Little Answers to Prayers

While I was prepping for English on an exchange with a Mongolian sister missionary this week, she was doing a crossword puzzle and she couldn't figure out this one and why it wouldn't fix in the boxes. The riddle was "Something you wear instead of pants on a warm summer day"... "UNDERWEAR! But it doesn't fit in the boxes!!!", but once I explain to her what underwear was she understood that it wasn't the word underwear :P we both got a kick out of it (:

Wednesday we were waiting for new member this week for one of our lessons and these girls were playing volleyball, so I made some friends and played volleyball for a whole 10 minutes! (:

We met with investigator this week and went we went to her father's house and you could feel the complete difference and just could feel the spirit when going into his house it was too cool (: 

Yesterday we were going to meet at a member's house but I hadn't been to their house since about December. Then when we got to the right bus stop I couldn't remember which way to go, I said a little prayer in my head to be able to recognize the way when I saw it, as we walked to the left I felt like we should go right, so we went the other way and I started to get scared that I couldn't remember, we walked for another few minutes, and then we saw a building from the back and I recognized it immediately I still wasn't sure 100 % how to get there but I knew it was the building even though I hadn't seen it from the back before! #littleAnswerstoprayers

We taught a lesson on the restoration and watched the restoration video. After it was over I asked what everybody liked, The little boy I answered "I liked when Joseph Smith went to the grove and prayed and two missionaries came to him", and then his mom corrected him, "you mean God and Jesus Christ came right?" and he goes "oh yeah!" haha #ilikewhenmissionariescomeovertoo!

Yeah that was our week! #good days!

Sister Bennett (:

P-day = no food

Sister Guild and me

Mongolian sunset and me

Magnificent Mongolian missionary life!

HELLO! 

So I pretty much have the best investigators and the best companion! What else could someone ask for right?! I could almost end my email right there. ha! but I wont. 

We got in a taxi on Tuesday and it was a mom and a little girl. The little girl turned around in her seat and kind of stared at us for a little bit. 

Then she asked "where are you from?" 

and we told her "how about you guess?" and she goes, "hmmm KOREA!"

 "nope." 

"hmm China!" 

"nope"

"ENGLAND"

 "nope but we speak english"

That really stumped her. 

"You're from NOWHERE!"

"hahaha nope we are from America!"

It was too cute! (:

Then we asked this same 7 year old girl what her favorite color was and she said "I like blue!...but I don't like three colors. Do you want to know what those colors are?"

"sure!"

"I dont like white, red and Black! I don't like white because its the color of ghosts, I don't like red cause its in a lot of scary movies, and I don't like black because its the color of the Devil!" Her Mom and us all laughed! it was too cute! #cutegirlsintaxis

I made the best tsuivan this week!! Unfortunately I still cannot make the noodles... so we bought those from the store! :P

We met with an investigator and read the Book of Mormon with her before starting the lesson, and we read about Nephi building a boat. Then we taught the lesson on pray often and study the scriptures and she at the end of something asked if she could add something, and she added that we are all building a boat to get to heaven just like nephi was building a boat! And in order to build a good boat we have to read our scriptures and pray everyday! It was the best connection! #Buildingaboattogettoheaven

We also had an investigator tell us they read the Book of Mormon everyday this week!! That is a missionaries dream come true!

Funny moments in my English class:

We were singing what a wonderful world and theres a part where the song goes, "What their really saying is I love you." and one of my students said right after saying that said "oh me?!" (:

On of my English students is trying to start a trend for the shortening of Good Job to instead saying GJ! Catch the Gj trend!

Lastly theres a student who is 6 and I told the class to read this story with their partner but he didn't have a partner. So he started telling his imaginary partner! "Hey read!.... hey! read.... hey read!..." while pretending to push his imaginary partner! haha

Love them!

Here's the thing I learned this week everything works better when you just do what God would have you do! That's something I'll be learning for the rest of my life right?! But Really I love being a missionary! I wouldn't take this decision back for the world!

Sister Bennett

Everyday can be Magnificent!

This week was good! Went on an exchange with Sister Olson! Man she is great and super smiley! It just reminded me of Elder Hollands talk "everyday can be magnificent" No but really that talk from Elder Holland spoke to my soul! I'm grateful that we have living prophets and apostles who gain revelation for us. (:

I also really loved President Monson's talk about choices! and how it matters which path we take because we know where our end goal is!

Had a lesson with our Mission president last night it was a little never racking at first but once I remember faith was the opposite of fear that went away and then it ended up being a great lesson! I feel like I learned just as much as the investigators! I'm pretty luck to have such a great mission president!

My companion tried buuz and tsuivan this week! YUM!

Finished the Book of Mormon for the second time on my mission this week! (: I love that book (: and I also love being a missionary. It's really great and that opportunity to share the gospel with people so often is pretty great, I'm pretty lucky I have to say!

MY COMPANION IS SUPER GREAT I LOVE HER LOTS! (: Shout out to Sister Guild!

Yeah that was this week! Till next week have a magnificent week!

Sister Bennett

BROTHER DON'T DRINK THAT!

This week we were locked out of our apartment for 3 hours. Then a Man with a mullet came to save the day. He pretty much beat up our lock system, took it out and put a new one in. Thanks mullet man!

My companion and I love talking to taxi drivers especially the nice ones, we make a lot of friends! We were talking to a man in a taxi this week and he told us he broke up with his wife coming up on a month now and then he told us that because of that he had starting drinking. So I flat out told him "brother don't drink alcohol, it's bad stuff!" and let's be real we all know alcohol is bad stuff but He was super nice! I hope it all works out and that he stops drinking! (:

Shared a really cool lesson about The brother of Jared and how we can receive revelation with an investigator this week!  (:

This week I have been thoroughly complimented that my Mongolian has improved. Not sure if that's cause I talk more now, or if it really has improved :P But maybe its both right? :D

Sister Wilkins and I were on an exchange this week and we were trying to figure out where this investigator lives, his address was on the 24 gydamj or street in the ger districts. We find the 25th gydamj but going to the left it only was going up so we went the other way and there were no streets that way as far as we walked so we decided to ask this group of little old ladies and they pointed us back to the direction we just came and were telling us that the 24 gydamj was where the 26th gydamj was. but they led us over to the 26 th gydamj and we causally tried to talk to them and they told us their names were the grandmas! :P haha then we got closer and they sent us towards it. We had already checked and as we are pretty close we could see it said 26th so as we are almost there we ask a 17 year old girl (very slyly too cause these grandmas are walking behind us just only slower) and the 17 year old girl told us the same thing!! So since these grandmas were following us we just decided to walk all the way down the gydamj because we aren't sure how to tell them that it said 26th... haha (: we eventually found the 24th gydamj it was no where near where we were! :P

My companion shared a cool quote this week that said, "Live a life worth emulating." so yeah we should probably all do that! (:

Then taught plenty of English WOo! that was my week!

I hope you all learned something awesome at conference and that you apply all that goodness! We get to watch it this weekend! :D stoked and Yup that's all.

Sister Bennett (:

That's when I pretended to not understand what he had just said...

My and my companion moved to a new apartment this week we have a sweet camel rug on our way out the door every morning! #perks 

Sweet camel rug!

Said Goodbye to Maralmaa on Tuesday! ):

I was talking to a taxi man this week. He told us all about his life and how he is a animal doctor and has two daughters and has family out in the countryside. He even had us look through pictures on his phone of the countryside since I told him i havent been yet. He said you can come with me if you write down my number I go all the time!! ....that's when I pretended to not understand what he had just said. haha but he was way nice and I'd probably take up his offer if I weren't a missionary. :P

Then Saturday we had a baptism with two investigators being baptized! One of them shared her testimony on how she wanted to live with her Heavenly Father again. Isn't that what this life is about, learning and striving to live with Him again?! It was just awesome! (:

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So I had a cold hit me hard on Saturday and then I taught English for 6 hours and I still had a little bit of a voice after that. But On Sunday MY VOICE WAS COMPLETELY GONE. So then when I'm trying to talk to people I'm like whispering at them as loud as I can. The funniest thing though is there was a member who whispered back and I think he just thought I was being quiet cause we are at church. Which hey that's a pretty good reason!

So life's pretty good. I only sound like a man with a cough now so that's much better than whispering at people! I like being a missionary. Its pretty great and I got a pretty great companion too! #cantgetmuchbetter!

Sister Bennett

A little bit of my heart will go to America tomorrow

HELLO WORLD!!

Well Solongoo's baptism is this week on Saturday! super exciting!

Found hot dogs this week! I had to almost beg my companion but it was probably the best decision we made this past week! (:

um we found hot dogs I'm pretty sure it was the best thing ever...

We  met with a less active this week, and she normally has been pretty busy but we have been able to meet with her about 1 time a month cause that's all she has time for. This past time in her closing prayer she mention she was grateful she felt that her heart was softening! The spirit works in awesome ways! (: sometimes fast and sometimes slow but if we listen he always helps us out!

So transfers are out and I'm now with sister Guild! but still in Sansar thank goodness! (:

We also have another little golden investigator who goes to seminary and has come to church now 4 or 5 times in a row and hasn't been able to meet with us except once. Now this week we were able to meet with her, and we taught about prophets, Jesus Christ and apostasy and then the grand finale Restoration! and she said after the lesson, that she had always wondered how the priesthood went from Jesus Christ to us having it now. #meetwiththemissionaries #theycanhelpyou

Maralmaa is leaving tomorrow WE HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FOR 4 MONTHS! That's almost a 4th of my mission! I'm pretty sure a little bit of my heart will go to America tomorrow at 4 am! :P 

Anyways things are good! & being a missionary is awesome! (:

That's all for now.

Sister Bennett! (:

PS YOU CAN GO OUTSIDE AND NOT FREEZE! I wear a light jacket now and it's the most beautiful thing of my life! I'm pretty sure I was smiling all day last Tuesday cause I just wore a light jacket outside!

Welcome to Mongolia sunset!

My new companion is wearing burgundy and glasses! Isn't she cute?!

The 1 Hour Challenge

On Monday we went to a museum. We were looking at a picture and this cute girl in a little fancy dress came up raised her arms to try and get it so we couldn't see the picture :P So then we just started talking to her, I told her "your dress is really cute" and I used the Russian word for dress (dress=plaje, which is pretty commonly known) and she said NO its a dashinz. (dashinz=dress in Mongolian) and so I apologized "oh sorry I meant dashinz" and she said, "she said no say dashinz!!" well nonetheless don't pick fights with little girls in cute dresses because she won!

My companion pointed to this 2 year old boy's stomach and said whats that? and then to his hand and cheek. and he told inside that there was a beast!! #toocute

One of our investigators is prepared for baptism but the best part is you could see it in her eyes. That she has changed and come unto Christ little by little and that you can see it in her eyes!

Random thing I miss for the week is root beer! There isn't any root beer here :P 

At church I learned there are 168 hours in a week? and even if we slept for 9 hours every night we still have 105 hours in a week and then the speaker mentioned How many of those hours do we give to God? through going to church, reading scriptures, prayers,serving, going to the temple? So here's my challenge for the week take an hour and give it God this week. Whether you break it up and do a little something everyday, or set aside an hour all together. I know that through doing little things God without fail has to bless us! So ready set GO! #THE1hourchallenge

Missionary life is good! I'm grateful for the opportunity I get to give God my time! I hope I give it the best I can!

Sister Bennett