Subject: And the transfer news is...
January 6, 2014
Hey family!!
Thank you so much
for sending me those pics!!! My gosh I have a good lookin family!! You guys all
look so great!! I am so lucky to have y'all as my family :) I love that you did
the signs on the freeway and on the real estate marquee!! Ash I am so proud of you!!
You did it!!! Way happy to hear that you aren't weird now. Although if that will
postpone you dating... haha I'm mostly kidding.
Good luck this
week with your MRI Jace! Know that you are in my prayers every day and that everything
is going to be ok. I love you bud! Let me know what the results are, k?
Well I guess the
big news is transfer calls were today. And I am staying in Webb Bridge!! And Sister
H is going to Lawrenceville. My new companion's name is Sister Debry. She has been
out since July and was Sister Liu's (the other sister in the Webb Bridge ward who
has helped me get through these last 12 weeks and is the one in those pics from
Brother King) MTC companion. She said that she is really sweet and very talented
and really nice and obedient. So I am really excited to get to meet and work with
her. I am also excited to get to stay in Webb Bridge ward! I really feel like there
are people who I need to reach in this area and who are out there for me to find.
And I really just want to go out and work hard to find them. It has been really
hard to get things done these past 12 weeks because Sister H has had such a hard
time. It has been quite the adventure with her. But I definitely have learned a
lot from her and I can honestly say that I love her and care about her. I have been
praying so hard to see her as the Savior sees her and to try and help her through
this hard time. I don't know how successful I was because I definitely wasn't perfect
at helping her or at being patient with her but I know that the Lord put me with
her as my trainer for a reason. And now I think that Sister Debry and I can just
go out and work hard and keep the work moving in the Webb Bridge ward. With that
said though, these past few days have been awesome. We found some new investigators!!!
OH MY GOSH IT ONLY TOOK 12 WEEKS TO FIND SOMEONE!!! But we were able to tract into
several people who seemed genuinely interested in learning more and set up appointments
with us!! I feel like the Lord is telling me that things have the potential to get
going here and that this is my time to just dig in and work hard and I will see
miracles happen here.
Speaking of miracles...
do y'all remember Micky? We had a really good first lesson with her and then she
wouldn't answer our calls or come to the door or anything for like 3 weeks. And
on Saturday, we decided to stop by and try one last time to see if she was still
interested and so we knocked and she was home and she let us in and was talking
to us and it turns out that her mom passed away on Dec 18 and that she has been
in New Jersey since then and just barely got back. She was so at peace with it too.
It was incredible. She told us that she knew that her mom was in a better place
and that she was happy. We were able to share Alma 40 with her and she said that
she wants to start meeting with us again!!! I'm so excited!!
We found another
couple, Rick and Roya Grimes, to work with. They are members of the Bahai faith.
I had never heard of that but you should do some research on it. it is really interesting.
But they are very open minded and we had a limp with them yesterday and talked to
them, mainly the dad, about his religious background. He has done a lot of research
and has so much potential but he sees other religious leaders, like Buddha or Confucious,
on the same plane as Christ in that they are all integral to religion. So we talked
to him about how there is truth and good to be found everywhere but that God's full
and complete authority can only be found in our church and committed him to reading
and praying about the book of mormon. Then the member who came with us totally bore
her testimony about how the gospel has changed her life (she is a convert) and we
closed. It was really cool!
Souji and Venkat
didn't keep their Thursday appointment sadly and then wouldn't answer their phone
for a few days and then I got a voicemail from her and she said that she was busy
on Thursday and wants us to come back and teach her this week! So that was really
exciting!
And at church
yesterday, one of the less actives we are working with came!!! And she wants us
to come over next Monday to do a missionary FHE with her family!! So many great
things are happening in this ward!! I am starting to see why I am here on a mission
and in this ward! Heavenly Father is so aware of us and our needs and knows when
He needs to step in when we can't go on any further. So things are definitely looking
up from where they have been. :)
I better go but
know that I love all of you so much!! Thank you for your love, support and prayers.
You are all incredible!!!
xoxoxoxoxo
the remaining Sister Bedke in the south :)
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