26.

Elder Hartvigsen is Back!! Mason was SO excited to find out that Elder Hartvigsen was transferred to the offices this week. They will be living together and working in the mission offices together for the next 4 months.

6 months.

184 days, 26 weeks, 6 months, 1/4 done, and it's still not easy.

I miss him just as much, if not more now than I did on the day we said goodbye.

With that being said, it has gone by faster than I thought.

And I have grown in so many ways.

I've learned:

Missionaries are my heroes.

He is the hardest working/ most optimistic/ and loving man...ever.

He still makes me smile EVERYDAY despite being thousands of miles away.

Weekly emails are my saving grace.

Snail mail is the best mail.

I can do hard things.

25.

"I am still absolutely loving the mission!  It is so incredible!  Everyday I am just so happy with how good my life is right now!  I wake up thinking about what is the Lord going to do to bless Elder Bentley today.  And he never ceases to bless me.  It is incredible!  I love the mission!"

24.

"So with us being able to work in our area more it has been super sweet!  We got a big list together of all the less active members.  (Or the people in the ward list that we dont know) and we have been going around in our giant area knocking on the doors trying to find these people.  For the most part they have not answered or somebody else was living there…  We havent been able to find any of these non actives but it is a good priority for us so we are taking some time to do it!  We have also been contacting like crazy!  We have knocked quite a few doors and yesterday we hit success!  It was a sweet old lady.  Neli.  Yes!  We knocked the door and she yelled to us asking what we wanted from her window and we said we were the new missionaries getting to know people and then she asked us if we were jehovas witnesses and we said no that we were with the church of jesus christ of latter day saints… She didnt recognize the name until I said… “Los Mormones!”  And then she was like ohhh yea, I have heard of you guys.  What do you believe and right there we jumped on it to explain and she asked if we wanted to come in and she went and found the key to her house and let us in and we had super good lesson about Joseph Smith and the first vision and she was loving it.  That happened yesterday and today we went and got lunch from her house because we found out that she cooks lunches for people and we didnt have lunch today.  So that was super sweet!  Ahhh!  She is a golden investigator!  I left and I felt like I was in the clouds because I had missed feeling the spirit like that and doing the true missionary work of sharing the gospel!  She will progress.  I know it."