BOOOOOO!!!
Happy Halloween everyone I hope your week had been absolutely great!! I am just
livin the dream over here in Vinton, its awesome!!
Well
this week we have been working extremely hard, we came so close to achieving
the mission standard of excellence, we were just missin someone at church!! But
we will get it this week, we have so much to do. I feel like we are in an
intense basketball game and we keep getting behind with short time left and we
cant loose haha, this game is worth so much.
This
week Elder Whiting from the 70 visted our mission, He talked about DESIRE
to do God’s work as He wants it done is important for us. He asked us some
questions. What is the desire of YOUR heart? What is it you really seek after?
Unusual missionaries are those who see visions in their hearts and minds as to
where to go, what to say and who you need to find. He drew a continuum with the
nature of Christ on one end and natural man on the other. Then he asked, “Where
are you on this continuum?” and “Where would your parents put you, or your companion?”
We do not have to stay where we are for the atonement allows us to change and
move closer to where we want to go. After desire came OBEDIENCE. If you want
the blessings, you have to be exactly obedient. This does not mean that we
won’t make mistakes. This means we try the best we can to do everything asked
of us . Next was FAITH. What precedes your faith? Think of times where you saw
your faith manifest. Last was UNITY. John 17. Unity with Deity is most
important. If you are struggling with your companion, he is struggling with
you. Unity needs to be there with God, companions, the mission President, etc.
Do a thorough examination of yourself. When we have all of these in place we
will have POWER. We have authority; now we need power. If we align actions to
desires, we will receive power to teach, to listen, and to love others.
Right
before we headed out to lunch we sat for about 10 mintues and I prayed and I
really desired to recieve some mad rev. (revaltion) for my self and 1 word came
to my mind, LOVE. I though about the first week before I started traning, the
1st thing president pitt did was he came up to me, put his hand on my shoulders
and said love your companion, LOVE is the motive in everthing we do. I hope
that as I work on this that I will stregnthn that power that I carry as a
missionary.
We
have had a pretty great week. We were able to set a lady date for baptism
for January 26th. I really think she will get baptized sooner though!!! She
came to our ward halloween party this Friday and I was talking to her and she
said Her son who is on a mission in Arizona (he is serving in
Heber) emailed her and said " MOM!! are you going to get baptized so
we can go to the temple togather?" She said that she knows baptism is her
next step, it sounds like she hasnt been taught very well so we are going to go
through everything to help her understand. Elder Clay did a great job at
extending a solid invitation to read the book of mormon, he is a great
missionary and I have loved seeing his improvement in the work and how much he
has grown. But I really feel like she will get baptized sooner!! Then we went
out with our ward mission leader this week, we were trying people and we werent
really finding to much success. But we decided to go to see this lady named
Alba Hamilton and we had a great lesson, we were able to set her with a date
for baptism for Jan. 26, i too feel like she could get baptized sooner. I guess
her husband investigated or was a member we arent really sure but we are going
to go through everything and help her understand , she knows that the book of
mormon is true!!! We were able to find many investigators through harvesting,
we have 2 solid people that we need to see this week so I will let you know how
it goes, I hope that one turns out really well :)!!
So
this week I heard of something called HARVESTING from president pitt, and we
get to the door step and we tell people "we are sent here from God and we
would love to leave a blessing with you and your home and find out why god has
sent us here, then they willl invite us in and we will leave them with a prayer
and right after we go in and say a prayer we will ask them Why do you
think God has sent us here, if they preceed to ask more question
after the prayer we will answer them, if not we will do what we wanted and then
leave. But I had a pretty cool expereince the day I got asked to try this, it
was late and we knocked on this door and this lady came, I gave the
introduction and she immediately kneeled right down had no probleme with it at
all, she told us after the prayer that she had a funeral for a loved one that
had passed away that day , we offered to share more about the plan of salvation
and we are lookin forward to going back again this week, the second time this
happened a lady said I could never turn down a good prayer, and she is
interested in learning more. I feel the powera nd authority in my calling
eveytime I do this. The SPirit was so powerful on those door steps and its been
a great opportunity to bear testimony. I love HARVESTING !!
Well
I hope my dad knows how much I love him, HAPPY birthday , thank you for your
wonderful example and everything I hope you have an amazing day. ilove you
dad!!
I
love you all so much I hope you dont have to much of a SCary week, may god bless
you all and keeep you safe.
-elder bentley
