Bridger's Birthday Week!

This is my district!
 

 

Dear Family!

Well you could say that it's been a pretty great week for Elder Bailey and I. We had transfers this week which usually makes it feel like a slower week, but since Bailey and I are staying we were able to just work like normal. 

Tuesday we had our district meeting where we were able to celebrate another birthday in the district. Elder Bailey and I went and got cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory because that was Sister Sherrow's favorite cake. Thanks to Elder Bailey for funding it though. We had a great testimony meeting and cake party following that for her birthday. We went to the farm after that so we could go and serve with the horses. There were some cancellations so that meant we spent more time cleaning stalls and whatnot but it was still great!

Wednesday was transfers but the only change in the district was we got another greenie. His name is Elder Wilsher and he is from Draper Utah, originally from England though. We helped them get to the store and what not, but other than that we went our proselyting and went and played some pros ball. We came to a park where there were 3 guys playing and they let us play with them. Bailey sat out in the game but we still won so that was great. That night we got to go visit another new move in in our ward. He is in his residency just starting it up. It was great to see that even though this ward is loosing a ton of members, new ones are coming to fill the gaps.

Thursday night was a great night. We haven't been seeing Betsy at church the last few weeks so we stopped by to she how she was doing. They have just recently moved to a new home so on that process they weren't staying at their apartment and went to her sister-in-law's ward. We had a great conversation with her and told her about stake conference this weekend.

We were asked by the stake presidency to have the bishop select 10 member names prayerfully that we could go visit and help them get motivated into sharing the gospel. We finally got our list from the bishop so we got to go visit members through out the end of the week to challenge them to write their testimony in a Book of Mormon. It's been so much fun going around and getting them to commit to do it. 

Most of that covers what we have done this week, so that's really all I have to say. Hope everyone has a great week!

Love,

Elder Bentley

June 13

 

 

 

Dear Everyone!

Lulu feeds us all the time!

Well this has been a very slow week for Elder Bailey and I. I'm still getting over this whole sick thing so we weren't really able to get out much because I have a wicked repulsive cough. But that's just a minor detail.

Something that we have been able to do this week is proselyte by playing basketball. Since Elder Bailey is very great at playing Basketball, we have the up hand advantage as we find people on the street playing. We have had many people who wouldn't normally talk to us listen to what we have to say and accept a copy of the Book of Mormon. It was a great way that we could get out and find different kinds of people as we still had fun.

Monday night we had to say goodbye to Landry because he is moving up out of the mission. He moved to Frederick where his wife lives and will be attending church up there with her. They invited us to their sealing in a year though so that is a definite time we will get to see them. They took us to Cafe Rio and we had a great and jolly time there. Talked to him about the priesthood and how it is time for him to prepare himself to receive it.

Wednesday we got to go to the temple with all the missionaries. It was another great death temple trip. This was President Cooke's last temple trip because he leaves at the end of the month. The new mission President will be coming in on July First so we are excited for that. Elder Bailey's parents have run into him a couple of times while they have been out and they say he's a pretty great guy. We went and played pros ball before our dinner and placed a Book of Mormon so that was great.

Thursday was Elder Bailey's Birthday! We went to Buffalo Wild Wings for lunch with some of the other Elders in our zone. While we were eating at some point Bailey snuck away and paid for all the Elders which was very nice of him. We got to go and see a couple of members that day but the best was at the end when Lulu had us all over. She got a huge cake for him and we had a little cake and ice cream party for his birthday at the end of the day.

Saturday we got to go help a member move within the ward boundaries so we were more than happy to help him. We packed up the truck a couple of times before we had most of the big stuff over at their new home. Since he lives close to the park where we were having the ward BBQ we walked over when we were done. We got to spend some time with the ward before we had to go back to work. We went over to Betsy's new home and dedicated it because they wanted that done before they moved in. It was great to see Betsy and some of her kids in the little time we had to go and visit their new home. We had transfer call outs that night, we found out that both Bailey and I are staying at least one more transfer together. This will be my 6th transfer in the Derwood area. 

We went over to the Matsen's after we had church. They were excited to hear that we were both staying another transfer. Their home is like my home away from home. Sister Matsen made us a killer ice cream cake for our birthdays. It was a layer cake with both of our favorite kinds of ice cream. When we had finished there it was time to go in. But it was very kind of them to let us go and celebrate our birthdays with them.

Even though the week was slower, we still had a great time and hope to pull up the work this week as we continue to work in this area.

Elder Bentley

It's Summer!

 

 

 

Zone Activity

 

Dear Everyone!

Well this week has been a little slower of a week for us, but it still was a good one! I have had a cold for most of the week, but I have tried to not let that weigh is down in our work!

Tuesday was a pretty big day for Elder Bailey, he finally got his iPad so he is now independent and its up to me to make sure he knows how to use everything on it properly! We got them at a specialized training for the trainees, at the end we play a game that's a scripture chase, a white hand book chase, and a first vision competition. We smoked all of the other trainees and got the prize ties at the end. I made sure that he had everything down so we could work together to win. We went to the farm at the end of the meeting. The riding instructor broke her ankle so most of the riders were behind schedule. With that, we went fishing at the farm pond, and cleaned out some of the algae.

Wednesday we finally got to go visit Kareen. We taught her the law of Chastity and she is going to talk with her husband to see if he is interested in taking the lessons and joining as well. Their daughter is completely intent on joining, she loves the young women's program and is going to all the camps and activities this summer. We are hoping that the family can see that through the daughters love for the church they will love it. The first started investigating because they wanted to find a church with a good youth program. We visited the Wight family for my first time in 7 months. It was a great meal and we had some great conversation. Little did we know she would be released as the Relief Society President on Sunday.

Thursday I thought was going to drag on, but Elder Bailey made a fun day out of it. We had tons of finding time and as we went from house to house he videoed our journey so it made it very enjoyable. We placed a BOM so it made it worth the time. We visited with Anna that night and she has questions about the chapter we gave her to read. We tied it into the first half of the Plan of Salvation and she ended to understanding most of it which was great!

Friday I got to go on exchanges with the Elders in my district. I went with Elder Williams to their area and we had a great day. The day was full of talking about how we can strengthen their companionship and how he could help his area. We got out tracting and it showed him what really can come out of it.

Saturday we got to help one of my favorite families in this ward with some yard work. We helped Sister Matsen paint a fence, pull weeds and cut down some shrubberies. It was a blast because it was like being back at home with the family doing yard work. Also it's something missionary we can do even though I am congested and can't really hear out my right ear. Saturday night we went to the Hasting and had a great time there, the invited me back after church on Sunday to look at my ear.

Sunday we had the opportunity to teach Primary to the 7&8 year olds. It was a pretty great experience, and tons of fun to do. You could say that it was overall a great week!

Love,

Elder Bentley