Happy New Year!

 

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Merry Christmas!

 

Family,

Oh goodness I cannot believe that it is already 2016! Time really just flies as we serve the lord every day! There's been so many things that I have learned in the last few months that have helped my testimony grow. The weather has been dropping and now we are consistently in the 40's so that's very nice! Starting off the week, Monday night we went and gave a blessing to a lady in the Shady Grove hospital which is about 10 minutes away from where we live. She was in there because she was having breathing problems and she wanted to leave. Sister Nutter was a member o the Gaithersburg first ward, which our roommates cover partially because they are in the French group. We found out that she passed away on Thursday which was very sad to hear, but she defiantly is in a state of peace and happiness now. 

Wednesday we had a great lesson with our new investigator Betsy. She came to the Festival of Lights and wanted to learn more about the gospel. Her husband is a member but is in-active. Our lesson with her went great and she said she would be baptized. Her kids were just the cutest as we talked about Christ they threw in little comments which was great to hear from a 7 &3 year old. That night we had a group dinner with some members in the ward which went great!

New Year's Eve we had a great time as we started off early in the morning a lesson with our investigator David, he has a very long way to come but we hope he will realize how much he needs to do before he can progress. We got home from that appointment and studied a little before we went to help teach English with the French Elders. There we are helping them teach English to one of their investigators where they start teaching English and end with a spiritual lesson. Elder Timmerman is patiently helping me learn bits of French which is great! That night we went to a party at a members house until about 9:30 when we had to be in. We stayed up until midnight all bored but was awake for the new year.  

New Year's Day was a non pros day and they wanted us to spend time with members when we could. The only problem is most of the day on New Years the members are busy or are asleep so we went and had Cafe Rio with the French Elders. Following that we just hung around and had a blast together until we went to Lulu's house for dinner. We spent the rest of the day there and talked with her and her daughter about her mission. 

Saturday was a slow day, but that morning we got a text from Sunny. He lives in North Carolina and wants to learn more about Christ so we talked with him on the phone and taught a little restoration to him as I made lunch. After talking with him I got ahold of the bishop who lives in the area to get the missionaries number but the bishop asked who the referral was. When we told him it was sunny he told us that Sunny was a member who was confused and was calling missionaries all around the U.S. Trying to get them to teach and talk with him. Needless to say he told us to not acknowledge him and that they were working with that problem. Ha it was so funny to find all that out!

Sunday was a very busy day for us. We now have church at 1. Igor didn't make it to church that day. We haven't had contact with him his last week and we are working hard to try and get contact with him. It was sad when he didn't show up because we have to push back his B-date. But following that we had Stake correlation and then dinner with the Hares who fed us waffles! It was such a great fast Sunday!

I hope all has been well for everyone!

~Elder Bentley