Hello everyone,

This week has been good and a little slow and on Saturday night it snowed so much so quickly that church was canceled and we were stuck inside for most of the day so that was fun for my birthday.  Also Elder Shurtz made me breakfast which was really nice of him. So most of the day we stayed inside and did a little bit of studying and then we played some games until they told us we could leave but everyone we tried wasn’t home.

Oh yea earlier this week we went and met with this investigator who has been investigating for about a year and we talked to him about the plane of salvation and when we got to the end Elder Shurtz told him these are the thing that need to be done so you can enter the Celestial Kingdom first being baptized and our investigator told us well you haven’t answered my question yet why do I need to be baptized first before I can become a member of the church  so we shared a scripture in the Bible and then the Book of Mormon then in the Doctrine and Covenants and told him that is what God has been requiring forever and he said oh well I guess all the other churches have it wrong then the need to start doing that and now I guess all that is left is to pick a date and that took us by surprise and next time we meet with him we are going to help him pick a date which is really exciting .

Elder Birch