Elder Micah Bush

  Hello everyone  Its been sometime Sorry with all the missed weeks but just wanted to write an email saying that the mission is going great Ive been learning alot! Its been some fun time I think one good thing ive realized recently is that sometimes when life gets really hard or you are going through a trial or whatever it may be... just remember that God is pushing you And at first i was confused why God would be pushing me, i would even say in my prayers stuff like "i dont understand why you are pushing me and stretching me so much"  But its vital that we remember that he is pushing us in a certain direction  I believe that the direction he pushes us is forward  This has been helpful recently  Starting to come to more of an understanding on how this mission will help me grow  Still miss rocket league tho.... The work has been nice tho! Helping some recently baptized friends of mine go to the temple! Ariel, Cedric and Rasheed! So amazing to see these...

 Good day everyone  New york is weird. The work has been moving along People have been coming to church And we have been working super hard in this area Something that has been really helping me out recently has been changing my mindset from  "i still have to be in new york for 18 more months" ...to "i only have 18 more months to help these people here" It seems like that is kind of an obvious thing to change.. but its definitely something ive been working on and still need to improve on Not having to most successful start of my mission pushes me to try and work hard because i really want to make a difference and i limited time left here. Here are some awesome quotes from a talk i just discovered  "Why should I speak to anyone about the gospel who seems content? What danger is there to them or to me if I do or say nothing?  Well, the danger may be hard to see, but it is real, both for them and for us. For instance, at some moment in the world to come, everyone ...

  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.....

  I was dreading this day I knew it was coming though  Ive heard the stories of missionaries getting destroyed by birds... sometimes these stories kept me up at night The fateful day final came... I was fulfilling my purpose on the streets one day... and then it happened  A bird choose me as the place where it wanted to release its meal Sorry its been a long time since I sent one of these! Its been a busy transfer so far! Alot of success and a lot of failures  Its been so fun to learn how to take the next steps as a missionary  We have been working with so many cool people! So hopefully we will see some people making covenants soon... New companion elder gurr, is so funny  He knows so much deep doctrine its fun to have late night conversations with him, this also makes him one of the best teachers ive seen  Anyways just wanted to give a little uodate and let yall know im still breathing  https://photos.app.goo.gl/ sLSPmjCSafi2kN9N7 Miss yall ...

  Hey everyone i am finishing my second transfer this week! That means i will be out of training... i still feel like i just got here And im still struggling to get a grasp of the basics of this work im supposed to do. That doesn't mean i haven't been trying my hardest. Trust me ive been putting my all into learning how to improve, im starting to think maybe im over thinking everything and should remember that if i try my best to be diligent God will help complete the rest I feel like im being stretched  That is good  Because i dont want to stay the same  Even though its hard. Anyways we are teaching some super cool people!  There is this guy that we met last week and he is so cool  Andrew is such an awesome person, he works for the Yankees! And he wants us to come to a game with him, but sadly we have to keep telling him we cant while we are missionaries here He is a little older but super humble! He even came to church and loved it  He does have alot...

  Lets gooooooo  Yessir its elder bush back with another super short email  Alot has happened since the last time I emailed so i will try to remember as much as i can... My new companion who i haven't talked much about is so chill, and its very nice to have a comp that is super chill Not that my old comp wasn't, im just very grateful that i haven't gotten a super strict one yet... but i know it will happen soon  My comp (elder tatton) is the district leader so its weird to be what the mission calls a district leader wife He is very good at missionary work  But sometimes this makes me remember of how much more room i have to grow... Im not comparing me to my comp that much, its just that i want to be as good as him one day but i dont know how to do that yet... there are many skills i need to work on! I think it probably just comes with constant effort and alot of time  Anyways its been so good to try to learn from him Hes a dawg Its has been warming up here ...

  Lets gooooo everybody its elda bush!! This will just be a short email to tell yall that im still alive and doing pretty good   Even though im doing ok out here it is still very rough and hard, i think i am not that smart because im still learning how to do this thing called missionary work. I have much work to do and room to grow  We got some crazy news that our zone conference this week is going to have so many missionaries there! Our zone conference will be combined with 4 zones! There is probably going to be some pictures next week with some past friends! so thats exciting https://photos.app.goo.gl/ sLSPmjCSafi2kN9N7 Many stories and pictures from this past week but i can't fit them all in this short email so just know its very busy out here in Brooklyn! I have also a small spiritual thought! Because it was holy week last week it was a great reminder that HE IS RISEN! I hope you all had a great easter and a wonderful week! Miss you all  Elder Bush