Subject:
Georgia is really hot...
June 16, 2014
Hi!
You guys have
had a crazy week at home! But it sounds like everyone is doing good :) Thanks for
keeping me updated! I about died laughing at the pics of me going down to southern
utah with Kim and Brit. Hahaha that was seriously the best thing ever! I'm glad
that dad got my fathers day card! That is so weird that it has been 2 years since
our family has been together... That seems like forever ago! Good luck at high adventure
dad and Jace! And to Brooke as you are starting out the whole ranch adventure! I
am excited to hear all about it!
Thank you so much
for my package Mom! I got it on Saturday and it made my day :) I wish that you could
send Madi in it too! haha I love you beautiful! But that was all perfect. Thanks
for getting it all together Mom! I love you!
We had an interesting
week. It was really hard trying to get a hold of everyone and get back in with people.
Sam is about the same story still. We saw her on Friday finally and gave her a quad
that she could give to her dad but she hasn't tried talking to him yet and didn't
make it to church again yesterday. I know that it things aren't done in my timing
but I don't know what else we can do. I really hope it starts to come together soon
with her. But we have to push her baptism back again because she hasn't made it
to church still.
Shawn we are pretty
sure was out of town this week. She wouldn't answer our calls or texts and we tried
stopping by a couple times with no luck. So we will see what happens this week...
The Dunns... We
tried calling them a few times with no answer so we stopped by and they were home.
She was sick last week which is why they missed church but they said that they would
try and make it yesterday but didn't... So we will try and meet with them this week
and see what happened there.
The Clays we got
to stop by and see for a bit. They are hilarious! But somehow (I still don't know
how this happened) my new little missionary ended up talking to the ordained minister/bible
scholar Mike while I was in a conversation with Julie. I was trying really hard
to focus on both conversations but when that wasn't working too well I just prayed
that everything would go ok. He analyzes everything very in depth and they are trying
to figure out if what the Mormons believe is the same thing as what they believe.
It will be a great teaching/learning opportunity if nothing else at the end of all
of this.
Anna, one of our
new investigators, we just had a porch lesson with her this week but she said that
she really enjoys meeting with us and that she feels very comfortable with us. She
is a sweetheart and we are meeting with her on Wednesday.
We did a lot of
tracting in the rain this week. It was super hot and humid! But what can you do
but smile and laugh at the whole situation? Haha always a good time in the mission
field.
Good news though
is that Donna's house is all painted and we have now started the process of removing
that nasty carpet! It looks so much better in there and it is a lot brighter and
happier! So that has been a lot of fun :)
We did have a
really cool miracle on Saturday. As we were tracting we came up to a woman outside
who was smoking and just looked really depressed. As we were talking, she really
opened up to us about how she has had a really hard time lately. She has had to
move back in to take care of her mom and is having to do a ton of housework and
doesn't really have anyone to turn to. We talked to her about turning all of her
burdens over to Christ. We were able to say a prayer with her and give her a book
of Mormon. She was really touched and told us that she was going to read the whole
thing that night. Her name is Connie and she was such a sweetheart.
Also that same
day we found a less active member of our ward who moved in 2 years ago but was never
contacted and stopped coming. We didn't know that he lived there, we just happened
to tract on his street and found out that he was in the roster under the wrong address.
So that was awesome! He wants home teachers and will hopefully start coming back
soon!
So there were
definitely those little miracles that kept us going throughout the week. Sister
Castleton has grown a lot and is starting to understand things more. We have been
working really hard this week in spite of everything and things are going to start
picking up again soon. I love you all so much and I am so grateful for all that
you have done for me. Have a great week!
xoxo
Love, Sister Bedke
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