Hard Work + the Spirit you can accomplish much

Mom,

o how the joys of posterity bless our lives! i want little babies and little children all over me when i get home in the airport, im all about the posterity, posterity brings joy and happiness. its all about procreating. you can be sure im bringing in at least a dozen of Heavenly Fathers children into this world. congratulations to jenaye and logan, im sure there really tired and destroyed. yeesh, 27 hours of childbirth, haha makes serving a mission look easy. note that i almost didnt get out of bed today im so tired. 4 more weeks and im callin it quits! im not sharing the gospel with anyone for at least 2 years after this whole mission thing. im feeling so happy knowing that theres another little nephew running around in the family. i love this life thing! the joys of seeing a newborn baby destroy any sadness that comes from someone dying! for behold, i say unto you that posterity is where its at!

     G mama moved into the next door house? did she buy that house or is she renting it? are you joking me, how much money does she recieve from the goverment? im totally living with G mama after the mish. that house is huge for one person. já era fi.

    im starting to sway more towards living with grandma, going to community college locally and working/saving money til i can transfer my studies to byu provo. that way ill have some money saved up and i can make the jump from cali to utah easier and not work and only party while im in utah. my goal is to be married within the first year of me being back, although 21st of december still stands also haha. i still plan on studying to become a lawyer which will take forever but itll be a good investment. if i want Heavenly Father to trust me with many of His children in this world im going to need to be able to provide for all of them according to all theres and my wifes needs. i feel like my persuasion and preperation skills have gotten a lot better on the mission so i should be able to take that into effect in my work life. if the spirit and i can  persuade a pastor in the evangelical church "assembléia de Deus" to be baptized in this church with his wife after 20 somethin years firm in that apostate church, why cant we do the same in the law field. im ready to take on the world.

     this family were teaching are the best people ever! the parents stopped smoking and marked there wedding for the 31st of october. looks like were gonna have halloween baptisms! we baptized there children this week, the 14 year old victor bore his testimony after his baptism in front of everyone. i taught him how to bare his testimony before, haha i told him its kind of like a prayer cause we always end our testimonies "in the name of Jesus Christ amen." just like a prayer. so he took it literally and went in the front and started out his testimony saying, " in the name of Heavenly Father im thankful for my baptism." i covered my mouth so he couldnt see me laughing. he said only a couple lines but he said, " i believe in this gospel, and i know that my parents baptism will bless them a lot." these moments almost bring tears to a poor elders heart. i cannot begin to explain the feelings you have when people except the gospel of Jesus Christ, but when its a family that excepts it, theres no feelings to describe it. they will be my 4th family, or married couple that ive baptized. it rocks!

  its funny how we change on the mission. i was remembering the other day when i was being trained in foz do iguaçu in 118 degree summer weatherr and i remember how id think to myself ive got to tough out the sun, im not gonna walk in the shade whenever id see big walls or trees providing much shade id purposely not walk underneath so i could tough out the sun. haha i was ready to take on anything the mission could bring. this last week we were walking in 86 degree weather and i was crouching down under neath this little wall that only went up to about my mid stomach but there i was crouched down walking with my comp. trying to hide from the sun and stay in the little shade it was providing for me.

 Sister Briggs from Fresno

   im coming up on a milestone in my mission, a couple weeks i hit the top twenty baptizers of all time in our mission from all the elders ive ever seen or heard of and elder petersen can look on the computers to confirm everything in our records and this week i should hit a mark that im pretty sure ive only heard of about 10 other elders of all time hitting. if i baptize 11 more on my mission ill put myself of with the legends in our mission. ive only got 4 more weeks to do it but we took 9 to church on sunday so thats a good start. the Lord has blessed me so very much on my mission! i cant even begin to believe how our God took me, an uncapable servant and has sculpted me into the missionary that i am.  i showed up here with NO capabilities whatsoever. i couldnt even speak the language of these people.i had no idea what i was doing. sometimes i feel like breaking down and crying but i always fight it off, nows not the moment, the Lord has more to bless me with so if i cry now there will be more blessings and more tears to come! but i cannot believe the absolutely remarkable people that God has put in front of me. i cannot believe the amazing men God has given me as companions, they are my heroes. its always heroic to here people say that they would die for someone but i love all my recent converts and companions that i will live for them. i will live this gospel the rest of my life. my will is the Lords. i will always act in such a manner to be of good report my converts. the Savior has given me so much and i cant complain about anything. hard work with the spirit, is worth it. the last month has arrived. :D

   love you all!

    - Elder Bennett

Dad,

wow, thats awesome! another little bennett baby! i remembered that jenaye was supposed to have levi this week when i was making a contact with some lady and her baby on saturday and i remembered that there was a new bennett baby coming this week, i looked at the date and saw that the date had already passed and said, maybe my new nephew already came haha

   this family we are teaching is so awesome! im so excited to help them in the gospel. there a perfect ending to my mission although id like to baptize about 5 more of them! im giving it my all out here, its really taking my all to actually get out bed and do the normal things in the day like study and plan, we are so tired. love ya dad, someday ill give you about a dozen grankids. :D