June 10, 2013
Helloooooooo
family!!!
Yep you read
it right I've actually left the Chattanooga zone! I was there for almost a year
and I really am going to miss it, there will always be a special place in my
heart for the people in the Chattanooga stake! :)
I'm now in
Kingsport, TN which is one of the furthest northern parts of the mission. It's
really pretty up here and it feels right to be here. My new companion is Sister
Sidney Burningham from Centerville UT. She is awesome! We hit it off instantly
and work really well together, it's been fun. And it's nice to be with someone
who knows what they're doing again haha it’s been awhile... I really did love
training but it's nice to have a change of pace.
It really
sucked saying goodbye to the Athens ward, even though I was only there a short
time Sister Clove and I just clicked with everyone in that ward really fast.
Our ward mission leader Brother Roger Ward feeds all the departing missionaries
a steak dinner wow oh wow it was probably the best steak I've ever had! It was
a fun night another couple in the ward we got close to Don and Kathy Daggs came
and the Elders, good last day in Athens TN.
So holy cow
ever since I got out of the car here in my new area it has been go go go! We've
been soooooo busy! Which is awesome I love it! It's just been kinda stressful
too. We were supposed to have a baptism the Saturday I got here for a lady
named Beth Starkey but we got a call from here friend who introduced her to the
church that Beth's husband basically gave her an ultimatum and said it's either
me or the church. She was obviously crushed and so was Sister Burningham I felt
so bad... But she also really impressed me in that she said you know though I
just know everythings going to be okay and that the Lord will take care of it.
We went and met with Beth at the church and she told us that she felt like it
would probably be best if she postponed her baptism date a couple of weeks. She
really wants to be baptized but she just needs to get her husband on board. She
came to church though and told us it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when
I'll get baptized, it was cool.
We had
another miracle happen with a lady named Pam Mitchell, Sister Burningham and
Johnson OYMed her and she told us that normally she runs from people like us
but she said I literally couldn't move my feet I felt like they weighed a
million pounds and I took that as a sign that I'm supposed to listen to what
you girls have to say so they met with her one time before I got here then the
day I get here we get this call from her and she is just sobbing on the phone.
Her fiance lost his job and the only income they have coming in is her
disability check which isn't much anyway she just said I just wanted to call
and ask if you could say a prayer with me. So we did over the phone and Sister
Burningham said one of the most beautiful prayers I've ever heard with words
that really weren't her own it was an awesome experience! We went over the next
day with the Elders and they gave her a beautiful blessing and she agreed to
pray about a baptismal date. So we go by the next day and she says June 22nd!!
She came to church yesterday and loved it! She said she felt like everything
that was being said was meant just for her! :) When she got home her grandson
Devonte asked her where she'd been and (he's 13) she told him that she'd been
at church and that she was going to be baptized and he asked her if he to could
be baptized!! She said are you sure that's what you want? and he said yes I
want to start going to church! It really was a miracle! Good things are
happening here in Kingsport.
I hope all
that made sense I'm trying to hurry... We've got a lot to do. AHHHH!
So being a
Sister Training Leader is kinda like being a zone leader except just for
sisters. Sister Burningham and I will go on an exchange with every
companionship of sisters in our zone, so we will go on at least one exchange a
week. We'll also be part of the mission leadership council which meets once a
month to discuss the needs of the mission and missionaries. So it's definitely
going to be a change of pace but it'll be good. I really am excited for this
new opportunity and hope that I can help these sisters out.
Ok so super
funny story!!!!!!
So our
apartment reeks of smoke all of our neighbors smoke and I'm sure the tenants
that lived there before smoked ugh it's nasty. So we get home on Saturday for
lunch and I'm like let's just leave the door open and see if we can get some
fresh air in here so we leave it open for awhile while we eat lunch then we
close it and head upstairs to make some phone calls so while Sister Burningham
is on the phone I head into the bathroom so I turn on the light and there is A
FREAKING RACOON IN THE BATHROOM!!!!!!!! Oh my heck!! Hahaha so I start
screaming bloody murder and run into the study room and scream there is a raccoon
in the bathroom!!! Sister Burningham literally leaped onto our desk and starts
screaming too hahaha she drops the phone so the poor sisters on the other end
probably thought there was someone in our apartment. I hurry and close the door
and we're both like what the heck do we even do!?!? So we grab a stick and
slowly open the door to see if we can see it because I was stupid and left the
bathroom door open and our bedroom door was open too!! So I go out and see it
behind the bathroom door probably just shaking cuz I probably scared it just as
much as it scared me. So we thought well maybe we can scare it out yah that
didn't work haha so we hurry and close the door and decide to go get our
landlord. So we run out and we're like Mac can you please come get this raccoon
out of our bathroom?! He's like what the heck is a raccoon doing in your
bathroom?! Hahahaha man I feel like this e-mail isn't really doing this story
justice.. So Mack is like get me a broom and a box and he literally wrestles
this thing in to the box!! Then he walks out of the bathroom just grinning
haha. When he comes back after getting rid of it he says you can just call me
the coon man! Then funny thing is that he literally looks like a coon man!!
Hahahaha it was so funny! That right there is a southern story.
Sorry this
e-mail is kinda all over the place but things are going great and I really am
excited for this new phase of my mission!!
Please e-mail
me as soon as Amber knows where she's going!!!!!! Wow wow wow I can't believe
that it's been issued!!!
Everyone in
Athens is doing great! Kayli's baptism date is still on for this weekend! I'm
bummed "I can't be there but I'm more okay with it this time around.
Sister Clove did stay in Athens.
Well I think
that about covers the highlights. I love love love you all!!! xoxoxoxoxo
Sister Bedke
p.s. Happy
Father's day dad!!! :) :)
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