Kamie and Nate

Kamie and Nate

Nate and Kamie

Nate and Kamie

shanie and kyle

shanie and kyle

Shanie and Kyle

Shanie and Kyle

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Family

Wow! I love this girl! It is hard to share her with her parents. There surely isn't anything better than a baby sleeping on or with you. I love to feel their breathing and heart beat. What a miracle! I just can hardly stop kissing her.
Shanie and Kyle came home for a couple weeks but spent half their time going to the coast. They took a whale watching tour on a tiny boat with a marine biologist who knew the names of all the whales by their markings. They were at Depoe Bay and stayed in Lincoln City and near Cannon Beach. These two have the best adventures together! I wish Steve and I would have more adventures...tho, he informs me that we have more than most. I have incredible restlessness...a curse...and a thirst for new adventures.
1st letter from Nick in mission field: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Nicholas Bushman wrote: Hellooooooo!! I'm here in Texas!! It's crazy finally being in the field!! WOW!!! You wouldn't believe how hot it is!! It really is insane! It feels literally like walking into a sauna when you walk outside. I've come to really appreciate air connditioning. I'm getting the hang of things (a little bit) and it is pretty cool! So I am in Houston 1 Central. That is my area right now. It is pretty ghetto! Ha ha! It's interesting and makes me appreciate where we live, and everything. We do most of our work in this place they call Guatville. It's got a bunch of people from Guatamala. There are tons of broken beer bottles, and trash in the streets and stuff like that. It's kind of cool too because I'm a minority. Almost everyone you see is either hispanic or black. I am with Elder Taukei`aho. He is Tongan!! He's actually from Salt Lake, and he lives pretty close to grandma and grandpas house!! Crazy huh? But he is like 340 pounds, and is hilarious!! He says super funny things, and makes lots of funny face expressions. He works hard too. He gets up on time, and is good about doing all that stuff. I think he is awesome, and I'm glad he is my companion. I'm hoping I can learn a lot from him. Dad, it is hard for me to understand the locals! I get enough of what they are saying to follow the conversacion, but it it a struggle. I'm trying hard to get the understanding part, because I feel like I can talk fairly well (always room for improvement of course) but I need to be able to understand them first. We live in an apartment on the second floor. It's pretty nice. I like it. Bed bugs are a real problem here I guess, and that apartment just had bed bugs, and they sprayed it so we need to wait a while, and they are coming to spray it again, and bring us new mattresses today. We have been sleeping on air matresses in the living room. In our aparment there is a living room with a kitchen and all of our desks and stuff, a bedroom, and then a bathroom off of the bedroom. I'm excited for an actual mattress! I think the air mattress is hurting my back! The bike is awesome! I love it! It works super well, and has all the things I need on it. It looks good too. We ride bikes in our area. It's insane because it is soooooo hot! I wear my backpack, and before we get to our first appointment, my back is soaked! Literally soaked! I have a hankerchief for my face, but it doesn't help too much. My shirt is soaked by second appointment, and it's pretty crazy. Oh well! What an adventure! Yea, I have had some cool, and funny experiences! First of all, we don't have very many investigators. Only one that is progressing. Her name is Paula. She speaks really good english, so our lessons have been in english. She has a baby, and is around 19 years old. She is kind of a flirty type girl. Her baby daddy is abusive, but he doesn't live with her. She lives with her parents and sisters. She seems really open, we just need to get her away from her baby daddy. Her baptismal date is in two weeks I think. There is also a guy that's a recent convert named Jose Mancado. He is super cool. He is one of the nicest, loving guys I know, but I guess he kind of has schizophrenia or something my companion said. He is 32, super lonely, lives in an apartment with no furniture, and just loves the Lord. He will do anything for the Lord. Even gives out Evangelical handouts for that church because they told him if he loved the Lord he would do it! Ha ha! He doesn't have family because they all weren't very good people, and he has had too many bad experiences with bad people, so he doesn't have friends. He said they are all hypocrites. I feel bad for him, and I hope the Lord will bring more happiness into his life.
Kamie and Nate after the arrival of baby Emma Marie. (i didn't look like this after having a baby! i looked more like i had been hit by a truck)

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