Elder Alex Bennett's Mission Blog

Dec 10, 2012 Ooooo that dang spider that you sent, didn't think I'd see that for awhile, guess I was wrong.... We did get the Christmas cards as well, thank you very much, so much thank you. Send a picture my way of the whole landscaping stuff, I'd like to see it. Disneyland?! Ohhhh dang, I thought that I could hold them off long enough to wait until we could all go or something, but hope they have a fun time, those kids deserve that, they're soooo cute :) Send some pics of Mike's paintings as well, if they are good enough to sell, I'm expected like some Mona Lisa quality work. We found out that on Christmas we can do Skype, the usual is about an hour, so I guess prepare whatever needful things that you can for that. We were teaching a guy and two more of his friends some English at the church and one of them didn't believe that Sister Phyu could speak six different languages. Seeing that this was a teaching opportunity I called them up and Sister Phyu went off like Samuel the Lamanite preaching repentance (she likes to shout "Repent" all the time, it's funny to hear, especially with the Asian sharpness/accent) and about prophets and the role of the Savior in our lives. It's way cool to have her in the District to help us out. We went bowling on P-day again. We had dinner at Brother Crofts house. He lives in a part of Downtown that looks like New-Yorkish, if that makes sense, just the many trees and the layout of the houses. His wife made dinner like Cafe Rio with some of the same types of food, Lemon Rice, Barbocoa meat stuff, and the sauce at the restaurant. Their kids sang a Christmas song and the other played the chello, very talented, it was good. Sister Phyu gave one of the Burmese families a shoe-rack that she brought into the mission, it took us awhile to get it set up. She always likes to sing little songs, this time it was, "Buildin' a shoe-rack, havin' fun" whatever comes out of her mouth is funny. We also contacted a person with like a bear dog that wouldn't let Elder Dearborn in the car, whenever he moved toward it it blocked him and barked way loud, kinda scary, but it was a way nice dog nonetheless. There was this guy from Alabama that talked to us for like a half hour while we were at the New China Buffet. We went to our new investigators house for this lil birthday gathering, it was fun to get to know them better and see their three year old light up when she opened up her presents. ER Trip and Hoodlums: We had to go to the E.R with someone that was really sick. We also had the whole neighborhood ransacked by these hoodlums who spray-painted cars, fences, etc. Momma Truscott's fence was spray-painted. Also not too faraway a Spongebob flipping people off. A LOT of people were mad and a cop came and did the report for everyone that lives around, I hope we catch 'em, probably the same ones who egged us. We thought our bikes were stolen though as well, but it turned out that someone hid them at the church behind this fence thing (so they wouldn't be stolen) and we thought we brought them home. Member-Missionary Lessons: At church we taught two, basically three lessons. Two on Member-Missionary work with PMG clips and the other in Gospel Principles on the Gathering of Israel, uhhhh, hard one for new investigators, we have another baptism on the 22nd, so we're way excited for that. Thanks for all the love, support, letters, and packages, except for that dirty spider, he'll return will vengeance. Hope you all have a great week. Love you all, have a good one - Love Elder Bennett