Dear Family,
I got my new companion this past Wednesday, his name is Elder Rees. He is from an island off Washington, called Bane Bridge its just outside of Seattle. He has two older brothers who are from a different dad, and one sister who is 18. I think his two older brothers are 25, and 22. His two older brothers are not active in the church. His parents are currently divorced and he is the first person in his family to serve a mission. He is 19 years old. As you know he just left the MTC last Tuesday. It has been pretty tough training a new missionary. I have been doing most if not all of the talking with our investigators. I have been trying my best to train him the ways of a missionary. He did do one thing. He successfully invited our investigator Tina Burns and her daughter to be baptized. They gladly and excitedly accepted the date for April 20th. They were at church yesterday, too. They said it was different, how we have people from the congregation go up and talk and she enjoyed it. We also finished teaching Ricky Holman all the lessons that you need to learn before you get baptized. He is very excited to get baptized but it is all up to his mother. She has to give him permission to be baptized. We went through the baptismal interview questions and he could answer all of them. We lost our car this past week because another set of missionary's needed the car. One of them had his knee replaced so he cant ride a bike. We are stuck on bike every other week. We still get the car for this week so I'm pretty excited for that. We haven't been able to get to some of our investigators because they are just too far away. The members here are not very missionary minded. We haven't been able to get in with the Romanian family since last Saturday. Anna, the Grandmother with three grandchildren, has been sick. Gilbert our investigator who is married to a member is still struggling with some of the things that our church does like, excommunication. He doesn't think that it is right. We did find another investigator. He is an African American man named Joseph. He is ready for change in his life and is excited to hear our message. We have an appointment with him tonight.
We had a miracle happen this week. I decided to go and see one our former investigators Jackie Gholston. On our way walking to her house instead of turning down the normal street we went a different way. On our way to her house we had this Mexican man with a long beard wave at us and tell us to stop. He turned around and we talked to him. Turns out that his Mother-in-law had just passed away a few minutes ago and that he was on his way home from the hospital. It ended up that he was an endowed member of the church but hasn't gone to church in many years. His mother-in- law is an endowed member as well. He had know clue how to properly bury his mother-in-law and was praying for guidance and comfort as to what to do. As soon as he was done with this prayer in his heart he looked up and saw us walking down the street. He started to cry while he was talking to us as he recognized us as messengers of the Lord. He told us he wants to go back to church. Long story short we ended up figuring everything out that he needed to do later that night.
Heavenly Father is severely grieved with the thought of even one of his children being lost. We just need to reach out to him for help. He will do everything in his power to bring us back. Just like the parables of the lost sheep, or the lost coin, or the prodigal son.
Love you all and hope you have a great week. Things are still going good here on the mission.
Love Elder Buhler. HAPPY EASTER!!
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| Maybe Georgia peach trees in the background? |
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| Elder Buhler's cat helping with the Easter basket |
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| Elder Buhler's address |
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