Anotha One

Another week finished in the coolest place on Earth (not temperature wise of course). This week had its ups and downs for sure but all in all I guess you could say that it was a decent week.

I was a little disappointed with the amount of lessons that we were able to teach this week honestly. It seemed as if every day there was something that inhibited us from teaching more people. This was the first week that I have taught less than 30 lessons so far on my mission. It wasn't that we weren't working hard, but that people weren't at home, I was throwing up, or meetings went really long. I know I shouldn't make any excuses, but I guess I just felt like the work did not move as well this week as it should have. My companion and I have already discussed how next week is going to be much better and much more productive. I'm excited for the improvements to come in this coming week. 

In other news, I'm really starting to probably get a little annoying with the way that I talk now. I've begun to pick up a lot of the phrases that Liberians say and you might laugh at first but I know it is going to get really irritating. I just find their sayings so funny. I say Heyyy mannn a lot because they say that a bunch. I'm finding that my speech is starting to be altered almost completely now. The Mission President's wife called me the other day to ask me about something and she couldn't understand me because of the way that I spoke. I thought that was hilarious. She also reminded me that I should try to teach them to speak good English... Wish me luck with that one. Most people say that I speak like a Liberian man now. So the coloqua or however you spell it is coming pretty well. Maybe I've received the gift of tongues who knows. 

I wanted to share a story from probably my favorite recent convert that he told us this week. Again it is the wonderful brother Wah. Brother Wah is like a brick wall in the sense that nothing seems like it could get between him and the church because of how committed to it he is now. Before we met Brother Wah, he was applying for a job to be a drafter for some people, meaning just like building design/concrete type thing I'm not exactly sure honestly. Anyways, this gone Monday he went to talk with the people and they offered him the job. The job was $450 US a month, which in Liberia is like a ton of money. Seriously. If you're making $450 a month you're rollin in money basically. He said that the contract that they wanted however required him to work on Sundays and even conflicted with sacrament meeting. He told them that he couldn't work on Sundays and turned them down. They even offered $50 more dollars and he still said no. I really just was so impressed and so grateful for his strength in staying away from something that he knew to be wrong. I just truly hope that if I come across a similar problem one day that I will be able to call upon the same strength that Brother Wah had that day and continues to have. He is an example to me and others as well I believe.

That was a really great experience and many other things from this week were great that I wish I could share all of them, but sadly I am not that mighty in writing as I am in speaking ;) So next week I can include some more and I promise to really try and find a way to send some pictures soon because it's hard keeping all these wonderful and crazy experiences to myself!

I love each and every one of you and I pray for all of you every day. Don't worry about Africa boy, he is enjoying life with the Lions and Elephants and things. 

Hope to talk to you all soon!

Elder Bush

 

PS I forgot to add!

I've gotten word that there's a chance another part of this mission could open up somewhat soon in a place called Maryland. Right now I guess they're trying to fix a bridge that leads there, but apparently once they do that they'll probably open up that part of the mission and I'm really hoping that I would get to be one of the first missionaries to go there because it would be super cool and we would probably baptize like 50 people a week. Maryland is like at the bottom of Liberia and really far away from anything so it would be nuts and also super cool so I'm praying that happens for real. I know it would make my mom happy :)

Okay that's all, bye bye-o!