I am writing a day late because we had interviews with President yesterday and so we had to change our pday to today. It seems like so much has happened here in El Salvador this week and yet nothing much has happened at all. Last pday we went bowling with the zone. It was a lot of fun and I was whooping everyone with my top score of 86. Actually I got 2nd place because my district leader scored an 87. Watch out, we might start a bowling team. But it was really fun and it was nice to get out of the missionary rut. Today we have exciting news. Carlos Mojica, an investigator from Chalchuapa, is getting baptized today and the zone leaders invited us to go to the baptism and so we are leaving to go down to Chalchuapa at 12 and we are going to go to the ruins and then go to the baptism. I am really excited. Carlos told the Elders that he wanted me to be there. . That made me feel good because as a missionary you learn to love the people you teach but you don't really know what they think about you or if you really have made an impact in their lives. Another cool thing about Carlos is that he read the whole Book of Mormon.
We have a really positive family that we are teaching. There is a mom, dad and 3 sons (ages 17, 13 and 4). The mom said that when she had here first son, she always wanted him to be Mormon and serve a mission. Kind of a strange request but it works for us. The whole family is going to come to church tomorrow. The 13 year old is cool too because he reads all the pamphlets and is reading in his Book of Mormon. The mom has her strange rituals and every night she prays for guidance and then opens up the Bible randomly and read a bit. So she did it with the Book of Mormon. She prayed to ask if the things that we were teaching were true and if we were truly messengers of the word of God. Then she opened the Book of Mormon and read Alma 18:30-35. She said that was an answer to here prayer and now she knows that it is true. The dad is a little more difficult and he believes in all religions and has done a lot of research about world religions. He believes everything we say and says that the last thing that Christ said on the cross were words in Quiche (the ancient Mayan language). He said that Christ said words in this language and no one could understand what he said. I thought that was interesting although I had never heard that theory before.
We are also teaching the brother of Alejandro and David who were baptized in July. His name is Luis. He is great and he a baptism date for the 28th of August. Woohoo! He is so cool and he has been to church once.
We went to the dentist this week. I have one filling and it started to feel funny. I thought that I had a popcorn kernel stuck in my teeth but finally I realized that it was my filling. So I went to the dentist. He said that I had some cavities but I don´t know how much of that I believed. Health care is super cheap here and it cost 20 bucks to see the doctor and to change my filling. When we went to the dentist they need to know your whole name and we tried to tell them that we only have 3 names. They didn´t believe us so we gave in and everywhere I went I was known as Cristal (because they spelled it wrong) Ann Bush Brady. It made me giggle.
So this week are transfers. And as expected, I am staying put. But I am really excited about transfers because Hermana Cash, my trainer, is coming to work in Las Palmeras! If you didn´t remember, there are 4 sisters in our ward. Hermana Woods and I are still going to be together but the other two sisters are both leaving the area and Hermana Cash and a relatively new Latina are going to be in the other part of Las Palmeras. We all share a house so I am really excited. Hermana Schmidt is leaving the mission soon so after this week we will be back down to two in the companionship.
I love you all and I am really loving the mission. I love my Savior and I know that church has been restored again to the earth. I know that there is a living prophet. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and is proof of the love of God for all the people on earth and is proof that the gospel has been restored.
Love you!
Hermana Bush
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