September 29, 2014

Hello how are you ? i hope you are doing okay it is good to hear from you every week you dont now how it makes me happy to read your email every week thanks for being good for me of course we are family last time i received Message from Lindsey here it is  My girls just had their cousins comes stay with us who are on my husband's side of the family. They were asking the girls a bunch of questions, one was "Would you ever want a brother?" The BOTH said "We already have a brother." that is nice you dont now how i fill just love the great gift I love them they are to special for me  anyways let me tell you small about my week my companion was transferred to other place and i got new companion from U.S i will go to the office to take him to our area on Wednesday almost gating to 7 month on mission 8 days left and i become senior on mission his 2 Mtc after me we are finding people to teach every day to have baptism my area is nice if you work hard the missionary they killed the area somehow there is no baptism for long time but now everything is going very well we are preparing 3 people for the October there name is Eric have been church 1x,Philip have been church 3x and Florence she have been church more than 5x but she speak local language and small small English it makes hard for us to teach we are trying to teach her with members but she is busy to and we are hoping to baptize brother Joseph to for him his ready we are planing to baptize him next week but his wife she is nit happy with that so she is forcing him to do not join we try to teach her about our message but she is not ready to lesson but now am planing to build relationship with us new thing then every thing will be okay we looking forward for his baptism  and his wife we are working very hard even with out lunch you know our area is far from apartment so we will go out in the morning at 10am to 8pm if we come back to apartment it takes more-than 2 hours to eat and back to our area so what we do is we just eat our breakfast then we will eat some snacks on the street to make the area fruitful like other area, we found LA family his name is brother Stephen  we are contacting he called us he tolled us hes a member he was baptized 2004 LA for 8 years they are 7 in his family he and his wife are a member but his children are not he have 5 children we visited him this week  2x he told us some-off his problem with the church leaders i dont now if it is true or not but if it true of course that is bad thing they have done to him he show us the pictures when get married at church for there baptism b/c they have married legally to be baptized so they have done at church 10 years ago in that picture we saw one man his worshiping with us in our ward am excited to see him in that picture we talk we talk with him yesterday at church and we told him all thing we take him to his house his riding his motorcycle and we are riding our cycle we went there they now each other very well they just give hug each other start taking in there native language fir long time then he told us dont worry about him I will take care of him he invited him to church the coming Sunday he said i will come i went different church for 8 years they all are useless i have to come i have to repaint and he cried i just cried with him it is nice filling that i had about Holy Ghost this week b/c off him we get new investigator to teach how is progressing very well even we found one new family husband and wife they dont have children yet they married recently they are really interested in our teaching we talk with them about internal marriage and other thing they are smart they believe in apostasy we give them baptismal date they told us they have done there baptism 1 time we explain to them why they need to be baptize again they except there baptismal date  for the 16th of November  they told us they will be at church this Sunday and we are going to see them again on tomorrow it really nice week finding new people always i like finding new people to teach my area will be good area again I will do my best to make it fruitful area sound good India that is good i hope all will be okay for all of you Griffin I hope his lucking forward to serve mission am praying that he will serve in Ethiopia like Elder Fuller(Braden) I hope I will get soon  I always fill your Love mom and remember that I love all of you please say hello to all my English is not good but am trying my best    Love you all

Elder Birresa       

September 22, 2014

wow that is so good i just see the pictures wetting for her at airport  that is good thing to be there to welcome her  i just imagine how it is the moment at the airport ....anyways i wish to have someone to welcome me when i go home but now sometimes i fill lonely.........standing alone in this world....anyways say welcome to her for me tell her that am proud of her too  wow that is great she will stay with you for few months then she will go to school? oh that is good thanks for being good for me you are great and true mother there is a reason for us to meet i remember when you come to visit us with dad  I know you both are good  but you both are more-than good for me thanks for the things that you and your family share with specially for your Love  I know that will love will change my life GOD is great!! b/c of you and you family Moroni chapter 7 from 37 gone become my favorite i have seen all thing in you and your family what i read in that chapter i wish to have personality like that  I know I will be thanks for being good example for me and for others .................i will let you know if i need anything

they all are doing good my mom last 3 weeks she somehow seek and she come to addis for medical and she is still in addis with her sisters but now she is okay i know she will be okay she thought me to be good she is great mother you know i dont now there here if you are the oldest you have big responsibly to taker of your family which not easy I safer a lot in this age i dont when to safer for ever i will keep doing the right thing no matter where i am where i from for my uncle i hope his doing okay long time i didnt heard anything from him but i now he will be survive  I love my village it is beautiful Place but you know the church is not big In Ethiopia there is only 5 branch in that big land if i go to my village there is no chance for me to partake the sacrament so I will never dream to go back to there to live....let me share small about the thing that my mom thought when my father is past-way things getting very bad to survive all her family my fathers friend all they left us a lone for first time I wish to do not born on this earth and i ask my mom there is no God and he dont love us he dont care about us she told me something she said every thing that we all are facing is a blessing i that time i dont understand the word blessing I thought the blessing is gating every thing that you need to live but now always when i think that is true it is blessing everything that we are facing no matter it is bad or good it is blessing to learn something from it and it makes me strong makes me to care for others anyways late me tell you small about my week we had somehow bad week running everyday we really try to find new people to teach the area is somehow dead area they missionary killed it and it takes time to help the ward to progress but we are planting the seed fro the future missionary and for our self to for i had personal goal to baptize 50 people in my mission I achieve 11 so far left with 39 it is not about the number it is about the soul but it is a goal for me to achieve i hope i will achieve my goal we found 2 family us new investigators who are very interested with the church teaching and one of our investigator her husband past-way 7 years ago and she become christian form Muslim we talk with her about baptism for the dead and about family for eternity she sound interested with the teaching she ask a lot of questions this week are planing to focus  on her and her need it takes time things going well for now really my first area is so nice there is people always to teach and they are smart to it is not easy to fight against devil for others but the victor will for us for me am building my own testimony every day buy sharing with others truly i know that the Gospel is true and God restore-ted once again to the earth for all of us   if we lesson for our filling we will no it us Alma say if we planted it will grow if we cost it out b/c our belief never we will lose for me I will never denied the trues so thank you so much for being good for me for you Love and care all thing that you have done for me you are a great mother I love you a lot more and more ever day please say hello to all for me have good week ..................

Elder Birresa                 

September 22, 2014

wow that is so good i just see the pictures wetting for her at airport  that is good thing to be there to welcome her  i just imagine how it is the moment at the airport ....anyways i wish to have someone to welcome me when i go home but now sometimes i fill lonely.........standing alone in this world....anyways say welcome to her for me tell her that am proud of her too  wow that is great she will stay with you for few months then she will go to school? oh that is good thanks for being good for me you are great and true mother there is a reason for us to meet i remember when you come to visit us with dad  I know you both are good  but you both are more-than good for me thanks for the things that you and your family share with specially for your Love  I know that will love will change my life GOD is great!! b/c of you and you family Moroni chapter 7 from 37 gone become my favorite i have seen all thing in you and your family what i read in that chapter i wish to have personality like that  I know I will be thanks for being good example for me and for others .................i will let you know if i need anything

they all are doing good my mom last 3 weeks she somehow seek and she come to addis for medical and she is still in addis with her sisters but now she is okay i know she will be okay she thought me to be good she is great mother you know i dont now there here if you are the oldest you have big responsibly to taker of your family which not easy I safer a lot in this age i dont when to safer for ever i will keep doing the right thing no matter where i am where i from for my uncle i hope his doing okay long time i didnt heard anything from him but i now he will be survive  I love my village it is beautiful Place but you know the church is not big In Ethiopia there is only 5 branch in that big land if i go to my village there is no chance for me to partake the sacrament so I will never dream to go back to there to live....let me share small about the thing that my mom thought when my father is past-way things getting very bad to survive all her family my fathers friend all they left us a lone for first time I wish to do not born on this earth and i ask my mom there is no God and he dont love us he dont care about us she told me something she said every thing that we all are facing is a blessing i that time i dont understand the word blessing I thought the blessing is gating every thing that you need to live but now always when i think that is true it is blessing everything that we are facing no matter it is bad or good it is blessing to learn something from it and it makes me strong makes me to care for others anyways late me tell you small about my week we had somehow bad week running everyday we really try to find new people to teach the area is somehow dead area they missionary killed it and it takes time to help the ward to progress but we are planting the seed fro the future missionary and for our self to for i had personal goal to baptize 50 people in my mission I achieve 11 so far left with 39 it is not about the number it is about the soul but it is a goal for me to achieve i hope i will achieve my goal we found 2 family us new investigators who are very interested with the church teaching and one of our investigator her husband past-way 7 years ago and she become christian form Muslim we talk with her about baptism for the dead and about family for eternity she sound interested with the teaching she ask a lot of questions this week are planing to focus  on her and her need it takes time things going well for now really my first area is so nice there is people always to teach and they are smart to it is not easy to fight against devil for others but the victor will for us for me am building my own testimony every day buy sharing with others truly i know that the Gospel is true and God restore-ted once again to the earth for all of us   if we lesson for our filling we will no it us Alma say if we planted it will grow if we cost it out b/c our belief never we will lose for me I will never denied the trues so thank you so much for being good for me for you Love and care all thing that you have done for me you are a great mother I love you a lot more and more ever day please say hello to all for me have good week ..................

Elder Birresa                 

September 15, 2014

hi hello how are you I hope you are okay and all your family we dont do Camping in my country b/c it is very bad for wield animal they will attack you if you are sleeping out side even they will try to attack you   when you are sleeping inside the house. so we dont try but some times in group they will but I have not done yet in the western part of my country they will do  somehow ...............about my family I have 1 brother and 1 sister they both are younger than me for my parents for my mom she 43 years old now not to old for my father he past away 6 years ago his 1 years older than my mom they are really good family I love them they taught me to be good person for me I really dont get chance to stay with them for long time my father was past away when I was 16 then I come to live in addis with Jason b/c I have to even for my brother no chance for him at all he come when he was 8 sometime I do care about him b/c he dont miss my mom like me so fill that b/c he left when he was small just forget about her so always I will take him to  visit her every year for 2 months but his good brother I love him for him hes planing to serve mission too when hi finish his high-school then he will serve so for us our family live in small town it somehow difficult we have school at there but 5 years ago we dont have high-school at there so many people will go far for school maybe they will walk 2 hours for school each day life is not easy but my did all the best for us by sending all of us to school and giving us our need  but when my father past-way it become difficult for my mom to take care off all us and they send me and my brother to Jason organization to live with them at there and finish our school you know but am still trying to taker off my self and my family and I know God will help me to do that so for 6 years I live in addis ababa our capital city I love addis just beautiful city with beautiful people ask mom and dad they will tell you about it please one day just come and see life in Ethiopia you will like it I just to write you back last week but the light is off here and I stop here that is good to hear form you about Rachel she will be home very soon that is good mission is so cool here some question from to here how is mission in  Brazil? how is your mission life?any experience that is good for me to learn from it?welcome to home great job that for here you know what is good to serve through that you will grow spiritual King Benjamen say in the BOM when you are serving your follow brothers or sisters you are serving your GOD it is good that like you are having wonderful time with all family how is your all children are doing even how is your husband?thank you so much for being good for me am proud of you you are so wonderful say hello to all please

Elder Birresa      

September 8, 2014

oh yea you know what for us in my country we dont have family name we just use our first name but i just use my grandpas name us sir-name that is why even when we get married we dont give our family name to our wife she will take her fathers name they husband take his fathers name i dont now if you know about Ethiopian calendar we have different calendar  it is 2007 this Thursday is our new year then it will be 2007 we have 13 months happy new year!!! she is okay yea I write for her every week through Facebook she sick last 2 weeks but now she okay she is in Addis now with her sister  but now she is okay for abdi he spend his break time with my mom but now he come back to addis for school yea his with Jason for my sister i have 1 sister she is doing good i really dont here anything from her since i come but i hope she is okay ...........

oh yea I have been transferred to my new area it is nice area we live in the small city but we proselyte out side of the city we have to ride our buy-sickle for 30 minutes always it somehow boring to do every day but it is nice area many people are ready to receive the gospel  but i had wonderful time so far in my new area finding and teaching enjoying with nature many people spik local language it is somehow difficult but we are managing for me am still learning English and our chapel is to small we are 6 missionary's in our area 3 from U.S 1 from Congo and 1 from Australia we live in the same apartment it was so nice so for for now am new so am locking forward to now all the members in my area to work with them i will do that in this coming 2 weeks...last Wednesday when i live my old area and come to new area am so sad i love the members at my old area in Tuesday night  7 members invited me for dinner i cant eat 7 time if i did not eat they will be sad at me so I decided to eat form all of them small small and I eat am so full I cant eat but still they will asked me to eat am sick that night b/c I eat to much but the elders qua-rem president his nice man he live in U.S for long time for him hi but Burger for me and bring it for me you now what first he call I told him 1 place the members house then he told me he will be there soon but for me I have to go and see other members to use my time and I left that place later he called for sure I forget about him at all and I fill bad I told him am not there and he say tell me where are you am far from the place where I told him first no choose I told him again and he say Okay I will be there soon he drive more than 5KM to meet me from that place his nice man finally I meet him he give to me the gift that he have for me and we had picture together and give me big hug left me am so happy for his love for me and I forget to tell you last week I went to Temple I love temple  I wish to be there always but we dont have temple  I my country that is sad but it is nice to have temple anyways my new companion hes name is Elder Murray hes from Utah wellsville cache valley hes nice young man  i really dont now  to much about him he sound like good ....for me Monday is great day you now why I will read my emails then I will be happy I hate washing b/c it is white but we will wish us we can Monday all the time special for all of us b/c we do same ting from Tuesday to Sunday but Monday cocking last time I cocked German pancake in microwave I will send the the picture next week I forget in the other memory card but we will cock and having fun with other missionary's and life is the same always in for all the missionary's finding and teaching and that is good  stay good mom I always remember all of you in my thought and prayer am happy the thing that you and your family done for me for the you all share with me that is great thing for me in my life we can bless other in our love and being good for them keep being good for me please give my love to all................Happy new year ........................

Elder Birresa much love your son                        

September 1, 2014

oh yea I see sound busy that is good to move to where you have to be we had good time finally am transferred to other zone it is not really far but somehow that is good to change the area and it is bad  to live my friends in my old area but I have to go and serve others in there to and get new friends yesterday I fill sad at church I bear my testimony on the sacrament meeting and I see members they are so sad and ward elders qua-rem  asked me how many month i have been there I told  6 month wow  he fill like 3 month they time is flying only for me it is my first area and first transfer in my mission i had nice time in my zone I set goal to baptized 50 people in all my mission I had 11 in 6 month I went to achieve my goal i have to work hard but my District is best District us mission and I will see the next zone and District my new companion his from Utah I dont now much about him but I will be good companion for him so yesterday after church I visit my RC they cocked for us we had nice time with them and we snap pictures together they are so good I love them when we inter to the car to drive us to apartment the other boy his name is Victor hi start running with car more than 500m I fill sad that is so good I love them and am just somehow busy visiting members before i go away from them this evening we are going to have FHE with big family in our ward they are so nice family we are taking refreshment to the program that we be cool and we had many investigators yesterday at church I know the will baptized.....they all are happy and learn new thing about Family History l so all members bring there family's name those who are past away those who are new we just help them to understand about it they fill the form and one of my   investigators say he want to bring all his family name for there baptism I just told him do for you first us you can soon then you will take there name to Temple i hope that wed be okay....and for first time I give the Gift of the holy ghost and conform Us member of the church am  somehow nerves but that is good experiences.......   so are you planing to go back to Ethiopia soon that is good  I hope you will have good time at there for Jeson I got Latter through him from Abdi I think now his in Kenya with Oprah anyways there is no Ebola In Ghana so far but it is going bad all the time but nothing new here..........Fourth, still no Ebola in Ghana: nada, none, zilch, nothing. As I have said previously, controlling this disease will not happen quickly in the affected countries which have fragile health care infrastructures. It will likely be some months before Ebola is under control in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Please do not let this be a distraction to you.

The church has recently authorized the purchase of supplies for the Saints in Sierra Leone and Liberia that will significantly help the Saints in these countries. In addition, President Mahama in Ghana has allowed the UN and other International Organizations to use Accra as a Centre for airlifting supplies and personnel to the most affected countries - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Following the outbreak of the Ebola virus, most of the regular commercial flights into the affected areas have been suspended, making it difficult for equipment, logistics and personnel to reach the affected nations.....that about Ebola new from President in our weekly latter sound good  probably I will continue with my school after I finish my mission I have few pictures from yesterday with members and investigators and have picture with one of my investigator his old man he really like the Book  of Mormon he pray about it even about Joseph Smith he had vision about it but the bad thing is he cant walk he will stay home all the time and he dont have car to drive there he dont have really anyone to help him but me and my companion talk about him with members to pick him to church with there car i hope they will do it one day i know God will help him thank you so much for being good for me if any thing new let me now about your trip and other say good job to Rachel ...........say hello to all give my Love to all ................

Love you lot Elder Birresa