Hello Hello, first off...I can't believe that this is the
last week of June!! Time flies. Second, how are you all? I am doing so great, I
absolutely LOVE it here! Honestly sometimes last transfer I kind of felt like I
needed to be somewhere else and had a hard time connecting to the area...now
that I've transfered here I feel so strongly that this is exactly where I'm
supposed to be. The area is exploding in work and I know that I will see so
many miracles here! The members are great, the investigators are great, and the
work is just progressing so much! It's been an incredible first week here :)
So for some stories...The first full day after I got here
Sister Porter had to go get Xrays (this is her last transfer!!) and so I hung
out with another sister who's companion also went. We woke up early and
traveled for about an hour to meet them, then me and her went back to our
apartment for a few hours and just kinda studied and hung out, and then we went
back to the meeting point.
Then on Saturday we had a full day of work and we just went
everywhere in our area contacting referrals and finding people to teach, and we
got 10 new investigators!! It was incredible! Me and Sister Porter both feel
that we're being so blessed, people are practically being thrown at us to
teach, it's so great! We also were able to give 6 new baptismal dates and so we
have high hopes for a lot of baptisms :)
Also, it's hilarious because there are 6 people in our house
and 5 are Americans! So all of us want to lose weight..(the poor single
Filipina is in training..ha But she's great!!) But my new housemate is SISTER
KALAMA!!!!! (YES I get to live with her and I'm SO excited!!! It's a blast!!)
But anyway..she has these workout videos that we all do together and it's
hilariosu! We call it our dance team :) haha So it's been so much fun.
Hopefully I'll finally lose the rice belly I got here!
And finally, we got really exciting news yesterday from the
ward! We have 2 families we're teaching that either the mom or dad is a member
and the other is wanting to be baptized, but they both need to be married
still!! It's so hard here...but the ward said they'd take care of all the
paperwork online and pay for it! SO hopefully we'll be having a double wedding
and baptism on July 26!! We're so excited about that...it'll be my first (and
probably last) wedding and I absolutely can't wait. Pray for that one :) ha So
everything is really going amazing here, we're working so hard! Hopefully we
can keep up with everything...I think Heavenly Father trusts us a lot. There
are so so so many miracles everyday :)
I love you and miss you all so much, thank you for
everything!!! Hope you're having a great week :) LOVE YOU!
Love,
Sister Benesch
PS Here are some pictures of me and Sister Porter and then
the sisters in our house ..haha It's such a blast!!
Enjoy!!
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