Elder Riley Bennett: Week 16 Littlewood In The Hood

We had transfers on Wednesday and I said my goodbye's to Elder Litster. My new comp is Elder Littlewood and yes high school was rough on the kid haha. We get people that laugh sometimes at his name out here its funny but he's said he's heard it all so he don't mind. He's from South Jordan, UT. He's a homie and we get along really well. We do a good job teaching together and the lessons flow great! This was an awesome week for us, we had a lot of success so I'm excited for the rest of this transfer!

Also got to see my boi Elder Beecher Halladay on Wednesday at transfers! Haven't seen my homie since day 1 coming into the field so that was hype!

We taught a lot of lessons this week. We taught an older lady named Helen who's 89 and is the sweetest thing! She loves to talk so can get sidetracked from lessons sometimes but we workin with her.

Saturday we went and did service for Vinta for about 3 hours and she told us how her dad went to the hospital on Sunday and had gangrene on his foot. It was tough on her cause her dad was all she had growing up and her mom was never around. So we offered her a blessing and she said we could come back that night and do a lesson and blessing. So we went back for the lesson that night and her boyfriend Danny who we hadn't had any contact with for almost 3 months was there too! So we taught both of them and they both were really getting into it which was great and they said they'd read the Book of Mormon and we could come back and teach them again next week! Then I gave Vinta a blessing and the spirit was really strong during that.

Sunday night at our dinner, Vinta's daughter Reoko called and told us to go to the hospital now in tears. We got there and they told us Viinta's dad had gone into cardiac arrest and had a hemorrhage in his brain and had to go into surgery immediately. We couldn't stay long but Vinta texted the next morning saying they took him off life support and are gonna let the Lord take him. So it's been a rough past couple of days for them but the members have been helping out a ton with comfort and meals. Please if you could remember them in your prayers.

We asked Gene if he wanted us to decorate his house for him and he told us no thats alright cause that's something his wife usually took care of. So when he went to work we went hard and decorated his place...boiiiii his face LIT up when he got home! He was so happy it was great!

Shout out to Elder Littlewood's parents for hookin us up with 12 days of Christmas gifts and decorations. I'll send pics neat week of em.

Love you all! Check out LightTheWorld and do it, it will bless your life!

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator