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this week, really started tuesday in lausanne swiss for a zone conference with president brown and his wife Soeur Brown! we talked alot about starting this new year keeping our push from the last year! we talked about being like a bird dog, when a bird dog gets out of the car and gets to go into the field, wow its crazzy how excited the dog is! we compared that to the way that we are going to have to be with the miracles that god will give us! 

Elder Weinmann and i returned back to our sector and went staight to that! weve had alot of lessons this week with members and amis, its so cool, we had alesson with a lady named Madame Ulrich! it was a super great lesson! the spirit was there, me and my comp worked really well together, and then we invited her to be baptized and she accepted! it was great and we are really trying to keep her on track to have her baptism! 

Thursday we did a whole bunch of service! we helped a member with his farm and did a whole bunch of stacking logs!

we finished the night meeting with a member and his wife and teaching a lesson on how we feel the spirit, it went really well and we also had some great salmon pasta:) 

its been raining and snowing a bunch here in Yverdon, i dont think there has been a night when ive come home this week now wet. ahah.  

love you all!! 

love,

Elder Bennett

as fast as i can? as fast as you can

James 1: 22 

hello my family and friends! 

this week started out in a small outer ville, we were able to see an old investigator and start re-having contact with her! as a missionary when we have a first lesson with someone, we like to start by using a few of what we call the 10 points, they are points of the doctrine that can relate to anyone, that we use to establish a relationship and what can be expected as we all learn from eachother, we had quite a few first lessons this week, which is huge, and it says alot of what can happen for the future. kinda like a first impression of someone!

haha for kinda funny/differnt thing that happened this week, is.. so we found a older woman a few weeks ago who wants to learn more about our church! we had one lesson with her, and we usually ask, if there is anything else we can do for the person, normally people say no. and thats what she said, so we go back to our appartment, go to bed, but wake up at 4:00 in the morning to the phone going off. it was her, calling us because she wasnt doing to well. we still dont really know but she had something weird happen do her knee and she called us so we could help! haha we couldn't really go over at 4h. but. we went over in the morning. but i felt like my dad when i would keep him up a little later than he wanted :)) so, sorry Dad:)  

something im really grateful this week, and i ve been realizing more and more, is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints is alive! we invite all people to continue, and to endure to the end!< we talk to people every day who say they are believing, but it just stops there, they say, i believe, but i dont wanna go to church or pray. ahah its kinda dead if it just stops there! so im grateful that im able to continue and progress in my spirituality every day:) 

lots of love, 

Elder Bennett

servez vous

This week, started out a little different, it was really windy and rainy, me and my companion were just finishing up our personal studies, and starting our team studies, we got a text and found out that Thomas S. Monson had died. it was a really weird, he was really the my first prophet i was old enough to remembrer and learn from, the one that i was closest to. i learned alot from him, to never hesitate to do something good, when you think of someone, dont be afraid to do something for them, because often God will work through us to help his work. he was a good man! the Church is true, and how grateful i am that the authority to guide the church is still on this earth!! 

during this week, we had some exchanges with my district leader, me and him went into a small city in my Sector and we were going to do some door to door. we had some great conversations with people. it was really great and we found this door with a bowl of candy that said Servez vous, which means, serve yourself. it took me back to halloween days when kids would run around the neighbourhood and with the bowls on the porch, they would take all the candy, those bandits. but we only took a few chocolates, that doesnt happen every day ;) 

we had a some meetins with members this week, one of my favorite things to ask, is how did you get to know the church! and they tell the story and wow. the spirit always feel the room as they testify of what they have felt and seen in their lives! the questions will always come back to me, and i will say i was born in the church, but wait, that doest mean i was converted just because i was born in the church, so i go on to explain my experiences that ive had, one way ive really gained a testimony is by the promise in the front of the book of mormon, that says that if a man will abide by the precepts of the book of mormon, a man will grow closer to god. ive seen how thats been in my life. 

yesterday, there was a baptisme for a little girl in our ward, a baptisme is a great things for our amis, and all the ward members to come to! we send out texts to prettymuch everyone in our phone and it was so great!  one of our amis that we had found earlier that week came! shes an older woman, speaks french, english, german, spanish, shes super funny and has a good desire to learn more about what happens at our church! there was also a few other people from our contacts that came and we were able to make really good contact with them and feel a good spirit with them!

voila, i think thats all, the swiss is going great! people are really really nice, they love talking. the members here are soo great and strong, i love the mountains and all! 

love you all! 

2017, truely youve been great.

Dear Family and Friends,

SOO quite a bit has happened in a week i guess! its been a week since Christmas, and that was so great, on Christmas me and my companion were able to go over to a members house and we had a whole bunch of Turkey and Cheese, it was kinda weird because the french and swiss people there talked for like 25 minutes on different kinds of cheeses, and i dont know much about cheese, so it was hard to participate in that conversation. 

i then got to go and talk with my family which was so great! ah i love them! im glad we know we can be together forever! 

through out the rest of the week, we had some lessons and went contacting, and passed some members, one thing thats really fun every week is we are able to do some service for a member at his farm. he's got a whole bunch of Cows, and Horses, and Chickens, so we help him with alot of his farm work, its actually alot of fun, and they make really great food afterwards! 

so my new companions great! hes really got a great desire to share the gospel and we are able to work hard and have the spirit when we are obedient! we went to the hospital this week for my comp, because not to long ago he was run over by a tractor, but really, god protects his missionaries and everything is going really good! 

we had a district meeting this week in lausane and my district leader shared the story of peter walking on the water towards jesus, i love that story, there are so many things we can learn, one thing i;ve learned after studying it a little more, is peter, he was faithful enough to climb  out of the boat, and walk a little ways on the water, are we faithful enough to walk towards christ, in the midst of waves, and storms? 

love you all, and have a great week, make some goals youll keep, and make 2018 great, sometimes the hardest part is just starting, but start good.

love,

Elder Bennett