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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