Berry, Benjamin T

This week was good. We had a lot of opposition, also known as the sun. Speaking of the sun, we talked to this dude, and he was just sitting outside of these apartments staring at the sun. He told us that we need to stare at the sun too, so we tried and went blind for a second. He told us that the "elites" control the world and that we were being controlled by the elites. We told him about the Book of Mormon, and he kind of clowned on us and said, "Okay, I'm going to ask Chat GPT about the Book of Mormon." We told him that Chat GPT is run by the elites, and his eyes got really big! We should have messed with him more; he was a little punk. Anyways, he winked at us and handed us back the Book of Mormon. It's times like these where I'm like, "I love Fresno." I would never have experienced this kind of stuff if I never came out here. Also, Deborah got baptized this week! She is literally a dawg! She was so awesome to teach and has an awesome testim...

This week was pretty awesome. We have been finding and teaching with the youth almost every day for the past two weeks. Most of them have their mission calls and are getting some really awesome spiritual experiences with us. We were finding in these apts with Landon and knocked on one door and got kicked out :( BUT that's not the end of the story... As soon as we got kicked out, we saw this lady walking her dogs (which attempted to bite me... it's normal), and we talked to her. Her name was Ariel and she was SUPER receptive, and we started teaching her. Anyways, we find out she's best friends with a less active recent convert, and they both came to church and now Ariel is going to get baptized. We had zone conference and it was awesome. Our president is awesome. He's so good at putting a smile on anyone's face—something I admire a lot. It's really easy to feel the Spirit when there is joy all over your face. Surround yourself with people who help you feel the Sp...

This week was good. Not going to lie, it's sometimes hard to remember everything... so everything becomes nothing. Right now the work has been good but with lots of rejection. I think the heat really gets to people (including me). The APs said me and Elder Stone can't wear our fat ties anymore, so it's a little harder to start fun convos with people. Fun fact: we had these fat ties that were called the "belly warmers" and are as wide as a Book of Mormon. A miracle we had is we spent all day praying to find a part-member family as we decided to do like 20 really well-planned stop-bys, and we were unsuccessful (in the part-member aspect), but found 3 less-actives who want to come back. Anyways, it's 8:45 p.m. at night and we're about to head home and a young couple walks past us, and I say hi and try to share a message and they said "maybe later." I stood there and I'm like, "I won't be here later :(". They kept walking... then p...