Happy Fall!

Selfie at the outdoor band we found

Dear Family!

Well this week we've had a few exciting things happen. 

Starting after our P-day last week, we went to go visit a new investigator we received. When we went to go visit Nichole she told us she wasn't interested in our message or anything. We were super bummed when she told us that, but after some talk with her grandma, we cleared up some confusion that had arisen. They thought we were still practicing polygamy. But after it had been cleared, we had a pretty awesome lesson with her and her grandma. It was a great first lesson and we're going to try and put her on date for our next appointment. 

We have our investigators Andrew, the one who is not the atheist. We had been trying to schedule an appointment with him through the week, and finally halfway through the week we got in to see him. He wants to keep getting tattoos and that's holding him back. We thought he was in his late 20's just to find out halfway through the lesson he was 18. Our total mentality on how we were to teach him changed at that point. We will be gearing everything towards a mission hoping he will be able to and want to serve one. If he goes through on the tattoo he wants to get, he defiantly wouldn't be able to serve. We will hopefully talk him out of it and into a mission!

We got a cut back on our miles for this month. We thought we would be getting a couple hundred more miles than what we actually got. When we got the number, we calculated the number of miles we would be using and were still a couple over, but it's for the things we have to get to, church, meetings, etc. We will be using the buses and maybe our bikes depending on the area and time of day we are there. It takes a while,to get anywhere on the buses so we have to plan it out. Then the buses just never show up sometimes, it's great. 

We had some service Saturday morning with the whole day to serve. The Annapolis zone got together with an interfaith group that went to a cemetery to clean and find graves. We had tools and worked together with "Apostle Thomas" and his congregation to clean, dig up, and rebury some of the stones. It was a huge group service activity and was great because that's something we wouldn't get to normally do. Half of the turn out were missionaries, but it was great because we got to work and talk with those who were on the stones around us.

Saturday night as we left our last appointment in the projects, the police asked if we were okay. The other Elders asked for a ride home and got in the police car. Then the other police officer asked if we would like a lift to the church so we could grab our car. We got to ride in a police car!!!! When we got back to our car and on our way, we stopped to fill up with gas and heard some live music coming from across the street. We walked over to it and they had a little band outside a crab shop playing oldies music. We talked to a few people and got on our way home to finish the night.

Other than that not much else happened, but it was a good week!

Love,

Elder Bentley