I've had the wonderful opportunity to serve in the
Massachusetts Boston Mission. I will forever be grateful for the people
I've met here. I honestly, without a doubt, can say that my life has
been changed. That sounds so cliche and every missionary says that but
it's true. You learn, grow, struggle, laugh, and become the person God
wants you to be while serving. Spiritual things never appealed much to
me before the mission. I now can say that I have a testimony of the
reality of my Savior Jesus Christ. He died for me. He suffered for me.
He bled for me. He rose again for me. I am grateful and am forever
indebted to Him for that. I know what it's like to feel guilty for
mistakes. I also know of the sweetness of repentance and change. God is
good. God is merciful. God is just. I know that to be true. I honestly
don't know if anybody but my mother reads these letters but I encourage
everyone to serve a mission. Whether you are 18 or 76 the mission is the
place to be! Dedicating time to God is an incredible experience!
This week has been really really good! We had a great
lesson with R. and O. We had some members there with us that
shared wonderful testimonies! Both of them served missions and they were
wonderful at helping us teach. We started the lesson with them just
talking. All missionaries understand that when members just talk and get
to know the people we are teaching, missionary life is good! Lol! They
talked about work and parenting and what they have planned for the
future, etc. It was great! We taught them the Gospel of Jesus Christ and
it went super well. R. told us that she had looked up baptism in the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and she said that she
really like how we don't baptized kids until they are 8 and can choose.
When we invited her to be baptized she said yes and that she was in
complete agreement with the necessity of baptism. O. was hesitant and
didn't say anything. The member said if he wanted to actually know if
it's true he needs to read, pray, and come to church. It was a great
lesson and our members helped a ton!
We had another great lesson with R. and V. and
their family. They were able to come for a chapel tour and we had a
Chilean family with us. We showed them the church and they thought it
was great and really want to come. The only problem is he works. We are
trying to figure out a way to get the wife and kids there while the
husband works to get Sundays off. For right now that hasn't happened but
we are trying.
We also started an English Class and will have out first
class On Tuesday at 7:30 pm. R. says he really wants to come to it
so we are excited for that! We got a random call from somebody and
started asking us about it. He said he was going to bring his girlfriend
because he wants to learn. Hopefully we can have a pretty good turnout
of people and try to start finding/teaching people that way.
We also were able to teach M. this week. She still
has trouble reading in the Book of Mormon and doesn't understand much of
it. She also isn't coming to church so we will have to figure out what
to do with that.
We had some great member visits this week and are trying to help them share the Gospel. Nothing much to report with that yet!
Well this week has been great! I'm doing well! I'm happy and excited! I'm excited to see you all this week!
Love,
Elder Bushman
