Alright this week was full of surprises and sweet sweet
things so buckle up.
First of all Happy Birthday to my beautiful little niece who
turned 1 yesterday! Miss that cute chubby little thing.
Okay so lets start with Tuesday. Tuesday we went to the
mission office because one of the people that we're teaching needed a special
interview with mission president. A few things happened while we were there.
First off, I got to weigh myself. Now, before I left I had gained a little
weight since I knew that I was going to Africa so I got up to about 205 maybe
even 210 pounds. Yeah, fatty right? Well on Tuesday I found out that after two
months in Africa I now weigh 180 pounds. Sweet right? They should make a
Biggest Loser Africa Edition. The only problem would be that they would need to
take Doxy so they wouldn't get malaria, sleep under mosquito nets, and probably
die of heat exhaustion but besides that it's a really god idea honestly. Next,
I got a package from my sweet sweet mother who sent me some treats and I even
got a little surprise thing that has been great and I will use on Mother's Day!
So that was really cool and then on Wednesday we had Zone
Conference. There were only two zones at zone conference because the mission is
expanding but it was still fun and of course I enjoyed it and they have some
nice food and drinks for us.
After that I think it was a pretty normal week until today
when we went to a place called Red Light to buy some things. Red Light is just
a place where a bunch of people come to sell all kinds of things from food to
watches to jerseys to really anything that you can think of. If you look hard
enough, you can find pretty much anything there and its usually pretty cheap if
you bargain and make them realize you've been in Liberia for a little while and
won't pay too much for some stuff. Today I found G2 Pilot pens which made me
super surprised but also really happy because I was running out and they're my
favorite pen so I bought a bunch. There is a kinds of cool stuff there.
Another thing I keep meaning to mention is the jerseys that
I see, mainly the basketball jerseys is what I find interesting. I've seen
people wearing Allen Iverson, Kevin Love, Kevin Durant on the SuperSonics,
Steve Kerr, and plenty more. Just super weird and random jerseys that I really
wish that I could find.
Anyways, we didn't get to teach as many lessons this week
because we had a lot of things going on but I'm actually really happy with the
progress we're making. We had a lot of people come to church this week and
there were two particular people that we just started talking to that I'm really
excited about.
I'm sorry that I didn't share many spiritual experiences
this week but I promise we had some and we taught a good amount of
people.
There is one thing that I wanted to share though from a
lesson we taught the other day to get an idea of how some people in Liberia
are. We were teaching a man and talking about God. We asked if God and Jesus
Christ are the same person (we believe that they are two separate beings; see
Matthew 3:16-17 and plenty other verses in the Bible). He answered that he
thought they were one person. My companion began to say that Jesus Christ and
Heavenly Father are actually two very different beings, but before he could
finish the man said, "Okay correction, no problem." I don't know why
but it was just so funny to me. They are very accepting of the gospel at times
which is really sweet.
So plenty of things to share and say but that's all for this
week! Hope you are enjoying the month of May because April went by fast!
Oh, also I'll be videoing home with my family on Mother's
Day probably around 6 or 7 in the morning California time so if you want to
talk to me I'm sure you could go there early in the morning and see me!
Love you all, talk to you soon!
I guess no pictures again this week but I'm going to try
next week!
Elder Bush
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