Week 47 Movin Brickz

Truthfully it was a pretty slow week. We had a couple exchanges & so there was lots of ministering going on this week but it was well needed. We have exchanges again tomorrow and then Zone Conference on Thursday. The zone has been doing amazing tho! Almost all companionship’s have someone on date for baptism so that’s really exciting! 

We didn’t teach very much cause we don’t really have any solid people were teaching & if we do they’re moving. It’s really sad but it’s an on-going joke that anyone we find to teach either goes to jail or moves haha. My first day here we went to contact 2 of our most promising people, we found out 1 just got put in jail & the other was evicted cause he’s most likely in jail.

We taught a lesson on Friday to a guy named PJ and committed him to come to church, he came on Sunday and said it was his 1st time coming to church in about 15 years! It was cool cause the talks seemed like they were meant just for PJ. He’s supposed to be moving to Ohio this week or next. His roommate claims he had a full ride to UW & challenged me in basketball 1 on 1 and said if I beat him he’d come to church, we hit him up Saturday and he never got back to us...we gon keep tryin to set it up to get him to church!

We did some service on the 4th & helped move some bricks up where they hold girls camp out here, the member we helped took us out the eat & that was really nice. Then Sunday we helped a non member move some bricks & he took us out for a ride in his sweet ‘71 Chevelle w/ the top down. Felt so free it was great. So we moved a lot of bricks but that’s not the business to be in if you slingin. Sling kickz not brickz.

Sorry for the lame email, love y’all 🤟️

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 

Brick Squaaaaad

Beautiful Views of WY

Week 45/46 Breakin the WY Border

Well I guess when over half of your mission is Wyoming it’s kinda inevitable that you’ll serve there eventually & now is my time. So I got transferred last week to Laramie, WY and I’m w/ Elder Cerezo who was born in the Philippines & moved to the states at 9. He’s from San Diego, a convert to the church, and an incredibly loving missionary & I'm so grateful to be serving with him!

Sorry bout no email last week, it was a crazy day. We hiked Horsetooth and left behind a flag at the top. Also Mike, (Deb’s husband) gave us a tour of CSU’s new stadium and it was dope! Pretty cool that we got to see the new CSU stadium & didn’t have to break in *bang bang shots fired*  

Along with saying goodbyes it was pretty crazy & I ran out of time to email.

The last week in FOCO was pretty eventful. We said goodbye to the missionaries going home which included Elder Litster who trained me, that was weird.

We taught a man named Fate who had already come to church twice, taught him the 1st lesson & he was golden & we put him on date to be baptized 2 weeks later. I’ve since learned Fate fell off the face of the earth & they have no contact w/ him. 

We went out to fish w/ Conrad & teach a lesson. About 30 minutes in a ranger rolls up on us and gave us tickets for fishing without a fishing license haha. He only had 2 tickets on him so myself & Elder Miceli got them, that ended our day w/ Conrad pretty quick :(

Now onto the Laramie life. This place is wild haha. The people here are amazing! It’s literally like a whole nother world here. The people are so humble & nice. I’ve had some of the craziest lessons of my whole mission so far easily and it’s just hilarious! In one lesson I heard more “f bombs” than I have in honestly the past year haha. Shout out to Kyle from Bako. Then there’s this other homie Kevin, or Kev-O, who is hilarious. He reminds me of a black Austin Stout, this fool is all over the place & wild. We taught him the Restoration & Elder Cerezo invited him to be baptized and he immediately closes the Book of Mormon all dramatic, looks at Elder Cerezo, and says “You prolly gon be the one to baptize me...or the both of y’all can” Haha it was so sweet! Too bad he’s moving to Colorado Springs tomorrow so we’re going to have to pass him off. Anyway, I’m loving it and looking forward to the funny stories Laramie will bring! The new addy is posted below if you feel like hookin a brotha up. Love y’all! 🤟

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 

1360 N 5th St Apt.2

Laramie, Wyoming 82072

Sorry in advance for the overkill in pics

Haulin Hay & Weeding

Brother Standring, what a guy

Conrad the homie

Mike & Deb

Peter, a YSA we were teaching

Da Boyzzz

Flag Day Squaaaa

CAU Stadium Pics

Kev-O aka Wiz Khalifa 

WEEK 45 Transfered to new area. Zone Leader

I got this email from Elder Bennett and he did not have much time to write this week because he was being transferred to a new area. This is all I got from his this week to share with you.


 I got transferred and am going to be a ZL in Laramie, WY. I’m breaking the border and going to Wyoming so should be interesting after almost living in Colorado for a year haha. My comp is Elder Cerezo, he’s a little Philippino guy and was Elder Treanor’s trainer. He’s a great missionary. Here’s my new address 

1360 N 5th St Apt.2

Laramie, Wyoming 82072

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 

I ️ Jesus

Week 44 Conraddd...Issss Raddddd

                Gonna be super quick but it was an amazing week! We taught this new investigator yesterday named Conrad & he’s so awesome & prepared!!! He was a referral from Heaven...like we have no idea where he came from. He’s like 26 or so, married, served in the military, & while he was in the military he read the whole Book of Mormon!! He grew up Pentecostal & said he was told Mormons were terrible & a cult but he came to know so many amazing people that were Mormons that totally changed his mind! We taught him the first lesson and he was smiling agreeing with everything saying he believes in prophets & modern day revelation. Truthfully I feel like he has to be a member just messing with us cause of how prepared he is haha. He said he’d love to take us out fishing so next p day we’re gonna try and go fishing with him! Conrad...such a dope miracle.

Also there were plenty of Flag Day miracles! We were on exchanges that day w/ Elder Gordon and had a lot of teaching appointments. We taught my one of my best friends from home Tyler, who I sent a Book of Mormon to in my first transfer in Windsor, through Facebook messenger. Such a blessing having this technology. We made it a goal to tell everyone Happy Flag Day & everyone was just like so confused it was hilarious! Flag Dayyyy!

We have transfers next week so we’ll see what happens, we really hope we all stay together! The work is picking up a ton and we see a lot of baptisms in the near future in FOCO!!

I got a new niece yesterday! Congrats to my bro & sis, Logan & Janaye for their beautiful baby girl Rosie! 

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 

I ️ Jesus

Enjoy the Flag Day photos...even snaggied a pic w/ the Flag Day Mascot

The homie Tyler we teaching

Goodbye to Elder Fluhman

FOCO Blessed

Week 43 Flag Day Wuz Gucci

Thursday the 14th is Flag Day and historically speaking one of the greatest days for proselyting for missionaries. The miracles of Flag Day are real. So we hype! Everyone make sure to fly your flags with pride this Flag Day 🇺🇸

We had dinner with Adrian on Sunday and he invited his brother James to come over and listen to us. We were so hype! We were thinking we gon start teaching them both and it’s gonna be dope, then we showed up and started talking with James and we were wrong haha. We kinda just ended up bashing with him and we’re going back and forth. But this was such a miracle! Cause in the middle of it all Adrian stops James and basically tells him I didn’t invite you over to argue, I invited you over to listen to these guys cause that’s what I’ve been doing and it’s making me happy. Reading the Book of Mormon makes me happy. Adrian started bearing testimony to his brother James right in front of us!! It was such a cool experience! He was bearing testimony of the Book of Mormon and the spirit and I was so hype to see that!! I love Adrian he’s so awesome! He always offers to feed us and cooks bomb food! We’re meeting with him tonight and plan to put him back on date for baptism. Then we just gotta get him to start coming to church with us.

We taught Hayden Anderson, she’s almost 9 and comes from a less active part member family and she is super excited to be baptized! We’ve been teaching her for a couple weeks now and she always loves when we come over! It always so fun teachings children, they’re so sweet and innocent and you have to teach simply. I love it! Anyway, she lives with her mom and is going to visit her dad and family a lot this summer so we set a baptismal date for her for August 11th! Super exciting, just kinda sad cause I probably won’t be here for it.

Things are great over here in FOCO. We had District p day today and hiked Horsetooth...I love this hike so much haha. Enjoy the pics, have an amazing week, and fly your flags with pride this Flag Day. Love y’all 🤟

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 

I ️ Jesus

Pics from Horsetooth

Doin some service movin stuff 

Week 42 60% Of The Time...It Works Everytime

                We helped someone who’s car broke down in the left turn lane last week and it was such a cool miracle! We helped him push it into a neighborhood nearby and were able to  talk with him afterwards, then on our way back to our car we were able to talk with another person. We were able to get both there contact info and they were pretty interested. Anyways, just wanted to share that when we serve our fellow brothers and sisters, the Lord blesses us!

We talked with Deb’s neighbor/fellowshippers, the Jeffery’s, and they said that they talked with Deb and Mike was upset about her decision to be baptized and so she decided to take a step back with things and let things cool down before continuing. She said she wouldn’t let him make her decision for her, she’s just letting things cool down. So we’re just letting things be right now and will reach out to her this week to see if we could possibly read with Deb.

We did see them Thursday night tho. We helped out the Jeffery’s with setting up and taking down for a dance recital and their granddaughter Nevaeh was dancing in it so we saw them there and went to eat with them after, it was really fun, Mike was telling us a bunch of stories. Hope that his heart softening up.

We hadn’t heard anything from Adrian in almost 2 weeks and we were about to drop him and Sunday night we stopped by and his door was open and he let us in for cake and juice. We were able to meet his girlfriend Ruby and talk with her about the Book of Mormon, then they invited us to come back the next day for dinner and a lesson! It was such a miracle!

Monday we were on exchanges and I was with Elder Fronk who’s a Spanish speaking elder and we went and taught Adrian and Ruby and his Spanish came in clutch! Sometimes I would ask a question and Ruby wouldn’t fully understand so he would step in and ask in Spanish haha it was a funny but awesome lesson! They invited us to come back Thursday for dinner and a lesson again so we’re hype for that!

We helped out with a Family Fun Run on Saturday morning and it was a ton of fun cheering on all the people competing in it and we had such a blast! We had a ton of parents coming up and thanking us so I think we did a good job representing the church in FOCO. Also we were on this corner with a community service officer named Joey and she was so dope! We talked a lot with her and she said her and her husband would be interested in meeting with us! Blessings come from service!!!

Y’all stay classy. Love y’all 🤟

Elder Bennett aka yoboigator 

I ️ Jesus

Outchea tryna keep the streets of FOCO safe

FOCO Zone 

Squuuuad

MLC pics

Dance Recital Squad hit us upppp

#futureAPs #waitonit