Sorry beforehand about how long this email is
but had a cool personal experience I wanted to share.
Wow these days are flying by! Next week
this time ill be getting ready to board a plane to Denver! I love the MTC but
its so nice to think I'll finally be able to start my time in the field serving
the people out there.
The MTC has a system called TRC (Teaching
Resource Center) basically they hire members/investigators for us to practice
teaching on so you don't know if the person you're teaching is really a member
or not. This week we taught an investigator by the name of Mariah at TRC. It
was so cool teaching her because she was struggling with her faith a lot and
our testimonies really helped her a lot. Every lesson we taught her she would
cry throughout and the spirit was so strong and so we invited her to be
baptized after our 2nd lesson and she said yes! Our final lesson with her we
talked with her about baptism and why it's important, enduring to the end, and
she was really questioning Joseph Smith and the importance of the Book of
Mormon. We bore testimony and as we did she had tears streaming down her face
and thanked us from the bottom of her heart. She then confessed to us, she told
us she never tells anyone because it's against the job but that she was already
a member, but had really been struggling and doubting lately. But she thanked
us so much and told us we were a direct answer to her prayers. I realized a
little later that not every conversion ill have will necessarily end in
baptism, there are members that are struggling too that need help and their
worth is just as great and important as anyone else's. It was a cool lesson.
We got our flight plans the other day.
Crazy that I'm already getting ready to leave the MTC. Our flight is a week
from today and we fly into Denver and then are taking a bus to get to the
mission presidents home and we have a group of 22 going and I'm the travel
leader so have to make sure that everyone makes it there and has a companionship
and all that.
The daily routines are so repetitive and
its starting to get annoying doing the same things everyday so I'm pumped to be
heading out in a week! I think cause were leaving on Tuesday our P-Day might be
on Monday this next week.
I had a cool experience in class this week.
Our teacher asked us to write down any question we have on our minds...she then
asked do we have faith that the Lord will answer it within the next 15 mins. I
wrote down "Is the Book of Mormon a TRUE testament of Jesus Christ that
Joseph Smith translated?" I've always had a testimony of the BoM but never
had any like "heavens open and angels testify to me" experience that
I feel like everyone has and even when i most recently finished and prayed
about it I didn't really feel anything so thats why I wrote that down. She
invited us to kneel and pray about our question and so I did. I immediately was
prompted by the spirit to turn to Alma 45. I did so and found Alma speaking to
his son Helaman and in verses 2-8 I'll paraphrase how it was to me.
"Believest thou in these records which have been kept?...Believest thou in
Jesus Christ that shall come?...Will you keep my commandments?" To all
which Helaman replies Yes. And Alma tells him "Blessed art thou, and the
Lord shall prosper thee in this land." Now when I read these questions I
felt as though I was being asked them directly from the spirit. It was
something very simple but I said yes to all the questions and was reminded and
my testimony was strengthened that I don't need any miracle or sign to get my
answer, I've always believed in these words and in Christ and have strived to
follow thee. And so the Lord will bless me to prosper in this land. Don't think
I'll ever forget that experience, it was such a tender mercy of the Lord that I
was later able to use in my lessons.
Love
you all and I know the true gospel of Jesus Christ is restored on the earth
today and brings happiness and peace into our lives if we let it!
Elder Bennett aka yoboigator
Some pictures from this last week.
Elder Bennett and Sister Harkness both from Clovis California
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