Elder Riley Bennett: Week 66 Don’t Touch Your Mission President’s Hair..

Well what a week! We had our zone conference on Friday & focused on Charity which was great! One of my favorite topics & someone we all are continuously working on. We’re blessed to have the perfect example of Christ who shows us how to be loving unconditionally to all. If you’ve got problems w/ someone, just love em! Love really does overcome all things & softens people’s hearts.

Wellll while we were taking our Zone Conference photos & went to do the goofy pic, Yo boi reached for President’s hair to be goofy. “Big mistake. Huge.” *The Office quote* This man was not having it one bit & I felt his wrath. I never seen him so upset for something...and I mean I kissed him on the cheek a couple months ago haha. Maybe he’s just had enough of my shenanigans haha, anyways, don’t recommend touching your mission President’s hair unless you wanna feel their wrath.

Michael Steffen’s baptism is this Saturday & were so excited for him! So is his family, his mom is so excited for his baptism. We’ve been seeing incredible growth in their family from Michael’s decision to be baptized! They’ve been coming to church as a family & staying for all 3 hours, also Brenda, Michael’s mom, said she’s gonna start paying tithing at the start of next year, which is huge for them!

We did service yesterday at this huge church where they were handing out food for Thanksgiving meals for families & it was non stop the whole time we were there. People had to stand in the line for close to 3 hours to get food. Brenda & her family were there & they had someone behind them who had waited 2 hours but had to leave cause she had work, Brenda was like you’re not leaving empty handed & gave the woman $50. Incredible to see the selflessness of those who don’t have much that just want to help. It hit me hard when she told me about that, excellent example of charity.

We got to go on 3 exchanges this week & have 2 more this week. It’s always a great experience being able to learn from other missionaries, I’m very grateful for the opportunity I have to be able to learn from all of them!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!! Much Love!!
Peace & Love

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator