Subject:
Poison Ivy?
April 28, 2014
What's good family?
:)
Wow, y'all have
had quite the week! I love how you all did the Jr. Missionaries thing! That is so
cool and it sounds like it went great! There sure are a lot of future missionaries
that were participating that night. Having experiences to practice teaching like
that will be invaluable as they all prepare to serve missions themselves. Who put
all of that together? We seriously have the best ward ever :) Tell everyone hi for
me!
Jace I'm so sorry
that you have had such a rough week! I hope that you start feeling better and that
those headaches stop bothering you soon. Are your teachers still working with you?
How much longer is school going for? I have been thinking about how normally at
this time I am finishing up with finals and that is really weird that it has been
a whole year since I've been in school.
March 27 is Roberta's
birthday and I think it was the day that they started dating too. They are doing
so great! We had dinner with them on Saturday and Michael is preparing to get his
patriarchal blessing soon! And he passed the sacrament yesterday! I felt like a
proud mom watching him and all of the young men were giving him high fives and everything
when it was over :) I love that family!
And sadly Donna,
Shawn, and Mikaila didn't make it to church today. We went over to Shawn's on Saturday
to help her out with some yard work and we found out that she has been going to
12 Stone, which is just a huge rock concert mega-church, with her boyfriend. It
made me really sad that she is making time to go to that church but won't come with
us. She is a teacher and told us that things will slow down a lot when school ends
but it is hard to know how to help her. I just have to keep reminding myself that
it isn't in my timing but it is in the Lord's and He knows what He is doing. She
just means so much to me and I want to see her move forward so badly!
Mikaila is the
friend of a member in our ward who has been coming to church for over a year but
just wants to do it in her own way. She is a sassy black lady but I love her! We
have had lessons planned with her these past 3 weeks but something has always gotten
in the way until this last week when we had lunch with her and Sister Sorenson (member
friend). We just kept it really casual and talked about the talk "Beautiful
Mornings" with her. It went really well and she seemed to really like it and
we are going to make it a weekly thing now :). But she had a hard weekend and wasn't
able to make it to church today. Prayers in her behalf would be greatly appreciated.
And Donna is doing
great! She called us on Tuesday and told us how she had to go to take care of her
dad this weekend and wasn't going to be able to go to church with us. But we were
able to meet with her almost every day this week to read the Book of Mormon and
pray with her. On Thursday night, we talked to her about wanting to help prepare
her to be baptized. She has already been baptized into the Methodist church but
received the whole authority thing really well and definitely wants to continue
to meet with her. Sister Perry came with us and gave her a beautiful picture of
Christ to hang in her house. Her house is really starting to look and smell a lot
better. She is so grateful to have the help and every time she prays with us she
thanks Heavenly Father for sending her sister into her life. I love her! We stopped
by last night to read the Book of Mormon (which she brought with her on her trip!)
and in her prayer we wrote down some questions to ask and she told Heavenly Father
that she knew that what we are saying is true. She is so sweet and always tells
us she loves us as we leave :).
So for the title
of this email: On Tuesday I started to get these weird, itchy mosquito bite things
on my arms and I couldn't figure it out because they didn't look like normal mosquito
bites and they weren't going away. A member told me to put some ammonia on them
because that would help to take out the itch but that wasn't helping and it was
actually getting worse and starting to spread. I was really confused and had no
idea what to do. When we were visiting with Donna on Friday, she asked how my mosquito
bites were doing and I showed her them and she tells me that they aren't mosquito
bites but poison ivy! She gave me this stuff called Zanfel to put on it which helped
relieve the itching for a bit but it was still spreading all up my arms, to my ankles,
up my legs, and even a little on my face. The next day we called our mission doctor
who had me email pics to him and then he called me in a prescription for a corticosteriod.
I really hope it starts to kick in soon because it itches like a mother and I look
like I have leprosy. Haha fun times, right? :) I'll forward on the pics to y'all.
But I promise that I am fine so don't worry Mom.
Well I think that
those are the highlights of this week :) I hope you all have a great week and know
that someone in Georgia loves you a lot! Thanks for all you do for me!
xoxo
Love,
Sister Bedke
PS For Mother's
Day, we have church from 1:30-4:30 and you have church from 11-2 Georgia time so
I guess either before 11 or after 5 Georgia time. I would probably lean towards
after 5, but I will talk with Sister Webster and see what works for her and her
family. I am so excited!
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