Subject:
Let Freedom Ring :)
June 30, 2014
Hey family!!
I'm glad that
a lot more of you are home now and that y'all are doing great :) No I didn't
know that Jace is working for that guy. Way to go bud! And I'm glad to hear
that Brooke is doing good. And Madi, you will look super cute in braces :) I
hope that all comes together ok. I sure miss all of my siblings. I love you
all!
Well it has
been a HOT week here in Georgia! Hot-lanta is a real thing, let me tell you! It
has been in the 90s all week and it rains almost every day but it's great :)
you just learn to love and embrace the sweaty, sticky mess that you become,
haha. Our apartment stays pretty cool which is nice. We keep it at like 68 degrees.
During the day, we just drink a lot of water and run the a/c whenever we are in
the car. But it all works out and only 3 more months of summer right? :) Yes
I'm sleeping a lot better still.
We had
another busy week which was really good :) We got a hold of Shawn again and it
was so good! Her daughter is turning 27 on Sunday. Since medicine has no more
answers for them after her surgery, they are trying more naturalistic forms of
medicine like juicing. Shawn had mentioned that she had been spending a lot of
time peeling and washing carrots to juice so we had the thought to buy a couple
of bags and wash and peel them and drop them off with one of the copies of the
conference ensign that you sent me and points of her blessing that we typed up.
It went so good and she was so appreciative of it. I really do think that it is
going to happen with her, it is just all about remembering that it will come in
the Lord's timing. He really does know best.
Donna is back
in town! I missed her a lot. She is doing so good still and has been getting
invited to doing different things with members of ward. :) She just seems so
much happier and has that peace in her life now. She bought flooring and it is
going in this week! Her house is looking so much better. We went through her
HUGE collection of movies, books, and cookbooks. It was crazy how much stuff
she has. I felt a lot like you Mom as we went through everything and she had to
say either keep or get rid of. She considers herself a "border-line
hoarder" so thank heavens we found her in time, haha. But her house is
really coming along!
With the bug
situation, thankfully, we haven't had any in our apartment. We run into spiders
and spiderwebs all the time as we go up to different doors, mosquitoes are very
prevalent here, especially in the evening, but they tell me that we live above
the gnat line which is great :)
We had a
really great lesson with the Clays this week. Bro and Sis Perry came with us
and it was an awesome team up to have. We are going to start meeting weekly and
go through different points of the Gospel and help them understand the Church's
understanding of it. He is not working as a minister or going to any church
because none of the churches follow what the Bible says. The way that they do
church is they have different studies on various gospel topics. They are such
an awesome family! Also when they came for the church tour, I brought those
scooby doo fruit snacks for their 7 year old son, Gabe, and now he is also
converted to them :) Julie told me that when they went shopping he asked if
they could buy a big box of them and they did. Haha he is such a cute little
boy! When we went over to their house he showed me his swing set and wanted me
to swing with him. It was so fun!
Sam--unfortunately
there still isn't any change in the situation. We weren't able to meet with her
this week because she wasn't feeling good. But she is still reading and praying
and basically doing everything except being able to come to church.
Anna wasn't
able to make it to church either. We taught her the first part of the plan of
salvation and it went pretty good. We talked with her about how she feels about
getting baptized on the 12th still and she said that she wants to have a few
church services under her belt before having a date for baptism. But on Friday
she got this new job and she had to work yesterday. She didn't know what her
schedule was going to be for Sundays in the future so basically Satan is the
worst... But we will keep meeting with her and show her how Satan is going to
do everything that he can to keep her from church.
Also we have
a new mission president! He got here on Saturday and the other sisters in the
ward had a baptism that day and we get there and there is our new mission
president! He and his wife seem very nice, very shell shocked and not exactly
sure what they are doing yet but who can blame them? They are from Salt Lake.
We have a mini zone conference tomorrow where the rest of the mission gets to
officially meet them which will be fun. President and Sister Wolfert are from
the Salt Lake valley as well. They sent us all a voicemail saying goodbye on
Friday and I am going to miss them a lot. It will be interesting to see how the
whole transition goes.
Well I think
those were the highlights of the week. I love you all so much and I am so
grateful for all of you. Thank you so much for sending that song to me Dad.
That was incredible. I was thinking about the patriotic fireside that was going
on last night that you went to. We had a cool combined 5th Sunday lesson about
Liberty and it was awesome. I love this country and I am so proud to be an
American and I am so grateful for the men and women who sacrifice so much to
keep us free. Have a wonderful week!
Love always,
Sister Bedke
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