Hey Family,

How is everything going at home? How was the 4th of July anything exciting happen or just the same like the other years. Well things here are going well as usual. This last week we had our first conference with President Kusch it went well, he seems really cool, he learned Spanish almost 40 years ago in his mission to Guatemala and El Salvador, so he is working on remembering all his Spanish. Then his wife doesn't speak really any Spanish at all, she can introduce her self and then bear here testimony so that will be work for her to learn but oh well she will get there just like all the rest of us here in the mission. The conference was here in Cuatla so that was nice it was just the two zones here in the city so that was fun and it was here close in the church were we attend. In this conference I was also able to see Elder Rodriguez again so that was fun. But anyways this week went well we learned about being diligent this week with working hard even things weren't going the best for us. We started out the week with out finding anyone new to teach until Friday we found one person but on Saturday we were able to work really hard and we were able to find 9 new investigators this day so that was really good and quite a few of them seem really interested so that was awesome, hopefully they can progress well and feel that this is the true church. We also were able to work with quite a few of our investigators and quite a few accepted a baptismal date so that was cool we have three investigators this week that could get baptised so we will have to see, we are going to check with them tomorrow and they figure out if this week they will get baptised or the next so hopefully everything goes well. So things here are going well but the crazy thing is that we are already in the 5th week of this transfer oh well just got to keep working hard as i can. Well hope that everyone has a good week at home.

                                                        Cutting a tree down with a machete

                                         A volcano in the state north of Elder Bird's mission

Love Elder Bird

Hey Family,

How is everything going at home? Seems like everything is pretty much the same as before. Things here are going well. On Thursday President Kusch got here and President Spannaus went home, and tomorrow we are going to have a conference with President Kusch to get to know him but what we have heard so far is that he is really excited and should be really good. Other than that we have just been working like normal again, we had a pretty good week last week the problem yet again was getting our investigators to come to church we have found a couple families in the past couple weeks but we are just working on getting them to come to church now. The thing here that we have to work with is that we have quite a few investigators that have quite a few times in church but just havent committed to be baptised yet so that is what we are focusing on now. We have a couple that we are working with Javier and Isabel and we are going to go with them to tonight so hopefully everything goes well and they can accept to be baptised and recieve there answer that this is the true church. We are doing a lot better now we know the area and most the members cause there arent that many members here so that is what we are working with hopefully this week we can keep up with finding new investigators and having succes. This last week we did spend quite a bit of time working with less acitve members and we were able to have a couple of the families that we are visiting come to church so that was really cool, it seems that in my mission I havent worked all that much with less active members and that is something that i want to change for my last months here and so yesterday was something exciting to see those families come back and so hopefully we can keep working with them so that they get active in the church again. Other than that we are working with some people that are interested so hopefully that goes well with them in this week and we can have a successful week and everything. Well i hope that everything goes week at home this week and everyone has a happy 4th of July.

Love Elder Bird

Hey Family,

How is everything going at home things here are going good. This last week went pretty well for us. We worked hard this last week and had quite a bit of success. Our first week we were able to get a lot of refferals from the members and this last week we were able to teach quite a few of those referrals so this last week went well in that aspect we were able to find two families and then a couple other people. One of the new investigators that we found is really cool he lives in the other branch that we have to cover and has apperently been going to church for like two months and has read a lot of the Book of Mormon so that was cool to talk to him. The only thing is that he has a lot of questions about everything so we are trying to work with him on that the only problem is that he lives pretty far away but oh well. In these two weeks it seems that we have gotten to know our area pretty well since it is really small so that is good. We are also working a lot with less active members that live in our area because our branch is super small but there are a lot of members that are less active so we want to work with them to help the branch get stronger and then also bringing in new members. Also we are working to get the members excited because most arent the most excited to help us and such so that is what we are working with now. This week is also pretty sad since it is last week of President Spannaus and Presidente Kusch will get here the 28th I am pretty sure so this week will be different but i am excited. I learned a lot from President Spannaus but the good thing is that he will visit Utah some times so hopefully I will be able to see him again after. Well i think that is pretty much all for this week, I hope that everyone has a good week at home and I will write again next week.


Love Elder Bird


PS my belt is just kind of big not really becasue i have lost that much weight, mostly i have lost weight to make my neck smaller i think. But i am getting enough food, they feed us alot here.

Elder Bird & his new comp. Elder Porter from Spanish Fork!

Hey Family how is everything going at home this last week? Nothing too new or exciting? Jonathan sounds like your trip was awesome. Things here are going well, it is deffinatly a change from acapulco. There are no hills here in my area, the area we can cross walking in like 15 minutes it is super small, and to answer  you question it is deffinatly not hotter than acapulco. All this last week it was raining so that was awesome and it was good that there was an umbrella in our house that i could use so i didnt get wet. but the weather here is super nice it kind of feels like spring in utah here kind of, so it is nice. The city is not really big but there are a lot of members here there are 3 stakes here so that is awesome. we are in the stake zapata in the brach burgos. The branch is really small so we have a lot of work to do. Yesterday at church to start the services there was only like ten people there so that was a change from all the wards i have been in the mission where they have all been strong large wards so my companion and i am excited to be here. My companion is Elder Porter he is from Spanish Fork so pretty close to home, he is really cool he has a year in the mission, we have been friends for a while now becasue we both got to acapulco at the same time and now we are companions so that is cool. This last week was pretty much just getting to know all of the members and investigators so that was fun it was a pretty good week not so good number wise but we worked really hard this week and hopefully in this next week we can have more sucess and use more time to teach we didnt teach too much this last week with just getting to know everyone. We do have a couple that we are teaching so hopefully everything goes well with them in the next couple weeks and that they can get baptised soon. Thats about it for this week just a lot of getting to know the people and then also a lot of rain. Well hope that everyone has a good week at home and Happy Fathers day dad.

Love elder Bird

Hey family

how is everything going at home this week hope things are all going well. well the big news from this week is that i was changed to a new area back up by cuernavaca in a city called cuatla. i am now very far away from the ocean and back closer to my first area. my new companion is an elder that i have know for a while now he was the other district leader in acapulco and now we are companions opening up our area. our area is called burgos it is a branch here and the area is really small and flat so that is change from a lot of hills and a big area. we also have another branch that we can also cover so that will be interesting to see how everything goes i am excited to be here and one of the elders before was my compaions elder fernandez so that is kind of fun. this last week in acapulco went pretty well for us we had quite a few really cool lessons and it is sad that i wont be there to see quite a few of our investigators get baptized but oh well the most important things is they get baptized so hopefully everything goes well for them in the next couple weeks. it was pretty sad to leave acapulco after all the experiences that i was able to experience there all the people that i meet and the people i was able to teach. well i hope that everyone has a good week and i will write more next week to tell you a little more about the area and how the frist week here went.


Love Elder Bird