General Conference

Elder Smith and Bridger

 

Dear Family!

This week has been a very strange week for us! The weather has been fluctuating a ton so one day it's warm and the next it's 30 degrees. We have had some rain as week which was nice.

Monday we got to go down into the city for P-day. A member was able to get us tickets to go up into the Washington Monument and we didn't have to wait in the ticket lines. We also went down there because all the Cherry Blossoms were Blooming and it was so beautiful! Crazy thing happened, we were at the Jefferson monument and we ran into some DC south missionaries, I saw Elder Zach Smith which was crazy! He went to to same elementary and high school as me so it was great to see him!

Tuesday we had the opportunity to go to help the young women's with a mutual activity, they wanted us to teach them how to conduct a companion study and then to have them teach us. Since we did that we didn't get to go to the farm, but it was still a great thing to be able to do. 

Wednesday we had tons of time to go and contact/get ahold of potentials. We didn't have much luck, so we went to visit members. We visited Harold and had a strange visit with him, and headed up to Betsy's home for dinner. The Priests wanted to go out on exchanges with us so we were able to go with them and visit members of the ward.

Thursday and most of Friday were spent helping members move, it took up tons of time, but we were able to help them. We had tons of service in this week which was great, but we weren't able to have lessons because of that. Thursday night however, we had a lesson with Eric. We had it at a member's home and it was such a great lesson. You could tell at the beginning he was very nervous, but it ended up going very well. He is progressing and we invited him to pray about the Book of Mormon.

Saturday was Conference! We watched the first session in our apartment on our iPads (Eyring killed the beginning! He set it up for success) after which I went with Elder Fitzgerald to a Less active member's home to help her with some stuff and she made us dinner. Because of that we missed the last two sessions of the day. Since we have iPads I was able to catch back up Sunday morning before we went and spent the day at the Snyder's home. They invited us to come over for the Sunday sessions and we had a blast! It was just like being back at home for conference.

This week has felt like it has been pretty slow, but I cannot believe conference is over. I love what President Monson said about choosing the right. "May we choose the harder right, than the easier left." That is so true, especially in today's world. People become so lazy that they don't act on the impressions they get, or the don't let the Holy Ghost into their Hearts. I loved how Elder Holland told everyone they need to continually seek this "Spiritual High" after conference. 

Love,

Elder Bentley