We had transfers this
week & picked up Anziano Odom! He’s waiting for his visa to go to Rome,
Italy. He’s from San Diego & went to BYU before coming out. He comes from a
family of 9 kids so him & Elder Shellman are very similar. It’s been a ton
of fun having him in our companionship & very humbling for me! Love the
guy!
We taught a man on
Thursday named Kevin. He’s from Shanghai, China so he has no knowledge of
religion or Jesus Christ or scripture. It was shocking to see cause in my whole
mission I’ve always come across people who know some about Christ & Bible
stores like Noah & the Ark, Moses parting the sea, but he had no clue what
we were talking about. It was really funny I was shocked constantly throughout
the lesson and he’d just keep saying “I from Shanghai. We no grow up with
this.” Hahaha he was a really great sport about it all! It’s cool to see how
humble & sincere he is. When I testified of being a child of a loving
Father in Heaven he just said that must feel so comforting & I wish I could
have that! So we’re working on helping him develop his faith, we’re going to
teach him again this week, I love Kevin so much!
We’ve been having tons
of Member appointments lately and what we’ve been inviting them all to do is
very simple! Pray, Act, & Invite. And we’ve seen some amazing miracles from
members sincerely doing this. Well this last weekend, we had Stake Conference
and Elder Andersen of the Seventy (came & spoke to us at our mission tour
in May) came and he talked a lot about the same thing! Referring to
members & missionary work he said “We don’t need a few to do more. We need
all to do a little. It’s easy.” It’s so true. It really is easy, we just need
to be praying for opportunities to share, acting upon them, & inviting
others to come closer to Christ!
After Stake Conference
there was a young man named Austin who we talked with he told us he had been a
member all his life but lately his testimony has been struggling & he
hadn’t been active & was looking into other churches. We met with him
Sunday and had a powerful lesson with him! At the start he was questioning
things & halfway through he had a full change of heart & said “I
believe & know what I need to do.” It was incredible, the power of the Holy
Ghost is so real and works miracles in our hearts if we allow it. He said he
wants to work on being able to receive the priesthood & go to the temple so
we’re really excited for Austin!
Work is going great in
Laradise & I love all that I serve around, the members, & all the
people here! Love y’all back home!
Elder Bennett aka
yoboigator 
Choppin Brix Like
Karate
Squaaaaaaa
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