Monday, August 8, 2016

Answer Me These Questions THREE

What up from the land of three missionaries. Strange but great!
The work this week went pretty well. We adjusted to having three missionaries pretty quickly I think and got everything kind of figured out. Since we were combined this week, our numbers and everything was combined so we had like 24 investigators come to church this week which sounds and looks pretty good and also feels pretty great.
This week we baptized 3 more people. Sister Theresa and her son Deyee and another boy named Kolako. I was so happy to see them so excited to become members of the church. Theresa and her son even bore their testimonies on Sunday in church which was sweet.
So two quick stories. First, after church on Sunday there was a crazy old man that was following us all over. First, he came up to us, bowed and saluted us. But then! He continued to follow us and kept shouting something about the book of D&C. Pretty sweet. Maybe we'll get him to come to church or something.
Okay also, there is a movie called Freetown about some missionaries who were in Liberia during the time of the war and their crazy adventure to get to Sierra Leone where they would be safe. Somehow the other Elders in the apartment found that movie and so we watched it last night because we have to go to our apartment early. The movie ironically was filmed in Ghana because Liberia was going through another crisis at the time of filming (Ebola). Anyways, we watched it and there were some inaccuracies, especially in the way that they spoke but they mentioned Paynesville a bunch of times which is the area in which I'm serving.
NOW, there is one scene in the movie where they are asking the people if they are Krahn because these rebels want to kill all the Krahn people. So they ask this woman if she is Krahn and she says yup and they shoot her. HOWEVER, one of the guys who was there has a job in the mission and he talked to us about it. He said, that's not what happened. What really happened was that the woman was pregnant and two guys were arguing over whether the baby was a boy or a girl. So to settle things they slit her throat and then her stomach to see. Not sure who was right but there's the real story for ya. Oh Africa.
Life is great here even though still no water so more drawing from the well. I love it :) Honestly I can't complain at all.
Appreciate all the love this week, you guys are the best :)
Elder Bush

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