Macey Gates: Sister Macey Gates // Week Thirty-Nine

9 months down, forever and beyond to go. I love this work. I wont ever stop doing it. This work is changing me. This week was good! Cute little Leonarda is getting baptized next week!! Awe she is the funniest person i have ever met in my life. I love teaching that little lady so much!! This week her great grandson went and got her a paper towel to wiper her eyes and in the mean time killed a fly. He didn't know it landed on the paper towel and so when leonarda used it she wiped the fly across her face... we were all dying!!!! Like she doesn't even know whats going on, so that was a good thing but we have the best times with her. And she made it to church:) We picked up a guy named Pedro, he was on the street in his electric wheel chair so we stopped so see if he needed help. We got talking to him and told us he didn't believe in Jesus Christ. By the end of that conversation he was on date. He is going to be a little hard cause he smokes tobacco, and drinks, but we are going to get him in that water! Saturday we told him he was going to church and he said there is no way he's was going. With time the spirit convinced him:) But then Sunday morning we go to get him and he said, hermanas i cant go today, i have an enfermedad en mi estomago, i don't know how to say that haha, he said "i have diarrhea, do you know what that is?" No Pedro could you please explain? oh my gosh we were just like yeah we do, we hope you get feeling better! hahahah This week we definitely could have worked harder. Bowen died again this week. We went over to mama yokshas house almost everyday while Bowen laid on their couch for 4 hours. It killed me. I just wanna work. But i'm helping her build up her desire!! Yesterday was her birthday so i got up at 5:30 in the morning, put streamers up, made confetti and threw all over her while she was sleeping and wrote all over our mirror. Then when she woke up, i had shaving cream in my hand and i SMASHED that stuff in her face. I got her GOOD hahah Then i wrote her the funniest letter, so sometimes i just think i'm funny okay? Yesterday was so good until the end. So i got a call earlier this week saying Edgar from corona who we worked with to stop smoking got the approval from the first presidency to get baptized. Then last night i got a call from Santoyo saying that Edgar wants to investigate another church to know for sure that this is the right church. We cried together. That made me SO sad. I feel like every time we get dropped by gators, i'm getting dropped by a boyfriend or something. It breaks your heart. Cause you work and work with them and see how much progress they have made and then they quit. Then Bowen was sad too last night cause she didn't get very many birthday calls from other missionary or letters from her friends, she felt like no one loved her so we stayed up till 1 o' clock. But i tried to make it a good day for her. I do love that girl so much. We are seriously like sisters haha we are pretty funny. This week has taught me so much patience and to really rely on the lord. I love reading the BOM everyday, i can never put it down and i hate reading. This gospel is amazing. I feel like we get trial after trial here, but blessing after blessing. It never get easier, it only gets better. I know this church is true. I am in the best mission in the whole wide world. I love you all okay!!!

Hermana Gates:)

p.s. I have this like little lisp sometimes when i speak spanish i don't know why but i sound like anthony requa.... just saying.