what.a.week!!
first things first, Techel'le did not get baptized this week due to timing issues, but its still on and is for this Saturday! Yall do not understnad how excited I am for her. her testimony is getting stronger everyday and man, she is just one of the strongest women I've ever met! and i still didn't get a picture with her but it is coming, i promise!!
so much happened i don't even know where to start! hmm lets start at zone training! so that was this week and it was so much fun! got to meet up with other missionaries and talk to people! yay! something were not used to in alex city! lol sister terry always says, "we're literally in africa" (due to how far away we are) and then elder opare, who's from africa says,"what's wrong with africa??!!" hahah good times. also, walked into the meeting with a striped dress, blue cardigan and booties and i see sister gilbert's companion, sister beck, wearing the EXACT same outfit haha and we didn't even plan it! so of course we took a picture! it was elder opare's last transfer before he went home so we tried getting pictures as cool as him, key word tried! and let's be real, did you even go to zone training if you didn't take a picture? nope so of course we took pictures! love my zone! so glad most of us are staying for this next transfer! that's right sistah terry and sis ken back at it again in ALEX City for another 6 weeks, getting baptism dates left and right! fingers crossed!
thursday was thanksgiving!! such a great day! everyone was just so kind, like more than normal, and ah the spirit of thankfulness was tangible! we went to this sweet lady, martha's house for thanksgiving and ate with people from arkansas, which was very interesting. don't let the styrofoam plate fool ya, that was the best food I've had in a while! and I'm here in the south! so we got to spend it with her and her cute grandaughter kylie and some people form arkansauce (that's how sistah terry told me to write it) and the day after that, the smiths had us and techel'le over and what a special night and time! love those people!!!!
saturday was the iron bowl and no one was on the streets or answering their doors so sistah terry and i took 5 minutes to snap a couple pictures of the empty street! but that was a fun day! went to walmart that night and everyone would just look, nod their head, and say roll tide. i loved it!!! oh and because bama won of course!! also, that day there must have been a newsletter published that day saying "lets bash the mormon church today" i guess i didn't get the memo but everyone else did. it's very interesting experience when someone screams at you that they're a christian so go away! i mean quite the experience! also when someones bashed us a little, then goes on to tell us the devil is with us and then slams the door in our face is quite the experience. i just had to run away because i was scared she would here my laughing through the door she had just closed. sistah terrry was the good missionary and just said through the door, "well i hope you have a nice day!" love that girl! i think the best one all day though was when at walmart a man proceeded to talk with us for 45 min. thinks we were 7th day adventists and just BASHED and i mean Bashed the mormon church. so imagine his surprise when we had the following conversation:
us: oh no sir were actually LDS
him: ya 7th day whatever
us: oh no actually Latter Day Saints (pointing to nametag)
him: ya whatever 7th day adventists
us: no sir, mormons
him:...
it was awesome! but i mean this was the same man that told us about how cain actually is bigfoot cause it pretty much says it in the bible right there. cursed to not be recognizable so obviously bigfoot!! showed us a picture and everything. also told us that Jesus was a zombie. So there you have it.You would think he would be a crazy old man but nope a normal father with a family standing by his side. love the south!!
had 2 meal appt on sunday!! #blessed one at the Hills home, by the way love that cute little old family and one at the smother's home with the glenn family as well. they just had a son/brother come home from the hawaii mission so that was fun being able to talk about hawaii for a bit!! such a fun night and such a great family!! felt like i was home for a bit just had that welcoming arms that you don't realize you miss.
today was our zone activity and that was kind of out there but kind of cool at the same time! we went to the place where they filmed this movie called, "Big Fish" It was so pretty with spanish moss everywhere and there were goats too so that was fun!! It was like a little ghost town super sketch but really fun too!
spiritual thought for the week! all you gotta do is go to mormon.org and check out the Light the World video on the website! Let's try our best to be the light of the world!!
last thing! funny moments if i havent mentioned them beforehand:
- made a short lil music video in our car on the way home one night singing and rocking out to hark the herald angels sing. all the way down our street and into our driveway for some 30 seconds until we noticed our neighbors were on the other side of our driveway, cause you know duplex life. it was so awkward and i loved it. we just ran into the house trying not to pee our pants. it would've been better if they just laughed too but no they just looked at us with a look like they just felt sorry for us hahahhahha
- named my chin"mcfly" as in back to the future mcfly, causing getting hard to find it due to the double chin thats coming form this southern food. "mcfly!!you in there mcfly!!" #prayformcfly
-just about ate it in walmart in front of this guy. he had to stop himself from laughing. dropped everything i was holding too. good times!
-we got Chris from the hill family to say "you guys" instead of yall it was so funny!!
-theres a park right next to our house that has been all lit up for christmas and it is so cute!!! not very funny but it did inspire us to make the music video so i blame that for our problems at the moment
-was 20 min late and showed up in pday (preparation day...their one day off each week) clothes to meet with President Sainsbury. talk about impressing the mission pres!!
miracle of the week:
sister terry and i didn't know what to do after all our appt. got cancelled and we both had a feeling to go to airport dr. so we went at like 8:30 at night, which is strange because normally people around here go to bed at like 6. but we went and sure enough there was a man working on his car in his driveway and we just knew we were suppose to talk with him. we walked up to him and proceeded to have a 40 min conversation about life, the gospel, and the book of mormon which he was SUPER open to hearing about. also told us about all the struggles he was facing at the moment and we were able to just be the person he needed to talk to and listen to everything about. it really is amazing how led we are by the spirit to talk with people. God knows us personally and will show His love through a lot of different ways and that experience was just one example!!
well got to get going!! love yall so much! keep on keepin on!
love,
sister kennedy
twinsies with sister beck
trying to be as cool as elder opare from africa
zone conference gang
thanksgiving host and her granddaughter
don't be fooled by the styrofoam plate
this is one of Kaia's favorite families. they are not members of our church
but have said since kaia is so far from home and family that they would be her family
she has so much love for this family
she got him to say 'you guys' instead of y'all!
second thanksgiving dinner on saturday with the smiths
zone activity with the goats where Big Fish was filmed
even though it was the iron bowl and NO ONE was around....
it's clear these girls think is is great to be alive
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