Happy Spring!

 

 

Dear Family,

The weather has been fluctuating. It'll be in the 70's then it'll be in the 40's the next day. The cherry blossoms are starting to bloom so we are able to see them throughout all of Maryland. 

Monday and Tuesday were some typical days, we had our P-day and zone conference meetings/ the farm. I really think that it is a great opportunity that we have to work at this farm and to help these kids that need the therapeutic riding. It's worth it so much because we get to see the smiles on their faces, their smilies are always just so priceless!

Wednesday we had the temple trip because it is the last Wednesday before transfers. We had a great time at the temple, and came home for an appointment afterward. We met up with the zone leaders and went to a Brazilian's home to let Elder Cruz teach him in Portuguese because it's his native language. The zone leaders spent most of the day with us, they went out to lunch with us and even went to Harold's. The last couple of weeks Harold has been pretending to have amnesia and we wanted them to see what we were dealing with. We had a great dinner at the Padilla home that night. We might have Brother Padilla help fellowship Cemir into the church because he also speaks Portuguese.

Thursday we spent most of the day Weekly planning because we are trying to find better ways of finding people to teach. We ended up taking more time doing this than we thought. However, we set up enough appointments for the remainder of the week that we felt pretty accomplished afterwards. The work is really starting to pick up, of course it always does that right before transfers. We watched a guy get arrested in our complex for drunk driving which was great to watch. 

Friday I went on Exchanges with Elder Torgerson. He is my district leader and going out with him really helped me learn how I can become a better missionary. As I watched him talk with people and contact, it made me want to do that much better at doing that. It's still pretty hard for me to get the courage to do so, but he really helped me with that. We found some great potentials as we were out working in our area. We helped moved in a lady into a retirement home and visited one of his RC's. We had dinner at Lulu's. Bless her heart because she feeds us so much and always has her door open to us if we are hungry.

Sunday was a very great day. We went home teaching with a priest before church and when we got to church afterward President was a little upset because he had him in our car, I'm going to try and talk with President about the situation and clear everything up. Sister Cooke and President Cooke spoke in sacrament meeting. Sister Cooke talked the ward up on us to try and get them to refer their friends. After the meeting we gave a blessing to a member who wasn't at church and headed to dinner with the Matsens. We had a great meal and conversation with them before we headed to Why I Believe. We met Eric an investigator there and talked with him about temples and such. He said he would come to church at 1 next week so we are very excited to see him there.

Something that I learned this week: the Lord truly knows when we are having a hard time, wether it be with life, a situation, or anything. Because he loves us dearly and knows us each individually, he knows how to help us cheer up and make us happy. I defiantly have seen this in the last week and it's something I will remember throughout my life.

Much love,

Elder Bentley