Elder Riley Bennett: WEEK 61 JOY IN THE JOURNEY

When we taught Joe, Loren, & another returning member named Nathan this week, we watched “Of Regrets & Resolutions” by President Uchtdorf in October 2012. He talks a lot about finding Joy in the Journey. How we don’t have to live our lives looking to our next destination as the finish line and believe that then will come the joy. That happiness is accessible throughout the entire journey. It’s silly to think of listening to music only to be waiting for the very last note to end the whole time. Or going on a bike ride or walk w/ someone you love, only to be waiting for the end & failing to enjoy the beauty around you. I know that we can find everlasting joy & peace in this journey of life by seeking out Jesus Christ and striving to follow him, asking for forgiveness when we do wrong. I encourage you all to listen to that talk! :)

We had our zone conference this week and we got to do it at the huge ranch in Cheyenne a member owns and they have a huge mansion on their property that we did it on which was dope. We talked about Following The Brethren which is fitting cause we just had General Conference. ‘Twas good stuff. It was snowing while we were there and we got a couple inches of snow on Sunday and had a low of 0. The snow is beautiful I love it!

We had exchanges on Thursday so I didn’t get to teach Kevin but we did teach a guy named David who is actually Coi’s cousin if y’all remember Coi. He moved back to Riverton. Anyways we started teaching David and he basically from the start was like “I don’t agree with y’all beliefs but I also don’t really know them so I should probably at least hear you out.” Then as we taught it was amazing to see how humble & sincere he was as he came to learn about the falling away of Jesus Christ Church & the reason there’s so many different churches today. He asked if we could leave him with anything to study so we gave him a Book of Mormon & asked when we could come back! So we’re really excited about David!

This week is gonna be crazy cause we have 4 missionaries from our zone going home (1 is going to Italy - Anziano Odom) on Saturday and we have to take them down to Colorado on Friday. So there’s lots of empty places needing to be filled so Elder Shellman is going to go out to Rawlins which is about a hour and a half away and I’m gonna be with Elder Bishop until the end of the Transfer on Halloween. Should be a lot of fun trying to juggle 3 wards!

Much Love y’all! 🤟

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator