January 29, 2019

Hello everyone! I feel like it's been ages since I wrote an email out to all of you.... probably cuz it has been! Yes i am still alive haha 

A quick little Sister Bush update:

1) I'm still helplessly in love with missionary work! 

2) I'm still serving in Sidney Nebraska! I get to teach the faithful people who drive 2 hours just to come to church, serve others by helping blanket their horses when it gets too cold, be told my religion is satanic, play bingo with the hilarious people in the old folks home, try lots of delicious Ecuadorian food, study come follow me with the families in our ward and talk to literally everyone I see about Jesus Christ! The list of crazy and awesome things i get to experience every day could go on and on. See why I'm so in love with my life right now?

3) Plus also, I am now training a new missionary, her name is Hermana Escobar. That's right, she's a spanish sister! She is from Ecuador and is super sweet, cool and hardworking!! We started teaching a spanish family and so my mission president sent her out here so that they can keep learning and growing in the gospel. I will miss my two companions but am happy for the difference they will keep making in people's lives!! 

And 4) I found a new favorite scripture this week! 

Sometimes we feel like we need to know everything about the gospel to follow Christ. That just isn't true. The gospel is simple. The scripture I found this week only has 24 words in it and I think it perfectly sums up His whole entire gospel. 

"Thus we may see that the Lord is merciful unto all who will, in the sincerity of their hearts, call upon his holy name." (Helaman 3:27) 

His gospel is simple, and it is simple to live. We don't have to know everything, understand all the fancy words, interpret all the parables or be able to explain the words of Isaiah. The Lord is merciful to all who sincerely call upon His holy name. I've come to know that is true! Especially this week. His gospel is a gospel of LOVE. It is that simple. I know that no matter what is going on in your life, you can turn to Him. It is simple. He is merciful unto all who sincerely come to Him. I know that in my heart to be true. He loves you

Thanks for listening/reading! I hope you are doing well and I hope you have the greatest of great weeks (: 

Sister Bush 

December 11, 2018

Hello all! 

I have made some pretty darn good memories these past couple weeks. 

Highlights include buying a lopsided Christmas tree from the thrift store, cuddling with puppies, attending sweet Jaydens baptism, making (and tasting) fudge, bearing testimony of Jesus Christ to a woman who feels lost, handing out free hot chocolate to tell people about light the world, being bitten by a baby devil dog and serving as many people as I can! I'm so grateful to be a missionary! 

This week I was pondering what it means to give as He gave and serve as He served. I found an example in the bible about Christ healing a woman with an issue of blood. In this story, found in Luke 8:41-48, Christ is asked to come heal a girl who is dying. He is heading there to perform this miracle and is surrounded by a crowd. As he walks through the crowd, a woman touches the hem of his clothes and Christ feels power go out of Him. He asks who touched Him. The woman tells Him that she touched Him because she has been sick for 12 years with a disease. She has spent all her money on doctors and is left on the streets. Christ then takes the time to comfort her and tell her that it is by faith that she has been made whole. This beautiful story teaches about faith and healing, but it also teaches us about service. Christ was already on his way to go heal someone who was close to death! Talk about important. But even though He was busy and on His way to do this very important miracle, He stopped to take the time with this woman and serve her. I love this because it meant the world to her! We are never too busy to serve. If anyone was busy and had important things to do, Christ did. But He always took the time to serve. Give as He gave by taking a minute or two out of your busy schedule to serve someone this week! Who knows, you just may light their world. 

"To the world you may just be one person, but to one person you may mean the world!" 

Sincerely, 

Sister Bush 

Ps! I'm being transferred to Sidney Nebraska! I will miss Casper Wyoming and sister Van Camp dearly, but I know that Sidney is where the Lord wants me to serve right now (: