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Dear Family & Friends!

Well this has been a pretty great week! 

Monday we were able to go down into the city to visit the bureau  of engraving and printing. This is where have of the money is printed that we use. We were able to get tickets to go on a tour through the Building and watch them make money. The best part is at the very end...you can buy money with money. Elder Fitzgerald and I went to go eat afterwards at a place called Good Stuff Eatery. They had some really great burgers and fries. Afterwards when P-day had ended, we went over to Betsy's home to teach her the new member lesson of the Restoration. I enjoy going over so much, we were able to have a great discussion about Joseph Smith.

Tuesday was our typical Zone district meetings. Instead of going down to the farm, we went to a dinner with the French elders. It was at the Lacsamanas home. It just so happened to be Lewis' birthday. (Brother Lacsamana) we invited our friend Sheryl from Chick-fil-a to go because she is from the Philippians as well. We had a great discussion with her and we found out that she was baptized into the church 14 years ago! It blew our minds and now we just have to find out how to get her to come back to church.

Thursday we tracted into a man who let us into his home. He is 21 and was more than willing to listen to what we had to say about Christ. After we had taught him the discussion, we got a return appointment with him. He was very timid about praying because he never has before, he never was taught how to. He told me that if I would say a prayer in French then he would try one in English. So needless to say we are returning on Tuesday for another appointment to see how his praying and reading are going.  We finished off the night at Betsy's home helping her find family names to take to the temple.

Saturday is where I had a crazy day. So Elder Woodis was sick and so was Elder Call, He lives upstairs. I went out with his Companion Elder Rowley to go teach our investigator Kareen and we had a great time teaching her. She is struggling making it to church because she has late night classes and so we will talk with her about sacrifice. We had an appointment with one of their Investigators and went to that at the public library where someone interrupted our lesson telling the investigator he was wasting his time talking to us. Pretty positive she was possessed or something. After which we went to pick up Alex (Betsy's son) to go on exchange with me so I spent the rest of the day with him. Elder Rowley went with the Zone leaders and then with a member. Alex and I went to go to our appointments but they all fell through so we knocked doors. We're trying to help him want to serve a mission because he doesn't really seem interested in it. I'm hoping that he will enjoy it and want to go on a mission. We visited an Investigator named Cemir. He speaks Portuguese and Spanish with a tad of English. We are handing him off to the sisters, but I figured since Alex knew enough Spanish today would be a good day to do it. Cemir said he wanted to go to church and was very excited.

After all was said and done Saturday, we were able to go to the Temple for the recent convert Baptism trip. We were able go through the front doors and I know Betsy and Alex had a fantastic time. It makes Betsy want to be sealed that much more to her husband. We were able to have a great discussion about her experience and hopefully I'm in the area another transfer so we can go again with her. 

Sunday we spent the day at home because Woodis was still feeling sick. A member made sandwiches and took them to church for us, since we weren't there Betsy offered to bring them for us. I love Betsy so much, she does so much for us! We were able to go to the French Elder's baptism. They asked me to play the piano so we went to do that. It was a great week and I Hope all of yours has been amazing!

Love,

Elder Bentley