Letter 3-13-17

Well....haha.... This week has been quite some week. :P It's been really busy without it being busy if that makes any sense. :)

Tuesday we had such an amazing zone council! We learned how to become better missionaries at a whole other level.  Lots of missionaries that have been out way longer than I have said that this training changes everything! In a nut shell, we learned how to make each lesson we teach meaningful and personal to each one of our investigators.  We learned how we should pray and teach the first lesson better that way the people we teach will be more willing to except Christ in their life and to demonstrate their faith by following the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized by someone holding the priesthood power of God. :) It was amazing! We learned how to better be their guides in the conversion process and by having three main things that can help "keep the line tight" :) which is
C.P.R.
Church attendance
Pray daily
Read your scriptures
Those three things can do miracles and I've seen it work in our investigators lives. :)

Please continue to pray for Marsha and Janelle, we so dearly want them to be baptized by the end of this upcoming five week transfer. :) <3

Then to the crazy part, so you all know that we got bit by something and my companion wasn't doing well, we went to the doctors because it wasn't getting any better and it started to get worse.  We went to the doctors and they still couldn't find out what was wrong with her so she did tests and found out that she had a UTI and she got medication for it.  Then we went to a skin doctor for her bites (36 of them) and they gave her cream to help with that, which it is working, with the swelling and redness, but no one could tell us what had been biting us, not even a pest control man. :/

But one of our investigators gave us some Biotamacheus earth (however you spell that) and put it between our two mattresses which helped. I recommend anyone that has a bug problem, get this, it will work miracles! Anyways, so we didn't stop getting bites completely, but then one of our members called and told us everything that we were experiencing matched up to be what was called an assassin bug or a kissing bug. :/ Now we are not entirely sure, but yeah. Because we found what we thought was a squash bug, but which could really be an assassin bug.... so as we were deep cleaning again, I found a dead one so we are going to keep it and ask around and see if they know what it could be.  But we put that earth stuff ALL OVER our apartment and see how that can help from the meantime till they bomb the place. :P But yeah, so fun! haha

So yeah then today, we got our transfer calls and Sister Passey and I are staying together for another transfer! (5 weeks this time) She's been in the area for 5 transfers now. :) It's going to be awesome, she's my step mom and she's going to greenie bust me and we are going to see more miracles. :)
Sorry for that long story, but that's all that really happened this past week.  I love you all, please continue to write and email me and send pictures I love all of them so much!

Through Christ you can do hard things! <3

Love,
~Sister McKnight
Washington, Kennewick Mission

Sorry, I forgot one important part! :P So one of our investigators, Janelle came to church yesterday!!!!!!! AHHH!!!!!! We were so excited! Then to make Sunday even better, Sister Passey and I sang "Joseph Smith's First prayer" hymn 26 in sacrament meeting. :) <3 I think we sounded really awesome! We got to sing harmony together! It was perfect for Janelle and what she needed to hear. :) <3 It was so awesome! AHHH!!!! <3