tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36680481303395686602024-02-07T18:52:19.555-08:00Elder Hayden Bush Mexico, Queretaro Mission"Rejoice, O my heart, and cry unto the Lord, and say: O Lord, I will praise thee forever; yea, my soul will rejoice in thee, my God, and the rock of my salvation." 2Nephi 4:30 hayden.bush@myldsmail.netLorraine Bushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10016498823755017271noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668048130339568660.post-47039772153952319032017-10-23T13:04:00.000-07:002018-12-06T10:57:23.370-08:00A better week!<div class="MsoNormal">
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Hey Mom, this week was pretty good. Still a little hard, it felt like everyone
canceled on us. But it's ok. I have been studying a lot. I have learned a lot of things. I feel powerful, hahaha but that's not the secret to being a
missionary. Being a missionary is about getting people to get their own
testimony about the Book of Mormon. Like Jesus says to Pedro, "<span class="m-3321888980850965187m1604095880390749986gmail-chunk"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; padding: 0in;"><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180008" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">Blessed </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180009" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">art </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180010" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">thou, </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180011" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">Simon </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180012" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">Bar-jona</span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180013" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">: </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180014" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">for </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180015" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">flesh </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180016" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">and </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180017" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">blood </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180018" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">hath </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180019" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);"><wbr></wbr>not </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180020" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">revealed</span></span></span><span class="m-3321888980850965187m1604095880390749986gmail-donthighlight"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; padding: 0in;"><span style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);"> </span></span></span><span class="m-3321888980850965187m1604095880390749986gmail-chunk"><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180021" style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; padding: 0in;"><span style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">it</span></span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180022" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);"> unto </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180023" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">thee, </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180024" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">but<wbr></wbr> </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180025" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">my </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180026" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">Father </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180027" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">which </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180028" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">is </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180029" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">in </span><span id="m_-3321888980850965187m_1604095880390749986gmail-chunk180030" style="background: rgba(255,255,255,0.01);">heaven.<wbr></wbr>"</span></span></span></div>
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without works is dead." So we have to ask Him, and read, and live His
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contacting a lot this week. It has been great to see my improvement in that. In
the beginning it was really hard for me, but now I would say that it
is a strength. Just like we read in Ether 12, we have to show our faith and
work hard, and through Christ our weaknesses will become strengths. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Lorraine Bushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10016498823755017271noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668048130339568660.post-79311424102065432882017-10-22T14:14:00.001-07:002017-10-22T14:14:14.048-07:00Weird waterfalls and lifted spirits<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Monday, October 2, 2017</span><br />
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He didn't have anything to report today. His spirits were kind of low. They just had transfers and he is staying in the same area for a third time. He has loved it there and has said how pretty it is. It is really touristy so baptisms are few and far between. However, he has had 2 baptisms. He has worked so hard and ran out of creativity and is tired. But he is always so positive and said he will push forward and work hard.<br />
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This week was much better. We got some good stuff done and we found two new investigators. They are awesome and are going to progress very well. It really lifted my spirits. We also had a good lesson the F. It was weird, we were teaching him and couldn't quite explain what we were teaching very well. We were trying to teach them families are eternal so that they can think about getting married and sealed to their family. We weren't doing a very good job but then we calmed down and explained it well. It was interesting me and Monti looked at each other and said a silent prayer in our hearts and then Monti gave an awesome example that helped us explain everything. <br />
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One of our investigators is named C and she was a reference from the Sister missionaries. She is super interested and we are going to work hard with her. The other one is named E. She showed up to church by herself and we had an awesome lesson with her in the gardens of the church. The spirit was so strong. Her almost husband is a member and so we talked about them being together forever.<br />
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branch. It's awesome. We visited lots of people. We have a family with a baptism date and
they are doing good. They are interesting but they are cool. M is the name
of the dad. He is funny and likes Pink Floyd haha. They all talk super fast so
when we are teaching it gets kind of out of hand. It's funny haha. Elder Beus is President's new 2nd Counselo. He got here two weeks ago. He lives in Leon but he and his wife come to Guanajauto a lot and every Sunday. They work with us a lot and I love them, they are awesome. We are doing good mom.</div>
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touristy. It's weird to see white people. It's a hard area to work in, but me and Elder Hernandez have been making a difference. We have found some new people and
that's almost never done in this area. We should baptize and this branch hasn't
seen a baptism in a long time and we are going to get it. It will be awesome. This is my first branch in the mission. It's kind of weird but awesome and the members are really cool. It feels really special. We play basketball every Tuesday. I have dunked on them multiple times. It's hilarious, they freak out. They play pretty good for Mexicans. </div>
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Hey mom, my week was good. We baptized B so it was awesome. We spent the week preparing for the baptism. That's always a little stressful. That's weird the boys started school. </div>
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is the boyfriend of C. She is the sister of B who we baptized. Monday I showed him a video. Elder Beus came with us. He is a good friend of President Williamson and is his Second Counselor. He helps us a lot in Guanajauto. F ended up crying in the video.</span><br />
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interest in us and then we showed the video on Monday and he related to it a lot. He told us
that he felt what we were saying was true. After the lesson Elder Beus told me something. With tears in is eyes he said, "Elder Bush that
was cool, did you see that?" I said, "what?" Elder Beus knew that on Monday I was looking for
a video and I chose a specific one. He said, "That video was just what F needed to keep listening to us. Elder Bush the Lord is with you" and then we both cried for like five minutes.</span><br />
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so much!!! She's awesome! Thank you for
the candy and the beef jerky. Zoram loves beef jerky so I shared some
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Lorraine Bushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10016498823755017271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668048130339568660.post-81291290040126448072017-07-02T18:18:00.000-07:002017-07-02T18:18:00.669-07:00The last few weeks!The next two weeks our schedules didn't match up to allow us our normal email chat so we just got a short note.<br />
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be a good missionary. It is hard sometimes but I'm really trying. I don't know
what to tell you about this week. I got kinda of sick and then I had a
meeting with all of the District Leaders at the house of Presidente. Next week I'll write you more. Today is kind of weird. I love you guys so much. I want to be the best I can. This next week should be interesting! I love you guys.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is awesome being a District Leader. It is good. It's been fun, Elder Motyer from Celaya is here and we have had a blast. Elder Moncada is doing good and is
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Well I told you about the investigators. We contact a lot, 15 a day. The family V are doing very good. P the other day
told me he loved me and it was awesome. L made fun of me. I got a nose
zit so she sang Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. We always make fun of S, we
always say "no maaaaaaanches S." It's funny. O always gives me hugs. The hermano has some good work and is doing good. They are awesome! I honestly love that family sooo much!!!</div>
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We have another baptism date! It was actually really cool. I have been pretty upset because we are working so hard but we haven't been able to have anything, it is frustrating. Sunday, a
week ago, a guy stopped me at church and he was like, "hey I'm C and I was
baptized a year ago and now my wife wants to be baptized." It was so awesome! I was
like, "of course!!!!!" We went to their house. It was funny because their phone wasn't working so we couldn't confirm the address. I was like no, we are going. So we went and then we almost couldn't find it but we kept it up. The guard at the gate was like no that dude doesn't live here, and I was like oh really. Then his wife saw us through the window and yelled hola chicos!! and I was
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to improvise haha. Then no one came to church, it was rough. I went with Elder Pantoja from Puebla and we worked
pretty hard. It was fun, he is my buddy. Saturday we did mini splits with other Elders that are our friends. My comp went with Elder Moncada from Honduras. haha It's funny because they have the same last name and it's not a very
common name. I went with Elder Motyer from Canada and he's my good good friend. We worked hard and found like 10 new people, it was sweet. I am blessed with lots of friends and I'm super grateful.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"You have enlisted in a cause that requires your whole attention; ... become a polished shaft. ...You must endure much toil, much labor, and many privations to become perfectly polished. ... Your Heavenly Father requires it; the field is His; the work is His; and He will ... cheer you ... and buoy you up."</div>
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Hey Mom, I'm doing good. I'm super excited, my new comp is awesome. He is Elder Moncada from Saltillo. He is a native. We weren't able to do
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I'm doing good. The Zone Leaders have my package so I'll get it tomorrow. Wow I'm so proud of Dillon, he made it to 13 years haha. Yes, I can call you Wednesday
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Everyday is a story in the mission Mom. I think that's why I'm so bad at sharing stories because it feels normal to me. I guess I'll give you an update. Everyone calls me William because the soccer team
that is here in Leon has a goalie and he is tall and white. It's awesome! I get people
to laugh with it. It makes it easier to contact and things like that. All the
kids that play soccer think it's cool. Hopefully they never find out that I'm
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Hayden was able to Skype us on Mother's Day. This isn't the greatest picture but he looks great and is doing SO well! He absolutely loves being a missionary. Being a missionary has just become "life". He said he almost doesn't remember what it is like to be home. Walking the streets of Mexico is what is normal right now. As much as we miss him that is comforting to hear. He is adjusted and focused on missionary work and serving. He still loves the food and said how he is going to miss having fresh tortillas every day. There is a torta shop on every corner. His love for basketball has not wavered. He gets the opportunity to play once in a while and was worried that he lost his skill. He assured us and is relieved that he's "still got it." haha He enjoyed a tour around the house and yard.</div>
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We hardly worked this week. We were in the hospital the whole week. Elder Martinez
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across the street. He isn't even baptized but he's awesome! We went up and talked with the hermana and she was amazing, she was super happy. She told us that her
husband is struggling with addictions and he wants our help. We have been
visiting them often. their kids are awesome! Their daughter brought two of her
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hard, lots of contacting. This week I have been overcoming fears haha. Teaching is getting
better, we have taught some cool lessons. We visited a family that just
recently got reactivated by us. Her sister moved in with them from Chihuahua. They talk funny haha. We were just teaching a simple lesson then all
of a sudden everyone started crying. The sister told us that they are here
for a reason and we answered their prayers. It was awesome. T</span>hey
told us that they asked for a challenge. They didn't give us too much info but they were praying for answers and we answered all of them. Then they bore testimony that we are angels haha.<br />
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last Monday was sweet. I told you about the family V whose son we are
gong to baptize. Monday we went over to their house for a noche de hogar (FHE). It
was awesome, we brought another family with us. First we played telephone and
then we taught about the atonement. It was honestly the coolest thing in the
world. There was already a bunch of kids there then all of the neighborhood
kids came over. It was insane. They were like, wow, you are a giant, and hey do you speak English? I taught them all, it was
so awesome. Almost all of them were crying. It was what the family
needed, it was honestly the best thing ever. I will have to get the picture to
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We baptized P, it was super awesome!!! He was super happy. His dad didn't
go. We visited them yesterday. Hermano was super depressed. He talked to us alone, he
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These are pictures from Zone Conference. Hayden finally found someone taller than he is. In his words, "This kid is a giant! He is like 6'8"!!!<br />
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Lorraine Bushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10016498823755017271noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668048130339568660.post-36691826010760677242017-03-20T09:49:00.001-07:002017-03-20T09:55:18.478-07:00Loving Leon<div class="MsoNormal">
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Wow! Hey Mom, this week has been awesome and crazy. The two Martinez are hilarious! We
have had a good time and we have had some really awesome lessons. We have been
working in both of our areas. Our area is humongous, we take so many buses. Leon
is awesome! Our house is pretty cool I guess. It's simple, but it gets the job
done. Everything has been smooth here in Leon. I have been learning a lot, it's
been awesome! The spirit has been strong recently. I talked with a cholo (A cholo is a gangster) today it
was an experience. haha I<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">t was funny, he was drunk. We were at a bus stop and he started talking to us. I don't want to tell you what he was saying to us. haha</span></div>
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I just barely got the package, it is awesome!!! Debbie Arbon you are the best person in the world!! Second to my Mom, of
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one of Elder Martinez investigators. He is 18 and he's super cool. We were
teaching him the restoration and everything was going great. I was super proud of
how I taught as well. We got to the point about where Joseph Smith read James and decided to pray. He said, well ya, I have thought the same. Why
are there so many churches? We asked him if you want to find out if what we
are telling you is true, that Joseph Smith really did restore the church? He was
like, well ya, and we were like well let's do what he did. Will you pray and ask
the Lord right now? So we did. We all knelt down and Ivan (the investigator) said
the prayer. It was super cool. The spirit was overwhelming. He was beaming. He was like, wow I have never felt like this before. We showed him in the
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and work and work and come home tired haha (He was really tired last week. It was hard getting anything out of him. Yes, missionary work, is HARD work!) </span>My area is huggeeeeee. We take a bus to a bus station to take a bus everyday. <o:p> W</o:p>e still walk a lot too. Probably more than in Celaya. </div>
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awesome. We
reactivated two familias this week. This was my first time going
to the church because the last week was Stake Conference. It was super
awesome. We had some powerful lessons. We should be able to baptize. Something
cool, we went to contact a reference of a teenage girl. Her mom answered the door and she asked us why we wanted to talk to her. She
was super cool. She was like well ya I want your help because she has noticed
that God helps out families, so we are going to return. She was super nice
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cool, we were talking about baptism and we
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Elder Martinez is awesome! We went to the centro to buy him some shoes and stuff. We looked at the Nike store but it's super expensive. It's better that we buy fake
things haha. Can you send me another pair of jeans? I asked at the
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tired. Friday night we went to the church to see
about the font and everything. The building was trashed so we cleaned it up as
good as we could. Saturday morning we were at the church at 7:00 to
fill the font. There wasn't any gas in the boiler so we had to put in water
heaters that did nothing. So that was cool. A's baptism was at 10. He showed up super late. It was insane! The font didn't fill up
quite all the way. Then at like 4:30 we
went to the church to check up on everything, and the water level in the font had gone
down!!!!!!! The baptism was supposed to start at 5 so we flicked on the
font and filled up a bucket with a tap in the church and kept on dumping it in
the font, it was insane. Luckily they didn't show up on time. Their whole family
came, there were a lot of people!!! We had to wait for the bishop too. He didn't show
up until like an hour later but finally everyone was there and it went fine. J's father baptized him. J is so awesome, he was beaming! His Grandma told
me that he couldn't sleep the whole week because he was so excited. The program was
awesome, the spirit was so strong. Elder Romero and I were witnesses for the
baptism. The water was freezing. The first time they did it they
messed up and had to do it again. J clung to his dad because he was so cold after
being dunked. Elder Romero told him tranquillo, it's ok. It was cool, he just calmed down and they did it again. It was so awesome and
cute because right after he came up out of the water he shouted Aguante! which
translates roughly into like "wow I did it," or "I handled it." Everyone laughed, it was
super funny. I
felt real joy then. It was super awesome to see the blessings of the
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Hayden's Birthday was on Wednesday February 22, a couple of days after we got this email. That evening my phone blew up. A sister in the ward, Beatrix, who has taken such good care of the missionaries threw a party for Hayden. She sent me pictures and videos. It was so fun to be a part of the festivities!</div>
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Monday, February 27, 2017</div>
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So the news is I got transferred to Leon and I was made District Leader. It's super freaking cool
here and it's super hot, I'm dying right now. My comp is Elder Martinez, he
was my Zone Leader in Celaya my first change. He is super cool, this is his
last change here. He is from Vera Cruz, he is Mexican. Also the other Martinez from when I was in the offices is
with us for a week because he is going to train and his comp doesn't get here
for another week. It was about an hour and a half to travel to Leon from Celaya. Leon is the shoe central of the world so I'll find some sic shoes here (if he can find his size 12-13 haha). Leon is a pretty big city with lots to do. </div>
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My Birthday was amazing, we had a ton of tacos. Beatrix is so
awesome!!! I have tons of pictures. Last week was cool, we had some cool lessons. There was one
where I kind of just took over and because of what I did he accepted a baptism
date. Elder Romero is going to baptize him thanks to me haha. I traveled here to Leon with
most of the zone. We went to a place like Buffalo Wild Wings (Hayden's favorite!). It was super cool
and super fun. They played lots of music that I like, even Hootie and the Blowfish haha.</div>
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Awesome new bed! (We got Hayden a new bed haha) It probably fits me, the beds here are
super small. haha I'm super excited for
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I'm
doing pretty good. This week was kind of weird. We had the broadcast and other
things like that so we didn't necessarily get a full week of teaching in. We did get to teach J and A various times in the week. They are
rolling. We think the date for A has fallen or is going to fall, but we kind
of expected that. We just barely got them to let us in and they are interested. His wife knows the gospel is true but when her dad died members kind of
offended her so she is pretty sensitive. We do have scheduled appointments with them. The thing his their Aunt
is an evangelista or evengelist, I think is what it is in English, and she is
basically a missionary. We went over there for one of our lessons
and she was there. She never gave us a chance to talk. It was kind of
weird, she kept on touching me as she talked. Elder Romero made me sit by her. haha It's
frustrating because they are in love with her so it's hard to teach them but
they are receptive and they want our help. They feel the spirit with us
and they respect us a lot. It's cool, Mom, we just help people see the light
and it's really awesome. We have reactivated the whole ward basically and the
bishop is happy with us for that. It's been really cool. (I remember when Hayden first got to this area he said there were only a handful of people that attended church. Now the congregation is full. They have done good things!)</div>
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M is the grandson of M (the friend of B) and they were all out on the street and M was
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The blog is awesome as usual. Grandpa and Grandma are funny. They said I look like George Strait haha. </div>
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story. A was super busy so we couldn't finish teaching with
him. We stopped by to find him and we told his wife that we can't baptize
him because we haven't finished the teaching. She told us a bunch of stuff
like he was going to get offended and 30 minutes later he called and told
us that he was good to move the date. I then told Romero that
we are only going to talk to him for information. We then went and had a sit
down with A. We brought Allen with us, a Priest in the ward who is
hilarious. We had an intense talk with A and told him that he had to come to
church and everything. He was cool. He told us that he knows the church is true
and he wants to bring his parents. It was cool, really cool. hard to explain but
cool. So we set up his baptism for this week and he came to church by himself
with out his family, it was awesome. He's going to be baptized this week. </span></div>
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been cool. I have been getting better at everything. Elder Romero has
been commenting on my Spanish. He told me it's better than President's and both
of the AP's. The only thing I lack is confidence. In the lesson with A I did lots of things that made it seem as if i had
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kept on walking. They stopped me and asked about Trump. I got mad and was
like look I don't know anything. Then Elder Romero started to talk to them. I got frustrated. haha They were kind of picking a fight with me, but it's cool. Right after that we went to see the C family at their store. All of
the kids where in the store, there was like 20 of them. They are all super cool,
they loved us and force fed us pizza. Romero told them about the drunks who
tried to fight me. A was funny, he told me swear words to tell them then
gave me a fake gun. It was funny and cool, there were a ton of people in the store. The next day in church one of the boys who is 11 years old came to
church by himself!! It was sweet. We had 4 investigators in church Sunday. Oh yeah, and 15 minutes before church the First Counselor of the Bishopric
called me and asked if one of us could give a talk for 10 minutes. I went and
told Elder Romero thinking he would say he would do it, but then he was like naw
you do it. So I did it. We headed over to church and during Sacrament I found a
few scriptures to use. I was the concluding speaker and actually ended up
talking for 15 minutes. I was happy. I was like wow, did I just do that? It was cool
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Thank you so very much for the love and support everyone has given to Hayden. His Birthday is this week on Wednesday (the 22nd). If you would like to leave a comment below wishing him a Happy Birthday he would love it. He will see them on Monday. We love you all!!! </div>
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them are solid and the other one we are going to have to work for. O and B we haven't been able to get a solid sit down with them for a while
so nothing new for them. We have been busy with all of our other work. We
teach a lot of drunks so that's interesting. I always come away learning more colorful words from those lessons. We put a baptism date with the husband of the C family. The muchacha of B, his name is E, left B's house
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This whole week was awesome, we put 2 baptism dates in one week. It really proves that just working hard is how you get things done. It's
interesting because it felt like we were working for nothing, we couldn't
find results. I think it was just a little bit of a testing point. We
improved lots of things, worked hard, and just kept on pushing. I think
the Lord was like, ok they really are here to serve me, so he lead us to the
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Wow, ya, I don't know what I want. You know I'm not good
about picking stuff out. There isn't anything that I really need. I'll try to think
of something this next week and let you know. You are pretty good at picking things out for
me. haha You know me, I love you, Mom. (This is in reference to his Birthday on February 22.)</div>
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insane and cool. (This is in reference to the real life Rudy joining the church recently. The movie is a favorite.) That's awesome about your cruise, it sounds like you guys had a
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Lorraine Bushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10016498823755017271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668048130339568660.post-48238957989470420292017-01-23T11:45:00.000-08:002017-01-23T11:45:02.885-08:00Lots of teaching and missing the food already<div class="MsoNormal">
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This week was pretty awesome. This is the year that I spend one entire year in the mission. Kinda
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reactivated that has a daughter who is married and a son who are inactive. We visited them Wednesday. Their son is 9. We taught them and put a
baptism date with him! It's awesome, two birds with one stone. We are
reactivating this family and getting the son ready for baptism. I think the plan
is to get the dad ready so he can baptize his son. That would be best. The C family who contains like 50 people in it, well we have been visiting
them. We haven't been able to get a set set appointment with them so we haven't
really been able to get all of the numbers from them. It takes a little
work to build up their trust and desires to meet with us. One of the little boys is having open heart surgery so they are struggling there. We have been helping them with whatever we can. We are going to give a blessing to their son. We have been working hard and planing with the ward to get them to come back to church and to baptize the
husbands and some of the kids who haven't been baptized. There is lots of work
but it takes a while to pry them open. I'm sad because I will probably leave
before anything happens with this family. We also visited another less
active elderly couple. It turns out they haven't come to church because he has really bad
health issues. We gave him a blessing and after he was crying. It was actually a
pretty spiritual experience for all of us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">I don't really tell you weird or
crazy stories because there are crazy things that happen everyday so I'm kind of used
to them and they don't stand out to me. I will try to be better about sharing those because they will get good laughs out of you guys. </span><br />
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lady said that she felt like she should talk to her. Beatriz talked about The Book of Mormon and gave her a tarjeta with our number and everything. She basically
got us a new investigator. It was funny because that day we had to be home by
7 and so I told her earlier that she had to contact like 30 people for us. </span><br />
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have finally gotten to visit O and B. They are from Mexico City. They are
super super awesome. They sell carnitas and they are super good. The have been in
teaching for like 2 years. We will see if wee can get them to progress. We were
visiting them Sunday and another missionary in our zone called us so I answered
it and stepped away to talk with them. They told us that there was someone in
the hospital in our area from their ward that wanted a blessing. He wasn't doing
too good. It was kind of cool, O and B offered to take us so we went. I hope everything is going ok. Something that I have learned a lot is that we are here to serve first. We
gave the family our number and told them if there is anything they need to call
us, we tell that to anyone we contact as well. It's weird, I have given more
blessings in Spanish than in English. It's cool giving a blessing. It really is a
good reminder of the priesthood duty I have. It's pretty awesome. </span><br />
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what I have told you. These last few weeks have been weird emailing that's
probably why you haven't updated the blog. It's been awesome! So we had changes
and I'm staying here in Consti with Elder Romero. I'm happy I can celebrate my Birthday here in a comfortable place with Elder Romero. We are happy. </span><br />
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hot. It only gets a little chilly at night and in the morning. I don't know if you
know, but we have a baptism date for February. It's a less active family and the
son isn't baptized, he's almost 10. It's been cool to reactivate the family and
teach the son. His name is J. He is super cool, He reminds me of Dillon haha. </span><br />
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been funny haha. Also B has, well I don't know what to call him, but he's the
son of her ex husband. She has been taking care of him because he was in a
super bad motorcycle accident. It's been cool. We have been teaching him and some
cool things have been happening. Before he lost his faith he got into drinking and
stuff really bad and lost sight of god. His life went down hill and when
he heard of us missionaries he thought we were something weird. Well I guess we
are, but still. When he heard of "los hermanos" that teach B he
thought it was something crazy. The first day we visited him we were
ourselves. Elder Romero and I are goof balls and we became friends
with him. He found that interesting and so he listened to us and he is really
interested. He thinks his accident wasn't a coincidence and that he is here listening
to us. It's been really cool. He even came to church yesterday. </span><br />
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working with the C family which is the ginormous family with investigators
and menos activos. Our visit last week with them was cool, we talked about
everything. We are going to teach them Wednesday. I think we will be
able to baptize the husband and activate everyone else. It's been cool. They
really like the Elders, they are just super sensitive. It's been fun. Contacting is
always interesting and we have a pretty solid teaching pool. It's been a little
hard to get people to church, but here in Mexico it takes time haha. We have
reactivated multiple families and it's been super cool to see. It's weird how
much bigger the congregation is. </span><br />
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I felt terrible but wasn't going to pretend like we were just "hanging out." We went on a 4 day cruise and were able to spend a day in Mexico. It was so fun for us, especially his brothers, to get a glimpse of what Hayden is experiencing (sort of haha) and what Mexico is like. It was weird to think that for a day we were in the same country. We love you, Hayden!!!</div>
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Lorraine Bushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10016498823755017271noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668048130339568660.post-55435753868696487472016-12-30T07:03:00.000-08:002018-12-06T10:56:33.332-08:00Christmas 2016<br />
On Christmas Eve Hayden was able to Skype us. The picture isn't great. It was sooo fun to talk to him. We were able to meet his companion, Elder Romero and also a Hermana who takes really good care of them. It is her nonmember friends who let them use their computer to Skype. It was so weird having Hayden translate for us. In just a few months he is totally fluent! We commented on his hair cut, Elder Romero gave it to him. hahaha<br />
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Monday was pday, of course, and we had our usual email chat. There wasn't a whole lot to share since we had just talked to him a couple of days before but here is a little of what he had to say. We did get a lot of pictures though! I have shared a few.<br />
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Hi Mom!<br />
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Ya I was super trunkie after the call. I missed you guys a lot haha, but it's ok. Missing
you makes me work harder. It reminds me that I'm sealed to my family for all
eternity and I want the rest of the world to have that.<br />
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It was Christmas so everyone was drunk. I didn't get any sleep because there were so many parties. It was frustrating. Everyone was out of town. We contacted a lot and it felt like the whole country was denying us. It was frustrating for me. The other missionaries told me not to be frustrated haha, that's how it is in December.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I uploaded a bunch of pictures. The one with Elder Romero cooking is our Christmas dinner, tacos!!!! </div>
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This is how they spent Christmas Eve after talking to their families.<br />
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Hey Mom and Dad,<br />
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First I want to say how much I love you and how grateful I am
for you guys, and how you have raised me, and for helping me go on a mission. It
truly is amazing, both you guys and the mission.<br />
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My ankle isn't quite 100% but the doctor said it will take another week. I can walk and that's all I need.<br />
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Ya, now that I have been teaching and now that my Spanish is better, Elder Romero has really been teaching me how to teach effectively (some by trial
and error haha). He really has been teaching me a lot and he helps me with my Spanish. He doesn't let me get away with saying something wrong haha. We work super hard and have a lot of fun. <br />
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We will be Skyping you guys on the
24th around 6 to 7 our time so I think that is 5 to 6 your time. Be by the
phone or computer at those hours haha. It's weird to think that it is Christmas. I got sunburned today. We went to a zone activity today and later Elder Romero, Filmore, Morales and I went to KFC and then bought matching ties for our Christmas
party with President. We have a lot of fun together. It's awesome to be able
to preach the gospel and have fun at the same time. It's the best feeling in the
world. I'll get my package tomorrow. Tell John and Michelle I say hi and I wish I could have been there.<br />
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investigators, and we still have our older investigators. We don't really have many progressing because we just got here and we
haven't really met everybody yet, It's hard to find everybody especially in December. December is the hardest month to do missionary work here, everyone is at
the beach. J and J are doing awesome. They go to church every Sunday.<br />
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I have yet to get a camera but Hermana B is going to get me one and I will pay her back. All of the stores are
far away. Hermana B is too nice. haha She basically had to hold a knife
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Lorraine Bushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10016498823755017271noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668048130339568660.post-56746539424803552312016-12-20T11:02:00.000-08:002016-12-20T11:02:05.340-08:00New Companion and Back in Celaya<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Hi Mom,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span>
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awesome week. Wednesday me and Elder Romero came back here to Constituyenties
and started to work. Elder Romero is from Colombia, he has
about 16 months in the mission. He turned 22 today haha. We have been
having a blast and are working hard. He has been kicking my butt haha and
it doesn't help that I'm super out of shape for not walking for 4 weeks.</span><br />
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ended up. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span>
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me by the end of the week haha. We talked about our plans for next week and I'm
going to be taking the lead in the lessons and contacting so I can get better at Spanish and so I can know how to do that. It's been awesome. We have
planned really well and have been very effective. Now that we have a full week of
work to work with we should be able to get investigators to progress now that
we have found them all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">That song (Where Love Is) is very special to my dad’s family because it was kind
of their family song growing up. It was sung at my grandma's funeral and it was
neat to see all of my aunts and uncles sing it, and I thought it would be neat
to have it sung again. Plus I think it goes along with the missionary theme because
love comes first in everything as a missionary. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I wanted to first begin by saying how excited I am to serve a
mission. I've always wanted to be a missionary since I was a little kid. I am
excited to wear the badge. I am excited to proclaim that Jesus is the
Christ, our Savior, and through his suffering and dying on the cross, otherwise
known as the atonement, all things can come to pass, even our returning to
our Father. I have gained this testimony throughout my teenage years. My first
year of seminary we studied the New Testament, and reading through it, I had found
something dear to me, my Savior's love. It makes me grateful for my wonderful
parents who have taught me well and have given me the foundation to then find out
for myself if what they taught was true. I know what Nephi means when he says
he was “born of goodly parents”. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To say the least a mission means a lot to me. It's something I'm
taking very seriously.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">With all of this said I was tempted to not show up today. Really I
was reluctant to give this talk. I haven't done anything yet. What if I'm not
adequate enough, what if I don't know enough, what if I'm not mature enough,
what if I fail? My insecurities have been attacked severely in these past
couple of months. Lots of sleepless nights, and plenty of emotional High stress
days. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">*serious*</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But I have realized that this talk is probably more for me then
for you.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It has sometimes made me wish that I didn't care this much about
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But, this isn't the first time that I have gone through this.
Probably not as big of a deal as this, but there had to be a place to start. In
hindsight my childhood and into my teenage years have been nothing but proof of
what the Savior wants of me and his plans for me. Especially these last two
years, the Lord's hand has been everywhere in my life. I have seen how if I
live my life the way he wants me to opportunity and peace are given. The
primary source of this is through my Patriarchal Blessing. My Patriarchal Blessing
is what has helped me through the rough times of my teenage years and is what
has given me the image of the person that I want to be, along with guiding me
throughout my life. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I remember the day that I got my Patriarchal Blessing. My
grandparents and parents came with me to receive it. I remember when our Patriarch put his hands on my head and began talking, it was like the spirit
had just dropped an anvil upon me. There have been fewer times of when I have
felt the spirit as strongly as that. My blessing mentions a lot about my
mission, it talks about how if I work hard and really LOVE the people that
Angels will walk with me and that the people will hear me. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">One of the biggest ways that my blessing shows the Lord's hand in
my life is about the timing of my mission. Basically what it implies is that
you focus hard on your mission and then when you get back you will be guided in
what you want to do. At the beginning of my senior year My parents were
making me focus on college, they asked the questions where do you want to go,
what schools are you going to apply too, which well isn't a bad thing but when
they asked me these questions it stressed me out, it didn't feel like the right
thing for me to be focusing on. Every time they would bring it up I would feel
uncomfortable. I knew that it wasn't right for me to do and I tried to convince
them but they wouldn't listen. It just had felt wrong to me and I knew what my
blessing had said. Finally my parents read my blessing and realized like an epiphany
that my blessing addressed this issue and that I was right about not needing to
focus on college until after my mission. After that everything just started
falling into place. We knew I was going to go on a mission right out of high
school. Once they had realized this we were on the same page and then
everything had just started to fall into place with both preparations for my
mission and school, the hand of the lord was evident. This was undoubtedly the
Lord showing his plans for me.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">After realizing this I started to see how these last two years
have been preparing me for my mission. There was a couple of months where I
would have five church meetings every Sunday. I was thrown into leadership
positions all across the board, whether it be school, basketball, Priest Quorum
etc. I also have learned what it feels like to have a full day everyday for an
extended period of time. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have mentioned love and it's importance in regards to missionary
work. There is a great poem about this that i want to share with you, it also
happens to be my dads favorite poem. It goes like this:</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And to the Presence in the room he said </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What writest thou? -- the vision raised its head, </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And with a look made of all sweet accord </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Answered “The names of those who love the lord”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“And is mine one? Said Abou. “Nay not so.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Replied the Angel, Abou spoke more low, </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But cheerily still, and said “I pray thee, then </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Write me as one that loves his fellow men.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Angel wrote, and vanished. The next night</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It came again with a great wakening light,</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And showed the names whom love of God had </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Blessed, </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And lo! Adhem’s name led all the rest.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">President Lewis who you have already seen on the stand today, has
helped me understand this fully. President Lewis has brought our Priest Quorum close together. He has helped us create a brotherhood that I will always
remember and cherish. He got us together as a quorum 30 minutes before every
mutual activity, and we would go visit less active boys in the ward to check up
on them, tell them that we care about them, to fellowship them and to love them
as the Savior would. This has taught me a lot about missionary work and the
love of our Savior. I truly believe that President Lewis is a blessing from God
to our Priest Quorum, he has done amazing work.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have talked a lot about hard times and having to get through
them. This last year has been the most challenging for my family. I'm not
saying that to be woe is me or to say our lives are sad, that is just the way
it was this last year. It was non stop stress and tensions were high. Without
the Lord's help we definitely would not have made it through it. 2 Nephi
31:20 says.. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in
Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men.
Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and
endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This explains that having a steadfast faith in Christ and having a
perfect hope that things will be ok as well as a LOVE of God and all men, we
shall have eternal life if we endure to the end. My family has applied this
scripture to our lives in the last year deeply. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Bush Family, this scripture reminds me of the story of our beloved Patience and the way she lived at the end of her life. She was the perfect
example of this as she battled through cancer. She is truly one of my greatest
Heroes. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">All of these things give me comfort that when the mission gets
hard, and it will get hard, Spanish alone will make it hard, but it gives me
comfort to know that the Lord is on my side and will help me through even the
most hardest struggles. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In my first missionary interview with Bishop he told me that a
purpose of missionary work is to get people to the temple to receive their
temple ordinances. I have only just learned the importance of the temple when
I had received my endowments a month ago. That ordinance is very sacred but it
is so important and necessary for our salvation, as well as being sealed to our
families forever.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I love going to the temple, it has allowed me to take a step out
of this terrible world and to be able to just go and feel the holy comforter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Like I have said I have been struggling. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So the temple has been my escape. The first week that I was
endowed I went to the temple everyday. I love it there. This last week I had a
very special experience in the temple. I had gone to the Provo City center
temple with one of my friends. We ended up having to wait an hour for the next
session. Which I was fine with because it is a really neat temple, and I had
only a few chapters in the Book of Mormon left so I got to finish it. So as we
sat in the chapel and I had just finished the Book of Mormon I began to sit
there and ponder. You see I have been praying a lot recently to Father to be
able to overwhelmingly feel the spirit because I have been having a really hard
time and needed some extra comfort. So here I was and all of a sudden the
greatest feeling of peace had come over me and I had this feeling that just
told me, Hayden you will be ok, you are going to go on your mission and have an
awesome experience as long as you work hard. This is just a minor
blessing of the temple which shows how important the temple is. Being sealed to
our family's forever allowing us to reach exaltation is what the temple allows
us to do, and it is not a wonder why the temple is the a reason for
missionaries to to what they are doing. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In closing I want to give a very sincere thank you from the bottom
of my heart. I want to thank my friends and their families for always
supporting me and being their for me and for putting up with such a weird kid. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I want to thank all of my youth leaders and all of those who have
taught me and given me a good person to look up to. You have no idea what
kind of impact you have on us young teenagers.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I want to thank my extended family, you guys are the best and have
always shown me love it really has meant a lot to me</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I want it to thank Bishop and his family for their great sacrifice
to serve us all. Bishop there is no one else that I would rather have send me
out on a mission than you.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Lastly I wanted to thank my brothers and my parents.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Austen, Dillon I'm going to miss you.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Mom Dad I'm gonna miss you too, thank you for everything, truly you
guys are the best parents. I Love you guys.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I hope the people of Queretaro Mexico are ready for me.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">All these things that I have said I say in the name of Jesus
Christ our savior</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Amen.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Lorraine Bushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10016498823755017271noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668048130339568660.post-46213306634510312642016-12-11T09:44:00.000-08:002016-12-11T10:26:53.476-08:00Rise, Take up Your Bed and Walk <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
Well beloved parents, this week has been a crazy one. I guess I should just start at the beginning. This week has been pretty cool. At the
beginning it was pretty much just going to the offices with the secretaries and then
at like 3ish we would go to the comida appointment, and then at 4:00 Hermana Williamson
would pick me up and we would go to my therapy. It was fun because I went shopping a few times with her haha. It made me really regret not ever
wanting to go shopping with you mom, it was really fun. We went to Costco and we had to go all over the place to find a wifi range extender for their house. We also went to a fabric store to find little skirt things for the
office Christmas tree and her tree at their house. Sister Williamson is awesome, she is so hilarious, She's a spaz!</div>
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Thank you so much for the
package Mom, it's awesome!!! I love the batman shirt haha. I have been playing
chess a lot with Elder Martinez ( another secretary). It's fun, he is good and we
have some competitive matches. </div>
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Saturday night the Sister missionaries that are
here in the same area as Elder Freddy and Romero had a baptism so we went to it. Then Sunday was crazy. We were in church and their convert was about to
be confirmed and the Bishop invited us Elders up to participate in the ordinance. When I get up there he tells me that I'm going to be the one to do the confirmation. I'm
sure my face turned bright red, I was like haha good one guys but they were
serious!!! So shakily I went over and did it. It was my first blessing in Spanish. I don't know why the bishop chose me but it did help me out a lot with
some personal things. I had only been there for two weeks too. I mean I have
talked to the Bishop before, but I didn't think he would make me do something
like that hahah. </div>
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Sunday night we went to the Christmas Devotional put on by the First Presidency. It was being broadcast to the stake center. There we received our
changes. I'm going back to Celeya with Elder Romero. It was crazy. Me and Elder Romero have gotten to be good friends. I am super excited.</div>
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This email was what we received from Hayden on Monday of this last week. On Tuesday we received the following email from Sister Williamson.<br />
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Brother and Sister Bush:<br />
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you might like to see Elder Bush as he completes his ten days of therapy. He
will return to Celaya tomorrow morning with his new companion, Elder
Romero. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks
again for your love and prayers on his behalf.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Williamson<o:p></o:p></div>
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I just love her! What a relief things have worked out with his foot and it has all come to an end. We are excited to hear from him tomorrow and find out about his first week with a new companion and new experiences where he has had to take the lead. <br />
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This week has actually been really
cool. You won't believe what has been happening with me haha. So Wednesday I came up here (Queretaro) by myself on a bus. I talked to a guy the
whole way up here. After, he helped me with my bags because crutches makes
everything really hard. Then Sister Williamson came and picked me up. She took
me to the hospital and I started my physical therapy. It's torture. Then she took me to
the secretaries house. They are super cool. Elder Frederickson and Romero are my
comps I guess you could say. I like going to the hospital because I go by
myself so I'm the one that has to talk with everyone. It's fun to be able to use
my Spanish. It definitely has gotten better just being here because all we do is
talk in Spanish because of Elder Romero. Then I went and ate at the President's
house with Pres and Hermana Williamson and two other sister missionaries because
one of them was having surgery. It was super cool and fun.</div>
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Thursday was
really special. After my therapy and everything there wasn't really anything for
me to do so I was just with Hermana Williamson and President. They took me to
a Thanksgiving dinner that they got invited too. It was so awesome and weird
and funny. It was an American family with a bunch of kids. I felt so out of
place haha. I walk in and they made me go a different way than President and Hermana Williamson because I wouldn't fit with my crutches. This part is funny. As I went to the other side there were a bunch of like teenage American girls
there and they started talking to me. I felt super uncomfortable haha. I was
like I need to go into the same room as President. Their mom came in and was
like oh sit down and stuff. I asked her, "can I do that?" Everyone was laughing at
me when I said that. I just looked at President and he gave me this look
like "It's whatever dude go ahead and stay there." I was like, uhh ok. Luckily they had one of the girls husbands come in and talk to me. Then we had a real Thanksgiving dinner. Every other American missionary is
jealous haha. It was cool. A Mexican family was there and he told me something
really cool. He told me that everything has a purpose, there is a reason why
I am here with all of these people. </div>
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Friday and Saturday I've just
been with Elder Freddy and Romero. Saturday and Sunday I didn't have therapy. It's
getting a lot better. I can walk with crutches. I have gained back a lot of the
mobility but can't put a lot of pressure on it still. Sunday I saw the family I ate Thanksgiving with at church. It was cool. And well now here we are.</div>
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<br /> Friday afternoon we received this email update from Sister Williamson.<div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Brother & Sister Bush,<br />
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I wanted to let you know that Elder Bush is doing really well with his therapy.
I was so happy when he walked out of his treatment last night with only one
crutch. (We bought ice cream so he could celebrate with the secretaries.)</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">😉</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
Our hope is that tonight he will walk out with no crutch at all. The doctor
recommended 10 treatment sessions. That will be Monday and Tuesday. If he needs
all ten treatments, he will wait and return to his area either Tuesday night or
Wednesday morning with his new companion as changes will happen Monday.<br />
In the meantime, he has been doing well and simply by speaking with the
secretaries and having to rely on himself to understand what the therapist is
saying, he feels like his Spanish has improved by leaps and bounds over the
last two weeks. He is a happy young man and we have enjoyed having the time to
get to know him better as I've been his chauffeur to and from therapy.
He has a good outlook on things and has been able to do missionary work with
the secretaries while being here in Queretaro.<br />
Thank you for your prayers on his behalf and thanks for raising him to be an
obedient and faithful missionary. We are grateful to have him here.<br />
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Sister Williamson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This seemed appropriate given Hayden's circumstances the last few weeks. Still that smile, still no complaints, and still recognizes the opportunities he has had in spite of it all. I am thankful that Heavenly Father sent him to me. I am thankful for the example he has been to us and all that we have learned from him in the few months he has been gone. I am thankful for his desire, hard work, dedication, and perseverance to serve his Father in Heaven. I am thankful for the love and support for Hayden from so many. We love you! </span><div>
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everything would be fine. We went to him again Saturday and he sent us to
another doctor that we saw today (Monday). He told me that it has something to do with
my ligament and that everything is fine. I just have to wear a cast for two
weeks and then everything will be fine. So I have a cast on. President talked to the mission doctor and he said if there is something wrong with my ligament it
would be best that I went home for 4-6 weeks and return. We don't really know if we should trust the doctor that gave me the cast. I really really don't want to go
home. I'm going to tell President that if I have to walk everywhere on crutches I will. Rowley said he wants to help me stay. He says if he has to push me in a
wheelchair he will. I really want to stay and I'm super super scared. I know
it would only be for a couple of weeks but I would rather suffer here. </span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">It doesn't hurt at all, but I can't move my foot
back up far enough to walk on it. It is still pretty swollen. The doctor said the
cast is on it just so I don't move it so that way in two weeks everything will
be fine. I'm not sure what to think or who to believe. I will see President
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I know everything will be ok if I do have to go home. It is only for about 4-6
weeks so it's not too big of a deal but none the less I don't want to have to go
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are super cool. They told me "Don't worry. Tonight for Family Home Evening we will
say a super chido prayer. They are being supportive and they said that they
will help us if I have to stay here on crutches. <o:p></o:p></div>
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really tough time. This is where we are just here to serve her and help her
through whatever she needs. Bring her the love of the Savior and bring her
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Everything will be ok. I'll try my best to stay here and if I do have to
come home, it's ok, I will come back real quick. I know that God
loves us and things happen for a reason. Everything will be ok, don't worry about
me mom. I love you so much. I have got to go now. We will probably be in contact
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As you can imagine we were quite concerned after this email chat. Joe emailed Sister Williamson that night and expressed our concern. She immediately called us and let us know they would be traveling to his area the next day (Tuesday) for Zone Conference and they would meet with Hayden and call us. </div>
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Tuesday afternoon Hayden called Joe and then they called me so we were on a conference call and able to all be part of the conversation. He was ok talking to Joe but once he heard my voice he started to cry. It was so good to hear his voice. He sounded great! It was strange talking to him because he had an accent and he would at times talk really fast and I couldn't understand him. He spoke with the mission doctor before he called us. The mission doctor said there is a specialist in Queretaro he trusted that he wanted Hayden to see. They set up an appointment for that Friday at 5:30 pm. Hayden's area is outside of Queretaro so he and his companion had some members give them a ride. They were to meet Sister Williamson and she would take them to the appointment. </div>
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The appointment went well. The specialist didn't think there had been damage done to the ligament but had him return on Saturday for an MRI just to be sure.</div>
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before because we have someone to accompany us in dangerous places and a car to
get around. We are at a member's house who is close to ours to write so we
didn't have to walk all the way down to the cyber.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Teaching is good. Having Hermano G with us helps a ton. F had a cool lesson. We talked about getting our answers last lesson. He
said he prayed for like an hour just repenting for all his sins and he said he
began to cry. He began to cry in our prayer with him too. He was whispering, "I want to know, I want to know." </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Our new contact hasn't called us. We are probably going to go meet her Wednesday just to check up on her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">We went and talked to a menos activo the other day and it was super cool. He invited us in and was super happy. He gave us a Coke and we talked. He said he was waiting for someone to invite him back. He said his best time was when he was in the church. We asked him what was holding him back and he said nothing. That's the thing, just worldly laziness. His family was sealed in the Washington DC temple. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Queretaro was fun. Hermana Williamson is hilarious. We drove around everywhere with her. W</span>e were two hours late meeting her for my appointment because the traffic here is insane. (Remember his appointment was at 5:30. The doctor waited. Poor Sister Williamson had a really late night!) J and J gave us a ride. It should have taken us 30 minutes to get
there but it took 3 hours. It was a fun rode trip though. It's pretty and J and J are funny. Traffic here is crazy. Everyone was trying to pass people
by going on the shoulder. It was so crazy. The shoulder was just dirt. </div>
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I haven't been struggling with Spanish, I just need to practice
speaking. I understand everything. My talk was actually really good. If I have
time to write it down my Spanish will be good. Plus Elder Rowley went over it to
fix some of the errors. We just need to speak in Spanish together so it's
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you, Mom. I have got to go now, I will talk to you
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They met with the doctor again the next day, Tuesday of this last week. The MRI showed that there was no damage done to the ligament. We were so relieved. Had there been damage he would have had to come home to have surgery. Hayden rode the bus back into Queretaro on Wednesday to the mission home. He started physical therapy Wednesday and will continue to have it everyday for 10 days. He meets with the doctor again this Friday to follow up. Because it is too far and too expensive to travel back and forth into the city every day he is staying with the 4 Elders that are working in the mission home. One of them will act as his companion and go to his appointments with him. After he meets with the doctor on Friday the plan is for him to go back to his area in Celaya.</div>
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I got one of the packages. The sweater is awesome! Thanks for the candy!!!</div>
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We basically put together J's wedding reception ourselves with the help of the Relief Society. It was awesome, Mom<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> We have never seen the ward
so close. They decorated the chapel, brought cake and food. It was just so awesome. They brought a speaker and everyone was dancing. It was seriously a
really cool and special moment and I'm glad that I got to experience it. Elder Rowley is the one
who basically made sure it all happened though. </span></span></div>
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well. Progressing super good. They feel the spirit and they love church, but they
still don't think they got their answer. I think we need to tell them that they
have, they just haven't realized it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">Jessica got baptized. I will send you
pictures in the drive in a little bit. The baptism was awesome and beautiful. She really loves the gospel. The next day she was confirmed and she
bore her testimony. She shared the story about us finding the ID. She said
she knows that God lives. It was super cool! She's only 19!!! We thought she was like
23. This Sunday was amazing. We have to be at church for 6 hours because we
cover two wards. Both testimony meetings were awesome. Rowley said the best
of his mission. I thought so too but that just might be because I understood
everything for the first time. hahaha My Spanish is getting so much better! It's awesome Mom.</span></div>
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Lorraine Bushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10016498823755017271noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668048130339568660.post-76839766875633642372016-11-07T12:49:00.003-08:002016-11-07T12:52:14.427-08:00Prayers are Answered<div class="MsoNormal">
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So I have a really cool experience to share. Je and Jo are going to
get married and baptized this week!! It was crazy, I think like Tuesday of last
week they were going to go and set up their appointment for their marriage but they
lost Jo's ID!! They had been looking all over to find it and couldn't find it
for basically all day. It wasn't a coincidence we decided to stop by. We showed
up and we told them that we were going to say a prayer and look for it for five
minutes and we would then find it because after we do all that we can do the
lord gives it to us. So we did exactly that. We looked all over the house and
right as we were sitting down to give up Elder Rowley comes out and tells us he
has a surprise for us. It was so awesome. Je started to cry. Everyone was
freaking out because the Lord had definitely helped. Je and Jo have been
tormented with challenges to get baptized by Satan. But we found it now. They
are getting married tomorrow and baptized on Saturday. <br />
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J and F came
to church on Sunday and it was the Primary Program. We were a little nervous because they
are both older guys but they seemed to enjoy it. After church we went and taught them. They know the gospel is true. It's awesome to see their eyes just
light up when we teach them. The gospel has answers to all of their
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not a lot of people. Maybe around 100. It's cool, we go to Sacrament Meeting and they call people
to say the prayers from the stand lol then two people give talks. After Sacrament Meeting we go
to Gospel Principles with our
investigators and recent converts. The Bishop is awesome. He always tries to
help us. He really cares for his ward, it's cool to see.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Awesome! Man, I thought they would have brought my package here because we had transfers. I'm staying with Elder Rowley!!! I'm super excited about it!</div>
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So we brought the G family to our investigator J who has been in teaching for 5 years. Hermana G talked about the
challenges they had and about their sealing as a family. Everyone was
crying. The next day we went over to visit them and J told us that she wants
to get baptized. They are getting married this week and then the next week she
will be baptized. It was so awesome! They are an awesome family he is a member but
she isn't and they have a cute little girl too. J's husband was shot in the leg and his leg is messed up. Elder Rowley told them that if they follow the law of the gospel he will be able to walk even though the doctors told him he won't
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I am grateful to the G family and B for taking such good care of Hayden and Elder Rowley. They are probably a little spoiled! :) Hayden was told before he left that he would be washing his clothes in a bucket. Having access to a washing machine I think is pretty lucky! He is set for another 6 weeks when transfers come up again.</div>
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I have become acquainted with a sister in Mexico who shared this short video clip with me right before Hayden left the MTC. The clip is of President Eyring talking about how mission calls are given . Even though I only know this sister through modern technology and have never met her in person, the gesture touched my heart more than she will ever know. My favorite part is when President Eyring says, "You don't remember His face, but He remembers yours." </div>
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Every picture Hayden has sent us his face is beaming and he has a great big smile. I have caught myself many times as I have looked through the pictures saying, "That face! Look at that smiling beaming face." There is no doubt in our minds that Hayden is where is supposed to be. We know there are struggles and times of homesickness, (not once has he complained) but that face is confirmation of our Father in Heaven placing him where Hayden is needed. Every single week Hayden tells us how much he loves Mexico, how wonderful the people are and how much he loves seeing THEIR faces light up as they learn about the gospel. </div>
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Honestly I don't know what I need, just surprise me haha. la verdad I don't know haha. I just
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My week was pretty good. I'm doing pretty good. I'm really frustrated though. I just wish I was fluent in Spanish already but it will come. haha I can pretty
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fast. We have been walking so far away every day because that is where our
investigators live. Its been hard and tiring. It's frustrating because we are
working hard but haven't had a lot of results. We have been planting lots of
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I have been missing you guys, but that just means I love you. Can you send me T<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">he Teachings From the Presidents of the Church? Do you know that series? I want the Joseph Smith one. I</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">t takes like 3 weeks to get here. Just send it with a
bunch of candy and some other gifts. hahaha Is that too demanding? It's ok if it takes a long time to get here, I would rather wait for it. I just want a package from you guys. haha</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
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me. My goal isn't to baptize people, it's to give people the blessing of being
sealed to their family like I have been blessed to have had. The family is what
brings us happiness. It is how we return to our Father in Heaven, it is everything
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The week was pretty good but not too
much interesting. We got two new investigators that are super smart and
know a lot about the bible, but they also know about all the flaws of
stuff so the gospel just filled in everything. It was super cool! The spirit
of confirmation was there super strong. It was really cool. They actually ended
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<span style="text-align: center;">The plates they serve here are so freaking huge!!!! I take a long time to eat it because I run out of room. They ask me if I don't
like it and I'm like this is so freaking huge!!!!!!! no tengo espacio!!! haha The food is super good. You eat everything with a tortilla so everything is a taco. Burritos aren't really a thing here. The food isn't really spicy but they put salsa on everything and that is super spicy. I haven't eaten anything too weird. </span></div>
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and Elder Cook. Their talks were cool. I also liked Elder Renlund, he was
the last talk and the newest Apostle. It was super cool. There were some other
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<span style="text-align: center;">We live in an apartment. There is a family in our ward that let's us use their washing machine. (He is lucky. There are other areas where they have to wash their clothes in a bucket. I am sure Hayden will get his turn. Ha!) Ya Mom, I'm 18, I take pretty good of myself haha, you don't have to worry. I have been to the store like 30 times. Everything is good. Elder Rowley is pretty cool. We play hoops and it is refreshing.</span></div>
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We received an email from Hayden's Mission President's wife this week. What a sweet surprise to receive this picture of Hayden and his companion, Elder Rowley. President and Sister Williamson made a visit to Celaya. She said they are doing well and working hard together. </div>
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Each week I am so grateful for modern technology as we are able to email chat with Hayden for about an hour every Monday on his p-day. We are all usually at our various obligations (work, school) but we each still get the personal communication with him. Gone are the days of waiting weeks to receive a letter in the mail. We are so blessed! <br />
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Thank you for your love and support for Hayden. He welcomes letters, his email address is at the top of the blog. You can also leave a comment. You are all so loved!<br />
<br />Lorraine Bushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10016498823755017271noreply@blogger.com0