Loved ones!
First off before anything else, I have felt your prayers and love like none other, I am sooooooooooooo grateful for you all and have truly been strengthen this week by your love.
My toe surgery was fast and they did both my big left toe and little toe next to the big one. The most painful part was the shots they put in my toes to numb them but other than that it was fine. They did give me medicine for pain that makes me really drowsy so I'm not a big fan of that but things are going great. I personally think Dr. Young is a much better Doctor but no worries I'm good and walking, the first few days were a tad painful but I'm doing much better.
The picture of me with the My Little Pony, was a Christmas present I got from another Elder in the area. Yeah, apparently I reminded him of the pony pinkie pie...has anyone ever heard of a Bronnie? Neither had I until last transfer when I was a Sister Training Leader and they had at one of our meetings/conferences a discussion about helping fellow missionaries get rid of Pokemon playing cards and other childish things such as my little pony stuff. So a Bronnie is a man that likes the story line of my little pony and they make up their own stories and draw the ponies and make up different ponies and are basically men that like my little pony but they are serious about it. So you can imagine how surprised I was and the awkwardness of trying to be polite and kind when I opened this... yeah that was probably one of the most uncomfortable feelings I have ever had on my mission but entertaining none the less!!! Tee hee
Oh and other funny business that I wish I had my camera when I saw this but Sister Kitchen and I were finding a less actives house and the area we were in had all of these street names Dad would absolutely love and these are real street names, they had... Tournament Dr, Sandtrap Dr, Golfers Way, Green turf, and bunch of other street signs that I was wishing I had my camera, it was awesome! A lot of houses here in Brooksville having golf courses as backyards and golf courses running down the middle and in between houses as part of the living complex. It's pretty cool.
Ok, on that note, things have been a lot better. And I wanted to apologize for venting so much in my last email, I felt really bad because I realized I need to be a representative of Christ and I had gotten a really nice email from President Barfuss and in part of it he said... "One simple rule for missionary happiness and missionary success is this: In all that you do, in all that you say, in all that you think and in the manner you serve, always emulate the Savior."
I realize that how I had emailed about things last week wasn't the best way to go about things and I wanted to say I'm sorry. I am going to strive to emulate the Savior a lot more and it's easier to have patience and focus on what I can do on my part. Yesterday in church I had a really good realization of how simple it all is and that anything positive is from God and anything negative is from the adversary. It is that simple, so I'm working on this week that whenever I take something personally or take something that Sister Kitchen does in the wrong way I can see the source of where that is coming from. God is a God of love and will only encourage those kind of thoughts and what not. Life is a lot more simpl if we approach it at the angle of thinking about what the Savior would do. We are all so much better then how we act sometimes, we are so much greater then what we choose to do as well and luckily the Savior and God sees that so shouldn't we? So again I am really sorry in what and how I choose to write about last week and hope to be better at that. And sorry for the my little pony paragraph too, now that I think about it. :D
Thursday we had exchanges with Hermana Birch and Hermana Larsen and can I just say they are the Perfect Sister missionaries!!! They are the best examples of what missionaries should be like. They both came to our area which is the first time I've ever had that happened and we basically went on splits. I love LOVE love Hermana Birch and am so grateful for her, we had an amazing conversation and I have found a wonderful friendship. She means the world to me and we had so many amazing experiences on exchanges and the spirit was SO strong!!!!!! It was nuts, on Friday we were seeing a part member family, the dad isn't a member and is only in town for 2 weeks and then goes back to Texas for work and is usually gone for months at a time. I love this family. Anywho, he came out from under the sink that he was putting in and started talking to us and came and joined the lesson. It was soooo cool!!!! He kept trying to figure out how he knew Hermana Birch (after we had had a discussion about prayer and different scripture verses) and she said, "I'll tell you how I know you, I knew you before this life and I promised you that I would find you and bring you the gospel." The spirit was so strong and he started to cry and she told him that he was going to get baptized and become a Mormon. It was epic!!! And I was crying and the mother and daughter were just beaming. He said the prayer and at the end of his prayer thanked Heavenly Father for us and as he was saying that his voice got choked up and he started to cry and ended the prayer. There are no coincidences that the Hermanas came and did exchanges with us at the time that not only did Sister Kitchen and I need it, but that they were here conveniently at the time this man would be visiting his family! God has a plan for us all!!! I am so grateful for the Hermanas they helped Sister Kitchen and I feel loved and amazing. I think that's what we need in life, to be able to have someone see us as who we really are and then we feel like we can do great things. That's a big thing I'm learning this transfer is I need to see how God sees me and go off of that love, be motivated by His love and truth. Hermana Birch also told me that ever since she first saw me (at a Sister conference when President Summerhays was here) bear my testimony she just thought wow, I don't know what it is about Sister Bush but there is something really special about her. I am so grateful for her, things like that make a world of difference for people. We need to say what we feel more often to people, because that really helped me. Oh and I'm not getting after anyone by the way just saying it in general and that's what I learned and need to do more. Anywho she also said that she's had a companionship similar to mine before and how it's a great learning period and will work out and that we're together for a reason and that Sister K needs me right now. I just love her and she is amazing, I swear she is going to be the next general relief society president or something, she is a powerhouse and oh it was so sweet at the Decasta's (the part member family with the dad), Brother Decasta looked at her as we were leaving and said, "you're seeing something now aren't you?" And it was super cool because she told me after in the car she was seeing that family in white and going to the temple together. It was so cool! Oh and she is so bold told Brother Decasta after she gave him her email, "I want you to send me pictures of your baptism." It was great.
Sister Kitchen and I were able to meet with him last night and with the Bishop and he opened up to us a ton. I was astonished to hear some of the things he had been through and am still baffled. I think that is probably the hardest thing I have heard since I have been on my mission, but I'm grateful for the Love of God that is manifested for him, he has amazing things planned for him which helped him survive and keep sane from some of things he went through growing up with a corrupt and despicable step dad. The stories were disturbing and I won't talk about it, but again I am grateful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ who has conquered every evil thing in this world and I am so excited for the Justice that will come about in the last days.Ok, this email is really long and I better send it, I will have to write more about the other miracles we had happened and the ones Sister Kitchen and Hermana Larsen had as well.
Oh and one of the pictures is of me and Sister Skeem, I love her, she is serving in Dade City and she wrote me the sweetest note in my notebook at district meeting last week, she is the best.
Anywho, I love this gospel and know it is true, I am grateful for the miracles coming about and love the heat of a refiners fire. Oh and again things are a lot better, Sister Kitchen has been a lot happier which makes me happy to see. Woot, we are going to go see live mermaids in Weeki Wachee for P-day. :D Have a wonderful day I LOVE YOU and can't wait to write about the new investigator we found and what not.
Love,Sister Tasha Bush
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