Yo yo yo it's
letta time!!!
Hey ya'll!!!
I'm glad ya'll
got the pictures, yah our apartment well I don't even know if you could really qualify
it as an apartment was tiny! The dishwasher was used as our cabinet space because
there was no cabinets at all, instead of cabinets we had a deer head. The bathroom
was just around the corner. No there aren't new sisters moving in I guess the Hamns,
the family we lived with, is redoing their house this summer and so the mission
started to look for somewhere to live and found a place to rent so they jumped on
it. Our new address is 716 Signal Mountain Blvd. Signal Mtn. TN 37377.
Sister Gonzalez
didn't leave her camera, she said she'd just mail it but I haven't heard from her
yet so I might just end up getting one here soon.
Jace I'm so proud
of you buddy! That's a lot of pressure to put on a newly ordained deacon but of
course you could handle it cuz you're Jace and you're a stud. Not many people can
say they've spoken with an apostle!
The meeting with
Elder Oaks yesterday was AWESOME!!! He said I'm going to do something a little different
this time around and we're only going to talk about one topic, receiving revelation,
and I need your help and input. So it was cool, we would say how we've received
different revelation or inspiration and then Elder Oaks would expand on those thoughts.
I'm telling you the South is where it's at! And it was cool to have all the mission
together again, that doesn't happen very often.
No new news with
Nancy yet, except she did send Sister Caughman a very nice thank you letter saying
how much she enjoyed the lesson and meeting with us, so no baptismal commitment
or anything yet but a positive note is a positive sign!!
The latest with
Tara is that she I guess moved out and in with her boyfriend... So we left our number
at her old place and hopefully she'll call within the next few days.
Oralia and Reynel's
baptism is scheduled for this Saturday, but I'm not sure if it's going to happen...
:( Her stupid boyfriend just won't marry her right now because he's been Jehovah's
Witnessed (I REALLY don't like the JW's right now arghhhh!!!) But we're hopefully
going to be able to meet with him on Friday, please please pray hard for a miracle!!
I know she has a choice in this but it's so frustrating that one person can hold
up someones eternal happiness. It's just not right...
I had a really
neat experience at church yesterday, the day before we had met with Oralia and it
just didn't go well, she's getting discouraged because of the boyfriend. Anyway
after our lesson I just cried, I was really feeling sorry for myself and feeling
like a failure because this always seems to happen with the people that I work with
who are getting baptized. I was questioning why I'm even out here because I don't
feel like I'm doing any good sometimes, 8 months and no baptisms... But yesterday
at church during Sacrament meeting one of the counselors got up and said we're going
to have the following people come up and bear their testimonies and he said my name
first. Honestly I was shocked but I got up there and I just had this flood of emotions
come over me and this overwhelming sense of love and I was able to bear my testimony
and declare that without a doubt I know that this church is true and that I am suppossed
to be here. Honestly I don't remember all that was said but I will never forget
that feeling of love. I thanked the branch president afterwards for giving me that
opportunity and he said I felt very strongly impressed that it was something you
needed to do. :) I was just reminded of how
very aware my Heavenly Father is of me, he knew that I was struggling and
he knew that that was something I needed to do. Something so small yet so powerful!
The gospel is so incredible, I just love it!
I gotta run, sorry
this isn't all that long or detailed someone came and was talking to me for like
the last 30 minutes, but it was really good. He'd been meeting with the sisters
and would like to again now :) Being a missionary is awesome!!!
Love love love ya'll!! xoxoxoxoxo
Sister Bedke :)
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