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Father's Day

happy (day after) fathers day!!

goodmorning family!!

this week went by in a flash! I seriously do not understand how that keeps happening! But its true what they say...time flies when youre having fun! and thats really what i have been having! Dont get me wrong its a lot of hard work out here and i am dead tired at the end of the day but Its always a fun day! Me and Sister White really like to make sure our mission work is fun! We are getting along really well and continue to get closer. Its pretty cool to watch someone be one of your best friends in just a short amount of time! we kid around and say that this means im going to be cursed with sucky companions the rest of my mission because i started out with such a good one again!

This week we got to meet with a lot of our investigators and a lot of our less actives! We have a two families of three right now that we are teaching and they are progressing SO well! I swear they know more doctorine that me! haha One of the families already accepted an invitation to be baptized but are waiting until their adoptions are final (have i already mentioned this?) but they are the sweetest family ever! They always give us bags of food and the kids give the BIGGEST hugs! I love going to go see them! The other family we are teaching are super great! we spent a good chunk of saturday helping ashliegh (the wife..shes 25) making minnie mouse decorations for her 2 year olds birthday party this sunday! She started playing drake and rhianna for a while and not gonna lie it was pretty weird to hear it... me and sister white both agreed that it totally took away the spirirt and made it hard for us to keep our converstations chirst centered with her. It was a sucky experience to have those feelings leave but it was also really cool to gain a deeper understanding of the rules set in place for us. It makes me very grateful and a little more receptive to all the strict guidelines Presidant Morgan has set for us. Still we felt like we had to clean our ears out and motab as soon as we got into our car hahah. 

Fathers day came and passed SO quick! again, im sorry i keep saying things are going by so quick haha. Dad, i was told you got my little package!! I hope you liked it! the card totally sums up where i am serving and the people here agreed haha! Sacrament meeting on sunday was a bit different from what its like at home. Our earthly fathers werent really talked about and it was all focused on our Heavenly Father! it was pretty cool because it was confirming a lot to my prayers i had the previous week! One of the cool things that was focused on was that we are Gods work. He focus' on nothing but us! and that his love is perfect towards us. One of the speakers has us imagine returning to our Heavenly Father and approaching him at judgment day. I had alsways pictured my return to God would be him wrapping his arms around me and welcoming me back but never imagined what he would do during my judgment. The speaker went on to say that our Heavenly Father will take us in our arms and wont spend this time rebuking us but turn to the savior and allow him to take our past sins from us. Could you imagine that! We are going to remember every short coming we have had during our earthly life and Heavenly Father isnt going to be there and shake his finger at us but continue to express his love for us! I thought it was pretty cool to reflect on. Later in sacrament the primary kids sang and i know i should of been focusing on papa pancho during the songs but all i thought about was how its joaquins last time singing a fathers day song with the primary because hes going to be 12 next year!! and then i started crying because i missed him and then crying even more because i was so excited for what this next year has in store for him! I brag about joaquin all the time to people and i bet i wont even shut up about him when he starts to pass teh sacrmaent! Hes the best!! We'll like i said sacrament wasnt exactly focused on our dads here on earth so i did a little personal study on fathers from the ensign and read an artcile from President Uchtdorf (the homie. we had ice cream together once. well.. in the same room once.. same thing) and the article started off with our heavenly father and then lead into our earthly fathers and gave a list on what fathers should be fulfing on earth as a parent. I wrote down the list in my journal and checked off the ones i think my dad has fulfilled. No shocker here i checked off every little box! Lives and honest life, rushes to his childrens aid, at the correct time allows his children to struggle, and so on. Of course my dad could check off everything on that list!

Dad, you are amazing! and i have so much love and respect for you! You are such an example to all of us and are always so selfless in the way you serve others. Like i dont think i know anyone else who would get of his car on a main street to help a blind guy hahaha. But seriously dad! not a day goes by out here that i am not applying something you have taught me in my life!

For Fathers day we went to the haubners ( i know i mention them a lot but there are like 5 sets of haubners in the ward haha so dont worry i do switch off!) but we watched an amazing video on fathers!! and then we went around and shared one thing our earthly father has done for us and one thing our Heavenly Father has done for us. It got to me and i had a million things i wanted to say about both people! for dad i said he has taught me and has been the example of selfless work, Ill never forget the last things you said to me when we said goodbye at the airport! to just forget myself and get out there and kill it! those are my motivating words everytime i feel like something is a little too much. and for my Heavenly Father i said that he taught me and continues to teach me that he knows me better. He knows the women i am capable of becoming and he knows the way i am supposed to become her. 

I love you all so much!!

Xoxo

SIster bustillos!

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2013-01-002-earthly-father-heavenly-father?lang=eng

this weeks favorite quote comes from the end of this video

watch to find out(;

pictures:

ashliegh our investigator!

and the new puppies!

Fishers of Men or of Fish?

Goodmorning Family!

Man this weeks been pretty great!! Im really trying to remember all that happened because..well.. it felt like a long week! but we got a ton done! but now that its monday i feel like this last week went by SO fast! Thats missionary life for you! hmm lets think. Well last monday we went fishing with a family from the ward! i caught 3 really huge fish!! Sister White didnt catch anything for like 2 hours and was getting pretty frustrated haha it was kind of funny and i told everyone that we couldnt leave till Sister White caught her fish! Like a half hour later we heard screaming from the dock and sister white screaming "i got one!!" haha she was so stoked and got a million pictures with it. When she went to go put it back in the water it had already died so just floated there ): but i mean the atonement works. We are pretty dang sure we got heat exhaustion that day or something because after we went back to grammys so the kids could swim and we lied under a tree and naped haha it was a good p day! the next day we felt like we got hit by a truck though! we are not used to this humidity yet. It feels like youre walking into a pool as soon as you walk outside! everything just sticks to you! haha luckily we have a car to get us from the 1st person in mexico all the way to the 71st(; 

our area is HUGE here! there are parts we dont get to go to a lot because we dont have enough miles on our car. We are in the middle of our area and it stretched about 45 miles each way around! its nuts!! We are working on a lot of less active work right now. Our attendance is only at 25%!!! ): it broke my heart to here that!! being in such a small ward makes me really grateful for the ward family i have at home. But most less actives will let us into their home and we can share a lesson but they are very open with the fact they do not want to come back to church... not because of the beliefs but because of the ward drama. Man, when you think of a "house divided" just imagine the mexico ward. Its really sad. and we want to help the ward but we cant get involved in the drama of it all. Im not even sure what its about but have just heard people say that the ward is really pitted against each other. We are also putting aside one hour of finding a day for new investigators. Our schedule is usually jam packed so its a little difficult to cram that in but we know that Christ just needs to see our efforts to bring people to him and he will make up for the rest. As a personal goal, i've decided to aim for exact obedience. Which is WAY harder than you think haha. Its not like im disregarding the white handbook haha its more of just small things i need to improve on. So i am aiming for that! to follow the rules set in front of me even in the tiny decisions i make. In my personal study this morning i focused on that. Obedience. Its really cool to able to pick one christ like attribute and search it out in the scriptures. its really cool. I was brought to the story in 2 kings 5 (?) where christ tell the king to bathe himself 7 times to cure his leprosy and at first the guy was like "seriously?? you want me to take a bath? no im not doing something that simple!" and storms off. He quickly turns around though and shows humility and obeys christ and washes himself and the leprosy is gone. That story really got me to thinking about when i receive an answer or guidance from Christ and i disregard it because its not what i was expecting or i think it wont work but then how he still gives me the chance to obey him and follow his will. So basically its the atonement and obedience in one! I thought of the times where i have prayed for an answer and didnt like it so i did it my way just to watch myself fail and then after the fact ill try Gods way and watch it transform my life. Ending that study I decided to always keep that story in mind when it comes to following the word of christ. To never second guess his "rules" and remember that the blessing of following in obedience will constantly pull through.

I always get so jumbled in my emails... just so many things i want to share! Sister White was diagnosed with strep throat this week (after i told her a million times it was strep and to see a doctor!!) so we had to slow down a bit for her to get better. But she handled it like a champ! there wasnt one day we didnt go out and teach. She would get so frustrated if i told her we should take a break for something and would just tell me "no! this is my time to be a missionary so i am going to be a missionary!" When i think of consecrated missionary it is TOTALLY her! she is so dedicated to her work, i know i am going to learn so much from her by the time we leave each other!!

Ive mentioned before the family we are teaching and oh my heck they are doing great! We just had the plan of salvation lesson with them and it really just clicked for them!! it was really awesome. The wife ended up opening up to us a lot and started crying because she said she never gets emotional or talks about it so it was so awesome to see her be vulnerable to us but most importantly to the Savior. Which is one thing we  pointed out to her! We are having an FHE with them tonight and continuing the lessons with them later this week!

You guys, I know its annoying i keep saying this, but i really am SO happy to be out here and so happy in my decision the come back out. The Lord has answered so many prayers of mine from before the mission and is continuing to bless my life. Its crazy how much peace i can feel out here. I am doing the Lords work and i can feel his happiness in me doing so. There is a purpose for where we are now and i love finding mine here.

Love,

Sister Bustillos

PS favorite quote 

"faith is like the price is right. You have to trust you have the right answer and then when they show it to you, you know!" -Carol Investigator

haha she didnt make much sense but it stuck with me

hola familia y amigos !

Estoy muy emocionado de que un correo electrónico hoy !!!

haha ok.. ill stop with the Spanish. Its kind of getting annoying to switch pages between google translate and my email. but seriously! i am so happy to be emailing everyone!

You're probably wondering why I am writing in espanol. Well you probably guessed. I am in Mexico Missouri!! Population 71 (73 including me and my companion). You guys, you have NO CLUE how much i love it here. It is so great! Let me clear up Mexico for you. Its this little podunk town, literally more cows than there are people, no one speaks spanish so dont let the name fool you, and the people are the most genuinely nice people you can ever meet. Me and Sister White are SO spoiled here!! Sister White is my companion! she is from Gilbert Az and is 23. Shes the greatest. we are having so much fun together! maybe even a little too much fun... haha but man we are getting work done!!

I guess i skipped a little ahead of myself so i will start from the beginning. My flights where awesome! my first flight i sat next to this hippie girl (dad im sure you saw her when we were checking my bags) but she stayed quiet the whole flight till about 20 minutes until we descended then she saw me reading preach my gospel and she was like "what you know Jesus Christ!" and we introduced ourselves and where we are traveling then she proceeded to HAND ME MY BUTT ON A SILVER PLATTER as she told me how wrong my church was and giving off bible quotes. I just sat there like oh.. cool... and she proceeded to call her self a prophet and prayed for me... out loud... on the plane! Needless to say i learned my lesson and haven't wasted one second in my personal studies! my second flight was great! first class baby! haha i honestly didn't know how to handle myself it was so boozy. But as we were about to touch down and i saw missouri tears filled my eyes and the greatest feeling of peace come over me and i felt at home. Who would of thunk! me thinking of missouri as home haha but i did! and those feelings answered just about every prayer leading up to my mission.

tuesday, wednesday, and, thursday where busy with unpacking settling in and zone conference ( i saw so many friends from the mtc!! ) so we didnt get to teaching till friday sorta but man... hold on to your keyboard because do i have story for you!

So there is a man in our ward, Chris, who LOVES to pull pranks on the new sisters. So called Sister white and gave her the low down. She wanted to prank him back though so she filled me in. Basically he was going to pretend to be an investigator who wanted to join our church because he wants to be a polygamist. we got to his house and i stayed quiet while they talked and eventually we got on the polygamist convo. and I like ten minutes in i was like "wow well... i havent even told sister white this but.." and sister white is like busting up laughing so i said "sister dont laugh this is serious... I was actually raised in a polygamist family" and i have never seen someones face look so embarrassed and ashamed in my whole life!!! haha Chris was like "oh..this was a joke.. dont say anymore.. uh uh sorry" and i started balling my eyes out and was just like "wait so i didnt have to say that!?" and sister white took me to the bathroom to compose myself haha and we decided to keep it going. we sat down and were just like "yeah i know sister white told you i was already out before and the reason i went home was because the church is investigating my family.." hahaha needless to say he feels really bad and still believes us! we are milking it so hard(;

On a serious note, i just wanted to share with everyone how grateful i am for everyone support theyve given me over the last couple months. I dont think i have ever felt this complete happiness in a long time. I dont go one day, scratch that, one hour without feeling the spirit in my life. The holy ghost is so strong in my life and any fear i had about coming back out to serve my mission is completely gone. I have ended my day every day telling sister white how happy i am and its so true!! I am smiling most of the day!

We picked up 2 new investigators yesterday! a husband wife and their 2 year old daughter. They really have a desire and yoou can tell they are going to go far.

Ill send some pictures in another email because sister white needs to send me pictures from her camera since i dont have a charger for mine... Chris has a bajillion and one different chargers so we are going to go see if he has one today! after we go fishing at there little river! everyone has one of those here...

Lots of love,

Sister Bustillos

P.s. My adress is 2134 e liberty mexico, Mo 65265

send lots of letters please!! i need proof of adress to come back to the library. Plus i just love letters!

P.P.s here are my favorite things ive heard this week

"Hey!! we've got a mexican sister for you!!" - Addie 9 y/o haha there are some hispanic kids in the ward and she was excited to introduce me to them!

"what!? you dont like to read the book of mormon!? thats how you get the blessings!" - Manny 11 y/o