Subject:
Two months in the mission field!
December 2, 2013
Hi family!
It sounds like
you guys had a great week and a great thanksgiving! Thanks for sending the letter
off so late Mom! 2:40 AM! You are incredible! I laughed at seeing the bolded underlined
section of your letter :) The only way to ensure your question gets answered! Yes
that is my address and yes I got the ensign. Thank you so much for sending it and
for the note. It made my day! I am really happy about you being able to send packages
and letters directly to me now. Poor Sister Residori is such a sweet lady but I
think she is very overwhelmed with her assignment. I can't imagine handling that
much mail. Did Court tell you that she met her at Lee's just before they came out?
They told me all about meeting you Court and said you were such a cute girl. How
bad would it be if you always sent mail to me at my apartment rather than having
it go through the mission office? Every other mission does it that way. It takes
so much longer to get letters to us that way and sometimes things get put in the
wrong piles. I haven't gotten that package yet unfortunately. I hope it is sitting
at the PO, because it definitely isn't at the mission office and they don't keep
a log of when packages arrive and when she sends them out. I am so sorry for the
huge mess with it!
Do you think you
could send me Ash's mission journals from the beginning of her mission? Maybe like
the first 2 or so? It is crazy how similar our experiences are, especially with
companions, and I think that might help me out. Maybe you could send them with my
long sleeve shirts if that is ok.
It was a pretty
good week overall. We weren't able to get in with Joe, dang it. Satan made his son
sick so we couldn't go over. Satan is the worst. So we are just praying we can find
a time to work with his crazy busy schedule. On the other hand though, it is kind
of exciting to think about the potential he has because Satan really doesn't want
us to meet with him! We are going to give him a call either today or tomorrow and
try and find a time that we can meet with him this week because we really need to
get things going with him!
But we were able
to get back in with some other potential investigators that we haven't been able
to get a hold of for a while. The first one's name is Souji. She is a Hindu woman
that we met tracting our first or second week here and she told us that we could
come back but we just haven't been able to get over there til now. But we just stopped
by and she remembered us! She invited us in and we met her husband and had a really
nice conversation with them. We asked them a lot of questions about their culture
and they kept laughing at us because we were so fascinated by it. I really like
Hindu people because they are always so friendly. Sometimes I get really sick of
white people. But anyways, Souji and her husband, Venkat believe in Jesus Christ!
We started talking to them about the Book of Mormon and what we do as missionaries
and they want us to come back next week! We left a copy of the BoM with them and
they said they would read it! Sa-weet!
We are also working
with another Hindu man named Ravi. I think I told you about him. But we haven't
been able to get a hold of him. He wouldn't answer our texts or calls and we tried
to stop by and he wasn't home. But we tried again when we were in the neighborhood
again and he was home and let us in! He apologized for not getting back to us and
told us that he definitely still wants to meet with us and learn more about the
Book of Mormon but he just needs to get through finals first which end the week
after next.
When we went tracting
on Wednesday (in the FREEZING cold wind!) we met a lady named Micky, who was busy
at the time but told us that we could come back on Saturday. So we did and she was
actually home! She is such a sweet lady! We did how to begin teaching with her and
talked to her about the Book of Mormon and she accepted a copy and said that she
would read it! We are seeing her this week. She seems pretty golden as Ash would
call it :) I am really excited about her!
It was mostly
a better week with Sis. H. I know that there is a lesson that I am supposed to be
learning from her, but it is really hard to work with her sometimes. She is just
a super negative person a lot of the time and lets these little things get to her
that just don't matter and then she just gets mad at me and the rest of the world.
And then sometimes she is super great and we get along really well. So it is a work
in progress with her. But I think for the most part it is getting better. I have
started just calling her out whenever she gets mad and having her let it out. It
seems to help her get it off of her chest and has helped me to develop some pretty
thick skin and learn to love her in spite of it all. She did write me a very nice
note a couple days ago though thanking me for what I do for her, which is a first
in 7 weeks, so that was really nice. :)
I am so excited
about what Andy said!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is so cool!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe it!!!!!
I worked so hard for him and he wants me to come back!! Yes!!!! Thanks for telling
me and I definitely want to do that when I get home :) It will be nice to be paid
for all that work!
For thanksgiving,
we spent it with our bishop's in-laws house, the Tanners. They have this huge beautiful
house and are the nicest people! Their food was delicious and they made us feel
right at home. It was them, our bishop and his wife and their 3 kids, our first
counselor and his wife and their 5 kids, a lady and her 2 sons that Sis. Tanner
visit teaches, and a recent convert in our ward named Todd. It was a full house
but we had a great time.
Well I think that
about wraps up my week! I love you guys and I am so grateful for all of your love,
support and prayers. I am so grateful for you!
xoxo
Sister Bedke, the younger :)
