March 28, 2022

 

Subject: If someone could tell me Obama's last name that would be great  I just realized that I've been wearing the same tie every day for like 7 months straight.  I know it may sound like I'm a psychopath and it's because I am, and to prove it I'll bite right into a kit Kat without breaking you off a piece first. And I'll bite into both pieces at the same time.  Anyways ya I wash my tie maybe like twice a month, I just have to make sure it lasts the two years it's out here. I'm also having all my companions sign the back of it. So when I get home it will be a real relic.  Speaking of relics we went to go help bert out the other day. Elder Farley and I moved  his furniture because he just had his floors replaced. We put those little fur pads on the bottom of all his couches so it wouldn't scratch the floors. And then we proceeded to scratch the paint of his wall while moving them. And to add insult to injury I called him a relic. Dang sorry man. You're not a relic you're cool.  It reminds me of the time Elder Low and I were helping this brother in Smithfield move,  and I broke like 3 glass ornaments.  I could tell that guy really wanted to whoop me, but we skedaddled out of there before he could catch us.  Those were good times.  Here's another random activity that we did. Hopefully I haven't talked about this before but we went over to this older couples home that live in a lakehouse and one way or another their basement had flooded.  Seriously, people who have basements know what I'm talking about because basements just flood all the time, it's true they do. If you have a basement that hasn't flooded go downstairs right now and make sure your carpet is dry, and if it is go buy a powerball ticket. Because you're one lucky son of a gun. Ok back to the story their basement was flooded and of course it was carpet so bert being the old relic *ahem* I mean good elders quorum president that he is, he brought a shop vac to come suckety suck up all the water juice out of the rugs.  It wasn't really an ideal situation because the under carpet padding was also wet so we would have to wait for the water to soak back into the carpet from the padding. We also realized it would go faster if we walked on the carpet and soaked up all the water after we sucked it up. So the process went like so Suck suck suck then we would walk on the carpet to soak it up  squish squish squish  Then suck suck suck  Rinse and repeat you get the idea.  Anyways, it was a bumpin time.  Yeah so other than that the regoolar ol' missionary work is on the agenda.  I really think you're all cool Elder Bush 1 vacuuming the water   2 eating frosties   3 farley was on the rowing machine for a whole hour and made me take a picture  4 slep  5 farley looking like the protagonist from the karate kid 4

March 21, 2022

 This is officially the beginning of the end of my emails. 

When a missionary hits 6 months on the mission it is customary for him to stop caring about sending emails home.

What can I say things are just too exciting here to care about all your lame lives at home. 

For example just the other day I watched a guy put two things of chapstick up his nose. 

Life us riveting out here friends, there is so much to do here in the small town of Roanoke rapids. In fact there is SO much to do in this town that everybody gets so overwhelmed by the sheer amount of activities going on that they all decide to just go to Walmart or go fishing. 

Needles to say we spend a lot of time at Walmart throwing pamphlets at people. 

The Walmart people don't seem to like that. 

Here's another cool thing that happening to me and not you, 

We are teaching this lady and this man and they are both cooks. One of them used to work in the white house and cooked for Bill Clinton, and the other works at bojangles as a cook and can get us free steak biscuits whenever we want. Pretty obvious who the better cook is in that household. 

I'll give you a hint and not the answer  (it's the guy that works at bojangles)

Yeahs so they're both really cool and have read and prayed about the Book of Mormon which is a big boy step.

 

Speaking of big boy steps.....

I am now officially in the 1000lb club. This week I deadlifted 460 to bring my 940 to an even 1000 lbs. Cuz my bench is still a clean 205 and my squat is a repped out 335 so boom that adds up to 1000. Can't tell you how happy I am about that. I have been working for a long time to get that. 

I also texted a buttload of people that I did it right after I was done.

Yeah it's been a trip. Here's another little piece of information that you don't need to hear: I had to go to the hospital with Elder faussett. He had an ingrown toenail and I was on exchanges with him. It took us forever to finally get into the nurses office so we pretty much did no missionary work that day cuz we also had to drive back to Roanoke rapids to exchange back. 

Whenever I don't do the best job that I can I really feel like a worthless nut so pray for my work ethic that it won't suffer while I'm trying to stay productive. I've definitely had companions that are willing to get out of work and stuff so that's a struggle sometimes.  Don't worry were doing a lot of work I just feel like we never do enough. 

My current partner elder farley is a lot like me and wants to get stuff done so that's very good for me. 

Well sorry about not updating you guys last week but I'm sure you all suffered and care so much. 

I painted a bench too. It sits in my front room now. Pictures will follow. Not of the bench 

Love from the south, elder Bush 

1 farley in slides 

2 farley in car

3 the only canes in a 50 mile radius 

4 bert 

5 dokter 

6 I've always loved fishing 

7 fishing with the district ( i loved it) 

8 a pretty field 

March 7, 2022

What it do ladies and and goons  I've had a crazy week sorry the email gets out late but there's just so many spelling mistakes it takes my mom a week to fix them all. So actually you're getting an email from last week.  Just kidding the reason that the email is late is that I've given out so many Book of Mormons and when I hand them over I turn a corner down so they can read that chapter, but as I do, it slices a teensy tinsy paper cut on my thumb and after all the books I hand out my thumbs are both clean off. So I have to type this with my pointer fingers like a 40 yr old. Not really. The thing that actually happened is I have no internet here in the nowheresville town of Roanoke rapids which means I have to send a pigeon with my letter. I usually send it all the way to Utah which takes at least a couple hours but then my mom has to let the bird in the house AND teach it to type up my email for you guys.  Jk lol that would be ridiculous. The real reason my email doesn't get to you on time is the missiom president has to approve my emails. I know right? Crazy. And also you know whats worse? He won't even allow a single curse word in my emails. I mean come on wheres the color? So I usually type out my whole email and send it to the mission office and president has to read the WHOLE  thing to make sure there's nothing "inappropriate" in my email.  But that's not what takes long, pres. is a fast editor. He just is a germaphobe so he won't touch the keyboard. Like he won't even get close. So he has to be like a block away and read my email from his phone and tell it to his assistant who tells it to a zone leader who tells it to a district leader who tells it to a greenie who presses the voice to text button on the keyboard and tells it to the computer.  Then they can send the email out.  Anyways I baptized a homeless guy yesterday. Well technically he has a place to stay now. And a job and a bike. And a church. Which is very sweet. It's cool to see how the Lord really blesses people's lives and turns them around. Like two weeks ago this guy had walked more then 90 miles from Raleigh and was sleeping on the street. We had run into him at Uptown Roanoke rapids. Now he has quit smoking and has an income and a home and is baptized. He is really on his feet now physically and spiritually. It's great to be an instrument in the Lord's hands in helping someone.  Love you guys  Keep bean cool Bush 1 sCoNeS  2 sleep 3 zone council 4 William (He's the guy with the beard and he has a blue shirt on) 5 call me comic sans elder cuz I work with the font 6 zone council  7 Williams baptism!  8 a haiku a random lady sent me

March 1, 2022

 Hey guys so me and Elder severson plan on baptizing a homeless guy this Sunday and you're all invited. 

Also I hit my 6 months. My mission has been a solid time I reckon. 

I also am excited for st. Patrick's day which is on the 17th! It's my brother's birthday and he's gonna be 20! Now that he's an old man, make sure to send him lots of ink and quills and parchment that way he can write his will. Hopefully the yeezys go to me. 

You know, he's lived a good life. 

Lemme think of some other stuff you might find exciting 

I got to watch Chris and Jo Ann's baptism over zoom 

Super sweet. 

I went to a seafood place with a man name David and I ordered a salad. Well silly me to think that I would get a reasonable amount of food because BOOM this lady sprints over with a fetching pitchers mound full of lettuce. Seriously there was so many leaves it looked like I had raked up a pile to jump in them on a nice fall day. 

She YUMPED it right in front of me and what can I say kids I tried and tried. I guess I'll never be able to call myself a true king because i didn't finish my food. Well tbh  I barely even made a dent. It still looked like she had just given it to me. And what made matters worse was the waitress kept Strolling around to our table and making a face like "wow what a wimp, can't even finish a measly little salad." And I was forking down heaps of greens my friends. Anyways its no surprise I had to do that thing where you ask them for a box and the waitress gets to go in the back and tell all the other workers there's a full grown man out there that can't eat a salad. I took it to go and I left the box in elder Woods fridge.  So that was not really a cash money experience. 

This p day me and Elder severson made a home gym by buying some mirrors from a fleamarket (to see the gains), and then using using old flooring to spruce up our little basement area. Needles to say it looks pretty baller. 

I'll put some pics. Although there is some lighting issues that make it look like I'm 5'10" in the pictures, when I'm really 6'3" just thought I'd clarify. 

Stay fresh, cheese bags

E. Bush

1 home gym

2 see #1

3 sad Elder bush

4 Elder Bush on a bike wow

5 salad after I ate a bunch 

6 salad before 

7 lunch with bert

8 Bert's dog: Henry 

9 personal study