Warm for Christmas

                                                      Happy Birthday Chase from Elder Chan

Ok so the news. I now have a new companion who is……. Elder D*! He is the Spanish Elder in some of my pictures at the start of my mission. Well I’m with him now. I’m also senior companion and my area doubled when I got it because the sisters left so they brought me their area book and said “here you go, talk with these people” (Don’t loose them or I’ll kill you) and all that good stuff. So I’m kinda white washing again. Yeah we are going to do great. The sisters have a great area and we will have a lot of people to teach with that now. We are excited and I know that me and Elder D* are going to do great.

Well things are doing good here. It’s really strange that it’s warm because it doesn’t feel like Christmas at all. Some people have lights but it’s just strange. I looked at my watch and was like wow it’s the 17^th. Christmas is really soon. It’s gone way, way fast so far. For those few days when I was waiting for Elder D* I was in a zone leader area with this way cool other Elder named Elder B*. We had a great time. He is a really good Elder and we really worked hard. They have a neat area. It’s like all Spanish. You have to look for white people so we kinda stand out there. Haha it was great.

Oh cool thing. We went to this dinner (me and Elder D*) and we brought this kid A* that we are helping come back to church with us. This family we ate with, oh they are the best, mom I think you would love the mom L*.  She is so funny and just kinda crazy but she knows it so that makes it ok. Ha but it was so fun and they really were nice to A*. We are trying to help A* family and L* family come back to church. They have both been less active for like 8 years or so so it’s time for them to come back.

Well I love ya’ll a lot and I hope you had a good week.

Love, 

Elder Birks

Change is good

Well it was really strange to send someone home. Right now I’m with an Elder who just sent his companion home as well so I’m not in my apartment or in my area but I will be on Friday. I really don’t have too much time today because stuff is crazy right now.

All is good. My ward is great. The fed us sooooo much food this past week we thought we were going to die but it was good food so that was nice. The members here are so great.

I’m glad to hear all is going good and I hope I’ll have some time to write another letter today but I have to go now so I love ya lots and I’ll write more soon.

Love,

Elder Birks

Great week!

Hey family! Well guess what? We had a great week! I will get to that really soon. First, thanks for the Christmas stuff. All the 24 days stuff and the decorations they have all been great. It was way hard at first to open a package and have it just be full or more and not be able to open all of them, but now I can open them so that’s been really good. The scriptures are fun with it too. They really help it mean more. I got the caramels from Gail’s family and those were way good. I have given several away to investigators and members because I realize that they are so good that they might get us in some hard doors, so thanks and they are great. It sounds like life is going on back in Utah. Is it cold right now because right now it’s getting hotter here and it’s really strange. Who knew I think I like snow but it is kinda cool to not feel cold in December and be in a short sleeve shirt.

Well for some of the cool stuff from this week. We had a great week finding people to teach. We found 9 new investigators! A lot of them are people with so much potential. It’s crazy. We have been having some great lessons in the last week and it’s just felt like some stuff is coming together. It’s kinda sad though; Elder B* is going to die (go home) next week. It’s really sad but life must go on. We have been getting to eat a lot of meals with members in the area here and it’s really helping us get some people to help us teach. When we go out we like to have a member with us because the lesson is always better with a member present and with how great our ward is they are really willing to come out and teach with us or to try and find with us. It’s been so fun.

We found this way cool part member family who haven’t come in 8 years and haven’t met with missionaries in a long time as well. We went by and just knocked on the door and were able to get in and just be with the family for like an hour and they were able to tell us a lot about why they stopped coming and all that. The best part was that they really want to come back. They have 8 kids that aren’t baptized and they know that it’s true so that one is just going to take some work with the members who are more active to try and give them people who they will know at church. They will do great soon. I’ll let you know more as we teach.

Well the work is going good. The people here are great and I think we have a lot of good things coming.

I love ya’ll a lot and hope all is good.

Elder Birks