Hello

I got the package and thank you for everything in there the insoles are really great they feel really nice and I really like the letter Sadie and dad wrote. This week we were able to visit some potentials that we had found earlier in the month and something interesting about one of them is that his name is Slush. I’m sure if he keeps progressing well find out his real name. So we have been doing a lot of work in the ghetto of our area because we needed people to teach and were having trouble finding them so we went there and yesterday I guess in PEC they talked about how all the people we were teaching are in the ghetto and that there was nothing wrong with that but asked us if we could find people in nicer areas because they would probably be more solid members which is what they really need right now because our ward has 27 pages worth of members and only about a 10th of that are active members. Our ward mission leader said he would talk to us and also told them that we are trying our best with what we got and he pushed member help for us. So we will be going to the nicer area to go tracting to find more people as well and I can tell the bishopric is liking us since we are finding a lot of new people. Oh and the other elders that we trade the car with every other week can’t drive for right now so we have been full time car for about 2 weeks and that has been pretty nice and the weather is kind of cooling off. It hasn’t been in the hundreds in about a couple of weeks and it has rained a couple times this past two weeks. Oh and I’ve kind of figured out the accent they have here. It sounds like any word that sounds like it ends in a vowel becomes an ‘a’ like yella, winda, Missoura so that was also pretty exciting this week.

Elder Birch