Happy Conference!

Me with the Smith family. Melissa is right in front of me.

Dear Family!

This General Conference week has been a great one! It's weird to think that March is now in the past. The end of the month flew by and I have a feeling that April will go by quickly. 

A couple of interesting things happened this week. Monday night was the beginning of it all. After eating with the Merrill Family we went to contact a media referral that we had received. We knocked on Larry's door and he came our. We gave him the Bible he had requested and we started talking to him. The Book of Mormon was introduced and his wife walks out. I guess they are Hebrew Israelites. (What that is I don't know) She starts going off how she never would listen to us because the things she has read online about us, obviously Anti material. Then I asked her what one of those things were and proved it and her wrong using the Book of Mormon itself. She said that we believed something weird on Adam and Eve, then we read 2 Nephi 2: 22-25 and she said, "Well that's not what I read online." I then politely told her, "Not everything you read on the internet is true." She walked back into their apartment and Larry now Chuckling told us to come back in two weeks.

Tuesday night we got to visit with The Beezers again! Sister Goodwin let us into her home on short notice and we taught them the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Well more of discussed it because they have done their studying and it was a powerful lesson. We invited them to watch General Conference that weekend and they so gladly accepted. Side note (When Saturday rolled around we got to watch the first Session with them at a member's home. Not only had they read what we had asked them, Brother Beezer has been reading Conference talks all week! He loves the gospel library app.)

 Friday night we got to have a lesson with Melissa! She's the nine year old. We had a lesson scheduled Thursday but her dad totally forgot about it. When we called to see if he was on his way to pick us up (he lives on Andrews Joint Base) it was silent and he was very apologetic. He reinvited us over for dinner and a lesson this time. It is just a hoot visiting with him and his wife. We knocked out the commandments and tried to make the lesson interactive. We set the date for her baptism on April 22nd. Wahoo! Then we took pictures because one of us might leave with transfers coming up here this week.

Speaking of which, don't send any letters or mail until we get a new address. Our lease is up and we are moving out Wednesday. We will get ya'll the address when we find out where we will be moving to. 

Thursday night when the appointment fell through we felt prompted to go visit Carlos and Melissa.We set up a ride so we could get Carlos to Priesthood session with his 17 year old son. Then before we left we watched part of the women's session with Melissa. (Different Melissa, I know it's way confusing) We always seem to show up when it's most needed for them. You think the Spirit was apart of it or something!

General Conference weekend was great! We loved listening to the Prophet and Apostles speak! We we at different places for each session so that made it go by even quicker. Saturday was at the Nelson home with the Beezers, then at the Vogels and Priesthood session at the church. Sunday morning we found ourselves at the Church again then at the Donovan's home. It was a great session and I loved the talks given by Elder Holland "Fortunately, the seats for this particular number are limitless. … “Come as you are,” a loving Father says to each of us, but He adds, “Don’t plan to stay as you are.”

Also the talk given by Elder Costa, "Let me invite you, with all the energy of my heart, and from the depths of my soul: go and be baptized! It is the best thing you will ever do. It will change not only your life but also the lives of your children and grandchildren."

Hope you all had great weeks!

Love,

Elder Bentley