September 30, 2013
Hey y'all!!! :)
What an awesome
letter from home. I thought about y'all all day yesterday and Amber you were in
my prayers and a big part of my fast. Thanks for forwarding me your talk.
Geez it is so
weird to me that it's just a couple of days away now... October felt forever away
and now it's here.
This week has
been pretty crazy, but it felt like we were running around like crazy and not accomplishing
all that much you know? I really am trying to focus on the little successes we do
have though which is a lot. 3 of our 5 progressing investigators have been out of
town so we've been visiting a lot of less actives which I love doing! Less active
work is where it's at!
We did have an
incredible lesson with Patty last Monday though!! Holy smokes! I have a reaffirmed
testimony of bringing members with us for lessons. We brought Elder and Sister Smith
(they are church service missionaries) from the ward who are good friends with the
Nisbets and Elder Smith knocked it out of the park! It was so great! He didn't really
know what her concerns were but he just started bearing testimony about the Book
of Mormon and also applying Moroni's promise in chapter 10:3-5 to anything not just
the Book of Mormon, which seems like a duh but I'd never thought of it like that
before and she was listening so intently the whole time. Then Sister Fox and I came
in with talking about Elder Bednar's talk on receiving revelation and how there's
3 different kinds (it's in a Mormon message and it's a 3 part movie, y'all should
definitely watch it! It's called Patterns of Light). We had told her that she's
not going to get some earth shaking answer to her questions but I don't think she
fully understood that but that lesson she was the one that told us that, she's like,
"I have been expecting something big to just knock me over so I'd know, but
I don't think how that's how it works..." FINALLY!!! She is so stinkin close!
We're meeting with her tonight and hopefully something will have clicked.
We had a way cool
lesson with this guy that came up to Sisters Fox and Roundy at the library (I was
in Bristol at the time on exchange) he was like what do the badges mean? So they
briefly explained and exchanged numbers not thinking much of it. The next day we
get a call from him though and he's like hey I'd really like to learn more from
you and about Jesus Christ. So we saw him Friday with the Elders (turns out he's
in their area dang it...) but we met outside in this gazebo thing sitting on the
floor in a circle and taught him the Restoration, holy cow talk about a spirit bomb!
It was so powerful he had never heard of our church before or the Book of Mormon
but he was listening so intently to everything we said and accepted the invitation
to be baptized!! It was so cool all 5 of us were teaching in unison and bouncing
off of each other, Kingsport missionary unity at its finest! :)
I went on 2 exchanges
this week, man talk about exhausting. I hate being out of my area so often but it's
been really cool to get to work with the other sisters and to see more of the mission.
One of the exchanges was just this last weekend and I got to help with a move oh
boy... You talk about nasty, this place was NASTY!! I don't understand how people
can stand to live in crap like that, mom you would have been mortified haha I actually
laughed to myself a couple of times at how you would have reacted while I was cleaning.
:) This lady has a dog that she hadn't potty trained and there was literally crap
everywhere and caked in the floor. Ugh... Other than that though we had really good
exchanges and it was fun to catch up with Sister Cady, I served with her at the
very beginning of my mission and haven't seen her much since. We've both grown and
changed a lot since then... :)
It's kinda crazy,
transfers are next week! I'll find out Saturday if I'm staying or leaving. I kinda
think I'm going to be transferred out... :( I really would love to just finish my
mission here in Kingsport but whatever needs to happen will happen and I'm okay
with it.
We still haven't
had much contact with Sydney... We have tried and tried I even risked my life putting
a note on her door, they have a cranky old dog that bites but I was praying so hard
that I could just put the note on her door and go. It came up to me and let me pet
in and put the note on the door and walk away and literally as soon as I got off
the porch it went psycho, I was definitely being watch over that day!! She did get
a job though! Hopefully now that she has that she might start prioritizing things
in her life. Please continue to keep her in y'alls prayers.
Thought for the
week...
"If you would
win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are a sincere friend."
-Abraham Lincoln
If we want to
help people change for the better they've got to know that we love and care about
them, especially in missionary work.
Well I better
wrap it up, know how much I love and appreciate y'all. And Amber good luck!! I'll
be thinking about you! xoxoxo
Sister Bedke :)
p.s. Yes I got
to watch the broadcast! It was incredible I especially liked the last lady, Sister
Reeves I think... Way good! And to see the sister missionary choir heck ya!! I'm
way stoked for General Conference!
p.s.s. I can't
remember if I asked last week or not but I am in need of another journal if you
could send me one it'd be much appreciated! Love y'all!!
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