March is in the Air!

Found a $20 bill blowing down the street!

Bread a member gave us!

Dear Family!

This week here in Capitol has been such a great one. Monday night after our preparation day ended we got to get into the Merrill's home to eat and to teach them a lesson. I always enjoy going over there because they expect us to invite them to do something to get them to do missionary work. It is great to see the fire in member's now as well! Following that we got to Sister Booker's home. She is a less active the RSP asked us to go visit. We had a family home evening with her and her daughter with her Brother listening in. It was a discussion about the importance of the scriptures and church in our lives.

Tuesday we went over to the hospital to give a blessing to a less active member. As we were in his room visiting with him, the nurse walks in and starts asking questions. We were prepared to get roasted when all of a sudden it turned into a simple teaching situation where we got to teach her about the church and the Book of Mormon. Her name is Rosa and she works at the hospital practically all day so we will follow up in the future. That night we went and visited with the Pinkard Family. Sister Pinkard committed to reading the entire Book of Mormon in 60'days so that'll be great for her.

Thursday while we were out in Brandywine checking potentials we went to a lady's home who just got out of rehab for brain cancer. She wasn't really there mentally but we visited with her two nurses and taught them the gospel. We will be returning back on Friday to teach them more. They previously ran into missionaries in DC so that was good for the, to get back into contact with the missionaries in general. That night we had a family home evening with Sister Strachan and her two daughters. It was a way to introduce the gospel into their lives. We played jeopardy which turned out to be a huge success in bringing the spirit to their lives.

Friday night we got to go teach Melissa again. It was great because we had Sister Gray there from the primary presidency. We bypassed the second lesson for this coming week and taught her the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was a simple to teach using stepping stones to get across the family room. She thought it was neat. We have been on base a lot recently so that has been great.

Saturday was a pretty exciting day. Even though we were out contacting people most of the day as we were walking along the road I looked down and there was $20. That made me pretty excited so I made Elder Mullen take a photo of it! Wahoo! That night we had a great lesson with the Crouse family in preparation for their daughter to submit her papers. It's just to help her get familiar with the lessons she'll be teaching!

I hope everyone has had a great week! I know this gospel has been restored and that it can bring happiness into our lives!

Love,

Elder Bentley