6 Months Down!

Us with Sheryl

My A Card

Me and Elder Woodis

                         
Dear Family!
This last was transfers so that means I have received a new
companion! But you'll have to wait and see who that is because I don't
want to spoil any surprises. But it is my 6 month mark which is pretty
cool.

Monday for our zone activity we went ice skating which was tons of
fun! I wasn't really the best at it, but we had such a blast! Monday
night we went over to Betsy's so Elder Johnson could say goodbye to
the Perez Family. It was awesome because they prepared him a little
gift basket as a going away present. Her kids were super awesome and
her husband is starting to talk with us more so that is very nice. We
are thinking that he will be reactivated through his wife Betsy.

Tuesday we had our typical meetings. We did go to chick fil a again to
say goodbye to Sheryl, she gives us little cards for free food! She
invited us to join their A-list team which I think is a really cool
thing that she did for us. She also said that one day here in March she
wants to have us over to her home for some Philippino food. We then
spent the rest of the night over at the Lacsamanas and the Landriths.
They are members in the Gathiersburg ward who Elder Johnson wanted to
go see, I was okay with it because I love going over to their houses
anyway!

Wednesday morning we finished packing Elder Johnson's stuff up and
drove down to the visitor center so we could exchange companions and
such. My newest companion is now Elder Woodis. He is a pretty great
guy, he is really great at asking questions to get to know me, and he
is pretty funny. We got back, got him settled in, and were off to try
and contact some of our potential investigators so we will have
someone to be able to work with this next transfer! I feel a big
reason that why I'm still in the area is so that I can help work with
Giovanni to get the Perez family to the temple.

Thursday we spent the day finding people to teach, we didn't have any
luck that we have seen so far. It's been fun though because we are
able to hold a pretty good conversation. We had ward correlation
meeting that night and spent most of the time letting Brother Matsen
get to know Elder Woodis. Brother Matsen is such a great ward mission
leader. He has offered up his home to us to have a lesson with Betsy
there!

Friday we had a lesson with a potential investigator named Fergie, it
went pretty well for the first time of us teaching together. It was
awesome because after The lesson I was able to ask Elder Woodis what
he thought went well and what we could improve on. He has been out for
3 months so that's two of us under a year! We are working pretty well
together though. We had a lesson with Betsy this night and it was
mostly so she could get to know Elder Woodis. We talked with her
husband about regular things trying to just get him to open up a
little more. He is a very hilarious guy though!

Saturday morning we went out and contacted in some of the close by
Neighborhoods. We had a late lunch with Betsy and her family because
it's her oldest son's birthday! He turned 18 on the 4th. Most of her
family was there, we got to meet her father and his new wife. There
was 18 of us there because she also invited Elder Johnson and his new
companion up to lunch as well! We had lunch at Red Robin, and let's
just say they are not that well at accommodating larger groups like
Utah. It took them a good 45 minutes to set up our table. We had a
blast though and got to talk and get to know Betsy even more which we
loved! That night we went over to Lulu's because she invited us over
for cookies! She is very great at making sure we get fed!

Sunday was pretty great. We went to church a little early so I could
show Elder Woodis the chapel and such. Betsy went to a baby blessing
in another ward today so we were not expecting her to come. After
sacrament meeting though we went and talked with Brother Ballam (the
ward clerk) and he said she was sitting there with Alex and GG! We
talked with her and she went to both churches today! She is so
amazing! We spent that night contacting and at Sister Mabry's home!
She invited a couple of her non member friends over to dinner, they
aren't really interested, but we had a great time talking about the
church!

Love,
Elder Bentley