Happy Valentine's Day

Dear Family!

This last week has been a great week with a couple of phenomenal new investigators who have been added to our teaching pool!

Monday was a pretty long day for us. We didn't have our Preparation day because of the coming temple day. We did receive a call though from a member within our boundaries that needed some help with service. He lost a leg in an automobile accident and needed help taking leaves in his yard. What we thought could be a few hour project took us a little longer than we anticipated. There were leaves rooted into the grass so the total outcome of leaves were unbelievably too many. We raked/blew them into a ravine behind his house. The pile was large enough to jump off the ravine into the leaves without a worry of being hurt.

Tuesday Night we went on splits with The Vogels and Brother Sargent. I was privileged enough to go with Brother Sargent. We had a few people in mind for us to check on that night. Our first appointment fell through but we kept on going. Eventually we ended checking on a potential who told us to come a few weeks later than we did. After explaining the prompting we received she was more than happy to chat for a few minutes. It was great to get out with Brother Sargent.

Wednesday was when one of our first miracles of the week happened. As we were weekly planning, we called a Book of Mormon referral that we haven't been able to get in contact with. She finally answered and told us to come that day. After making it to her house later in the day we sat down and had an amazing first discussion with her. We were able to explain the things she had wanted to know and answers her questions. She read a paragraph in the history book about Mormons and wanted to learn more so we went online! She accepted a baptismal invitation and we will be working with her on that! It was a great lesson with Maxine!

Thursday we got to go to the temple so that was a good refresher. It was nice to finally get our preparation day. We had been pretty worn out and being able to have most of the day was great. We got to visit a few stores up by the temple so it was simply a great day!

Friday I was on exchange with an Elder in the White Plains ward. We were down in his area so it was nice to see a little more part of the Zone. The morning consisted of us helping one of their investigators Brother Jones move somethings out of his attic. He is in the middle of moving out of his home into a new one. After we finished we went to this hole in the wall diner for lunch. They had some of the best onion rings that I've had ever. The diner had no name, just a little hole in the wall place. After which it wasn't too much of an exciting day, but it was great to help out Brother Jones.

Saturday we got out to go see some of our potential investigators. The first appointment was with Deea. She requested a copy of the Bible. We turned that into a new teaching situation where we invited her to read part of it. She committed to going to church next week and also to a baptism that our roommates are having! She wants to turn her life around so we will be her guides! The next one was with another potential. Once again another Bible referral. We found out that he has been incarcerated for 46 years and doesn't know too much about the gospel.

It made for a great week!

Love,

Elder Bentley