Hello Everyone,

This week was pretty good, our Bishop gave us some names of less active people in the area we were going to work in and we were on exchanges so I was driving and the other elder was giving me direction to one of the houses and he got distracted and then all of a sudden he said oops missed the turn then right after oops there’s the zone boundary so we left the zone for a minute or so as we tried to turn around and the elder I was with is brand new so that was a big scare to him because we are not supposed to leave the zone. So that was an exciting part of this week and later that week when I was back with Elder Shurtz we tried the same house and this kid he looked like he was in his late teens answers we ask him if the member we are looking for lives there and he said he does but he is busy right now so we tell him that the member who is his grandpa is a member of our church and asked him if he has ever heard of us and he said no. We asked him if he attended a church and he said he has a couple of times with his grandma who is a Jehovah’s Witness but he doesn’t want to join any church since there are so many and he doesn’t want to get it wrong so he just tries his best to do what God wants him to do and that was a perfect intro to the restoration. We gave him a Book of Mormon and our number and he really seemed interested because to him it sounded like Joseph Smith had the same concerns he had and now he wanted to now for himself so we’ll see how that goes. Then on Sunday when we meet with the Bishop and Elders Quorum president and High Priest Group Leader we told them that we were able to confirm that this member lives there and the High Priest group leader said “wait, isn’t that one of the names that I gave you that moved?” the man that answered told us that he didn’t live there anymore and our Bishop said “well people lie sometimes” and chuckled so that was kind of funny that if it wasn’t for his grandson this member’s record would have been sent off so we’ll see how that also goes 😛

Elder Birch