Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Wedding Day

Wow. So... 3 sisters are married. I am the lone child living the single life in Liberia. What a strange way to put it.
Anyways! Congratulations to my beautiful sister on getting married! How crazy! Almost as crazy as having 20 investigators come to church. What a blessing--what a life.
Let me tell you an interesting story. There is a man that we have been teaching and this week we found out that he is not legally married to his partner. He wants to be baptized and they have had the dowry and everything but not the certificate from the government. We told him that he needed to get it in order to be baptized. He said alright he would try and let us know how it went. Sunday we asked his sisters who are both members where he was. They told us that he had traveled to his county in Grand Gedeh so that he could tell his mother that he is going to get married. Really I can't think of a better excuse for a person to tell us that they did not come to church. I couldn't believe that he would be that quick to act because we just told him on Saturday and he left Sunday. We really are praying that he will go through with everything.
In other somehow disappointing news, one of the other Elders in the apartment told us that he'll be going home because of some things that he needs to take care of. Not only do I like him and am sad that he has to do this, but it also puts my companion and I in an awkward position because it means that his companion will join us and we will be 3 instead of 2 because the remaining missionary cannot be alone. We were already feeling pressure because of how many people we were teaching and how big our area is, and now we have to combine our areas... A little unfortunate but I know that we can handle it.
This coming week should be interesting but I look forward to the challenge and the blessings that will come from our hard work! Hope all is well and don't forget to send me some love every once in a while. Just because I've been gone for 5 months doesn't mean I died :)
Love you all!


Elder Bush

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