Wednesday, October 25, 2017

October 24, 2017

*NOTE:  P-Days are now on Tuesdays!



(email to Mom)

Hey Mom! 

I hope you had a good week :)

It definitely will take some getting used to haha I think it will be good for me to switch up the schedule though. It helps me keep focused. 
Also, each mission president is able to adjust the schedules for their missionaries as they would like to. President McMurray could even say that it would be okay for us to get up at 7:30instead of 6:30 if he felt inspired to. It’s actually kind of cool. I think he told us that there were a couple of missions in the states that have their P-days on Tuesdays now. 

That sounds like an amazing lesson with Katelynn and Matthew! The Spirit is the real teacher, so if the Spirit is there, those missionaries are doing something right. That’s awesome. Those are the lessons that you love to have as a missionary. They are always amazing. You know you are fulfilling your purpose and it feels good. 

This week has been insane. 

So. On Monday night, I stayed up until like 12:30 packing, because i didn't start until like 10 lol ...super bad. Then we got up at 2:30 and I went to stay with some other elders while Elder McFadden and Elder Reiswig left to go to the airport with President McMurray.  That morning, I got all our stuff together and then we started out to Rawlins. We arrived in Laramie around 2 or 3 PM that day and realized a couple of things. 

1- we didn’t have a phone
2- or a place to stay in Rawlins
3- we also didn’t know anyone
4- we also had no food at all

We ended up going shopping in Laramie so that we could get all our stuff for the next week. We grabbed lunch and then we waited in Laramie for the Zone Leaders to bring us a tablet for one of the missionaries who was going to show us how to get to our apartment in Rawlins. SO... we couldnt leave Laramie until around 7. We got to Rawlins at 8:30 or 8:40 and we met with the Ward mission leader immediately, who actually hates us for no reason. 
This entire week we have spent all our time trying to contact the members of the ward council so that we could learn where to start. This was really difficult for us to do because we didn’t have a phone so we could only stop by, hopping that they would be home. 

We are working on building ward trust back because the last missionaries who served in this ward were not very good. They would take naps on the church couches during church and stuff. So we are rebuilding relationships with the ward.  I am really excited about the fact that there is a whole bunch of missionary work to do out here though! There are lots of receptive part member families and lots of humble people out in Rawlins. It’s awesome. 

My companion is a pretty new missionary named Elder Fazar, and he is from around Richmond, Virginia. He has had a couple of rough transfers thus far, with companions that didn’t exactly do a lot of missionary work. He thus has a pretty negative view of missionary work and unfortunately life in general. So that will be fun. Hopefully that changes after a few weeks. 

Also, Rawlins is super cold. Or getting there at least. It is always always windy. Lol I am excited to see what happens with the work this week. There is so much potential out here. We have been visiting so many people that we have barely had time to tract. 

Except yesterday. We went out to this little tiny town called Wamsutter. It has approximately 100 people. Give or take a few. They only have one school, and it has 34 kids. It’s also somewhat of a ghost town. It was supposed to have a population of 500 but most of them have left. Unfortunately, we didn’t know that and so we ended up tracting for about an hour and later figured out that we had knocked on a bunch of empty homes lol you should google maps what wamsutter looks like. It’s awful. 

Anyways, we had a very eventful week. We were really happy to get a phone today, and we will hopefully have a place to stay this week! 

Love you Mom! More updates on the people we are teaching and their progress next week. We are still working on cleaning up after the previous elders 

Love, 
Elder Bush

1 comment:

  1. Sounds like you have your work cut out for you. I know you can handle it - you are very capable!

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