So Happy!

Hello Helloa Familita!

What a wonderful week. :) Can I just say again that I love being on a mission!!! Ah, so awesome. Sister Howard and I have definitely had a change of pace but we get along great and I love our mission President and Sister Cusick, they are the best. 

So, ha ha I never know what to share, things happen so fast here and miracles left and right, big and small. Hmmm, oh this happened a while ago, but I love it!

Once upon a time (before Sister Jenkins was transferred) we were driving home for dinner and on our way home there was a car with it's hazard lights on stuck in the turn single at a light and with a young woman who obviously didn't look very happy. I'm really glad Sister Jenkins said something, because if she hadn't I would have.  She asked if we should help the woman in the car and of course Sister Howard and I said yes, turn around. So we went and asked her what if she need help and she said her car ran out of gas. We parked the car, got out and helped move her car over and off the road, 2 random guys pulled over and helped as well. They offered to buy her gas and she gave them $20.00 and guess what? They never came back, punks, but they seemed high off of something anyways when they helped push the car (ha ha random side note there). Anywho, we gave her (Nikki) a Book of Mormon, our phone number and said a prayer with her. We told her to text us if the boys didn't return and we bore our testimonies of the Book of Mormon. We then went to a gas station and bought a small thing of gas and took it back to her while she was waiting for her friends to come. It was awesome, because while we went to get the gas and when we came back her friends were there and she told us while she had been waiting for them she read the Book! She had read to 1 Nephi 12 and loved it!  We said another prayer for her friends and gave them Book of Mormons too and it was just an awesome experience. Nikki, said she was really interested in learning, we got her address and turns out she's in the Elders area - argggg! But she's golden and they are to be the ones teaching her even though she wants us to teach her, ha ha!  I firmly believe that there are no coincidences in life and there is a reason for almost everything. :)

Anywho why I share this story is because it is something that ANY ONE can do! Have a Book of Mormon on you always and God will provide a way for His word to be shared with those we meet. It was a beautiful experience and she is definitely prepared. There are millions prepared and we can deliver the gospel to all those around us in a natural normal way. Just by being kind, by doing a simple act of service, in the simple way of "paying it forward." Through these moments we often don't realize what golden opportunities they are provided for us by God to give someone an opportunity to learn about Salvation. Even if they don't accept it then they will later! Everyone's process is different but your piece or act of kindness is part of that process that will eventually effect the bigger process and picture of that person's life and decisions.  

Another cool experience that really touched my heart was hearing the talk of one of the recent converts we visit (she's been a member for almost a year now), Sister Katrina Price. She shared the touching story of God trying to get a message across to her in her life and she finally seeing it. She was praying for help from Heavenly Father with struggles she was working through and found more and more that she needed to do things on her part. So she bargained with Heavenly Father that she'd do better on her prayers and start reading her scriptures like the Sister Missionaries told her to do (tee hee that was us!) if He'd help certain things work out. She was trying and started to see the difference more and more but was still struggling. She always was praying for this little boy she was helping, she works for an adoption agency and works on foster kids cases and trys to help them get adopted. Well this one 10 year old boy in particular she was working on his information and the parents that were fostering him were great but had promised each other that any of the foster kids they fostered they wouldn't adopt. She was visiting the 10 year old boy who use to be horrible and had a lot of problems but had really changed. She asked him what it was that had changed him and he said "I let Jesus into my Heart." She then asked him what would be an ideal world to him and he said to be adopted by his foster parents. It broke her heart because she knew the promise the couple had made. Anywho this boys message struck her so deeply and she realized that is what she needed to do more fully in her life. So she started reading family scriptures more and praying more and things changed and have improved for her. And happy news! As she prayed for this little 10 year old boy, she got a phone call from the foster parents and they had decided to adopt him! Isn't the love of God beautiful! 

Goodness, I only have 5 minutes but I know that if we let Christ be the center of our lives everything else will fall into place, with ourselves, with our families, with our lives. "All that is unfair about life can be made right through the Atonement of Jesus Christ," (preach my gospel). 

I love you all so much and I love Christ and I love my mission, why? Because why not! Life is wonderful and we can CHOOSE it to be so. I love you all so much, I love God and never Forget you are a CHILD OF GOD :) ha ha Love you so much!

Love,

Sister Bush