Parents and a week away

Heyy this week was great! We spent time living with the branch President this week because of the repares being done in our appartement. I got to really know then and I am so grateful for them. I learned so much of the sacrificed that they make to serve the Lord. Consicrated Sacrifices bring blessings. 

We had a great testimony builder that no matter what city you are in God is preparing people to meet missionaries. 

Where the branch President lives it is a small out in the southern country side of France. My companion and I decided to go  and walk around and see if anyone would talk to us. We found this lady who had always been missionaries in our country but she never talked with them . She took the time to listen and she said that she has been praying to find some people to worship with and to learn about God! It was amazing. we have her a book of Mormon and it was really super. 

I'm loving the members and people in Angoulême! Hope you all find a chance to invite someone to church! 

A bientot

Elder Bennett 

"Only the brittish can make a stratégique retreat look like a victory" President Banks

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing good! 

This last week has been crazy and alot of fun! Haha we started in our sector doing some contacting and teaching, while contacting we had 2 people who said they would like to be baptised and see the Restored church of Jesus Christ. 

We have been kicked out of our appartement for a whole 15 days because they are repainting the walls. We left to go to poitiers and I got to see some of the old amiss that I've worked with, one of which texted the elders that day and asked to have and interview with the branch President for her baptism. 
I also got to see my good friends Hervé and Charlotte who went to go to baptism for the dead this Easter week end. 

When getting back into angouleme to stay the night before going to church the next day, and upon arriving to our appartement I realised that the keys were in my coat which was left in poitiers. We called our branch President and his wife and went and stayed with them. Which we will be staying with for this comming week. We love them and they are so great they are from England. 

Anyways God is great! He is blessing those who keep his commandments. 

Love
Elder Bennett

White man invented time, but the black man has the watch

Good morning all! I hope you're all doing great! 

This week was an awesome fun packed week on the mission! 

We spent the first part in Toulouse having zone conference. 

We talked aboutthe power of an invitation. It's really amazing the power of what an invitation does. I've seen that for the past year or so. Anywhere I go I try to invite new people to church and it's amazing to see all the people who are looking and who will accept this invitation to grow their faith. 

"It is never to early to invite. " if you have an ami that's not dooing 100 of what they should. Invite them to do so. If you have a friend not a friend or family member not a member of th4 church. Invite them to church with you. It will be so worth it. 

We got back into our sector and worked with some of our friends. 

Rimthe who is almost 2 meters tall is awesome and loved the restoration. We are preparing for his baptise soon and so please keep him in your prayers.

Over the many meetings I've had I have to express my overwhelming gratitude for this great gospel. It truly is a great and marvellous work. I know God lives. I know Jesus is the Christ. Keep on going strong!  

Love you all:) 

Elder Bennett.

 

 

Jésus sauve

Good morning brethren and sisters, 

This last week was great. We had some great time in angouleme and got to see a few of our new friends. 

A few of them are really cool. 

One make is really tall. He honestly is as big as elder tairapa (6'9") 

Haha we walked into his house and his family was sitting there and we were able to teach them the restoration. Please keep them In your prayers and we will hope they will continue to progress in the faith! 

There is also another man who we taught from Spain. We showed him the video of Jesus baptism and it's such a great spirit that feels the room as we think of the example Jesus Christ has set for us. He is the light and the way. 

We were able to go back to poitiers to do an exchange, I saw all of our friends like Hervé and charlotte. they are seeing miracles with their situation. I was with Elder ley who speaks great French English and Spanish. He is a Super missionary. 

And conference was amazing. Repenting is the way to use the atonement of Jesus Christ. 

Have a great week! 

See you soon!

Les cuisses de grenouilles

Transfers:12 weeks left:training: Good evening everyone!  

This week was bitter sweet, elder miller and mine last week in poitiers. Elder west will be staying that taking care of all of our amis that we have progressing towards the sweet waters of baptism. 

We spend some time with one of our amis, she had received a strong prompting that she needed to have us meet her daughter and introduce her to the church of Jesus Christ.  We had a sweet meeting and we able to feel the spirit toghether. 

This week I was able to confer the priesthood upon Hervé. To the office of a priest. It was a powerful and moving experience I was privileged to participate in. 

We found some very cool people week, one man from the Congo and he had an auntie that was part of the church of Jesus Christ. The man read when he was younger the book of Mormon and has always been curious. We taught him the first lesson and after he came to church as well. 

Cool story: a man who refereed him self while I was in talence, I was able to start teaching him, and we have him a book of Mormon. Then he kinda dropped off the earth after the 2nd meeting. But elder Osborne went into Bordeaux and this man starred comming to church and meeting the missionaries also. He said that the first day he got the book of Mormon he felt a very strong opposition to read the book of Mormon. He got though it and read it a little. But dropped off the earth. 

But he will be getting baptised this Friday:) happy for him! 

God is Good. He supports us. 

Love you all:) 

Ce que Dieu a fait pour moi, je ne peux pas tout raconter

Good afternoon brother and sisters, i hope you are all doing great, this week in poitiers France we had an awesome week full for blessings. 

Hervé and charlotte got baptised and confiremed! It was great to be able to meet them and teach them, see how much God has prepared them, 

It started out by meeting them on the bus and then right after showing them the chapel which they don't love far away from. Hervé had all ready met the church from his home country in  the ivry cost but never had been. We were able to show them around and set up another meeting for the week. After our first meeting we learned this week that him and his wife after we had left our first lessons they looked at eachother stunned for about 5 minutes because they had found what they were looking for. 

Both of their baptisms were great and they felt so much joy. I know God prepared people.  As missionaries is our job to find those who are ready, and as us as members it's our job to invite our friends to come and see.

We have another few friends that are progressing very well, they are receiving answers to their prayers and we are excited to see them acting on their inspirations. 

Love you all:) last week of this transfer. Have a good one

Elder bennett:) 

First time for all things

Good morning! I hope you're doing great things here in poitiers are doing great! Let's get started!

Last Monday night we headed over to Hervé and Charlotte's home, we had set out to give a lesson to teach the word of wisdom, as we got in we let conversation take it's way following the spirit and teaching to their needs, we needed up giving Hervé his first priesthood blessing of his life. They are in a situation difficult in their life and they are learning on Jesus Christ. Amazing examples of Faith:) 

We had a pancake party with some members from Brazil. We had a great time making these cakes and during the activity the lady wanted to teach me Portuguese by singing Portuguese gospel songs🤣🤣 we had alot of fun with them and a few youth in the branch. 

We had some great finds this week and some aw3some people call and want to have a meeting with us. 

Elder Miller and I gave a talk in church yesterday, I talked about true faith in jesus christ. Having faith in jesus christ means having faith that he is our Lord and personal savior .  I testify that he is and that he gives us peace and joy. 

Love you all:) have fun doing the program this week:) 

Elder Bennett 

It's Gunna take you all day to clean that.

Good morning / afternoon, 

I hope you are all doing great. 

Here in poitiers we are seeing so many blessing of God. 

We were able to have alot of our friends at church and accept baptismal dates and also work toward these dates. 

A few amazing people we worked with this week, 

Marianne- she was a miracle find form last week, we had 2 meeting with her and she really has alot of faith, and understands the need for a prophet. During our 2nd meeting she randomly asked us how to be baptised because she has had many questions on that. That was amazing and she came to church. 

Herve and charlotte- they are keeping all their engagements and herve was sick yesterday but came to church so he could stay on track to be baptised with his wife. It was amazing. 

Yichen-she is a lady with whom I talked to the first day here in poitier. She comes to church everyday and she invited us over to have some Korean food. Yummy. She isn't quite sure if she believe in God but she is learning a lot at church and while we are with her. 

Panwang- she is so funny. A cute little Chinese girl who is really committed to the church. We are seeing the spirit work with her and testify of truths as she asks. 

Somethings I really have been learning is faith and blessings, God can only bless us when we are obedient.  He cannot force us to have good things or bad things. In this great plan of happiness we all will get what we want. Happiness and joy come from and only in jesus christ. When we have faith in jesus christ we ACT in faith to receive blessings from Jesus Christ. I testify that he is real and that he works along side of us. 

Love you all:) 

Elder Bennett 

God answers prayers

Haha this week was packed full of things happening and new things starting. 

One awesome experience that happened that was so great,  was we were going to a meeting with a returning member and on the way we talked to a lady, who invited us to go sit down with her and talk about our message. As we talked with her and shared the experience of Joseph Smith. And she asked us to share our testimonies of how we knew this was true. After I asked her why she wanted to know, and she then told us that she had been praying that morning to have more direction and to know that God loves her, and that day she meets a few young missionaries for the church of Jesus Christ. It is a testimony that God knows and guides his work. 

I know that Jesus Christ is our Lord and personal savior. With him we have joy and peace. 

I love you all! 

Nana! 

A la prochaine Ecully

Happy New transfer everyone:) 

This week is transfers and I'll be tranfered out of Ecully. After being there for half a year! We had some great times:) I'll be moving near Bordeaux again to a ville called angouleme and poitier. I'm super excited to see these see the work of the Lord in these sectors. 

This last week we spent alot of time seeing some progressing Amis and visiting recent converts. Haha it was super great one day, with all our Nigerian converts. We had a a mass bible study. Haha the converts brought like 8 people that we all taught the bible and book of Mormon. It was really great and they were able to feel the spirit and ask many questions that they have. 

We visited a family from Colombia. It's amazing how God uses the skills that we have. As we were walking to go to the house. We were with the husband and we contacted a lady. Who was from Mexico and spoke Spanish. So our member from Colombia really did alot. This family bastidas is a example family. So great:) 

We had an exchange in gap and went finding all day. It was honestly cool to see the amount of people listen to our message:) 

We gave samoly a gift , it was huge photo of Jesus Christ and we put it in his house. He loved it and we want his favourite song. It was a touching moment. 

God's work is real. It is his work. 

Love you all! 

Elder Bennett

Elder andersen, matt and alpha

Hello you guys! Hope you're all doing very well! This week we had a great week with plenty of tender mercies. 

One major event is from ELDER ANDERSEN. He was once a mission President in the Bordeaux mission, he came and visited the mission, to instruct and support us. It was a very great conference, it was great to learn from one of the Lords chosen servants. He talked about about inner faith and letting that go and build us up:) as I've been thinking alot about that. About BEing in the the church and not just in the programs. Such and Be in the faith and not just in the program. It was great and the spirit was really there. I testify he is an apostle of Jesus Christ. 

This week, a man named Matt was contacted. He's really special and has been prepared by the Lord. Keep praying for him please and he will continue following Jesus Christ. 

He got up at 4 Sunday morning just to come to church with us and learn. It's really awesome to see the sacrifices that he made to develop his faith. 

God is good, all the time! 

Love you guys! 

Elder Bennett 

Chinese buffet 😛

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all doing wonderful. 

Elder Abbott and I have been seeing many blessing from the hand of the Lord! In our mission we have standards of excellence and that is where each team is encouraged to fine 4 new people to teach, bring 2 nonmembers to church, engage 1 person each week to baptism, and by the end of each transfer have 1 baptism:) as we have been working on this we have really been focusing most of our efforts on faith in jesus christ to find, meaning that God has prepared people to receive the message, that God will put the words in your mouth. I've really learned how necessary faith is in every aspect of life. 

We have a few really cool stories of people we have met and the way God is blessing us, 

There are some Main people that our team is working with, we have 2 Nigerians who are preparing for their baptism. I have learned how necessary it is to follow the spirit. For each of our friends. 

Jesus has left us his spirit to guide us and leave us his truth. We must follow the spirit if we want to have eternal joy. Both of these people are friends of our recent convert and as they pray we can feel the sincerity and during lessons we can feel the spirit being changed and lifted up. 

We went over to Therese house and with her and her family we make the title of liberty. We all put something that we will defend and then each one of us signed the banner. It was a powerful experience to see the gospel change lives back in the day, and now. The gospel is eternal and universal. 

How far? Wetin dey happin

Good afternoon and a happy New year. I hope everything good out there! 

We woke up this morning and played some awesome ball, we found these awesome courts that are under a roof so we can go play in the winter! Good days back. @EM @SC @BH 

Well this week we some so many miracles. One man opoku Felix revived the priesthood yesterday. After being baptised, have to worry about his family and going through a sickness he was ready to get the priesthood of Aaron. He was going to the bus stop, and missed the bus to get the church. When he saw that he said he needed to get to church and was willing to do anything necessary. Just then as he said a simple prayer in his heart a members car came down the road. He was the members face and invited him to catch a ride. God is good. All the time and he got the priesthood and he was so happy he was jumping with joy. 

God is very good. 

As we have done the first come and follow me, I've really realised the importance of invitations. 

Invitations in missionary work is the only way to work. We will see people progress if we give them invitations for them to excerise their faith. 

I know god lives, 

Jesus is our savoir. 

Love you all:) 

Elder Bennett