4/15/2013

Hello family and friends!

 We got a call Monday evening from Susie’s mom. She told us that she would never allow her daughter to be baptized into the “Mormon church”. We were devastated. We then got a call later this week saying that we had Susie’s mom’s blessing for her to be baptized. She’ll even come to the baptism. We are planning on having a meeting with Susie and her mother, so she can see that we aren’t crazy or brainwashing Susie. Hopefully that goes well.

 We found two very nice young men who we passed onto the Perdue Elders because they fall under the young single adult category. We met Tony on our lunch break. He grew up without religion. He was asking us all sorts of questions about what we believe. We gave him The Book of Mormon and how to contact us. He said that he’d start reading it. Nick was a headquarter referral. We had a lesson with him. His mom is a recent convert I think. He said that he wanted to look into her new religion so his mom sent us. We had a good lesson. He is willing and ready to learn.

 This week we went to visit Sister Arnold. She is at a nursing facility because she had knee and hip surgery. On the way in one of the ladies, Rosalie, asked us if we could help her roommate. We followed her back to her room. Darlene was told that her cancer is back and she was afraid of dying. We taught her the Plan of Salvation. It gave her comfort. She was worried because she’d never been baptized, so she thought she was going to Hell. Poor lady. I loved sitting there talking to her. It reminded me of all of the elderly people I helped as a CNA at Beehive Homes. I love visiting and helping the elderly. She asked us if we would come back, so we told her we would.

 I love being a missionary right now. I know that even though things get hard that I am never alone. I’ve been promised that. In conference they also talked about that. It’s true, no matter what, we are never alone. They will not leave us comfortless. I’m grateful for prayer, it gives me strength. I enjoy being a part of the best mission in the world.

 Love, Sister Bennett