May 25, 2026

 The last few weeks have been very interesting 

I love manhatten but i also hate it 


Its a complicated relationship.



Let me tell yall a few highlights...
We got to be part of our friends baptism her name is rachel
Rachel is what you might call a golden investigator or what we say one of the elect haha 
Alot of the time i will be working super hard and try to do missionary work my way 
When i say doing missionary work my way i mean that i have a bad habit of working with people that have no desire and are not progressing, i just think that if we just keep working with people they will eventually gain some sort of desire... 
alot of the time people fall through but rachel truly was prepared by God 
Literally our first conversation was insane.
We bumped into her on the street and she told my comp elder hansen that she had already been reading the book of mormon on her own and she said "oh yeah and i want to be baptized into your church.." bro what.
Crazy story but i guess the field really is white and ready to harvest 
Sometimes its a nice reminder to stop doing missionary work my way and let God do his thing.

One of the recent converts that we have been working with is so cool
His name is Justin and he is a 6'5 nonchalant Dominican that is way to cool to be hanging with the mormons lollllll
Bro has already been to the temple 3 times since being baptized 3 months ago
We have been working with him to get his patriarchal blessing, he actually met with the bishop about it yesterday at church and he is almost ready apparently, bro is so hype.

Also the members in this area are super awesome 
We have basically a weekly member meal with this very nice older couple who cook fantastic food and always send us away with leftovers 
This is crazy for the nyc mission everywhere i go its always a struggle with the member relations 
But the Nelsons are super awesome and i cant wait to come back to ny and visit them

Sorry if this is a short email but alot of our other friends that we have been working with are on and off so storys are not over yet 

God bless yall

Love 
Elder Bush


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