Year 1, Week 31: They Literally Yelled, Yes!

This week was pretty long. With Elder Tirado moving to a new area, he basically had to pack up 6 months of stuff and move it. Most of the week from Friday when we found out he was leaving to Wednesday when he left was him packing, visiting members, and stuff like that. We saw so many members and had soooo much food. We had such a long week.

Once Elder Tirado left, we drove to Boston with Elder Porter and Elder Perkes. I came in with Elder Perkes and Elder Porter was with Elder Eaton when I was in Hartford. That was a fun time! I went to the mission home and picked up Elder Neeley. We drove the 2 hours and 15 minutes back to Waterbury and got there around 8. We had dinner and just went to bed.

 

Being a trainer? I literally don't even feel like I am training someone. I think that is just because he is so ready to go. I literally don't even have to tell him that he needs to talk or say, "Alright, its your turn to knock this door." he just does it! So that's super nice! He went to a year of college first so he is pretty adjusted to everything so far. Wednesday was good. I was pretty nervous. Basically, President Miller was like, "So, you are all their first companions. Don't mess them up." Obviously, it was was nicer and he said he trusts us and everything, but I was a little nervous. My comp is Elder Neeley. He is from Washington St. He went to BYU for a year. Works hard and ready to get things done!!

 

We started and just got straight to work. We picked up 2 investigators by the name of M. and O. We taught them the Restoration in Spanish. When we invited them to read the Book of Mormon and pray to know if it was true, they literally yelled yes. I am not even joking. There voices raised and they were like, Claro! That was a super cool experience. We will be going over in the next couple of days to follow up with them. We also met a woman named J. She was talking on the phone and smoking at the same time. We went up to her and just started talking to her and basically made her hang up her phone call so she could talk to us. We started telling her of our unique message and she asked this question. "Literally, there is one God. Why is there so many churches?" we quickly explained the apostasy and why there are tons of churches. She said that it made a lot of sense. She said, "My next question is, what is the purpose of this life?" We quickly flipped open in the Book of Mormon to Alma 34:32 and explained that the purpose of our life is to meet God and that through the Atonement of Jesus Christ she will be able to become clean so she can live in the presence of God again. She said that she had never heard an actual answer to her question. We told her that we can literally answer any question she has and set up another time to pass by. That was a super cool experience.

We met another woman named Eliza. We taught her about the Book of Mormon and what our church is. We set up a time to come back and talk with her. We have met so many people the last couple of days who have been ready and willing go hear about the Gospel. We basically have tons of people scheduled all throughout next week. 

Like Dad asked me, I will record an audio recording about how the mission uses technology different than most people use it at home. 

Love you all!! I will record some more Audio for next week

Elder Bushman

 

Saying Farewell to Elder Tirado

Welcome, Elder Neeley

Writing Home in the Library with the DL's