This week again was the same as last!
Love you much,
Elder Bushman
(Very Funny, Elder. He sent another email later as below...)
Hey Fam!!
How
is everything going! I hope all is well. This week was good and super
fast! I honestly can't really believe I am 1/4 of the way through my
mission. I always thought that I would never leave on my mission. I
left. I thought I would never leave the MTC. I left. I thought I would
never get to the field. I did. I thought I would never get out of
training. I did. I thought I would never make it to the 6 month mark. I
have. I feel like I will never learn Spanish! I won't... That is
basically where I am right now!!
This
week was great. We finally got back in touch with Waddy. His mom just
works a ton because her husband is still in the DR. He is coming to
American though in March so they want to wait until he is here for him
to be baptized. We are planning on continually going to teach him and
then re-extend a baptism date at the end of February. We have an
appointment to teach him on Tuesday, tomorrow, so we are excited about that! We are hoping that his dad will want to be baptized when he gets here as well.
The
Vogel dinners are going to be different from now on. A new rule stating
that there cannot be 4 Elders at dinner appointments have now come into
play. Since we are a group and the English ward provides over our group,
we can eat with both Hispanic members and English members. Just not all
at the same time. We now have to have 1 companionship go at 6 and the
other companionship go at 7:30. Its not too bad, just weird.
On Wednesday
we had a big day of nothing!! Whoo.. So we called tons of people and
finally got some appointments set up. We also received a media referral.
When we went over her husband answered the door and said that he didn't
want the Bible because it was a Mormon Bible. We explained that it was
the King James version, just its a "Mormon" Bible because it is the one
we use. He was chill after that. We also contacted a lady named Hazel.
She was playing one of my favorite Hispanic songs, "Tu Estas Aqui" by
Jesus Adrian Romero. We knocked on her door, taught the Restoration, and
picked her up as a new investigator!! I basically have that whole song
memorized so it was cool to hear coming from her house.
Later
in the week we went back to Hazel's house to get back in contact with
her but she wasn't home. The floor below was playing super loud Hispanic
music so of course, we knocked the house. A girl named Cindy opened the
door and we also picked her up as an investigator. We are working on
getting back in touch with all of them.
One
interesting thing about mission life is this: Elders only have female
investigators. Sisters only have Men investigators. I don't know why
this is but it is... In Waterbury, our investigators are, Ashley, Tania
(got Baptized), Mary, Cindy, Hazel, Isabel, Marcel, Deborah, Sierra,
Niyannah, and Waddy. Waddy is male but he is also 11 so we still have to
get a male member to go over with us. This is THE most frustrating
aspect of missionary work. Anyway...
The
English Elders were door knocking and found a Hispanic woman who doesn't
speak any English, so they called us and had us set up an appointment
over the phone. I talked with this woman and set up the appointment, got
her info, and had a conversation completely by myself. Was I proud??
Yes!! Her name is Rosa and she is super interested. Again, Female. We
haven't been able to get a guy to come with us yet.
We
had Interviews with President Miller this week. Again, super short
interview but we had a training given by the AP's prior to the
interviews. The training was involving Smartphones. Supposedly, we are
supposed to get smartphones soon. Whether or not this actually happens, I
have no idea. But it is looking more and more like it. I personally do
not want any technology in the field. It is too much crap to worry
about. I would rather just go about Missionary work like we have for
centuries!
Love you all,
Elder Bushman
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