What a wonderful week!

Dear family and friends,

My exchange with Sister Donaldson has really hit me hard. I have decided to be even more diligent and exactly obedient. God is helping by strengthening me though this change. I am more excited to do missionary work than ever before.

We had another great lesson with Brother Phipps this week. He also came to church! We are so excited. We started talking about the Plan of Salvation. He always looks overwhelmed when we get into the discussions with him. We would ask if he understood which he does, he said that he was having a lot of “ah-ha” moments and that it all made sense. He is continuing to share what he learns with his family and friends. He is amazing at sharing the gospel and he is not even a member, yet.

Roshanna is also doing well. We are able to get into more doctrine with her. She did not read this last week, we read with her and she felt the spirit. When we were getting ready to leave, she told us that she really wants to read and planned on reading for the hour after we left. She is amazing.

We finished up the Plan of Salvation with Ben. Things are a lot clearer to him now. We also found a need. I forgot to follow up about church at the beginning of the lesson, so I brought it up at the end. He said that he talked himself out of it. He did not want to come to church again and get members hopes up to just leave again. We talked to him about it. He seemed committed to come, in the end he did not show up Sunday.

I absolutely love my time with Sister Caldwell. She is from Snowflake, Arizona. She is a gem. She is so excited to do missionary work. She reminds me a lot a lot of Kelsey Foster, which makes me happy because Kelsey is one of my favorite people ever. I love you Kelsey. It has been fun to get to work with Sister Caldwell. Miracles are bound to happen here. We have been non-stop since Wednesday. We have taught lessons, gone tracting, set up appointments with potential investigators, met with the ward mission leader, bishop, and stake president, finished weekly planning, had ward coordination meeting, zone meeting, and to top it all off we were able to witness our investigator enter into the covenant of baptism with God. What a wonderful week. We are working well together. We are already saying the same thing at the same time and one man we said hi to called us the Olsen twins.

I love my time here in Lafayette. I do love it here. I was afraid I was going to be the one transferred because I love it so much. I am glad that I was able to stay and go to Joey’s baptism. :)

Love, Sister Bennett