Woot to the woot!

Dear Familia!

What a week :) Sister Burton and I gave away 31 Books of Mormon this week and it has been a blast, crazy, exhausting, but delightful and never a dull moment. Ha ha! Sister Burton got proposed to by a homeless man and oh I was laughing so hard.  Earlier this week this car was turning at the intersection while we were waiting to cross and this black kid shouted out to us, "Hey White Girls." It was sooooo funny! We got a good kick out of it! 

Let's see what else... we talk to people all the time and we've had some sweet/neat experiences with a lot of people, sorry it's hard to even know which one to share, Victoria or Steve or Tim or Rakisha or Morgan or Jasmine or Edward, it's been neat! 

Before I forget I wanted to share a quote from our ward mission leader who is just soooo awesome. Brother Lewis is a Marine (or in the army?), but at one of our meetings he said, "The more you sweat in training the less you bleed in battle." It is so true with missionary work, the better and more I study from Preach My Gospel the more confident and secure I am and the more I testify to people about the essentials. That's been really nice here in the city, since we usually only have a few minutes with people.  Sometimes people will talk to us for 30 minutes or an hour. I have worked on testifying more about the Book of Mormon. I have been striving to use it more and it is amazing the miracles that come about from sharing scripture verses with people.  I have stopped asking people if I can share a scripture with them and I just pull out the Book of Mormon and say, "Oh what you just said reminds me of this...." and I share whatever scripture that relates and it's really cool to see what the spirit can do when I get out of the way. There was a man we talked to on a park bench and after a good chat Sister Burton pulled out a Book of Mormon and said a lot of good things and asked if she could give this man the book. He said no thanks and I just opened up the Book and said there's a scripture I'd like to share (I think it was Alma 24:14) and I testified and after Sister Burton asked, "Are you sure you don't want it?" And it was awesome because he said, "Alright, you sold me, I can't say no to that, I'll give it a chance." I LOVE THE SPIRIT! It's great what it can do.

I know it must be a fun adjustment for everyone with every member being a missionary and although the transition might be uncomfortable it doesn't have to be! It's really easy being a member missionary because you don't have to feel pressured in giving your neighbors a Book of Mormon and expecting them to immediately come to church. Just keep being your natural selves and invite them for activities and know that every effort counts and be open to letting the spirit guide every situation and interaction because opportunities will arise for you to testify or just naturally talk about beliefs.  It will be fun for me to transition too - that will be so werid.  Ahhhh!!!  It's going by way too fast, this is crazy!!!! Anywho while it's on my mind, I want to keep it a goal of mine to at least give 1 Book of Mormon away a week when I'm home and I want you to all hold me to that. Ah, let's not talk about that though, I love home, but I also love being here. 

By the way, I had a really sweet experience this morning in my "sacred grove" prayer (a 10 minute out loud pray before personal study) and I'm nervous and I cried but I know it's time and it's been on my mind the majority of my mission. I prayed to Heavenly Father for Him to give me a mountain not only for my faith and my relationship with Him, but because I know it's time to pray for that and that Heavenly Father wanted me to. I don't know what it is that is going to happen, but I felt at peace and I know that Heavenly Father will be with me every step of the way. I cried and expressed that I am scared to Him but not at the same time because I felt His love so strong and again that this is time. I remember earlier on my mission when I prayed for more faith, but I stated clearly to Him that I wasn't asking for a mountain because I remember President Erying's talk from a while ago where he shared his praying for a mountain experience and how hard it was, but his testimony of the Savior was beautiful. 

Anywho after that pray and plenty of tears I opened up my scriptures and it was cool that my study was in Alma 32 and encourage ya'll to read it :) It's a lovely read and I think the biggest thing I got from all of my study was the power of believing, "I CAN." I know with God WE CAN do anything. There is so much inspiration when realizing I CAN and the power that brings, but even more so when there are moments where we all feel like we can't, we KNOW and should REMEMBER, Christ CAN, He Can and that is why WE CAN. 

I love you all so much and I've gotta go but I will write more about Sister Burton and everything next time and will share more stories. Oh I know these are people from my last area but will you continue to pray for Alicia Benally and Juan Herrera and Bridgette Herrera. Ah gotta go! 

I love you I love you, and God loves you! 

Love, 

Sister Bush