SIster Mitzi Gates // Week Forty-Two

A fabulous week!

Well on Monday I took the best nap of my life. It was the best feeling

not having to set an alarm, I slept for 2 amazing hours!

On Monday we did the Plan of Salvation with the Towrys, we got chalk

and everyone did their own! So fun. Grandma Towry who is not a member,

even stayed outside and listened! Also their daughter, Victoria who is

LA and kind of against the church also helped. It was great!

On Tuesday we helped Brother Seng clean out his storage shed. People

in the south just store the most random crap. I mean literal junk! He

had 3 storage sheds full. It's was an adventure! Haha

Then that night we visited Sister Burgess and she just had Surgery, we

were tracting in her subdivision and this crazy lady comes yelling at

us telling us to leave because it's a "no soliciting area" so we

tracted the neighborhood next to it. We had two more houses left and

the hour of tracting was up, but sometimes my curiosity gets the best

of me. So we did the last two and they were both miracles, the one guy

Ross accepted the Book of Mormon and said he would read it and was

interested. The next guy (I forgot his name) but he let us in and we

talked about EVERYTHING! Come to find out he is the Mayor! Haha so

that was cool. It was such a great experience to learn that by working

hard Heavenly Father prepares people for you to see.

We had to say goodbye to Cynthia McKelleb. She is moving to Kentucky!

She actually referred herself to get a free bible, and come to find

out she was a member. Also her family lives in St. George and I went

to high school with her Nephew. We helped her get free ancestory, (she

LOVES family history) we helped her get a copy of her patriarchal

blessing from salt lake, she came to church, and she was reading her

scriptures again. She said we were her angels. I love that crazy, no

teeth lady! It's so hard to say goodbye to the people you love and

care for. I love being a missionary.

So Josh............... We met with him on Thursday with Sister Dailey.

We always meet at the church and the first thing he says when he walks

in "I want to cancel my baptismal date, and I am going to go to check

out other churches" I WANT TO CRY. Seriously. He has had many

confirmations to him this is the place he needs to be! Why is Satan so

good? Well we asked him the baptismal interview questions and he

actually did really good on all. He loves his sweet tea though.... But

this will be good! He will see other churches, get different

experiences, and then he'll find out for himself. PRAY FOR HIM.

We had Zone Meeting this week in Madison. One of our zone leaders got

fired up a little to much and it was kind of funny. He was like going

crazy. I love zone meetings, they always make me want to do better!

We've been trying to meet with a less active, but her schedule is not

to open. So we decided to go pop in. Her step daughter, Layla, opens

and we talk to her. They come to church every now and then! They've

been coming almost twice a month! But I was like do you want to get

baptized? Haha she's 14 and goes to girls camp, young women's and

youth conference. She was like actually yeah I do! I've been talking

to my mom about it!! WAHOOOOOO! So were going to meet on Thursday and

hopefully set a baptismal date!! Miracles & blessings.

It's getting dang hot and humid here. We step outside and just start sweating!

Yesterday we needed to tract, so we said a prayer and both had a

feeling to tract over by he Towrys. Love it when hat happens. Then we

start tracting and I literally felt like I was being pushed in one

direction. We see this lady outside with her dog and start talking to

her. Pat is her name. She just lost her husband of 54 years of

marriage in December. She said she was having a hard day and started

to cry in front of us. Some how the spirit touched her and let us in

and we shared the plan of salvation. She believes that when we go to

heaven we will just be brothers and sisters, she won't know her family

or friends. That broke my heart. She started to cry again, I think it

brought her comfort knowing she will know who they are one day. I

can't even imagine being born into a family, raising a family, and

then all of a sudden you don't have one in heaven? I'm grateful for

the knowledge we have. I love the plan of salvation. It is my FAVORITE

thing to teach and talk about. I know it's true. Pat still believes in

her religion, but was open to hear our message.

What a great opportunity Heavenly Father gave us to be his instruments

in this great work. I have never experienced so much joy as bringing

someone the spirit in their home. When people are comforted by the

message, and have hope after. There is nothing, NOTHING greater than

that. Even if we are just planting seeds, it's amazing to be able to

do that.

I love being a missionary. I love you guys too. Hope the first day of

school goes well! I can't believe this is my second year not going

back to school... Weird! LOVE YOU!!

Sister Gates





















We had to take pictures by these huge Tobacco fields!! Pretty cool.‏










Drove out to Hartsville and visited the Arbogasts! And their turtles... Haha‏







Just some pictures from tracting. I LOVE the green. Seriously it's beautiful.‏







It was Mary Brewers birthday so we made a cake and celebrated yesterday!! So fun love her.‏







Brother and sister Benitez. LOVE THIS FAMILY. They are actually one of the starters of Doterra Oils! So they say their pretty famous? Sweet.‏









We went over to the Benitez and they have a sauna in their house. He said we could use it whenever! Haha also a sweet lave lamp, for their son who has downs and is autistic, Michael. So cool!‏





Loli cut her hair in a fro!! This is at Zone a meeting. LOVE that she's in my zone!‏





Sister Westbtook made us another flower bouquet. Perks of having your husband work at a Funneral home!‏





Meet Cosmo and Gypsy. They are hippies traveling barefoot. We gave them some of our dinner. Cosmo played baseball for Boise, then had a contract with the Cubs. Like what happened? Cool people!‏





Gonna miss this no teeth crazy lady!! This is Cynthis McKelleb. She is moving to Kentucky! Seriously love her.‏









Hahah helping brother Seng clean out his storage sheds. I can't wait for you to meet him!! Haha you never know what you're going to find.‏











Plan of Salvation chalk art with the Towrys!!‏