Elder Riley Bennett: Week 29 High On My Mission

This week was so amazing!! So many miracles and tender mercies. To start off Elder Treanor and I taught seminary this morning and it was so fun! Reminded me of when I used to be in seminary and brought back a lot of funny memories. Our lesson went really well and the spirit was strong. The teacher came up to us after and told Elder Treanor and I that we teach so well together, so grateful for my companion and how well we get along and how much he teaches me, he’s so awesome! Then we went and hooped and my homie Elder Halladay, who’s in another zone, was at the church cause he had to take his comp to our building for a meeting so we got to hoop together, tender mercy seein that boi.

This week Colorado was having some beautiful weather, reminded me of Cali. Made it easy to go out and talk with people cause lots of people were on walks or doing stuff in their garages, we had a lot of success talking with people this week and got some solid potentials we’re looking to follow up with this week.

We were fasting and praying Sunday for our investigators to progress and an increase in our missionary work. We were blessed with a miracle. After sacrament someone came up to us and said there were some people in the foyer looking for us. We went out to find 2 guys in jeans and button up shirts. 1 was named Steve and he was a returning member who had just moved from Greeley, and the other was his friend Ed who’s not a member. So we talked with them a while and they came to gospel principles with us and Ed was loving it and participating and cracking jokes the whole time it was great! Then we gave him a Book of Mormon and he was excited to read it and was already calling it the word of God. We’re going to meet with him this week to start teaching him. WHAT A MIRACLE!!!

In sacrament meeting I sat next to Joe and RJ and RJ was asking me questions about going to the temple and I was like chill girl you gotta get baptized first. Nah just playin but I was hype that she was already talking about going to the temple like she knows it’s gonna happen! And she stayed all 3 hours which was huge for her!!

We taught RJ Monday and she told us about how she had been praying about baptism and that her neighbor Lucy, who’s a member in our ward, called her and told her that she had a dream where RJ was baptized and then she had a baby! This was HUGE to hear, cause Joe and RJ have been trying to start their family a while now and haven’t been able to. So that was incredible to hear!! The lesson went really well and now RJ is praying about being baptized March 31st!

Darron Arnold said he doesn’t think he’s ready to be baptized on the 10th but he wants to continue meeting and going to church, praying, and reading his scriptures before he is baptized. Please pray for him, the adversary is really working on him.

I got to interview a man named John on Friday for baptism and he is one of the most humble men I’ve ever met. He said the opening prayer for our interview and said, “Please bless my brother Bennett, I know I just met him but he my brother” He continuously bore testimony of Christ, Heavenly Father, The Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith throughout the interview. It was very touching for me and I learned a lot from him.

I love my mission. I love the people I’m serving. I love The Book of Mormon. I love my Savior Jesus Christ.

Please please please read the Book of Mormon if you haven’t! It is one of the single greatest decisions you could ever make. It is the word of God, and I know it was written for us today in these last days. It can bless and uplift you no matter what circumstances you’re in or trials you’re facing, it will always bring you the spirit and love of God unto your life.

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator