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