Elder Riley Bennett: 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