Alright this week we got a lot of things going on so let's
get right to it.
This week comes with a lot of changes. First of all, Let me
explain a little about missionary things. For Missionaries, we spend six weeks
in one area and then you can be moved to another area, or you can stay where
you are depending on what the Mission President decides to do. So this week was
the end of my second transfer, or the first 12 weeks in Liberia. During the
first 12 weeks you are being trained by an older missionary (My trainer has now
been out for 9 months). So this week my training ended which meant a lot of
things. First, because Liberia is a pretty new mission, the missionaries are
very young and still don't have a ton of experience. This means they need young
missionaries to take on leadership roles early. So even though I just finished
my training on Sunday, on Wednesday I will begin to train a new missionary who
is coming from the MTC. We had a training meeting on Friday at the Mission
Office. So I will be getting a new companion, but I will be staying in the same
are for the next 12 weeks while I do his training which is good and bad of
course. I love the area, but it may have been nice to go somewhere else,
especially since my room and apartment is so small. Really I'm excited and I'm
hoping for the best. I don't know who my new companion is yet, but I know he's
American because it's just 10 Americans that are coming this time so that's
exciting!
In other news, we had 2 more baptisms this week! It was
supposed to be 3, but something happened to the third and we're still not
really sure what that reason is yet, but we will find out and I'll let you
know. The baptisms of the two were super sweet as they always are, and I
appreciate each and every one of the people that we baptize and I love them so
much.
On Saturday we had
an activity with the branch and we went
out to less active members and recent converts in an attempt to invite them
back to church. This activity was great for a lot of reasons. First of all, I
think 4 of the people that we've recently baptized were there doing the
missionary work to invite others to come to the church. This strengthened their
own testimony and helped them to find more friends in the church. It also
helped the missionaries to know where the less actives live because that has
been a problem. People don't really have addresses, you just need to know where
their house is because there are no street names or anything so you just have
to find it or have someone show it to you. After the activity, one of our
recent converts bore his testimony and that was wonderful to hear as well. So
thankful we had that activity and I hope we continue to do it. Especially since
afterwards they gave us fufu which I love now. Look up fufu on the internet it
looks weird but now it's super good.
Sunday, my companion bore his testimony at church because
he's going to a different area and he just says how he's enjoyed the people
before he goes. One of the people we taught and baptized was really sad because
she loves him a bunch, but she loves both of us really. She told us how the
gospel has changed her life. How she used to drink a lot before and now she
doesn't even have a desire to drink because of just how much she has changed.
That's really just strengthened my own testimony to know that what I'm doing is
so true and so significant. I love the work that I'm doing.
Unfortunately, that same day a fight broke out on the
football field right next to where we were eating dinner. It was a little scary
because they came over right to our area and people went into their houses and
everything, but it ended up to be okay. The people wanted to kill the ref
because he said that it was a goal and they didn't think it was a goal...
Africa is crazy.
I'm truly grateful for this gospel and the chance I have to
be in Liberia. I know my email was long this week, but it's crazy that I'm
going to train and so much is happening and has happened in the past 3 months.
I feel so blessed and look forward to this coming week!
I love to hear from all of you so don't be shy to shoot me
an email.
Love you all,
Eldah Bush
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