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Dear Family!

This has been another one of those great weeks! The temperature has been around the 35-50's since it rained this weekend, but it's been slowly getting colder! We have definitely had a very crazy week with appointments, but it has been so great because the spirit has been there!

Monday night we had dinner at the Tanguilig's home. Sister Tang is from the Philippines and their culture has been so much fun to see! They usually have one of their parents living with them and her mom cracks me up! As we eat over at their home, her mom would offer us food, then more food, and then even more! She just kept giving us food until her grandson told her that she should probably stop before she kills us. We had a blast over at their home!

Wednesday was such a great day. We started off the day by trying to contact referrals that we had, but they didn't answer their phones or their doors. Harold wanted us to come over so we did. It was they typical visit where he just tells us how lonely he is, and about his disease he has. Following that we had dinner with Natalie, she is a recently returned missionary and her mom loves to feed the missionaries! But following that she came with us to an appointment we had with Betsy. We put Betsy on date for the 31st of January, and had a great lesson with her. She has three kids, the oldest Alex is already baptized but he is inactive so we have been teaching him as well. Then there is Aiden, he is 7 and he reminds me so much of Gabe, he loves Pokemon cards and he loves to come talk to me about them! Then there is GG, she's this cute little three year old that just makes your heart melt! Anyway we have been teaching them and the lessons have gone well!

Thursday we had an appointment with a less active member who had been offended by one of the members a few years back. He is from Turkey and he was telling us about these dreams he has that have foretold the future, that was weird to listen to him about that. We still had a great time over at his house and hope to see him at Church when he retires. We had dinner at the Chaney's and it was a great visit! Following that we went to a recent converts home to teach him the rest of the commandments. He is doing well and him and his older brother are reading the Book of Mormon!   

Friday we went on exchanges with President Cooke! We had the night all planned out, we had an appointment with Igor and the with Betsy. We had confirmed both of them before we went to dinner at cafe rio. As we were driving back for the appointments we get a call that Igor had to cancel on us because of him mom. We didn't expect that because we had confirmed with him just a few hours earlier. We called President Cooke and told him the situation and told him to meet us at the metro so we could contact. Our appointment with Betsy was at 8, and president said he was gonna have to get going soon (this was around 7:45) but then I told him we had an appointment with an investigator who was a Festival of Lights referral and on date! He said that he would like to sit in on the lesson so we drove up and taught her again! The lesson went great and we were able to teach her about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Saturday we went to a funeral for a member of a different ward whom we gave a blessing to last week. It was a great service and the spirit was there! We then came home and went to the temple where we were going to meet Isaiah, but his mom was sick and didnt tell us. We were there already but left to a member in the Gaithersburg ward. We had a great time at the Lacsamanas, and while we were there the French Elders called and asked if we wanted to go to the Landerith's. We went and had a great time talking with them.

Sunday was a great day, we had an early meeting at 8:30 at the church. The only problem with that was our church is 25 mile round trip and we can't afford to make that trip twice in a day so we had to stay there until our church started at 1. As we were walking the halls at 12, I remembered that I was playing a piece for sacrament meeting! Ha that was really frightening to just remember an hour before Church but I felt like I did a great job! Betsy and her family came to church which was amazing!! They weren't there when church started which made us worried but she told us and Natalie that morning she would be there so we waited for them. They came and it was just in time for the sacrament! I told Aiden earlier that week that he would love primary and sure enough he had a blast he said! When they first got to church he had his new Pokemon cards in his pocket because he knew he would see me and he wanted to show them to me! We finished off the night at the Bozzo home. Sister Bozzo just got engaged to Brother Roy, both in their late 30's but have kids, and it was a great appointment. Their boys wanted to have a nerf gun war with us which was fun to do with them! Following that we just talked with them about their marriage which is coming up and such!

It was a great week and I am very excited for this next week! I hope everyone has been doing well!

Love, 

Elder Bentley