Some connections in the mission!  Communication straight to Grandma Rushton!

Moses with his staff (AKA Elder Rushton)

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Shortly after the horse stomped his foot and splashed horse poop all over Elder Rushton!  Notty Horse!

Elder Swett and Elder Rushton

Hello,

So ill be completely honest, this last week was rough!  It was one of the hardest weeks of my mission so far!  I lost my companion Elder Swett!  I am no longer a training him! I'll say this, and I mean it with my whole heart I AM SO PROUD OF HIM for what he is doing!  He is a strong kid!  I'm glad i had the opportunity to be with him for a short two months!  

My new companions name is Elder Maynard he is from Pocatello, ID so im am so excited to be able to have another Idaho companion! haha He is a visa waiter so he was originally called to serve in Sau Palo, Brazil!  He flew down here with me so we have been out for around the same time!  I'm so excited to be able to work with him and especially to get back to work!

This past sunday it was an awesome day at church it made the whole week better!  I was reading president monsons sunday morning talk "I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee" and in there he talks about instead of sitting back and asking the question "why me?" just ask how these challenges and trials can make us stronger!  It was awesome, and really has been on my mind a lot lately! The speakers did awesome they talked about the things that they are thankful for and it really made me sit back and think to myself how good my life really is!  I am thankfull for so much!  I am thankfull for my family first and foremost i miss them very much, i cant wait to talk to them on christmas! I am greatful to be out here in the best most challenging mission in the world! haha i love it and cant picture myself anywhere else!  I love all of you and i hope you have a great thanksgiving!

Love Elder Rushton

Elder Rushton loves Navajo burgers!!!

Elder Rushtons District

So pretty, awesome picture!

Cole's so happy for a new heater for the camper!  He'll stay warm now!

Hello everyone,

So the weeks are starting to fly before i can even think about the last week its already the next week!  This week there weren't too many experiences like we have had before!  haha We are still casting out evil spirits haha we got two phone calls this week that people were asking us to come and bless there house haha both at night its like why do these people always freeking ask us at night haha so we kindly said yes and we went and did it!  None were nearly as scary as last weeks haha but it's been weird!  All my time with elder fonnesbeck we probably had to do this twice, but with me and elder swett i bet we have done it close to 12 times since he has been here!  I personally think it halloween that started all this madness haha but were handling it!  I feel like we are the real like "GHOST BUSTERS" haha

On friday we had a very very busy day we went wood hauling in the morning haha, btw i have probably filled close to 70 truckloads since i have been here!  Its ok i dont mind it, its kind of fun to me!  Then we had a barbeque at noon to go too that was so good i ate so much!  Then all of the sudden we had a birthday party to go to haha oh boy, so we had a huge turkey leg there, mashed potatoes, cake-oh boy it wasn't good but it was so good at the same time haha!  At this point we are just about to throw it all up!  So after that party we had one more bday party to go to, haha we had fried chicken, pizza, and cake!  Here on the rez the navajos are such good people they always want to cook for you and it doesn't matter how hungry you are you have to eat it!  Because it is very insulting to not eat the food they try to give you!  So lets just say not all that food made it home with us haha i had to pull over in the middle of the road and let it all go, it was so bad at least i fed the rez dogs a little bit haha love you guys!  The church is still as true today as it was yesterday haha!

Love Elder Rushton

Cute puppy

COLE TITLED THIS ONE "I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE SWERVED!"

I ask for pictures and this is what he sends!  LOL!~

Hello everyone,

So this week was well different haha but out here ive learned to expect the unexpected!  So it started out really good tuesday and wednesday flew by!  On wednesday we taught seven lessons which is the most since i have been here it was cool to do that!  I love it when we are so busy there is no time to even say what should we do next? That is when time flys bye!  I might have mentioned this before but me and elder swett sat down and just thought to ourselves we really need to start working with the ward better so we sat and planned how!  We came up with a lot of ideas but mainly we knew we need to take members out to lessons with us more! So we came up with a plan every friday night we do what is called a splits night!  Anyone that wants to come can! We meet at our senior couple trailer and we eat bannana spilts haha and then we go out and teach two lessons each so elder swett splits up with me and he goes with another preisthood holder and i do too and we go out and teach 4 lessons total its really cool! I mean who doesnt like banana splits haha?   So thats good the ward seems to like the idea!  Remember that if you can and if you are ever asked to go out with the missionaries DO IT!  Its not scary at all its fun! The missionaries are only there for a couple months then they get transfered when the members are there forever and they can always welcome in those investigators and less actives! 

Also this week we visited a recent convert family!  They have been having lots of different experiences with evil scary stuff happening!  They have a son who lives up on the hill in a doublewide trailer he just barely bought a month ago ever since he has been staying there he says there are knocks under the trailer ALL NIGHT there are like moans and growls that come from his back room and he has been seeing a lady holding a baby in his trailer! He says he hears a coyotte howl every night at exactly 10:30 haha personal i dont think thats a coyote i think that a straight skin walker! haha So basically he is telling me all this inside this haunted house and in the meantime im scared out of my mind!  Back home i would have been out the door running as far away from that place as i could haha but out here i have to be that cool calm 18 year old missionary that i am haha So basically we all knelt down in prayer and we blessed the house stated the preisthood and everything we got done and well it still felt the same lots of evil was still there which i didnt get at all? then me and elder swett remember something our bishop out here told us if your ever in that kind of situation you need to raise your arm to the square state the preisthood and demand those evil spirits to leave! So thats exactly what we did! I'll admitt it was pretty scary me and elder swett two 18 year old boys in there fighting off satan haha it was good though because i came to realize that there is no power on earth greater than the preisthood from god!  Satan may look really powerfull but he has got NOTHING on the preisthood!  Love you all have a great week!

Love Elder Rushton

Snow fight!

Cole's beloved Red Sox won!!!!  Red Sox Nation!!!!

Cats, cats and more cats!

Hello,

So this week went by really slow!  I dont know why probably because it was cold!  Also it could have been because halloween was this week so everyone was gone So there was no one to see!  Also it was the first of the month this last week! Which means there is not one single person left in this town there  all packed up and either in farmington or gallup!  We had the chance to confirm our investigator yesterday at sacrament that was cool!  She really fits right in she is trully part of the ward now! Me and Elder Swett were out tracting and this was probably one of the funniest experiences yet!  We start walking up to the door and we see this like 8 year kid running towards his house as fast as he can haha were like oh boy he's going to tell him family were coming!  So we finally get to the door and i knock on it!  This little 3 year old girl answers the door and without us even saying anything she says "my moms not home" haha so im like thats bull so im like really where is she? and the little girl shruggs her shoulders and so then i say well will you go tell your mom we say hi? haha immediately the little girl turns around runs into the living room and tells her mom we said hi haha the funniest thing ever!  Idk why i said that haha i just new the mom was home it was so funny though!  The mom was so embarrassed haha The moral of the story is DONT MAKE YOUR KIDS LIE FOR YOU! haha love you guys have a good week!

Love Elder Rushton