July 22, 2013
Hellooooo family!!
Glad to hear
everything’s going great back home! I love hearing from you each week and knowing
that y'all are being taken care of back home!
No there is
a set of Elders in the Kingsport ward as well, Elder Woolums and Darrington, they
are awesome! Big things are going to happen here in this ward this transfer! :)
Dad did you ever figure out if you knew Elder Darrington's mom? I can't remember
her name now but I sent it to you a couple of weeks ago.
This week was
great! It started off a little scary because we had flash floods come through, they
were more in downtown Kingsport where we're not but the Elders live there. They
got caught in it and literally were biking in water up to their waists! There were
several shops that were completely ruined in the basements and in the shop we helped
clean there was over 10 feet of water in the basement! It was absolutely crazy!
People who have lived here over 40 years said nothing like this has ever happened! We spent most of Saturday helping carry stuff
out, shoveling mud, and squeegeeing the floor in one shop. It was exhausting! But
such a perfect missionary opportunity everyone that was there was so grateful and
impressed with all the hard work we put in, we all wore those Mormon helping hands
pins so people knew who we were. I forgot my cord or I'd send pictures we were a
mess but we all left feeling pretty great about what we'd accomplished.
We said goodbye
to Beth yesterday... :( She is moving to Atlanta this week. Man I'm going to miss
her A LOT! She is such an amazing lady and such a great example of continuing to
move forward even when you have everything going against you. I hope and pray that
Amber gets to meet and work with her and eventually her family. She made Sister
Burningham and I rings that are way pretty! I'm so grateful that I got to meet her
and have her influence my life for the better.
Sydney is still
doing great! We went over a few days ago to talk with her about her dad and how
she just needs to kill him with kindness and love. She said things have been going
better these last few days and she's hopeful for the future. We went over there
yesterday with the Elders to talk about setting goals with her and Parker the guy
she's living with which went really well, I feel like we're their parents sometimes
haha they just need some guidance and a good kick in the pants to get them going.
While we were there her nasty flea infested cat literally attacked Elder Darrington!
I think it's going crazy from all the itching it does every second of every day.
I felt bad for him, he said he's got a few puncture wounds in his back. That cat
is lucky to be alive haha.
Patty is doing
well, she still isn't really budging towards baptism she says when she knows she'll
know and then she'll get baptized... I think she's expecting some huge sign that
is not going to happen. We're not really sure what else to do.
Pam is still
about the same too, she says all these things and we have great lessons with her
but that's about it. She won't keep commitments and sometimes doesn't answer our
calls. UGH it's frustrating! We're just trying to help and so many people just won't
let us!!
We didn't get
to see Gloria this week because her daughter just had a baby so she's been in Kentucky.
Hopefully something will happen again there sometime soon.
We picked up
a new investigator Sarah Lowe this week! She is living with a LA who has a very
strong active family back in NY and she is so impressed with how there family gets
along and loves each other and she wants to know more and see how she can have that
happiness in her life. Lots of potential there. You never know the influence you
can have those around you.
They have what’s
known as Funfest here in Kingsport and we went and saw the hot air balloon show
on Saturday it was really cool! Again sorry no cord, I'll send pictures next week.
We'll start
exchanges here again this weekend, I'm excited we set goals as a companionship of
things we want to accomplish while on our exchanges to really make things happen
and help these sisters as much as we can. On the sisters conference call we had
President Irion said that in January there were only 16 sisters and now there are
66!! It's awesome!
Well I think
that about wraps up the week. I love love love y'all!!! xoxoxo
Sister Bedke
:)
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