Happy Thanksgiving!!!
I am beyond excited to be here for
Thanksgiving! An apostle is coming tomorrow morning, then we are going to do a
massive service project!!! This week has been so fun. I already feel like I've
been here all my life, and then I have to remind myself it's only been 2 weeks.
CRAZY!!
So Monday one of our British Lads got
a bday cake sent to him from his companion’s parents, but he failed to mention
to his parents that his companion, Elder Whiticker’s, birthday was on Saturday.
So anyways, then one of the Brits came and rounded up eveyone else in the zone
Monday night and we started various chants for him, and as missionaries who
have been in the MTC for 8 weeks we started going wild (missionary appropriate
of course;) and all the Elders in the building heard our loud chants and songs,
and rushed down to tell us to turn it down, but when we told them it was his
bday they all started jumping in with us. It was hilarious, but it's one of
those things where you just have to be there.
I am amazed at how much my testimony
and knowledge has grown in such a short time. In our last devotional one of the
seventy talked of the importance of the BOM. I love the BOM so much I wish I
could read and ponder it all day! I encourage you all to read the Book of
Mormon with sincerity this week and seek for an answer to a question you may
have in it.
Elder VanBuskirk
Happy Thanksgiving mom I love you!!!
Thanks for your email! Everything is great here. We are going to have an
apostle come tomorrow morning for Thanksgiving! The choir here is really fun;
our whole zone does it. The older generation, which is all my favorite British
people, is leaving this week so I’m sad about that. For P-day the temple closed
at 10 today, so we woke up at 4:50 to do our laundry and stuff. I haven’t slept
in once, by the way ;) Thank you for the sweets! We ate as much as we could,
but to be truthfully honest, I don’t really need any sweets. I can’t eat too
much anyways, and we already have a table stacked with food and candy. The
British Elders came in our second day singing God Save the Queen and handed us
a huge pile as a peace and welcoming offering, hahaha. But this week its warm,
but its going to get colder. And I really should have brought a jacket, but ill
be fine I think haha.
So my mission president in Rostov is apparently the best
one there is. He’s on top of things and Just really organized. But he is
leaving in July.
And a simple Swiss army knife and some hair pomade
Love Elder VanBuskirk
Thanks MOM. I love you. Have fun in SAN Fran!
Oh, and my comp is Elder Patterson from Idaho falls!
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