Another Busy Week

Dear Family and Friends,

 What a week! This week has gone by fast, and yet seemed so long. I am so sad to see Sister Fullmer go. I am going to miss her terribly. Six weeks was not long enough. She is such a special Sister. I am excited to get to know Sister Knight though. She is very bubbly.

 We met with Sister Jackson this week. She was in the hospital again Monday. They figured out what has been going on and she is back to her normal self for the most part. She asked us to teach her son, Brendon, so we taught him a lesson. He is eight years old, and does not know anything about the church. Sister Jackson’s twenty-two year old daughter, Shirsten, also sits in on the lessons.

 Being a trainer is hard. With each new companion it takes time for adjustment to see how your strengths fit in with each other.  I thought at one point this week, “Just be yourself, everything else will come with time.” I have tried to remember that.

 This week I found one of the highlights of my mission. Before we went home, one evening, I felt like we needed to go say, “hello” to a man in our ward. He had a woman, Crystal, over at his house. She told us that she had questions for us. We came in. We talked and discussed for almost an hour. She has a hard life. She is beaten, bruised, and lost. She told us that she wanted to give up, that she was done; it hurt too much to even breathe. I testified that there is hope. I told her how beautiful she is. I saw her, I really saw her. Not as the crushed spirit before me, but as the beautiful daughter of Heavenly Father that she is. I testified of the love her Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ has for her. We both got emotional. She told us that she wanted to talk to us more. We exchanged numbers. I cannot wait for her to also see the potential I see in her. This reminds me of something I wrote down in study this week, “Look what Christ did for potential.” Christ atoned for my sins, because of the potential he saw in me. He saw me for who I am, and how I could be, once I recognized that potential. I have the opportunity to help Crystal also see that potential within herself. It is amazing to be an instrument in the Lord’s hands, and to feel the Holy Ghost work through me. I love this work.

 Love, Sister Bennett