July 21, 2025

 I got kicked out of Brooklyn and got transferred to the bronx


Ive actually been in the bronx for a couple weeks now ive just been really bad at sending out emails
There really isn't that many good excuses to not send one out so i will just say im sorry and try to move on and be better


The new apartment im staying in now is crawling with bugs 

Why me.



I have probably doubled the stat in my life for the amount of roaches i have ever killed.

Im getting pretty good at it 

But it's not enough 

For every one of their soldiers i kill there are twice as many reinforcements being made 


Anyways on to the stuff you are hopefully wanting to hear about

The work here is really good
We baptized this super cool guy named rasheed on Saturday, and we were able to confirm him a member on sunday!
The crazy story about him is that he was being taught in this area before i got here, but he fell out of contact and stopped keeping commitments so they stopped teaching him months ago...
But we just get a call from a random number one day and it was him! He was calling from his apartments office phone and he said he didn’t have a working phone anymore but he still was interested in working with us so he could get blessing from God! He said he would come in for a study... and the next day he actually showed up to the church!
We couldn't believe it! So we made a plan with him to come to the church pretty much every day because we had no other way of contacting him.. and even though he lives 30 minutes away he showed up to every return appointment...! Talk about being seriously committed 
The day of his baptism we didn’t have a study with him for 2 whole days so we had no idea if he was still coming but even though he had no contact for 48 hours... he showed up and got the blessings from God he had been looking for 
I testify the prayer works! 
There is so much more to this story, like the fact that i had to slap a cup of coffee out of his had 10 minutes before his baptism but hey this email is already like twice as long as normal... 

My new comp is also so awesome 
He is Italian, and let me tell you something... ive never had better homemade food on the mission 
But hes really funny and he is still perfecting his english.. so we have alot of great and hilarious times

I have lots of pictures to upload because its been so long since the last email... 
so if you want 




Anyways next time i will get a bomb spiritual thought in...

But for now i love all of you guys 

Elder Bush 

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