Subject:
What a way to hit 6 months :)
April 7, 2014
Hey family!!
Thank you so much
for sending on the pictures!! Seriously pictures are my favorite thing to get :)
It looks like y'all had so much fun at the ranch! Madi has grown up so much! I can't
even believe it. But y'all look so cute! I am glad you had such a good time!
That is awesome
that they are actually going to be able to go through with the High Adventure thing
at the ranch! That will definitely be an adventure :) Good luck to all the leaders,
Dad, and Uncle Eric...
I am glad that
the cards got there! I have one coming your way today Mom! And I am still the worst.
Those pictures are all addressed and everything and they are sitting on my counter...
But it is in my planner now to send them off so usually when things get put in there,
things happen.
Conference was
so good! It really is like Christmas/Super Bowl Sunday for missionaries! Haha it
was just what I needed to hear :) We aren't allowed to watch it anywhere except
the church so there was a whole bunch of missionaries watching it together and Mom
you weren't alone in falling asleep, haha. But it was really good and I am excited
for the ensign to come out with them. Do you think you could send me a copy again
when it does come out? For those who haven't yet, you need to watch priesthood session!
We downloaded it and listened to it last night and this morning and it was so good!
I really liked Elder Oaks, Elder Ballard, Presidents Uchtdorf, Eyring, and Monson.
I just loved it all! Thanks for telling me what Allie said Grandma K! That was so
cute and if you are reading this Allie, just know that I was thinking of all you
cute girls when you stood up and sang "Teach Me to walk in the light".
There were a lot of future missionaries standing up in that primary choir :)
It has been an
interesting past couple of weeks with almost all of our investigators. They have
all just been not progressing, not keeping commitments, and not returning our calls
and texts. We have been praying really hard to know what to do and how to help them
progress. We have decided to put them on the back burner for now. We will still
check up on them every so often but they need a little bit of time. It is kind of
a scary thing to do but we are just really praying to be able to fill our teaching
pool with people who are ready to move forward. We really want to try working more
with our members. I really feel like there is so much potential in this area and
we just need to find those who are prepared. But I feel like things are going to
be ok. Thanks for all the prayers. I know that they will make a huge difference.
So crazy story
of the week: There is an elder in my zone and last week, his companion was with
the zone leaders and they told us that this elder was spending some time with the
assistants and left it at that. But then on Wednesday (my 6 month mark), we get
a text from the zone leaders and they tell us that this elder had run away and to
be on the lookout for him as we were going throughout our day. We dropped to our
knees and said a prayer and then the phone rang. It was the zone leaders and they
asked us if we were ready to go on a goose chase. We said yes and they told us to
go pick up the other sisters and meet them at a gas station in our area. We get
there and there are probably about 12 missionaries from our zone. We split up the
area and made plans to go out and look for him. We spent the next 3 hours looking
EVERYWHERE for him. We said a prayer and had the thought to send out a text to our
ward members to keep an eye out for him and to call us if they saw him. Near the
end of our search, we got a call from one of our ward members telling us that they
saw him walking down the street and followed him into a Panera Bread. He was just
eating outside on the patio. We called president and the zone leaders and got there
as soon as we could. He was still dressed in his proselyting clothes and has his
tag on and all of his luggage with him. We kept an eye on him and then his friend
from Georgia showed up and they started talking for a while. We had missed dinner
so we went and grabbed some and thought that we were done with that because his
dad would show up soon. As we were eating we got a text from another ward member
asking if we were still looking for the missionary because he was literally sitting
right by him and he said that he was getting ready to get up and leave. It was just
me and sister Webster at this point and so we call the zone leaders and told them
what was going on and start to follow him in our car. We followed him and his friend
to the edge of the woods and he starts going in and his friend is just talking to
him at the edge of the woods. There wasn't anything we could do and we were told
to just head home. But he is still walking around! Members have still seen him.
I feel so bad for him. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and really didn't want
to be released from his mission but he had to. Their poor family. They have got
a rough road in front of them as they try and get this all figured out.
And then the next
morning I woke up with strep. Haha so it was just an adventure all around. I am
feeling a lot better now. They put me on antibiotics and so we are finally both
healthy now :)
So in our mission
we have a monthly goal for baptisms and if we hit it, all who had a baptism that
month get to go to the temple. We hit it in March and so we get to go to the temple
on Thursday! I am really excited!
Well I think that
about wraps up this week :) I love you all so much and I am so grateful for all
of you! Thanks for all you do for me!
xoxo
Love,
Sister Bedke
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