Sister Malena McKee : What An Awesome Week!

Hey everyone. I missed last week so I am going to combine weeks and pretend all these steller stories happened in the last week.

This week was pretty good! Yesterday we had 4 people come to church!!! It's so awesome! Mike, Janet, and their 3 kids came!! They really liked it last week and came back again this week! Only problem is... I think they might think we are Jehovah Witness. We've explained that we aren't but I don't know if they believe us. Their kids are super fun. They are 3 year old twin boys and a 5 year old girl. I'm grateful for the 2 years of preschool classes because I've been distracting these kids for the past two Sundays!! At one point during the closing prayer I opened my eyes to see Sister Wind booking it down the aisle to catch one of the twins before they got to the front!! It was awesome

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Last Saturday we needed to find 3 people, and God gave us three people! We were on our way to a lesson with Tywu, and we saw a girl fall out of a car (it was parked of course) so we went over and her brother had pushed her and we started talking to them and it was her birthday so we sang to her and she said we could come back!! We've had 3 lessons with her and she came to church and really really liked it!!

Then, we kept walking to the lesson and a man was driving down the road very slowly with a HUGE COUCH balanced on top of his car. hahaha. So, we were laughing and giving him thumbs up and telling him not to turn and he drove up to us, jumped out and told us to come talk to him the next day! And as he was talking to us his neighbor said he wanted us to come over too!! So Blaze, (the couch man) speaks mostly French and little English, and Vincent speaks English and no French. It was a fun lesson, and Blaze came to church yesterday! We don't think he understood a ton but he said he liked it!

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We met the Mayor of Arlington. We kept asking “Are you really the mayo?" and he kept saying he was so we took a picture with him. That night, we told some members we met the Mayor and they said “Yeah, that's not the Mayor" so we don't know. He was a nice guy, he said he'd give us college recommendations. Although it won't do much good if he's not the real Mayor.

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We had dinner with drug dealers. No joke

So, it was this weird situation how a woman signed up for dinner but she was sick so she took us to her ministering sister house. Well, the sister wasn't there (it was just her son, and her husband) so we had to sit outside and wait for another woman. As we were waiting, her son was standing guard and people kept coming to the door with huge wads of cash and leaving with NOTHING!! It was weird. Then, we go inside. To set the scene:

2 sister missionaries

1 son who apparently loves spaghetti

1 husband who isn't a fan and didn't know we were coming and also had many locked drawers and cupboards (probably full of chips or candy or something)

1 3rd female who was dropped off and doesn't know any of us

1 huge (HUGE) pot of spaghetti

20 random people coming to the door with cash.

It was so sketch and funny at the same time.

We later told the Spanish Elders about it and they said “You never go in William's house! That house is sketchy!!"

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So, this is the coolest story so I really hope y'all are still reading:

Around 4 months ago Sister Swenson and I were walking out of an old folks home and ran into 2 men, named José and Inez. José talked to us for about 45 minutes about repentance, prayer, the bible ect. We taught him how to pray, how to repent and gave him a Spanish Book of Mormon. We met a few times but they told us they were gonna go live under a bridge and so we dropped them.

Then, Spanish Elders started telling us about a man who they found and he is gonna be baptized! As he told us the story I got so excited because it was José! We had taught him! And the Elders said he was so ready and already had a Libro and I got to go to his baptism! He was awesome!! It made me feel so happy watching José be baptized!

The old folks home was only a few blocks from the church. When we went to visit Katherine I had the idea to bring Inez to the church for the baptism! So we invited him and Katherine wanted to come. I wish y'all could've seen it. It was like a little gang with me, Sister Wind, Inez and Katherine all going to the church. And Katherine didn't want to miss dinner so she got her burger and was riding down the road in her electric wheelchair and stopping every few feet to take a bite. It was so great! I got a big kick out if it and Inez really liked the baptism!

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Now is time for: Awkward Malena Moments. I haven't had any noteworthy awkward moments lately but I had one this week.

So, we were at a members house and teaching a lesson. I had made plan of salvation charades and accidentally made it really hard. Everyone was struggling to act out the premortal life or three kingdoms, but it was really funny. At one point we were laughing really hard and Sister Wind says "I love this game!!" And I thought she'd said something else so I turned to her and said "awww, I love you too!" And it was so awkward and the members could not stop laughing at me. So funny. So awkward.

I love you all!! I'm so excited for Light The World!! Its gonna be great!!

Don't forget to pray.

Sister McKee

Dinner with Bobbie