Transfers

We got transfers this week!! I'm going to the Louisville/Carrollton zone to cover the three wards: Lancaster, Lake Cities 2 and Highland Village wards. 3 wards again, woohoo. I'm actually super excited!! It'll be so fun! My new companion is Sister Mabila and I've heard so much good stuff about her!! I'm pumped!! I'm excited for a change. It should be fun!! 

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This week was good and bad. We did so much and it was so awesome! Our mission has these huge chalk boards and we reserved one and went to the college football game this weekend at the AT&T Stadium. We took It in front of Texas Live, which is essentially a HUGE multilevel bar. So, everyone going in was really nice. But everyone coming out were a little crazy and really grumpy or excited (depending on who won the game).  I accidentally wore the colors of the team that lost and I got a few very rude comments from some not so gracious winners. But the chalkboard was a success and people loved writing on it! 

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Tuesday night was most likely the worst night of my mission thus far. So, we had 2 Christmas parties, and as we're going to the first one, we realize that there was an inactive member who wanted to come but we didn't find her a ride. So, we are stressing out and calling people in the front yard of hostesses house. And we were sitting outside and a lady walked pasted and said "oh no sisters! How can we help you!" And we told them we are looking for a ride for our member to come and she only lives 2 miles away and this member said "sorry sisters, I can't." And walked inside the party. The epitome of member missionary work there. 

Long story short we ended up crying on the porch of the party for 20 minutes before leaving to our other party. There was a camera on the porch though so we got some very nice text messages the next day. 

The other party was a blast. It was an ornament gift exchange and I brought little ornaments that I crocheted.

Awkward Malena Moment: 

We didn't have any wrapping in the car. And we just had the most stressful day. So, we are going through our car and a member had given us these boxes of healing lotion for dry skin and we were in a hurry so we dumped all the bottles out of the boxes and threw our ornaments in and walked in. We come into this huge party and all the presents are on the table were wrapped very, very beautifully. And we have these ugly boxes. And after like 20 minutes NO ONE HAS EVEN TOUCHED THEM. and we were so embarrassed and we were laugh crying because why would anyone pick them a lotion box!?!?! And if they opened them, who wants pictures of two random sister missionaries!? We were dying. 

Eventually a member picked mine and she is the best and I love her and she was so so excited and then no one picked sister winds and so she took it too and she loved them and her kids told us they love them. So, it made our night a ton better. We just laughed it off.

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We spent two hours putting labels on envelopes and then someone came in and told us it was the wrong list and we have to come back on Tuesday and redo it. 

We went out to dinner one night with some members and my favorite Queen song came on and I jammed out. It was such a tender mercy. The members were a little weirded out that I knew all the words to this song though. 

Hey I love yall! This email is shorter than usual, but I just don't have much to report! 

Sister McKee