December 6, 2021

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I worked too hard on this subject line for you to not turn your phone around to see it. 

Anyways as promised this is an email giving you a rundown of some of my favorite people. 

I'm going to try to paint a picture of all my people because they are who I'm here for and want you to know about them. 

Sorry if this is a lame and wordy email but if you've made it this far grow up and read the rest because I promise you'll start loving the people just as I do. 

Okey so before I talk about anyone were teaching I just want to mention Anna and Janice,  who we baptized and they're both still super active and amazing. 

● Janice was first but I don't exactly give myself a ton of credit for her baptism, I did teach her but not as much as the elders before me. She's kind of a freebie. She has two dogs named Liam and Goldie and her husband's name is Jeff. She was just diagnosed with and autoimmune disease that has something to do with her thyroid but she's still super energetic and loving. She's always down to make someone a casserole or talk with the relief society for 6 hours. 

● Anna is the first person that I taught all the lessons too and she is married to one of the guys in our ward. It's weird because she's like 20 and that's only 1 year older than me. She was the first person I recited Joseph smith's vision to and it was absolutely phenomenal. We love Anna so much and she has a bunch of pets one of then is a cat that will scream at you to pet it. One time her husband Craigan threw a sandal at it when it was on the couch. It was incredible 

☆☆☆☆☆ now we have all the people I'm teaching and hopefully can change their life!!☆☆☆☆☆☆

● Bryan. This man is also 19 and like me he's a short king. I mean I'm short, like 5'10" ish but this dood is like 5'5" so he's definitely  really good at basketball. So the way we met Bryan was he came in with his gf Aimee to church and she was like " yeah this is Bryan, he's looking to get baptized" Elder Low and I looked at each other and them we did a little dance in our heads. Then we went home and did a little dance in real life. Bryan is super amazing and he loves learning. We've given him all the lessons and he especially liked the plan of salvation. That one we drew it out on the chalkboard and then had him teach us. Twas pretty legendary if I do say so myself. 

So Bryan's baptismal date is suppose do be this Saturday but there's this ward Christmas brunch, which was scheduled WAY after but apparently takes priority. No matter. The important thing is that it's happening. 

Cool fact about bryan: one time he drove a car straight through his house and into his living room. His parents were not thrilled. 

● joe!!!!! I can't forget to mention the king himself. Joe is someone that the sisters found phone tracting and he said call him every night. Joe lives in a trailer home with no drivers license but that doesn't stop him from coming to church. We've taught him pretty much everything and we're working on him quitting smoking. Guess what fools I promised this man that if he came to church he would be able to quit smoking and then the next day he said he would come to church and when he went to smoke a cigarette he started coughing and he got a headache! That happened every time he went to smoke. Then he came to church and wore a dope red shirt. He really loves the sisters because they're always so nice to him. Yesterday I gave him a blessing and it was great. He reads out of the book of mormon stories kids book because he can't see the fine print in the bom. *oof*. He calls us every night or we go over every night to read with him and he's coming along really well. He says he want to be a missionary like us someday. Hehe. Cool story about Joe is that he has a cat named catface and he has a bunch of bugs and roaches that come into his apartment and before we come over he cleans up and gets rid of all his "little friends". Sometimes he takes off his slipper during a lesson and goes and hits a bug. And then he's like....continue. and then we all laugh. It's a grand old time. We're hoping to put Joe on date to be baptized very soon! He's a kingggggg

●Johnny is a great man. He lives pretty much out in the middle of nowhere with a buttload of cats. He has some sever back and leg problems which he uses as an excuse to not come to church. This is kind of a fun thing but me and Elder Low went over there this week and pretty much called him to repentance because he's being a little bum. He always complains about his pain and obviously it must be really hard but bro you got this. Anyways we pretty much said we want you to Chang, and the Lord loves you too much for you to stay this way. So you HAVE  to come to church. We also had this man on date to be dunked but we took him off because he doesn't come to church. Sad sad. Cool stuff about Johnny is that he kind of lives in a pretty old shed more or less. Like the kind of thing you would see Shrek living in. The cool part about him is that he cleans it quite a bit so it's always nice and tidy. Weird but okay. Please pray for him!!

● Tom. 

TomTomTomTom. Tomtom Tom.

I pray for this man every night. To put it short he has a tooon of questions and for every answer you have, he has two more questions to ask you about your answer. 

He's absolutely a blast to teach which is not exactly what I expected but it's great. He does really well feeling the spirit but he always doubts himself. Missionaries have been teaching this man for like 5 years. I want to be the one to baptize him but I know I have to be patient. We're making slow progress with him but he really had a hard time with the whole "why do bad things happen to good people" A LOT. Which makes sense he's a really really cool guy but he just needs to take a leap of faith and realize he can't understand everything. Pray for Tom too. Fun stuff about Tom is that he has an absolutely HUGE comic book collection and action figures and all that in his basement. He's a big nerd but he's our nerd. 

● stuart is a 66 year old man that were definitely gonna put in the water.(He's the guy with the sword) He's a Baptist minister that has a huge testimony of the book of mormon and he's a super great cook and he feeds us pretty  much once a week. We're really good friends with him. He's come to church twice and believes everything about 90% so we just need to talk to him a little more. When I mean he's really our friend and I love him I mean it. Haha him and Joe are THE best. 

● roxanna is an old black lady we're teaching that comes to church every week she has a cat named midnight and she lives by herself. She gets a call from her niece every day and talks to her for like 3 hours every time. Roxanna is soooo sweet and loves talking to us. She always talks about the same stuff whenever we try to teach her a lesson. She's not exactly the best listener but she's definitely working on it bless her heart. Fun fact about roxanna is that she keeps it like 85° in her house so that's a grand old time too. 

Ok so that's a small part of the people we're teaching we have tons more for example:

Joseph

Caleb

Troy

Avery

Karla

Annie

Annie

Elizabeth

Kelly 

Saquaundra

Zion 

Tiera

Anitra

Harry

Pearl 

James 

Allen

Adriana.....

And much much more! The people that I've named is probably about 25% of the people we're talking too. It's so amazing to see the Lord work in people's lives. If you guys could pray for these people it would be sahweeet. 

Also sorry it's been a longy long email so maybe it will take a while to send but hopefully you'll all get it. 

Love you all exceptnoah

Elder bush