What Goes Up Must Come Down

Well this was a week that I don't think I will soon forget. Many different experiences and different things that happened.

On Tuesday we met with a woman in our area and followed her to her home in a car. She said that she had really wanted to meet with us and that she had been searching for the missionaries for a long time. As we started going in the car I started to realize that we were leaving our area and ironically heading into my old area in Paynesville. Oops. She lives a little too far. We reached to her house a had a wonderful lesson with her and then told her that she was not actually living in our area so we would have to give her number to the other missionaries... Dang. Good thing we're all on the same team right? 

We had a really nice Zone Conference on Wednesday. We talked a lot about the spirit and the role it plays in conversion. I was also asked to talk about the experience I had on my exchange with Elder Beinbein. Saw some friends and stuff.. It was really nice :)

Friday we went on exchange with the Assistants who proselyte in town. It was good, but the best part about the exchange honestly was their apartment. It's a lot nicer than ours because new missionaries stay there the first night when they come to Liberia and stuff so it's pretty sweet. I slept in air conditioning without a mosquito net! AND they have a MICROWAVE. Oh my gosh I was in heaven. I was seriously so happy I couldn't believe it. I didn't even sleep that well but who cares the room felt incredible! I have not slept in air conditioning or in a room that cold in about 17 months or so. Don't worry guys, I might come home one day.

Saturday was fine and then Sunday was rough. I won't go into details but you know how the law of gravity works. Oh man, I didn't go to church yesterday for the first time in over a year as well. With the good always comes the bad so no big deal. I'm trying now.

Today we cleaned the apartment and stuff. If you haven't noticed, we don't do much on Mondays here because there isn't that much to do besides play football (soccer). Everything is okay though :)

Much Love! 

Elder Bush

More Respect For Mama

Sup my people,

This week was pretty good. We had our MLC and I went on exchange with Elder Beinbein which was really nice. He's from Nigeria.

So I had the idea that we should have a fireside or program thing at the church to get people more excited about the gospel. It was great! However, everyone expected me to kind of do everything because it was my idea so it was really stressful. I had to take care of almost every aspect and so I was really concerned the whole time and worried if people would like it or not. It was a success and a lot of people liked it which was great. I gained a lot of respect and admiration for my mother because I have a little better understanding of why she always was worried about church programs and everything. It sucks when everyone leaves you to do everything! So I realized that she's really great for always doing that stuff. Mine wasn't even that great. She also had a birthday and I love her.

That's about it. Today I slept a lot. Love all of you! 

Elder Bush

This gone week

Murica'! (he didn't step on it) Our 4th of July Feast

Walkin' to Book of Mormon class

You can't leave me?

Cutest child

Seitua Fam

Weeks Past Photos

My boys! (Elder Mineer and Elder Young)

The rain!

 Baptism for Bendu Taylor

 The rain Heavy o!

Quick Email

Hey my people!

Okay this week was a lot better! Things are going really well and I'm happy. I don't have much time but I will send pics I have a lot to catch up on! 

Our new Mission President came and he is really great. He's a lot different than President Carlson but I relaly like him and look forward to getting to know him. 

I'm happy and healthy and doing well.

Love you guys!

Me and some children friends

 Mission Conference Pictures! (I wore a long sleeve shirt... So weird!!)

 The three Elders that came to the Mission at the same time as me

 President and Sister Carlson

 Breakin the rules...(Hugging Sister Carlson) 

A Week To...Thank God

Well my friends, another week has passed and we tell God thank you.

You know I'm not the kind of person that likes to be fake and tell you that everything is super amazing when it's not. This week wasn't that great and I don't really want to remember too much from it honestly haha. Everything is fine though and this coming week is going to be awesome! Missions aren't always supposed to be flowers and roses in my opinion so it's not really a bad thing. If Jesus Christ can suffer for the sins of each and every person on earth, then I can deal with a rough week.

The work is a little slow in this area right now. The rain makes things more difficult for people and also us in our work. We're doing our best though and we are praying that this week we'll see some more progress.

We did get a new mission president this week though which is really exciting! His name is President Clark. We're supposed to meet with him tomorrow so I don't really know too much about him yet. I'm expecting great things though! He's from Texas. They had already been serving a mission in Ghana when they got called so I'm sure that they were pretty well prepared.

Today we celebrated the fourth of July in Thinker Village and that was super fun! There was a ton of fried chicken and corn and garlic bread and happiness there. The best part is that we took all the bones and are going to feed them to the dogs in our compound when we get back. They are going to be so happy I don't think they'll know what to do with themselves!

Besides that everything is normal and good. Should be a pretty busy week so I'm happy that we get to mix things up a little bit. Liberia is a beautiful country and the only place that I want to be right now :)

Love you all,

Elder Bush

The Rain Give Me Hard Time!

Liberians seriously hate rain so much. I don't understand because every year it is exactly the same and they still hate it and act like it has never rained in their country before. A lot of roofs are leaking and the water does really harm their homes and things, but didn't the same thing happen last year? And the year before that? And every year before that forever? Oh well.

This week had a wonderful event. We had a mission conference on Thursday where everyone in the mission came together with President and Sister Carlson for the last time. I'm just realizing that I forget to prepare the pictures so I'll have to send them next week sorry. The conference was very spiritual and very nice. We all got to hear some great contributions and talks and musical numbers that I hope I won't forget. It's sad to see them go, but I'm also really happy that they get to go home to their families and America. President Carlson told us that there are 3 missions in the world where the mission president only stays for 2 years instead of 3: Sierra Leone, Haiti, and Liberia. Why do they only serve for 2 years instead of 3? Well, you can probably come up with your own answer to that question. The power went out while we were having our conference... Anyways.

The rest of the week went pretty well. The rain makes people not to come to church. They always us that as an excuse as to why they didn't come. It's kind of ridiculous to think about that being an excuse at home but it's pretty legit here unfortunately. Sometimes they just won't go to work because they say the rain is too much. Can you imagine telling your boss that you didn't come to work because it was raining? Oh man I love it here.

The work is moving and we are trying to find and improve each and every day. I got to rest a lot today before we came to the cafe which was really good because I've been feeling really sleep deprived lately. 

That's about it for this week. June is about to end and that's pretty cool. A lot of people will be going home from this mission very soon! Almost all the missionaries here have been on their mission for over a year now so a bunch are going to start going home really soon it's going to be great :)

Hope everything is great at home I love you all :)

Elder Bush