Interesting Week

Dear Family and friends,

We are meeting new people all of the time. This week we met a brother, Michael and his sister, Shareen at different times. Both of them said that we should talk to the other sibling because they needed God. We had a good discussion with both of them.

Roshanna is reading more. We went over the Word of Wisdom. She thought the coffee and tea was outrageous, but she was ready to stop all of it cold turkey. Her nephew, came up at the end of the lesson, and asked if he could have some tea. Roshanna said, “No we can’t have tea anymore, it is bad. In fact when these ladies leave we are going to sit down and read why tea is bad for us.” Roshanna is amazing in that way. She’s asked us questions about if things are bad or if they are a sin, and then immediately she says, “I’m not going to do that anymore.” She does not want to live in sin, she wants to do what is right.

Ben is doing a little better this week. He told us that he would come to church because it could not hurt. He did not show up however. We planned to talk to Ben about faith. He ended up asking us questions about faith and we answered his questions with the material we had studied. It worked out quite well. The only bad thing is that Ben is looking for a sign. He wants something to happen, so he knows this is what he is supposed to do. Sister Caldwell pointed out, “Don’t you think that the Sisters coming back and knocking on your door again, was a sign?” He thought about it and agreed. We told Ben that we could text him a verse reference on faith every night. He likes that idea. It has been going well.

We met with our ward mission leader and his wife this week to help them with some service. The whole time we were there we talked about how to get the ward more involved in missionary work. They explained how this ward works. Being so close to Purdue there is a lot members are trying to juggle. We talked about ways to help the members. Then last night we had dinner with our second councilor and his wife. We also got onto the topic of missionary work. They also gave us a lot of great information and ideas to help the members. We are excited to get our members more involved in missionary work. Great things are about to happen.

 

Sister Caldwell is wonderful. We have really hit it off. We are like two peas in a pod. She is excited and willing to do the work. She has been the most wonderful trainee. She does not seem like she has only been out for two weeks. She amazes me. I am excited to get to know her more.

Yesterday I had some time to think about my dear ol’ pappy. I thought about how it was unfair that I did not get to call you. I remember calling you every Sunday just to catch up on life. If I did not end up calling you, you would call me. I treasure those times I was able to spend that time talking to you. You are my favorite as I know I am yours. It still makes me laugh when Adrianne and I were at college and she asked, “Why is dad calling you?!” I responded, “I always talk to dad on Sunday.” Adrianne was flabbergasted. I think she started calling you on Sundays after that as well. I sure am one lucky girl to have a dad like you. I think about you a lot. I am glad that I get to call you mine and you get to call me your favorite red-headed step child. ;) I love you daddy.

Love, Sister Bennett