1st Time Riding the Bus

Hey sorry. Our Internet died yesterday and I couldn’t send my letter. Everything is going good here. We were able to visit with several people so that was great. As the week went on it was pretty cool to be able to get to go by and to do some service type things with some people and to just try and help them out. Yesterday I got to carry this ladies laundry and it was super funny because she like didn’t want me to at first (she is a members daughter so we know her) but then I told her that I just really like to help and she said I could but she took one side and I took the other. Haha, it was really funny. Once we got to the steps to go up to her apartment I was like ‘I’ll just take it’ and she was like ‘Are you sure?’ Now I’m like a lot bigger then her and I thought it was funny that she was ready to do it all alone but that she was worried that I wouldn’t be able to. So I took it up the stairs and she said thanks. Then we set another time to go by and see her today so we will see how all that goes.

It was cool, we got to have zone meeting today and it was super good. All of the people in my zone are way cool and have really strong testimonies. I feel like I learned a lot. This transfer we will be focusing on learning about repentance and how to teach it with power and how to apply it in our lives. We also will be learning how to study so that will be really fun. I’m excited for that. Having time to study is such a big blessing of the mission. I feel like I still have so much to learn but that I’m coming to a knowledge of the truthfulness of the gospel and that has been wonderful

Some cool stuff this week. I got to ride the bus for the 1^st time and it was fun. We took pictures haha. We were at the hospital which is 68 blocks from where we needed to be so we were like lets try the bus. We didn’t know where to get on so we just went and waited at a random bus stop and when that bus came he told us that it was a different bus then the one we wanted so long story short we ended up getting home on the bus and it was a cool mission first.

We also had like 6 less active people come to church and it was great to get to have them. Also C*, one of our recent converts went to the temple! So that was great. We haven’t been able to contact him since but I’m sure he liked it. That was a really big blessing this week that he got to go to the temple.

Well my time is up and I have to go but I love ya’ll and hope you have a great week.

Love,

Elder Birks