Dear Friends and Family,
It has been great this past week. I got my new companion on Wednesday
and I am very excited for this transfer. We have been doing heaps of
biking! I love it. I barely got to bike at all last transfer. My new
companion is from Bunderburg in Queensland. It is where they make
ginger beer. It is really popular in Australia and they sell it here
and there in the states.
One experience we had the other day was pretty cool. We were biking
around and had biked probably 15 miles during the day and when we were
about to go back home, we ran into a kid who was walking home from
school. He had already met with missionaries before but he wasn’t on
the records. He said he might be a little interested so we are going
to see him sometime this week to hopefully teach him. We were
surprised that he was that willing to talk to us.
We also went to a member’s house earlier this week and on the way, we
saw a guy who had just gotten home from shopping and offered to talk
to us for a minute. We talked about his beliefs and he mentioned that
his wife had been to Utah and talked to sister missionaries at the
Salt Lake Temple. It was really cool and he offered to feed us
sometime (which doesn’t usually happen when you street contact
someone).
It has been a fun week but hopefully there will be more going on this
week. We still have people who said they would be coming to the art
class so that will be good. Unfortunately, however, we won’t get to do
painting near the beach because the mission president said that we
shouldn’t be doing it. He didn’t give a very definite reason, but I
know that he is inspired so we are going to follow his counsel.
I love you all. Keep doing your best to do what god wants us to do!
Love
Elder Joshua Butts