Hello Everyone,

So this week was awesome i enjoyed christmas so much!  On christmas eve we spent it out tracting probably for a good 4 to 5 ours!  I was not looking forward to it but we knew we had to be able to find some new people so we just went out and did it!  It was so cool we decided just to walk the road!  Now this wasnt just a short little road this was a good 5 to 6 mile road haha it was awesome we knocked on every door that we could find asking everyone if we could share a christmas message and almost everyone was friendly to us even if they told us no we still asked everyone if we could chop wood for them or do anything it was awesome!  It really showed me what the true way to spend christmas was it was lots of fun and the perfect service opportunities!  We found 5 really really good really cool investigators that day it was an awesome way to spend christmas eve a lot different then anything i would have ever done back home!  It used to be wake up late on christmas eve play video games and eat a big dinner now it was completely different and it was so awesome!  Christmas day was very cool too we took our presents over the the rogers our senior couples place and opened them in the morning!  Then we were able to skype our families i will admit that was really cool to see everyone but man was that weird haha It was good to see my whole family though!  It was weird too though cause my little bro cody wasnt talking like a little girl anymore haha his voice has changed haha nice bro! We had an awesome splits night we had a kid come out from the ward he is like 24 i think he is a really cool guy!  I could tell he was a little  nervous so i took him with me and elder maynard went out with his brother in law who was just there for the hollidays anyway we went out to two lessons together and man those lessons were awesome he was just as much a part of the lesson as we were!  Him  bearing his testimony was one of the most spiritual moments i have heard on my mission so far!  The way he testified that is was the book for the navajo poeple it was awesome! He said he had such a fun time!  I hope you all had a good christmas i love you all and wish a a happy new year!

Elder Rushton 

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Hello everyone,

So its hard to believe that this week is christmas!  To be honest it has flown by looking back!  Im excited for this week!  It has been so fun to be able to share the christmas message with everyone we visit!  We had a terrible day this last week seems like everything was going wrong!  We both woke up sick, we invited one of our investigators to a baptism in chinle and we get there and she didnt show up so we call her and she says she woke up sick and wasnt feeling well and wouldnt be able to make it!  Then were heading home and who do we see in chinle driving right past us? the same investigator that told us she was sick? haha we were so mad! Then a lot of other stuff happened i probably shouldnt say haha anyway out here on a mission i have notice when you have a TERRIBLE day if you try to put your self out there do something different, talk to someone you wouldnt have before, go knock on a door or too!  The lord always trys to make your day better anyway he can!  Me and elder maynard parked the truck and just decided to walk down this road about 3 miles long we had nothing to do a terrible day and just felt like walking it off i guess haha so we told ourselves to knock on every house we saw on that road of course there was only 4 houses on that road haha (welcome to the rez)  and of course only one person was home but honestly that one person we knocked on let us right in she looked so happy to see us we asked her if we could share a message about christmas with her it was awesome! She was the sweetest old lady she began to tell us she wasnt feeling well and had been sick for quite some time we were able to give her a preisthood blessing it was so awesome and it made our day so much better!  I trully believe when you have that bad day there are really people out there placed before us to make it better we just have to do something different to find them! 

So the funny story for the week is last week me and elder maynard are walking up to a house and out of no where the biggest chocolate lab came running up behind us and freeking bites me right in the butt cheek! Honestly it hurt so freeking bad i was on the ground with tears in my eyes! haha and right when i was on the ground the lady answered the freeking door haha it was so embarrassing and awkward haha we just started laughing so hard! That is really what a mission is about awkward moments like that! haha  It didnt peirce the skin so im good haha im not foaming at the mouth yet!  haha Anyway i love you guys have a good week and watch out for chocolate labs!  

Love Elder Rushton

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ELDER RUSHTON!

ELDER RUSHTON IS A PRETTY BIG FAN OF THESE GIRLS!  

SOME VERY SWEET PEOPLE WHO FIXED ELDER RUSHTON A BIRTHDAY LUNCH AND CAKE

Hello Everyone,

So this past week was really good!  I had an awesome birthday on wednesday!  We woke up and opened presents haha just me and my buddy elder maynard in our little camper! haha Around lunch time we went to a lunch bday party that some member put on for me!  It was awesome had some fry bread that would make anyones bday party special haha they also even baked a cake for me!  It was awesome i loved it!  I have two late bday parties this week it should be really good! These people are so awesome and giving i love them!  Me and elder maynard are teaching very well together it has been so cool it seems like in the lessons when i have nothing left to say he out of no where just keeps the lesson going its been really cool to see how in sync we are!  We are having a really hard time with our investigators to be able to progress it has been really challenging but we arent going to quit!  So back to our great camp trailer we live in haha the night before my bday so tuesday night it got so cold somewhere in the negatives we had our heater all the way up and maxed out but it was still so cold that night!  I remember in the middle of the night rolling over and having my arm brush up against the wall and all i felt was a sheet of ice covered on the inside of our wall haha i woke up so mad haha the wall right next to my freeking bed had ice on it but its all fun i mean its just good stories for when im a dad and my kids are crying its too cold! haha "oh yeah? you think it cold, well back on my misssion!" haha It has been a lot of fun out here i cant imagine myself being anywhere else or doing anything else its so awesome i kind of dont even want to move out of the camper just because all of the awesome tough challenging experiences we have haha its just making me a better person!  Our heavenly father knew i needed to be humbled when i came out on my mission and man is he doing a great job haha I love all you guys hope you have a safe week! 

Love Elder Rushton

So this last week was awesome we have been getting so much snow i bet we have close to a foot outside our camper!  We have to walk in our same footprints everyday back to the truck haha so were not to deep in snow!  

Last monday was fun we got together with the chinle elders, Elder Scofield, and Elder Stailey and we hiked down into canyon de chelly it was a lot of fun! Then we played basketball after "i still got it" haha 

On wednesday it snowed i mean it snowed a ton but we were still planning on going up to wheatfields bad idea haha there is a huge hill called black pinicle hill its comparable to the hill you have to go up to island park!  On our way up i kid you not i bet we passed close to 15 cars off to the side of the road!  There were cars sliding off everywhere so me and elder maynard both look at each other and say why not lets just help these people haha so we put on our coats hats and gloves and push and dug so many cars out!  While we were pushing one truck out it started sliding my way and it just about pushed me over well on my way falling back i look behind me and there is a car about ten ft behind me haha i was like oh my heck im done for i had to leap out of the way haha it was so scary but the second i let go of the truck it straightened out and was fine i honestly know there is no possible way that truck could have straightened out i thought about that all day it was kinda scary i almost died but somehow someway someone was helping push that truck away from me! Pretty cool!  We talked to a lot of people up on that hill and got some new investigators from it it was really good!  

Thanks for all the birthday wishes it should be a good one!  and just so everyone knows EVAILIA VEGA MAKES THE BEST TORTILLAS EVER! haha thank you so much :)

Love Elder Rushton

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Hello,

It was so nice to be able to be back to normal this week and get back to work!  Elder Maynard and me get along great! I think we teach very good together too!  He is started to love Lukachukai!  It is always tough getting transfered especially the way he did just getting called and being told to pack your bags your leaving in the morning that would be hard especially since he loved his last area so much!  We had an awesome thanksgiving day it was weird though we both kinda didnt even feel like it was thanksgiving at first!  We both kinda woke up and said wow dang its thanksgiving haha We had a district meeting that morning?  I mean come on a meeting on a holiday?  haha but thats the missionary life there really are no breaks out here! 

So ever since i got here it has been all about hauling wood for people, now we are chopping it  haha and i mean all of it haha we chop so much wood its insane haha im gonna be so ripped by the time i come home haha I love it though!  Mom you dont know this yet but when i come home i am honestly building a hogan in the back of our yard and there has to be a wood burning stove in there or else it just wouldnt be a hogan, and we are going to haul so much wood and chop it all up and stack it all the way around the hogan so we have more insulation in there! haha Seriously though mom! 

 

I am honestly starting to have so much fun down here i mean we go into lessons and i honestly always am laughing or smiling so much by the time i get out my cheeks hurt!  My favorite part of being down here are the STORIES!  The navajo people are honestly such great story tellers and at times ya they might be the fakest stories i have ever heard haha but it is so funny how they tell them!  Its something you would have to experience for yourself!  Anyway not much went on this week I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving and ill talk to you next week!  

Love Elder Rushton