Week 41 Fast Pass to Goliath

     If y’all know Goliath at Six Flags, you just be trekkin up forever, and you just climbin, and you peak, then you take a fatty drop and go from supah high to a quick low real quick.

Well I’d say this has been the biggest rollercoaster week of my mission yet. Straight highs and lows haha, lemme break it down for ya.

    Monday we went and read with Deb & Mike and invited Deb to be baptized, she said she’s been thinking about it. Thursday we go back over to read with her. She tells us she’s thought a lot about baptism and feels like she’d be ready in 4-6 months. So we opened up to Mosiah 18 in the Book of Mormon with her and read. We told her that she was ready for baptism already and talked more about repentance. We shared some really good scriptures about repentance with her, Alma 5:33, and told her that when she repents, her sins are forgiven and forgotten. She said it was exactly what she need to hear and she felt ready to be baptized! We set a date for June 24th. We talked with Deb about bringing her 9 year old granddaughter Nevaeh to our lesson on Saturday so we could start teaching her as well and she loved it cause she already goes to church all the time with her friend!

Saturday we went over and helped Mike & Deb as well as their neighbors/fellowshipper, the Jeffery’s, with yard work for a couple hours, then had lunch together and came back later for a lesson. We came back and Deb & Nevaeh came over to the Jeffery’s for the lesson. We taught the Restoration and Deb was testifying of it to Nevaeh...then we taught the Word of Wisdom, and Deb started testifying of that to Nevaeh too! Deb committed to stop smoking and drinking coffee and live the Word of Wisdom that moment. Nevaeh also committed to be baptized on June 24th same day as her grandmother! 

Now this is probably when I was the most hype I have been my whole mission. Seriously one of the highs. Watching Deb testifying to her granddaughter was amazing and then for her to commit to love the Word of Wisdom! Just couldn’t ask for more!

Sunday morning we get a text from Deb saying that her & Mike talked for hours last night and that she wasn’t ready to commit to a church as well as Nevaeh. She was going to come to church today but afterwards wouldn’t come anymore and didn’t want to meet but she would continue to read the Book of Mormon.

Now after reading this text I was the lowest I have ever been on my mission and truthfully in a long time. So in a matter of 24 hours high to low. The mission be out here playing with emotions like it’s nobody’s business. Anyways, we were all pretty distraught after reading the text and so we hit our knees, and we prayed for a miracle that day(hoping a miracle for Deb)

    So Church was amazing! We had a referral we contacted the day before who came to church, as well as this soon to be 9 year old were teaching w/ her less active mom, AND right when we walked into the chapel, there’s this younger guy in shorts and a t shirt sitting in the back. So we go up and introduce ourselves and check this MIRACLE! His name is Connor, he’s 23, he moved out here from Virginia, said he hasn’t been to a church since he was 6 and he lives across the street from ours and has been driving by our church and felt like he just needed to come in. He’s been going through a super rough time, knows no one really, just had a break up and lost his job, and said the people he lives with aren’t good people. So we grabbed him and introduced him to people and had him sit with us. He left after sacrament and we walked him out and he kept thanking us cause he felt so welcomed and loved and said he’d be coming back next week. We got his info and are going to try and teach him this week! Such a sweet miracle! Heavenly Father answers our prayers!! Deb & Nevaeh also came, we talked with them after and it was really sad. Deb said she loved church and started crying as she said she was struggling with having to leave this. We told her she didn’t have to and she just kinda continues crying saying she was struggling. We don’t know what happened but have a good idea. So please pray for Deb and remember her in your fast this week.

    We saw tons of miracles this last week, so many more I can’t include or I’d have to start goin into MLA format and make this thing an essay haha! Christ church has been restored in its fullness to the earth today! The Book of Mormon is TRUE! Don’t believe me? Read it & ask God. He’ll tell you wassup. Love y’all 🤟

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 

I ️ Jesus

Here’s a mean Squaaaaaaad pic of Da Boyz

Shoutout to Elder Thacker for dis 1

Week 40 The Longest Week Yet

     This week has been crazy but incredible! Pretty sure I ain’t slept in like the past 2 weeks haha yo boi is dead.

      So on the day of transfers last week Elder Halladay my boiii & I we’re comps for the day while we waited for our comps. When Elder Kellogg & Elder Miceli got in we dipped back to FOCO and got goin. That night we had to get bunk beds from Sisters for the other Sisters and go set those up for them, anyways that was a long day but lots of fun!

      Yo boi got to play volleyball with the YSA & our investigator Peter on Thursday night and that was so much fun!

      We went & taught Mike & Deb on Saturday the gospel of Jesus Christ. We read 2 Nephi 31 with them and Deb said The Book of Mormon brings her the most peace and comfort than any book ever has. We invited them to come to church and Mike said he’d think about it. Deb looked at him and said “Well I’m gonna go” It was so sweet!
On Sunday Deb was at church w/ her 3 grandkids! It was so awesome to see! She said she loved how open and straight up everything was, no secrets. She really enjoyed the relief society too! We went & read the Book of Mormon with them Monday and invited Deb to be baptized & she said it’s something she’s really been thinking about a lot lately and just wants to know if this is the right fit for her. In her prayer she asked God if this was the right fit for her.

      On Sunday there was a cool miracle, we went to Ward Council before church and while in there I was reviewing the lesson we were going to be teaching in gospel principles later and I came across a line talking about eternal families that I felt one of our investigators could really use. His name is Adrian, he’s a younger man with a young family, extremely humble and we hadn’t had any contact in about the last 2 weeks with him. So I texted him saying we were going to be talking about something in church today that I think you really need to hear along with the address & time. Well church came around and I honestly had forgotten and we were greeting people and we saw that Deb had come with her grandkids and were excited about that & we sat with them. After the sacrament the first speaker got up and was up about 5 minutes or so when someone in the pew behind us said, “Hey I think there’s an investigator in the back” Sure enough it was Adrian and his son! It was such a cool miracle! He stayed and came to gospel principles with us, his son was being crazy so he left early. We went over after church to read w/ him and he said he woke up that morning and was planning on going to church and had the feeling he needed to and when he saw the text he knew he had to. So cool to see the Spirit working through both of us! We read with him, invited him to be baptized, and he said yes! It was such a cool miracle to see. He’s on Date for June 9th and we’ve been reading with him almost daily since.

      Monday we had MLC training from Elder Anderson of the seventy in Cheyenne. So for the first time in my life, I was in Wyoming haha. That was cool, especially cause all the Colorado ZL’s squaded up in our mini van and we whipped it over there.

Tuesday was our Mission Tour and that was pretty sweet! Got some amazing insight and hype for the trainings I’ve received that will help me be better.

      Things been crazy but I’m loving FOCO & both my new comps! Love y’all 🤟

The Book of Mormon is TRUUUUUUUE & the Priesthood is restored to the earth today!

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 

I ️ Jesus

Yo boiz moving beds for the Sistas

Pics from Mission Tour w/ the Homies Elder Kellogg, Elder Halladay, Elder Litster my trainer who goes home this transfer, and Elder Gillette my MTC comp who I hadn’t seen in 9 months!

In case you ain’t already know We Dem Boyz

MLC Trainling in Wyoming

Week 39 (559) Holdin It Down In FOCO

So we got transfer info on Saturday and I’m staying in FOCO and going to be comps with Elder Kellogg!!! Fresno boyz gon Be holdin it downnnn! We’re going to have another companion with us named Elder Micceli so we’ll be gettin those tri-pan miracles baby haha should be a ton of fun! Elder Jenson is leaving to go to my old ward River’s Edge and gonna be with my boiiii Elder Thacker & Elder Treanor is going to Casper, WY to be a ZL, such studs. They’ll all kill it.

This week wasn’t too exciting, not very many lessons, lots of errands, but it was all good cause I got to see the fam Sunday! Sheesh made me remember how much I miss my family & how much I love all of them!

Oh there was some excitement! Friday we dropped off a missionary going home at the mission home and his companion Elder Harris has been with us since. But after dropping him off we went to Darron Arnold’s baptism which was so awesome!! He had a special light about him, I had so much joy for him & his family. I’m excited for their future!

We have our mission tour on Tuesday next week so our p day will be on Wednesday.

Thanks for all the support. Love and miss y’all 🤟

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 

I ️ Jesus

Pics from Darron’s Baptism

Flexin on em w/ Bailey

District Squad Pic

Saucin on em in the aprons (Made pizzas for dinner w/ members)

Yo boi on the right and Elder Jensen on the left

Week 38 Horsetooth W/ Da Boyzzz

Straight up I’m wiped so this email prolly gonna be weak sorry but got tons of pics tho and we all know that’s all anyone ever really looks at so enjoy haha. We got up at 3:30 and did a sunrise hike at Horsetooth today and it was gorgeous but I am dead haha. Was still a ton of fun and totally worth it. Came back and had breakfast as a district which was sweet!

We also did a Chapel Tour with Mike and Deb today and it went great! Their neighbors who are members came with them and it was awesome having them there sharing their testimonies! They both loved the tour and said they felt so much more comfortable about things now. Deb was testifying of feeling the spirit. Deb said she’s willing to come to church Sunday but has to talk it over with Mike to see where he’s at...so reallyyyyy hoping they’ll come on Sunday! Got a commitment from Deb but not really from Mike, so please remember them in your prayers if you can so they can come to church this Sunday!

Also we’ve taught Adrian a couple times this week and the days he isn’t able to meet with us he calls to check in without us even asking so that’s awesome! We’ve been teaching and reading with him and things are going great, now we just need to get a member to come to a lesson with us!

We had MLC on Friday and it was cool being able to see my homies Elder Halladay & Elder Kellogg. Also got to see like my 2nd cousin Noah on Saturday so that was sweet.

Also this upcoming Friday is Darron Arnold’s baptism and I’m so hype! I get to give the talk on baptism and be a witness so stoked for that! Stoked to see my boyz Elder Thacker & Elder Treanor!! This week is transfer planning, pretty sure I’ll stay in FOCO but there’s a chance Elder Jenson won’t be my comp anymore since he’s been a ZL for 7 transfers and thinks he’ll get released, but we’ll see.

Excited to see my Mama on Sunday and tell her Happy Mother’s Day and talk with all the rest of the fam. Make sure y’all let yo Mom’s know how much you love em, make them a card or do something special cause they’re the most important people in our lives. Love y’all have a great week! 🤟

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 

I ️ Jesus

Pics from MLC

My bro Logan & his fam the snack Plugs & hooked me up 

Noah & I 2nd cousin

Hikin wit Da Boyzzzz

CSU Campus

Week 37 The Pursuit of Happiness

I miss music. 

Wonderful week, we had Zone Conference and our training was sick! Spirit was strong and members in the zone were pumped! Also we got smartphones so now we ballin out.

We found a new investigator this week named Adrian who’s prolly early 30’s and has 3 kids and is super prepared! We met him Monday and he invited us to come back the next day and we had an awesome lesson with him! He committed to be baptized if he came to know the Book of Mormon to be true! We have a lesson with him tonight so we’re pumped about Adrian!

Also had such a cool lesson with Mike and Deb yesterday. Honestly probably one of my favorite lessons so far. So Deb has been reading a TON from the Book of Mormon! She’s all the way up to the book of Jacob. So that was really exciting . But we were going to teach the Plan of Salvation and I kid you not that this woman taught herself the Plan of Salvation it was the best thing ever! She was talking about Adam & Eve and how all her life (grew up Catholic) she’s been told to hate them for what they did to us, the sin they committed, and all this and how she could never understand why she’s supposed to hate them. It was a question she’s had all her life, 60+ years, and she finally received her answer from 2 Nephi 2 in The Book of Mormon, that Adam & Eve had to fall. So that we could experience joy and pain. It was incredible to see. She put it all together herself and continued to do so throughout the lesson. She started getting emotional talking about how she wants to get baptized and start coming back to a church but she has all these feelings built up toward the Catholic Church that make it hard for her to take that step. Her husband Mike expressed the same feelings, he said it’s taken him 60+ years to get to where he is now where he can sit down and talk with us and then Deb stepped in and said “Mike that’s why you gotta read the book! It will bring you peace, read it!” It was so awesome, we’re going to do a Chapel Tour with them next week.

I got some really exciting news today!!! Elder Thacker & Elder Treanor called me and told me that Darron Arnold is getting baptized on May 11th and wants me to be one of the witnesses!! I was so pumped when I heard that, goodness I’m so excited for that day!

Things are going great here. Thanks so much for all the love and support! Love y’all 🤟

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 

I ️ Jesus

Elder Litster’s Posterity Pic

Zone Conference

Got caught all lonesome in my feels

Smartphone life...and yes we whippin da minivan 

Service with da boyz at Moroni’s Bookstore 

Week 36 Get Busy Livin...Or Get Busy Dyin

*Read title in Morgan Freeman voice*

Things are getting a lot better here! It was so funny we had ward council Sunday and our ward mission leader says “If everyone wants to look at the missionaries progress record and see if there’s anything they can help out with. In the “Help Needed” section they bolded where they need the most help and it’s actually 2 pages long cause we have some really good missionaries now.” Haha straight up takin shots at the missionaries before us but hey they like us and we actually got good input from the ward council so things are getting better!

This week wasn’t too exciting, but we’re gaining the trust of the members and establishing good relationships with them which has me excited cause I know big things are coming!

On Thursday we went on exchanges with the Assistants so I got to go back to Loveland and see all the homies! Saw Elder Thacker & Treanor and they’re doing awesome holdin it down in River’s Edge. They told me they put that crazy fool Ed Evans who we were teaching on date to be baptized so that was sick! Also got to see my homie Elder Halladay who’s a ZL in Loveland and he’s killin it over there.

Tomorrow we have Zone Conference and will be getting smartphones! Pretty crazy stuff, we’re pumped! Elder Jenson and I have a fire training prepared for our Zone Breakout! So we’re hype for that to get the missionaries in our zone pumped about being missionaries in FOCO and change their attitude about serving here.

We taught a young guy named Luke this week who’s going to CSU and Atheist and it was really sad. He was just saying the whole time how much it sucks to be Atheist cause it’s depressing and there’s like no hope. I was just like bruh you have a choice and don’t have to be that way but he just kept saying with research he’s done and stuff he feels like he has to be. It was really sad.
Also talked to a guy named Mario who’s apart of The Church of God and they believe Jesus Christ has already come to the earth again, the Second Coming has already happened, and that Heavenly Mother is alive and on the earth today. Trippy stuff. There’s so much confusion in this world. But we are so blessed to know the truth and don’t have to be confused. It’s our responsibility to share the knowledge we have with everyone to help them find the truth so let’s get busy baby!

Much love errybody have a phenomenal week! 🤟

I ️love Jesus

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 
700 E Drake Apt. A8
Fort Collins, CO 80525


We played Frisbee Golf today and this is basically how I spent most the day haha

Got to clean the temple yesterday so he’s some pics from the temple

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