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Hey yinz! (means y'all here. These people are crazy)
Many
times i think to myself "Am i still in America?" It's a whole
different world out here! But i LOVE EVERYONE HERE! The people here
are amazing! I don't know what everyone is talking about, when they say
all of the work is down in South America. ;) We have 2 scheduled baptisms
this month, and could potential pick up a 3rd! The work here is
definitely hastening. Elder Johnson is an amazing companion. This week, we made some goals to
revolutionize our area. The work is on the tipping point, we just need
to give it that extra push. The solution: Do the Lords work His way!
It's funny how you always hear how to do things, but you don't
understand it, or believe it, until you do it. That has been true with
missionary work. We are continuing to strive for exact obedience, and
change little things, and turn towards the Lord a lot more, and hearts
have definitely been softened, and miracles are happening all around
us! I love being a missionary, and i love serving the people here.
There isn't any other mission i'd rather be in. This is exotic enough
for me ;)
On Monday, is when we really set the goal to be exactly
obedient, and that day we had a miracle! There is this less active
family that got "offended" Anyway, we go to the door and no one answers. But when the Lord wants to talk to
you, he will! Low and behold, they pull up into the drive way and she gets
out and says that it isn't a good time. However, her husband told us
to come in. (miracle). We sit down with them, and have a really good fellow-shipping moment. Then we ask if we can share a quick scripture
that turns into a 45 minute lesson! It was awesome, and the spirit was
so strong! They definitely know they need to make changes in their
lives, and we're gonna make sure they do them :)
This week we have really seen real progress. One lady, who
feels she doesn't have any friends in the ward, got a friend when she
came to church! She's
awesome, and i love visiting with her. There's this 80 year old woman on our
street who calls us her Mormon grandsons. She's awesome. She says she
is born catholic and she's gonna die that way. We're teaching her, she
just doesn't know it yet. I love her so much. She's super funny. We
met this lady who recently had a baby, and she's a non-member. She
really shows promise, and she seems really prepared to hear the gospel.
We also met with a family who seem SUPER prepared to hear the gospel.
Ahh! The work here is picking up like crazy! We have so many promising
potential investigators! Holly, who is one of our progressing
investigators, talked to another lady about the gospel for so long, and
now we are going to have a new person come to our Book of Mormon classes
we have each Wednesday. There are seriously so many people prepared
here, we just have to find them, and teach them! The work here is about
to explode. I can feel it!
For Halloween we had to be in by 6pm. So we deep cleaned our
house. Pretty fun. It was really warm here last week, but his week has
definitely been more cold! We didn't have any kids come to the door.
Oh well, their loss. We were only going to teach them how to receive
eternal life! JK! But we were going to hand out BoM's.
That's all i can think of. I'm in a hurry this week. Oh we
get iPad's in January, and it's CRAZY what they will be able to do!
They will help SOOOO much! It's gonna be amazing. Love you ALLLLL!!!!!
Elder Birrell
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