean who we haven't been able to

see, she let us in and we were walking to her. In the middle she was

like "come outside I need to take a smoke" okay. But I think we were

making her nervous, we just talked about her conversion story and

what's holding her back now. Sweet lady, she'll be back soon.

Sister Harbor went out to visit some members with us. We went out to

visit the Benitez and Butch and Lisa were there!! Seriously love them.

They are so excited to be baptized. It's still on for this Saturday in

the Mt. Juliet ward! Yay. Great visit.

On Wednesday we had Zone Conference in Murfreesboro. It was awesome!

We drove out there and had car inscriptions, I love Elder and Sister

Johnson! I'm going to be sad when they leave. But President trained on

seeing the eternal perspective of it all. Then Sister Andersen got up

and started with a story of when Sister Cotton and I first got to

Hendersonville when we white washed. The first visit we had was to

Bishop St. Onge, and he asked how long sister cotton had been out, 3

months and then asked how long id been out, I said 3 hours. Everyone

laughed. But she was saying that we were asking bishop what we needed

to do and he loved that. So that was cool. Later we split into groups

and had to talk about a topic, I was the only one talking! Haha no one

else would. But it was good. We were with another zone too, so it was

fun to see my friends. The missionaries who are leaving always bear

their testimony at the end and I always cry, because I just love them

and look up to them so much. The spirit is always strongest there.

Love Zone Conferences.

Then on the way back we get a call from a lady in the ward who is less

active and needs help cleaning her house, so we go over and she's a

hoarder. Like have you ever seen Extreme Hoarders on TLC? This was her

house. She lives in government housing too. I seriously couldn't do

it, there were bugs everywhere, and rat crap. I was going to cry.

Sister Tenney's a champ and helped out. But that's an experience I

never want to experience again on my mission.

On a lighter note, we had a lesson with Josh. I had this strong

feeling that we needed to teach the Word of Wisdom. So we prepared for

that. The first thing he says is I'm going to Florida in two weeks and

am going to get smashed with my friend. Ha we all looked at each other

and were like okay well we have a great lesson for you! He took it

well. Haha he said he is still going to drink with his friend in

Florida, but when he comes back that will be it. So that's good!

We also went over and visited Mary, she's a less active and she trains

Golden Retrievers. She gets a new dog every couple weeks. Well she had

this dog Charlie who was 18 months old and he gets very excited about

people coming over. So she lets him in and he jumps around on me and

HE PEED ALL OVER MY FEET. Seriously. At first I didn't think about it,

I thought he just got a drink and his mouth was wet. Then she was like

eh he just peed all over the floor. I almost cried. So gross!

On Sunday we were asked to do a talk for FHE for the Single Adults. So

we did. We talked about journal keeping and different ways you can

keep a journal. Then also about a bigger journal that is kept in

heaven, the book of life. That was fun to research and learn more

about. It went good though!

I am loving this area. Tracting an hour a day has brought so many

miracles. We usually have one person who listens and it's usually at

the last 10 minutes we tract. I love learning about different

religions as well. The people here really do love Their savior and

know him so well. That's something I love about the people here! They

have a strong testimony of him.




Trip to Nashville:

To start off, Monday part of my district decided to go to Nashville!

We woke up and rode the train station down, then walked around

Broadway for a little bit, saw the AT&T batman building, the CMT

headquarters, and the old Ryman building. I love it!! Then we walked

down to the Country Music Hall of Fame and got pictures. Then walked

up into the convention center right across the street and walked to

the top of that and took a bunch of pictures! Great view. Then we

walked over Shelby Bridge, we took more pictures. The river made me

wanna jump in, we were all hot and sweaty! Haha but LP field was right

there also. That's where they hold the Country Music Fest each year,

that happened a couple weeks ago. Can't wait to come back and actually

go to it! Then we walked to the WW1 memorial building. It was so cool!

That was right next to the state capital. Then we walked down Broadway

one last time and went through a couple stores. Then we went up to the

bus station and took us bus to the Grand ol Opry. We went shopping

there, the Elders did the pepper challenge, that was funny. Then we

had lunch and left. Then rode the bus back to the train station and

rode the train home. Country music was playing every where I went. I

can't wait for you to come out here!! Tennessee has my heart!






Saw Loli at zone conference!! LOVE having her in my zone now!‏








There was another nasty bug in our apartment this morning the elders came and killed!!‏







Benjji is so sweet and bought us a bracelets and necklace!., love her!‏


















Sometimes while tracting you have a little fun!! Plus I love this place. So I had to get pictures!!‏








The things the people in the south have in their yards..... Hahah why? Pa. My hair was straight and went outside for 10 minutes and it looks like this!‏








Shelby comes with us a couple times a week!! Haha plus half price shakes at sonic.... Of course we went!‏


Deb is making me fat. Fried squash and green tomatoes. Chick and gravy, rice and black eyed peas! This is my stuffffffff!!‏








Banana Popsicles? They make district meeting better.‏





Coming home on the train after a fun filled day in Nashville!! 



That's the pepper place where the elders did the pepper challenge.













Railroad sunset jump!!‏













We were tracting and found some goats and Emus..... Hahah super weird and random!‏





Sister Tenney had to help Jeanette put in eye drops!!! Tonight we are going over and talking to Jeanette's preacher about prophets and apostles!!! WISH US LUCK!





We left a Jesus Christ pass a long card....‏