Elder Alex Bennett's Mission Blog

Mon, Aug 26, 2013 No need to worry about the lump any longer, it's not bad any more. Injury of the week though, we were carrying the Sisters luggage down the stairs and I don't know what they pack in those things but it was like 500 pounds and when I took the final step my ankle rolled and like broke, not really broke, but felt like it for a second. It only lasted about a day. Oh time is going to fast. I did appreciate the quote "God gives every bird it's food, but he does not throw it in the nest", Well not the best P-day ever, but they're always good. We started out by getting up at the crack of dawn to go to the transfer spot, got our new companions, went and emailed. Missionaries get to go to this place called Impact Athletic for free so we went there and played Raquetball for a while, it was a good time. We had a FHE service project at this one home in the 7th ward, it had like no lawn at all, and now it looks like the lawn could be in the home-show, well, maybe not that good. There was sooo much member-support there and even R. our investigator, came as well. We finally got to see J. again, things are looking more on the brightside with her getting more involved. We gave her an Ensign about Temples and a Plan of Salvation pamphlet to read. She really enjoys the message about life after death and being with families forever, if anything, that's the "selling point" for her. We had a wonderful lesson, as always with R. We shared the video on lds.org of Elder Holland talking about the time a football team was on a field and one of them was struck by lightning and one of the coaches gave him a blessing, "Sanctify Yourselves", it's a great one. We challenged him to pray every time he feels like he needs to smoke, so hopefully that has helped. We ate at this authentic mexican place called La Tacoria, or something to that effect, it was pretty good. The Sisters called and Sister Dodds was as sick as a dog and so a member of their ward went as well as us to give a blessing. When we went in, she was curled up on the couch like a little sick chinchilla, I couldn't even tell if she was there or if it was just the blanket. Then that night, Sister Wright felt the same way so we went over again. We also went to Walmart that day and got them some Powerade, Jello, mashed potatoes, soup, the essentials, they really appreciated it. Soooo many new missionaries all over the place! It was like we were drowning with all the little errands we had to run that day. Back and forth and back and forth with all of their luggage, leading them to their houses, making sure area books were there, it was wild. One of the Sisters on the first day of driving turned in the wrong lane and a cop was there and like followed them and they lost him and then he found them again, he was WAY nice though and just said be careful. We got this address flip-flopped for dinner and this lady let us in and started talking to us and making the impression that she was the one feeding us, well, it wasn't her, wrong house. It was pretty funny, the house was right around the corner :) Elder Kelliher had Elder Mayfield on his back running at night to our car and tripped and Elder Mayfield like collapsed on the hood, it was the funniest thing I've seen this week probably. Good ol' B. took us to Papps again, we had a good visit, things are progressing. We were killin some cat-faced spiders with a hose and rocks for J. there was quite a bunch of them. She is getting closer to coming to church, the RS and WML went over there and both times went great we heard. We went out on our first round of splits with Bro.W. he's awesome, and he was just raving at how good we did at our appointments, the 7th ward is catchin' fire. Went on our first splits with Star 2nd. Found out that some of our investigators are heading to Burley 3rd, whewww, still in our boundaries, that's not usual. So cool to have Morey as a WML. We got a truck! Hahaha, I'm confident that I won't get smushed by it this time around. It's a Nissan Frontier, not as cool as the Tacoma, but it's good. As we were leaving to take some Elders to Oakley, there was a car crash that happened right in front of us at a light and the girl had a bloody nos the car looked bad, and the horn wouldn't turn off, it was a mess. We taught Relief Society as well. We showed some of the Work of Salvation training and talked about who's responsiblity it is to share the Gospel, and then talked about Family Mission Plans, which you should try as well, and how they as a Family can make goals to share the Gospel. We were caught in some Apocolyptic Tornado for awhile, the videos don't do justice on my camera I'm gonna get goin, so we'll catch up next week, love ya -Love Elder Bennett