Week 24 Horsetooth H

  

   This has been such an amazing week! Miracles on miracles just keep comin. Everything is starting to fall into place for Elder Treanor and I. A lot of the people we’ve been wanting to start working with we’ve been able to set up lessons so we can start teaching them. We’re gonna start teaching Allen and his older sister Chloe on Thursday which we’re so pumped for! We also have lessons planned with other part member families this week that we’re excited to teach. One of which is a man named Gar who’s been coming to church with his wife for 20 years to support her but is not a member. We had dinner with him and his wife and taught the Restoration and are going back this week.

   On Saturday we went to go to some appointments in these apartments that fell through and we’re about to leave and saw a small family moving and offered to help and they were so grateful for us. We helped them move out of their apartment and followed them to their new one and helped them move in. They kept saying we were like angels and a direct answer to their prayers. We were able to shortly tell of Christ’s church back on the earth today and background of the Book of Mormon and leave the father with a copy. It was such a cool miracle.

   Sunday we had dinner with a member family that invited 2 non members over and we were able to have a really good discussion with them! They asked a lot of questions and were genuinely interested in learning more about the church. We left them both with a copy of the Book of Mormon and are sure we’ll see them again. We were so hype cause that’s exactly what we’ve been wanting the members to do is invite people and these ones did so...miracle.

   On Monday we tracted into a guy named Andrew who has a young family and he talked with us on his doorstep for probably 40 minutes about the church, he really knows a lot. We are meeting with him on Thursday, it was a miracle being led to him.

   Today we went and hiked Horsetooth and it was so pretty! You could see all the way out from Cheyenne, WY to Denver!

   The Book of Mormon is true. Don’t believe me? Read a lil then ask God. You’ll get your answer. 

Much love y’all 🤟

I ️ Jesus

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 

1715 N Wilson Ave. Apt. #308

Loveland, CO 80538

1-4-Horsetooth Hike

5-Posted on a frozen lake

6-Can’t Hang

                                                                                                                                                                                                     Joined the Infamous “Dear John” Club  💔

Week 23 Like MJ

This week was an amazing week! Elder Treanor and I saw miracles.

On Saturday we were looking for a less active family in these apartment complexes but holding find their door so we’re knocking around trying to find them and from that we met some new people we think we’ll be able to teach! We met this guy named Shawn who just moved here from Jersey 3 weeks ago and told us he’s had a rough past 5 years. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he seemed pumped to read it!

There are a lot of part-member families in this ward Elder Treanor and I are wanting to start working with. We've already started working with a couple families but there’s so many more we want to start working with. One of the families is the Clopton’s. It’s a single mother with an 18 year old daughter named Chloe and 14 year old son named Allen. Both not baptized. Elder Treanor and I have really been able to connect with Allen. It’s really sad, the family struggles cause the dad kinda just walked out on them all one day and went and started a new family with another woman and doesn’t even care about them. Real scumbag. So Allen struggles with it the most not having a father figure so Elder Treanor and I have really just been trying to love him and he’s opened up to us a lot! On Friday he showed us his fort he made in his man cave and all his Nerf guns and we played with those for a while and Michelle(the mother) was shocked he was opening up to us so much. She said he’s usually really shy and doesn’t talk to people much. She said she has no problem with us teaching him the lessons either. He’s a really cool kid and we’re pumped to start teaching him the lessons.

We had our zone conference yesterday and it was so wonderful! It was all focused on repentance. Goodness what a beautiful gift. Main focus was that we need to be repenting everyday. We all fall short everyday. We all have struggles everyday. We all need the Atonement of Jesus Christ everyday. So we need to be repenting everyday! Repentance is not something that is what you do when you really screw up, but it’s something we need to be doing everyday. 2 Nephi 25:23 talks about how it is by grace we are saved, even after all we can do...which is repent. Repent is what we can do. And we know from Moroni 6:8 that as oft as we repent...we are forgiven. The Atonement is infinite and eternal. There is no number of times we can use it. So continue to use it every single day. I’ll stop preaching now haha.

Miracles happen everyday around us. When you start recognizing them it’s incredible to see just how much our Heavenly Father is in the details of our lives everyday.

Much Love Everyone 🤟

I ️ Jesus

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 
1715 N Wilson Ave. Apt. #308
Loveland, CO 80538

1-Foothills of CO

2-Reunited with Elder Litster

3-Elder Treanor and Sister Taylor 

4-No words to describe haha

5-Zone Conference

Week 22 "Go The Extra Mile. It's Never Crowded."

     So to explain the title, Elder Treanor and I got swept into this area in Loveland that used to be Sister missionaries. So we move into the apartment they just moved out of and they left behind a pretty good amount of stuff Anyways something they left behind were these water bottles that say "Go The Extra Mile. It's Never Crowded." So that's been Elder Treanor and I saying all week.

     We've been working hard this week. Lots of contacting people that the sisters had down in the Area Book and trying to find out who's really interested. There's a lot of part-member families that we're excited to work with! This week we haven't had many lessons cause a lot has just been contacting and trying to set appointments up. Also we've met some really cool families in the ward who seem excited about missionary work that we're looking forward to working with. Elder Treanor and I are both very member missionary work minded so plan on focusing on using and working the members a lot while we're together. We set some big goals for this transfer we're really pumped to be here!!

     Funny story contacting. We were trying someone named David and a woman answers the door. We ask if a David lives there and she says "May I ask who's calling?" She corrected herself a little after but Elder Treanor and I thought that was funny and busted up bout it all day.

     Big things gon happen this transfer, so pumped to be in Loveland!!!

I  Jesus

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 
1715 N Wilson Ave. Apt. #308
Loveland, CO 80538

1-Gene and I

2-Howard From Stuft Burger. Gave hima Book of Mormon before dippin

3-Helen The 89 Year Old Dry Mormon who sobbed when I said I was leaving

4-Elder Treanor and I with our Bottles

5-Got Thee Hook Up

Week 21 Audi Like An R8

     Well transfers are this week and I'm leaving. I leave for Loveland tomorrow and will be serving in the River's Edge ward. My new companion is Elder Treanor and he's from Cali too. He came out the transfer after me. We're getting swept in, there used to be sisters serving there. We're gonna have a car and an apartment! Upgrade baby! I'm sad to leave behind Gene and the Bison Ridge ward. I've loved living with Gene and appreciate all he's done for the missionaries. Looks like we're the last missionaries to live with him, they're moving Bison Ridge elders into an apartment nearby.

     I loved my time serving in Windsor in the Bison Ridge ward and have met some amazing people! I'm sad to leave but also excited for a fresh start in a new area!

     This was a great week! We taught Vinta on Wednesday and she's all the way up to 2 Nephi 25!! That was so awesome to hear! We talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and read 2 Nephi 31 with her. She said she sees baptism in her near future which was really exciting to hear! We have a lesson with her tonight as well.

     Gene is such a homie. He took Elder Littlewood and I out to dinner for my birthday/going away. He said we're gonna eat some good steak and took us to the nicest place in Windsor. Such an awesome guy, sure gonna miss him.

     Excited to start my new area. Love y'all!

I  Jesus

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 
1715 N Wilson Ave. Apt. #308
Loveland, CO 80538

                            1-Basic Missionary Pic

2/3-Hughes Family...Throwin up the L for Larry The Legend   (guy who's head I'm on)

                                                             4-Preece Family

                                   5-Keller Family

                                             6-Bertagnole Family

                                               7-Late B-Day Dinner Courtesy of Gene

               
                                   8-Hittin Dingers With the Boy

Week 20 Zephyr Hats Tour

    Today was so sick! We went and toured Zephyr Hats in Loveland cause the guy who owns it lives out here and is a convert to the church of 10 years and in the Windsor Ward. So we went there for district P Day. He was so cool and showed us all around and told us about the business and let everyone pick out a couple hats to take home at the end. Yo boi even finessed him into hooking me up with a shirt haha. One of the dopest parts of my mission ( that isn’t missionary work) so far!

    21 Years Yung! I had my birthday on Saturday, and can say that it was an amazing day, and I saw miracles! I went on exchanges with Elder McFadden and we went out contacting/tracting all day. The miracle came when we contacted this less active woman named Jan who started crying instantly when she opened the door and saw us. She told us how she was just thinking of us that morning and wished we would come around more. She said she felt as though nobody loved her cause she wasn't getting visited by people from the church and missionaries weren't coming around anymore (Elder Litster and I tried contacting her all the time she was just never home) But so that was a miracle and we set up a time to go back and teach her. After that we went and saw a woman named Teressa who had just recently lost her father and found comfort in our words of Christ and the Book of Mormon. We are going to go back and teach her this week. It was a wonderful birthday I was able to work hard and forget myself.

    We taught Tanya (single mother with 3 kids) and her family on Monday night about the Book of Mormon. We testified that Christ's true church was back on the earth today and the way she can come to know of that is through the Book of Mormon. She was so excited to hear Christ's church is back on the earth today and was excited to read the Book of Mormon! We're gonna follow up with them this week.

   

Hope everyone had an amazing and safe New Year's! Make 2018 amazing!

Love y'all 

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 
1215 Walnut Street
Windsor, CO 80550

                              1- FOCO Temple w/ Nativity

  

                                 2- Unplanned Matching on Sunday

                           3-8 - Zephyr Hats Tour