Sunsets go by too quickly

Thee appartement that I'm living in is 10th floor, with great over look of the city and the sunset. It's weird at night coming in, Sun going doing, and literally watching the sun move, I'm grateful for the beautiful things God make for us, just to give us happiness.

This week flew by. We had some tombez vous (when someone has a meeting but doesn't show up) (it's missionary French) which is always hard, but then we did some good contacting and talked to some cool people! 

One highlight this week was doing a baptismal interview for a young lady who has followed the example of Jesus Christ and was baptised. During the interview the spirit was there as she shared testimony of how the power of forgiveness is so real. It stregthed my testimony alot. 

The baptismal questions are a great example of faith. They all start with ''croyez vous'' (do you believe). 

Believing is hoping. Having faith. 

The lord is speaking here. 3 Nephi 26:11 Je veux éprouver la foi de mon peuple.

I will try the faith of my people

We had another great Rendez vous with the family lhospital of the ward and they had a cute little family.  The spirit is always brought when they share their spiritual experiences. 

Love you all! 

Have a good week:) and read 7/7 this week of the book of Mormon!:)

HI MAMA! 

 

I think it's cool how you were able to title your email blessings, when there would be alot of others who would say trials, that's a great example. 

Haha it was good weather last week but then it got ugly for a few days! Haha

Ohhhh noo!  The malibue broke down, dang it, do you think you will be getting her fixed soon ?

There is a saying if French,  I'm n'y a pas trois sans duex. Haha there isn't 3 without 2. So those 2 things had to happen all at the same time! 

 

But that's good all was able to get fixed! And in such short timing!  

Ah cool! Haha is there anyone who looks at that blog? Haha I know I'll love to look at that after mission. 

I'm not sure yet! But I'll be night for you guys, or morning! Like at Christmas! But we will figure that out! 

Today I get to take a plane from Bordeaux to Lyon!  For the mission leadership council!  Haha it will be alot of fun so I'm excited about that! 

Love you mom! 

Pics

Week with members

Hi mom! 

Haha that's good you had some nice weather there! It was really nice over here and HAHAHA there was alot of people super Sun burnt. Haha but since it was good weather ment that we didn't need to wear a coat anymore and people saw our white shirts and ties right away which made it quite harder to find people to teach, but it's also easier for people to recognize us as representative of Jesus Christ. 

Haha I'm glad Jorden is doing track! That's super cool for him! I bet he's a fast kid our there! Haha 

Hahaha have you gotten tickets from Amber? Haha tell her I say hello:) haha 

This week was really good! We had some great RDVs with our members and not a whole lot is going on with our friends, but we are going to do some good finding this week:) I'll send you some pictures through Facebook! I love and miss you mom! 

Love

Elder Bennett 

Families are forever

HELLO! This week flew by and was great! 

This week had some great experiences! Last Monday night we had a family night with a family Assetou and her son! She made us a wonderful African meal with crab and fried bananas. It was great. We talked about the model enos is by his example of faith and prayer. 

     The next day, we had a Rendez vous with a man who had contact us. He is from California and reminds me a lot of my brother in law! He spoke perfect English and French . No accents. We went to his house and ate lunch and his two litter girls were so cute. He wanted us over because the church has played a big role in his life. He's not a member but he grew up next to members. He loves the church and what he's seen and I hope we will get to keep working with him the only problem is is that his wife absolutely hates religion. So that's hard. But we taught the family about Christ and who he is in our lives. 

We had two Rendez vous with a guy who loves genealogy. You should have seen him on the computers. Wow. He was going ham. 

We passed a less active member. He answered his sonnerie (doorbell/telephone in one ) and didn't want to let us in . But I said hey 5 minutes will be alright. We walk in and the house wasn't the cleanest and there was a few boxes of 100 cigarettes.  We wernt able to do much but we were able to smile and hopefully brighten his day. 

We went over to an older members house. She was nice and she has a lot of questions about the church. She was a member then went less active then came back and lost a lot of what she knew. We taught about the plan of salvation. She then unloaded her entire freezer and gave us all the food she had in there. Haha it was spontaneous and weird. But hey free food. 

Saturday we made our way over to a members house. She has 3 kids at home and we had lunch with them. The daughter is really cool but is slowing starting to slip. So we talked about prayer and the relationship the we have when we pray. 

When we go to church it's cool to see all of our friends and really there are some super cool people in every ward. But the real reason why we go is because of that relationship we have with our heavenly father. 

Then last night after chruch we went to a family home. This family was goals as the little kids of 4 years old basically taught is all about Joseph Smith's story and his example of faith. 

Here's some photos. Love you all! Have a good week! Keep your covenants

 Serve someone else with a smile:) 

Monday night

Sunday night

Teusday lunch  

Hii mom! 

Thats super good! Me and iken have emailed a few times and kept in touch!

Ah wow! That's a lot of fun! Haha I hope those horses will still be there when I get back! Haha they'd be great for dates and nights out! That's sweet with devan!  I'm sure he did great! And I loved the pics! 

Haha the glasses are mine! There fake glasses for fun haha I wanted to see if it would make me look smarter haha so I got some, they were pretty cheep so that's good! 

This week was really good! We had some really good Rendez vous and I learned a lot of how the French brains work with religion. Haha for us it's freedom of religion. Haha for them it's more freedom from religion. So that makes it different. But we find people everyday that we can share a gospel truth with.  

Love you mom! Sounds like your having fun with the Stephens ranch! 

Some updates over here! We got our transfer calls and me and elder tairapa will be staying another. I will be the new district leader and that will help a lot. W will have exchanged in my sector so that means more work will get done! So I'm super excited to see what will happen! 

Love 

Elder Bennett 

Itshardthinkingofaphrasetocaptureaweek.

Heyyyo 

This last Monday I started out on exchanges with the elders in Bergerac, me and elder Lewis were on exchanges and started by helping a family out with service and then going and contacting and finding for them! We had some great conversations with a few people and might have found Paris elders a few new amis. It started raining some cats and dogs while we were on exchanges.

We came back and went to work in our sector finding a whole bunch. 

We had a lesson this week with our progressing amie Carine! She's a funny lady and is just really blunt.  If she doesn't understand something she says hope. Doesn't make sense. Haha which helps us teach. We taught the lesson of the plan of salvation simply and she related to it on a very personal level because she has lost people in her life.

Church. Literally it was so great! We had testimony meeting and all the members bore there testimonies on missionary work and helping the Lord work on earth. Really I have so much respect for French members. They truly are pioneers. We saw a miracle less active come to church yesterday. We had a Rendez vous with her the week earlier and she was so set on not coming. She came. We had other families that we are working with and one young man 12 come to church with his mom! He's working on getting the priesthood and he quickly found friends in the ward! He's a stud! 

I've been really listening to conference talks and I loved elder bednars on meekness. I'm grateful for our inspired leaders. I know we can have personal revelation. God loves us. Let's be ready for his inspiration . 

Love you all! 

Elder Bennett 

hi mom!! 

of course! thanks for being that example i can use:) 

our amis this week are doing good, we were able to finnd some more people who wanted to learn! with her spicifcally we werent able to see her this week, but hopefully we will see her soon! 

we have another amis Carine and shes really doing good, its been a miracle. she is keeping commitments but hhas a hard time comming to church this past two week, 

wow! that is really col and it is a great thing dad is able to hold the priesthood. recently i dooing fammily history work and i watched a pioneer movie, but its so cool of how the priesthood was such a big big part of everything they did. and im trying to learn how to be able to use the priesthood like that, to help people, do the miracles. 

hahaha yes taht was way gross. haha but actually, cheese isnt that bad. i kinda like it. well french cheese at least. idk if US cheese is as good. 

ahhaha nooo that was a great way to find out!! that super cool! and one of my friend said its up kinda by where katie lewandoski used to live, like thats wehre the temple might be! 

i hope you were able to have a good week! its spring and im sure youre geting out with the flwer beds! ive recently planted some flowers of my own:) 

i love you mom!! 

ill send somme videos and photoes on Faceook cause its easier:) 

Fromage de tête

This week we had a Rendez vous with our ward mission leader. They are from Madagascar. He made us a meal and he started out with fromage de tête. (Head cheese) turns out be made his own cheese out of a pigs head. Mid bite I bit down and felt something rock hard. It was a bone. At that point, It was hard to finish. 

Haha the week was really good here! It started out with a zone conference and talking about our testimonies and the spirit when having lessons! 

We had a great lesson with a 12 year old who's preparing to get the priesthood!  We taught of the example of Nephi and how when he received calls from God his response was always Yes. 1nephi 3 7 

We found some super cool amis this week! I'm excited to see their faith grow! 

Conference. It was great to see the prophet and the apostles. Their words are of God. I was able to feel the spirit and receive answers to my questions. I know that God listens to us. And loves us. I'm thankful for a modern-day  prophet.  

Love you all! Keep doing good. 

Also shout out about LAYTON UTAH TEMPLE . 

Sunsets from CHEZ nous 

This member wanted a picture with us 

This is where my ward mission leader lives. 

Hi!  Also one story I forgot to include in my email to you its this! 

This week we had a Rendez vous with an amis that we found. It was our first rdv with her. We started out by getting to know her and what she all ready knew about us, she starts out to say that she knows that for us families are really important. She then explained how her family isn't perfect. She explained literally word for word. (Well In French) what described to be like our family. (Meaning with the Bowden side). I was able to bear testimony of how you have turned and leaned on Christ and His gospel. God and his inspiration.  And the family you have. It brought us both to tears. As we bore testimony of someone faithful and strong in the gospel even not the perfect family. Thank you mom for being a model I can share and someone I look up to. I love you mom . Have a good week :) 

Hahaha hiii mom! I'm glad you got to see that! Haha that's my brother in the mission. He was trained by the same trainer. but he had the song all made. We just sang it! Haha I'm getting more comfortable with French which makes me really happy. 

This week our chapelle closed because of construction. So we don't have a computer to use anymore. Haha so we hadn't mcuh time to look this week. 

LAYTON UTAH TEMPLE! HAHA literally I found out because of you. Cause the time differences. I woke up and read you letter and found this out! Wow! How cool! 

Cool! That's good he's still able to come around! Haha literally translating is such a challenge so props for him! 

I agree. The visiting and home teaching assignments really do help a whole lot. In every aspect. He's a prophet of God and inspired to lead us! 

I think our friends are doing ok. They wernt able to come yesterday. But we will be seeing them this week and I'm excited for that. 

Haha I'm doing good. I've got about all I need. Come July is solds. When everything is like half price. And I'm planning on maybe getting some new parts of my clothes then. Haha thanks mom for all you do! I love you! I hope it's all going good back there! Let me know if I can do anything for y'all and if you want me to start including certain things in my letters. Haha 

Love,

Elder Bennett