Mon, Aug 5, 2013 Edited version Congrats lil Jakie on being baptized, I'm glad I could participate and that I could be of service with the video. There was this guy we ran into while trying to contact someone else, he was a brother, and he was preparing for a divorce and we tried to give him some comfort but he was saying that if we read a scripture he wouldn't remember it because he was drunk, etc. so I left one for him to read. Well, never thought I'd see him again really, after I bore my testimony in one of the wards and we walked out in the hall to go to the other building I hear my name and it was the guy we talked to. It was way awesome to see him come to church, sometimes before the Lord will lead us to new people, we've got to administer to the less-actives and the people who are there already. While we were doing some more contacting, oh man, we ran into this family, SUPER Golden, we had a return apt. and they were way excited to meet again. Now, we think they'll probably go to the Spanish branch, but they were saying before that they wanted to go to English, sooooo there goes another one to some other missionaries, we're givin out people everyday it seems like this transfer. We went to MLC and there have been a few changes that some people aren't thrilled with, but they are in reality not bad at all. The Hansen's have been having their family renunion so we had to leave for like a week. We're living with Elder Kennedy (White House) and Elder Pyper right now, we love those guys, some of my best friends ever, it's been great. We gave our investigator a blessing (fellowshipper did it) to stop smoking and afterwards he was like, "Woah, is baptism this powerful?" so it's looking up. We were on our way to the temple from Rupert and Blum was driving but Johnson sarcastically told him to take this one exit that was the wrong one and he did it and it was a wild goose chase out to Declo on the Pocatallo exit and it took forever to get back on the right road. We saw this other less-active who is struggling to make ends meet, just went through a divorce and while we were visiting with him, this big strong guy, he just broke down and said how great it was for someone to just listen to him, it was way spiritual, glad we were able to locate him. Had some good splits with Bro. Smith, it turned out to be his last time, we got a new WML in that ward Bro.Winmill. Everyone LOVED Zone Meeting, it's the best one that I've ever done. We had awards after, I'll have to attach the paper in the email. We haven't had anybody sign for dinner for this week so we had this microwaveable chicken in the church kitchen. Well, thank you for the updates and the package that I"m going to go pick up today, love you all so much! - Love Elder Bennett

July 29, 2013 Edited version Woooooooooooooooow, I thought that Jake's Baptism was this past Saturday, like 2 days ago, I was in all in a ruffle not thinking the video was not going to get there on time and that your chastisement would have fallen upon me and my posterity. Yeah, I felt like the video turned out pretty well. There's someone here that knows Kelli Jorgensen way well, last name Hawkes. Yes, I did that Zone Vision, my companions have been commenting on my nack for creativeness. They do celebrate the 24th Celebration here, in fact, we had a huge one @ the Bishop of the Star 2nd ward's Pond, tons of space with a Zip-line, water-slide, rope swings, fields, pavilions, etc. it's pretty impressive. Commentary on Tanner's post, I wrote in a sassy time of the day, I got to do two baptisms in the last little bit here.One was a way funny like Phillipino kid and the other was from New York and he was like so spiritual and was able to socialize so well. We went to see this lady who nobody like even knows about and at first she just peeked her head out but wouldn't come all the way out, but after we started talking to her more she came outside and we had a conversation with her. She lost her job, was running out of medication, sad story, after we talked for awhile I asked if we could have a prayer and she wanted me to say it and afterwards we looked and she had tears rolling down her face, she felt the Spirit and she felt loved. It was a way good experience for all of us, namely her and Bro.M he brought it up in a Ward Council and he got choked up and said that this drop-by made the whole night worth it, all the rest of our appointments weren't there or cancelled. That's the cool thing about a mission, you get to see stuff like that all the time.So I was sleep-talking and Blum told me that I was saying all this stuff about calling people and also "There are some Skeptisms about exchange forms, Porras (Elder Porras AP, love 'im) and other churches", huh, interesting stuff to say, he even asked me if I knew what I was saying and I replied confidently, "Yeah" and then went back to sleep. We were able to convince this one district in our announcements that we couldn't wear blue for the month of August because of Gang Activity in the area and that was their specific color. Each time we have "announcements" in a District Meeting we always give the right ones, but slip a fake one in as well. With that Dance Festival here there were people from all countries the Koreans were at our place for breakfast and Sister Lee from Korea was able to converse and probably curse us with them in her native tongue. We spoke in sacrament. It went well. Someone broke into Morey's Steakhouse restaurant and tried to steal stuff and he had a prompting to go and check on it at 4 in the morning with his wife and the guy was still there, CRAZY stuff. Yes, we had the baptism was on Sat, it was great for me to be able to perform that. In the box I sent home, the marble piece is a piece of the Boise Temple (marble) that a member gave us Pencil box is from Russia, wanted to keep it for memory sake About 80% of all of your letters is about all of you complaining about tumble weeds So at this last week's P-day activity we had a ton of people there and it was in Twin at this park in Shosone. Well, we're heading out, so I'll explain more as time goes on. Have a lovely week Love you all, Peace n Blessins' - Love Elder Bennett

July 22, 201 Edited version Went to Declo for a District Meeting, afterwards we like got to make our own hamburgers and shakes, it was fun, We gave M a tour of the church with her friend, this family took us out to eat at this restaurant called the Canton. One of our WMLs is a cop. The Sisters were freaking out because there phone wouldn't work,we took out the battery and put it back in and it works just fine now We have a hook up of Dairy Queen once a week, I tried their chicken strips and they were nasty. At a DM afterwards we played Gospel Trivia and if you didn't fool the majority you had to eat a bean, I didn't have to eat one luckily, We have a WML who used to be in a band and such and has this room upstairs, he lives in like a Gentleman's Fellowship Hall thing, it's awesome, anywho, upstairs he has all this equipment, one of them being an electronic drum-set that's hooked into his bass system, so he played the guitar and I did drums. They have this little electric moped and I rode on it for a sec So in this area with schedules and everything we are able to attend all 4 sacrament meetings and we have Ward Councils in the morning, turns out to be a LONG day, we are teaching someone there that was a WM who was impressed (not sure why) and said, "Ohhh if you keep teaching like that, we gotta have you stay until November". I had a Family convinced that I was a Russian spy . I guessed their marriage date right (sign above the sink) (talking about their kids proposals) 2. Guessed his blood-type (by chance) 3. I said, "There is someone that's going to walk in the back-door in 5 4 3 2 1, and someone did, family coming over (saw their reflection in the big clock) they were super freaked out and thought it was funny, last teaching apt. with M :( handed her over to the Sisters We ran the school track with the Sisters and the Spanish Elders for a morning workout, Elder Kennedy is pretty legit at bowling, like your scores for WII bowling, we played Elder Blomquist's favorite sport: Ultimate Frisbee, he wants to take it to the Olympic level. Some Elders loved my impressions of Super Smash Brothers characters while we played B-ball, Wendy's =stale nuggets, an older lady came to us and bought us gift cards. This lady in the ward cuts hair and shaved Elder Blomquist's "caterpillar" uni-brow. We showed the kids magic tricks and played spoons, I taught how Joseph in Genesis was able to prophesy while the magicians and sorcerers were not able to, turned out to be a good spritual thought. We met this nice German guy, part member family so potential, we had shishkabobs for dinner, I had a cow-tail candy for the first time, it was decent, the Korean kids that the Hansens played ping-pong with us and figured out our card tricks mathematically We are teaching a guy,D, he has a bapt. date for the 3rd of August. Talk to ya next week Love Elder Bennett