First
off, transfer news. I am being transferred out of Waterbury and I'm
finally going to go to Massachusetts. I'm serving in Waltham which is
about an hour from Boston. My new companion is named Elder Perkes. I'm
bummed to be leaving Elder Porritt but I'm excited for some change. It
was fun serving in Waterbury with Elders Tirado, Neeley, and Porritt. I've wanted to
serve in Waltham my entire mission because that's the closest I can get
to Boston until Spanish Elders are put back in. I'm still going to be
the District Leader in Waltham but it is a District with me, my
companion, Zone Leaders, and Sister Training Leaders. Elder Perkes came
out with me but he went to the Mexico MTC.
This week has been full of laughs with Elder Porritt and I. First off, Tuesday
morning Elder Porritt walks over to me and says, "hey, just so you know,
I stole some of your body cleanse powder and drank it." With a nervous
look in my eye I asked, "how much did you take?" haha, he only took a
scoop but it wrecked him pretty good! We were out knocking around 3:30
and he said he needed to go to the bathroom. We head to the church and
then go back out to knock. When we get to the street we are planning on
knocking, he says... "OK, we need to go home. You can do record inputs
while I am in the bathroom." It reminded me of the good ole days of 1
scoop fiber, 1 scoop cleanse!
We
also made a crockpot roast! I made bróccoli while Elder Porritt had the
potatoes and carrots that we cooked in the roast. It was mighty fine!!
SOOO good! Best roast I've ever had!
We
haven't had a whole lot of stuff happen this week. It's been a bummer.
All our lessons have been getting canceled and people aren't there.
We
had Zone Conference which was awesome! President Miller gave a super
cool talk on what we can do to be life long disciples. It was pretty
great! I took a lot away from it!
Interviews
were also super cool! President Miller is awesome! It'll be a bummer
when he goes home. He is one of the wisest men I've ever met.
On exchanges with Elder Phillipsen on Saturday
we had some cool things happen. We were trying to decide what we should
do for dinner. All the sudden, I had this super random thought. BDUBS!!!
So we went to Buffalo Wild Wings. While there, the waitress took our order and started asking all about us. We told her who we were and what
we did as missionaries. She said she wanted to learn more about the
church so we got her phone number. Idk if anything will come out of it,
but it was still a cool experience.
We
also went to a lesson with an investigator named O. She was too
busy to talk with us so we talked to her Brother. He asked us a ton of
questions because he knew some about our church. He asked about
polygamy, how to gain Salvation, hell and where God lives, the
difference between the Bible and the Book of Mormon. We talked a lot
about the Book of Mormon and how if he will read it, ponder it, pray
about it, and come to church, we will feel happiness and peace. He
committed to reading 3 Nephi 12 and compare it with Matthew 5. Elder
Phillipsen doesn't speak any Spanish so I was talking the entire time.
Because of that lesson, I feel a lot more confident with my Spanish.
D. got baptized yesterday.
She was the one that Elder Porritt and I found and then passed to the
English Elders. It was a great baptismal service. I had the opportunity
to interview her for her baptism. She was SOOO ready. She was
practically living everything before we found her except for drinking
coffee. She stopped when they asked her to and hasn't had any for the
last 3-4 weeks! Super cool and I'm so happy for the English Elders.
Elder Smith is being transferred to Newport, CT.
Anyway, I can't think of anything else to write. Love you all!!
Elder Bushman
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