June 27, 2023

 

Subject: What Disney princess are you? Me personally, gotta go with Shrek What can I say ladies and boys? Just an honest and hard working man. Nothing more nothing less. Yessiree Bob.  So I have a couple new people on the email list, and they are in for a fun surprise. They are about to find out that I am clinically insane. But not to worries fine folks! It's all in good jest and fun.  Here is a recap of all the stupid things i have done on my mission. (In chronological order) In the MTC I had the bright and smart idea to wear the same tie everyday for my whole entire mission. I am still going strong. The tie is going less strong.  In Smithfield I scraped paint off of an old man's countertop with a kitchen knife, during a lesson.  I also bullied my trainer and told him he was fat. He told me I looked like ichabod crane from the side. (Touché Harry, Touché) Also in my training area I wore chairs on my head constantly because they were fun and I mistook them for hats. -Picture attached In Roanoke Rapids I left a pickle on someone's porch and I watched as madness insued. That one I do not regret. The whole family was confused and scared. I will not be doing it again because part of the repentance process is to forsake your sins. That sin and experience has been left on the alter.  Also Roanoke Rapids I did increasingly heavier and heavier deadlifts until I found my limit. To be honest it was not worth it.  A did a few more things in Roanoke Rapids but I will leave them out of the email because they were too stupid to share. My next area was Durham. I was not any less stupid. I was going through a pretty rough time in durham and I dealt with it by not talking to my companion and making terrible jokes. I also made knives with a member. That last part I do not regret because it was super dope.  I got transferred to west fayetville after that where I hit my year mark and was reunited with my trainer. He wasn't my companion instead he was my zone leader. We hung out all the time, it was great. Some stupid stuff I did included: making a goal with my companion to bike every day of the transfer, and making a pumpkin scarecrow on Halloween that did a really good job of not only scaring the crows away but scaring the landlord into making us move houses. We moved from a house to a small one-bedroom apartment. The members were super cool there tho. One more thing I did right before i left fayetville was I slipped and fell on some ice right outside a members home and cut my hand clean in half basically. Then we went inside and had a gingerbread house competition. (I won) sorry to the Jeffersons daughter who totally thought she was gonna win. It's ok tho because she got a parrot for Christmas.  Next I went to Creedmoor. Creedmoor is a little bit north of Raleigh. We played a bunch of Disc golf and now I'm incredibly good. So good in fact, that I'm going to challenge Tiago (Elder Mello) at it when I get home. Apparently he is cracked at it. Anyways yeah so Creedmoor was grand. And I helped baptized a guy with one leg. That wasn't stupid but it was cool to mention. I also helped fix a dirt bike while I was there with some other elders. First time fixing one of those things. The last stupid thing I did in Creedmoor was I tried muscle cupping for the first time, and basically what that is, is you suction cup little jars or cups to your back or chest or wherever you need extra circulation and then boom. Stuff happens. I'm not going to pretend that i know what it does or that it's even helpful at all, but my dad is a doctor so you can trust me. I also totally burnt myself with the jars because I held the lighter too long on one of them. It was a fun experience, but stupid.  And now Greenvile. Or G vegas, as the kids say. Greenville is lit, and I've already done a bunch of stupid stuff here.  I had a district council where all we did was eat cereal, and I also stacked a bunch of boxes of granola bars at a food bank until the supervisor yelled at me. I also juggled melons at the same place and I gave president Maurer a pink tie so he could remember me. -Another thing that I definitely don't regret, but it IS a little weird hehe. So yeah I think I've made my mark here in North Carolina. And the average IQ for a North Carolinian has dropped significantly since I have been here.  I think my work here is done haha.   I actually do have a lot more work to do, atm we have 3 people on date and they need a lot more preparation. Things are popping off here in g vegas!  I will attach a bunch of pictures make sure you only look at the picture and don't read the email because it's long and boring  E. BUSH  Also my brother came to visit last week  And it was good. At least it wasn't my cousin

June 19, 2023

 

I have been a sick man this week. It all started when I drank the mud puddle water.

I have learned my lesson. But don't worry about your boy. It was only a sore throat at first, and then my nose was stuffed and also runny at the same time, which has always confused me. But after a few days of that, I've gotten a little better. I think I'm on the better end of it now. 

But enough about me, let's talk about who I'm teaching. First off is this super stellar guy named Luis. He is a good man. He is getting baptized July 1st. He has been coming to church for the past 5 weeks. He has a really cool story and his family is cool too. 

Next is Macy, she is a girl that has been waiting to get baptized for years and years but her parents didn't allow it. She finally got her parents permission and she is super excited about it. It is cool to be on this end of her journey. It has been super hard for her but she is a trooper

 

I'm teaching a bunch more people but the only other person I'll mention is Judy. Judy has been taught by the missionaries in Utah Germany. The elders before me actually just ran into her while knocking so that's pretty cool. But now that we are seriously teaching her and she has been settling goals and making plans to become a member things are getting pretty stressful and hard for her so make sure to pray for her and definitely Macy and Luis too! 

I am not going to lie to yall I am excited to go home and see my family. I have around 12 weeks left and I'm going to try my best to squeeze every last minute out of them. I feel like sometimes I get lazy so I really need some help and prayers. If anyone has any anti lazy advice: drop it on me! 

Also I have been working out a little again, I may have told yall that in Creedmoor I worked out a lot my last transfer but when I got to Greenville I didn't have a routine so I was just a bum. Thankfully I'm getting on top of it again and maybe I'll have a muscles for the summer. That is if I can control my diet. I will keep yall updated on that haha. That's honestly the biggest challenge about fitness. 

I don't have any stories that I'm going to share, I feel like a lot of things have happened but they aren't grand enough to share with yall. 

But hey, maybe next week. 

Love Elder Bush

Pics: Jonas and Kelsey came and visited me, and we played disc golf. My companion (elder potter) is good. Luis, the bearded fellow in the backwards cap, is a fun guy.