Another Busy Week

Dear family and friends,

 There is a lot of work to be done here. I am busy working on loosing myself in the work. The work here is a big challenge though. I have been on my knees a lot this week trying to figure out how we can find more people to teach.  We have plans to do the finding fast. We have been going through formers. We have also been updating a lot of records. We will go to a formers house and Sister Fullmer will tell me that they recently tried them, and they were not interested, but it was never recorded that they tried them.

 We did have a little miracle though. We once again went to a formers house that had been tried recently. We decided to go and see if they were interested anyways. We prayed and right as we finished, he pulled up. We got out of the car and started talking to him. He said that he was not interested because of some of the doctrine we teach. He thought we believed that Jesus Christ was a lesser being than Heavenly Father. We cleared that up, and he asked if he could get his sister so we could talk. We ended up having a fifty minute discussion. At the end his sister asked me if I would pray to know if I had been saved and if I have the truth. I asked her if she would also pray and ask God if we, the Sister Missionaries, were confused. She said that she would. I am so excited! I know that if she prays she will get an answer. It is just up to her then to act on that prompting. They would not let us give them The Book of Mormon, so we left a card with our number on it.

 That night I went home and prayed just as I was asked to. I did not receive an answer at first. I was reading in my scriptures in Alma and I knew that not only is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints true, I also knew that Heavenly Father is watching over me and knows me personally. The feeling was so powerful that the church is true, I cannot deny it. I am so happy to be out here doing this work. That I too might be able to, “bring thousands of souls to repentance”(Alma 26:22).

 I met Susie this week. She had a baptismal date for March 30. She moved it back because her dad is going in for a risky open heart surgery. She wants to make sure he is okay before she is baptized. We went over the baptismal interview questions with her. She is ready to be baptized. Sister Fullmer even said she saw a difference in her, from the last time they met.

 Exchanges came up early this transfer. I absolutely loved my exchange with Sister Donaldson. We got a lot of work done and she gave me a lot of ideas to help get the work moving here again. I know that this exchange was inspired. I know there is a reason why it happened the way it did. I am grateful for Sister Donaldson’s advice. I learned so much from this exchange. Not everything went as planned, which ended up making it perfect.

 We have a new ward mission leader. We met with him last night. He is so excited for this work and he wants us teaching teaching teaching. I am excited about that because I have not taught the lessons a lot. He told us he does not want us using all of our time tracting and he has ideas to help us get the area booming again. I am so grateful for a ward mission leader who is there to help us with the missionary work.

 I am not going to lie this last week was a hard one for me. There are a lot of things I need to work on. I am glad that Heavenly Father is on my side. I could not do it without Him. I am grateful for my loving older brother Jesus. I had a powerful experience at sacrament. They both love me so much. I am amazed at God’s finger prints in my life. In Sunday school we talked about prayers and I took a moment to pray and ask for help with my specific weaknesses. I told Him that I knew he can take my weaknesses and make them strengths. In Relief Society we watched a clip from 17 Miracles. In it the mother prayed over the two hard sea biscuits she tried to revive. She said, “We know that through thy power, what is small and weak may become great and significant.” It was a reassurance that my prayer was heard and was answered. I am ready to get to work. I am grateful to be here as a missionary at this great time in history. I have many weaknesses so I am grateful for the atonement. I am ready to change. Thanks to all of you. You are such a huge help and support to me. I could not do this work without your prayers. I know that I have been led to safety because of your prayers. Thank you! I love you all so much and hope to hear from you soon!

 Love, Sister Bennett