Tuesday, March 12, 2013 -
Today was interesting... All the trainers, Zone Leaders, and District Leaders
were at Leadership Training in Fresno all day so I was stuck leading my area
with two brand new missionaries. One of them, Elder Goettman, was
super cool and we get along great! We have a lot of similarities. But the other
one... Elder D... We could not be more opposite. He claims to love
music but all he ever talks about is rap. *cough-apostate-cough* And he likes the Spurs and hates
Steve Nash... HOW?! He’s the nicest! Then the final straw was when he started
bashing on Newsies...*sigh* There is just no hope for some people... We did
good work though. We did a Harvesting Blessing for this guy named Anthony and
the spirit was super strong. We felt
it, he felt it. We invited him to be baptized...he accepted! But then he said
he’s always busy...dumb. Then we had dinner at the Ballard’s. Super cool
family. Br. Ballard is hilarious! Pretty good day over all, but I never
want to be in a car area! I definitely prefer biking. It’s a lot easier to
talk to people!
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 –
We had a miracle today! It was awesome! We weren’t having a particularly great
day, but we were trying to make the most of it. We decided we should go get
lunch. We thought about where we should go and we both said “Panda” at the same
time. We ‘joked’ that it was divine inspiration and I said, “Just watch. We’re
going to find someone to teach in Panda Express!” We laughed a little and Elder
Swenson said, “Yeah and maybe they’ll pay for us!” We laughed more. We carried
on to Panda, locked up our bikes, went in, and got in line. We were about to
order when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around and a lady said, “Hi
Elders! Order whatever you want! It’s on me.” *Miracle #1* We asked who she was and she said that she hasn’t been
to church in over 3 years and is married to a nonmember and has a kid who is
baptismal age but isn’t baptized. She the bought us lunch and invited us over
to teach her family! *Miracle #2*
LOVE IT!!! Other than that, it was a
pretty slow day.
Thursday, March 14, 2013 – Today was Zone Conference
in Turlock so the North 4 zones all met together. It was nice to see some of my
MTC friends! Elders Chandler and Drapeau were there and Sis. Pratte! They’re
all doing great! Zone Conference was great
though!! I learned a lot about how to be more effective when teaching and to
always ‘teach to a commitment’ so ‘the plane has somewhere to land’. We have
some great missionaries in our mission! Also, President Gelwix made the
announcement that the First Presidency has stated that missionaries are now
allowed to email anyone except members of the opposite sex who are living
within or near our mission boundaries. And we have an hour and a half to do
it!!!
Friday, March 15, 2013 – So, we taught a
prostitute... Modesto is officially the strangest place I have ever been! But
let me explain. Remember Aaron? The black guy who holds a Bible study at his
house? Well he’s a super good guy and is letting 3 people who he didn’t even
know live in his house because they didn’t have a place to live. And two of
them (boy & girl) are dating/married and the girl is a prostitute...
Sketchy. We’re teaching them all the Gospel though! We set a baptismal date with
Aaron for April 13th! We also taught a woman named Sylvia. I think
I’ve told you about her. She wants us to come over for dinner next week! She’s
awesome! We had dinner tonight with Br. And Sis. McGuffin... Very funny people.
They’re both in their 80’s and Br. McGuffin is SUPER gone. He has
suffered from severe dementia for quite a few years (which is good because he
used to be anti-mormon but when he got dementia, his wife had him baptized!
Probably illegal...) He’s really funny though. Also, as we
were riding our bikes, we saw a sign in front of a church (kinda like the one
on Lindsay and Desert Lane) that said “Bet on the Man riding the donkey”. I
died laughing!
Saturday, March 16, 2013 – Today was a rough day. A
lot of people don’t like us and as I was wondering, “Why?! What have we done
wrong?!” I realized that the world is just a crazy place. And at least they
aren’t beating and crucifying us... Who am I to complain about people being a
little rude to us?? Oh well. Their loss. We rode around and saw (at least tried
to see) all 20 of our investigators
to invite them out to church! Hopefully we’ll have some show up! No real
lessons today. Sad day. I’m just out of it! I’m not used to getting so little
sleep! I need at least 10 hrs/night! Okay maybe 9... Anyways, we had
dinner with the Gagon’s... I don’t know if I told you about them... But they’re
crazy... Absolutely crazy. But they love us. But yeah, this week has just been
different. I don’t like it. Haha
Sunday, March 17, 2013 – The days are FLYING by! Holy cow... Today we had a
missionary farewell. Her name is Alexis and she is going to Argentina, Cordova.
She gave an awesome talk and it was even more perfect because Curtis was there!
He really enjoyed church! After church, we had dinner with the
Taylor/Whipple/Priebs family (three families in our ward that are related to
each other)! It reminded me a lot of home to have so many people in one house!
Also, it was my second time eating Corned beef and cabbage... The first time
was yesterday! It’s not bad, but I probably wouldn’t ever make it! (Don’t worry Mom. I didn’t tell them
that!) The rest of the night was spent visiting less active members and recent
converts! Getting to know them and asking (more like ‘begging’) for referrals. Which
reminds me, give the missionaries referrals!! You’ll make their day! Also, I
kinda count this as writing in my journal so please keep these Thanks! Love ya! Bye!!
Love, Elder Zachary Evan Bushman
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