December 21, 2015

We come late from apartment.  We have to fix our bicycle so we come late to the internet cafe.  We are having FHE with one of the pioneer.  Dr. Kissi.  I met him in the MTC.  He wrote one book called "Walking On The Sand".  He's writing another book.  They are editing it in Utah.  I will do my best to get that book and you will read it one day.  It is a really nice one on church life in Ghana.  Anyway it is really nice having family around and you have a big family.  I really love family.  I'm a family person.  That's all we have.  Just our family.  I'm glad that you all are having fun and a good time.  I'm just feeling the Christmas spirit that you all have there.  We had a great time.  We sang Christmas songs yesterday at church in local language.  Everyone is happy for that.  After church we met a few people for the first time.  We had 2 LA coming to church and 4 investigators coming to church.  2 came for the first time.  They are invited by members.  We are going to get to know them.  This week we are preparing for Christmas.  We are going to have an activity in our branch.  People are busy.  We have a family that we are working with but she is having a problem with keeping the commandment so she needs a small time.  We will work on that.  We have David and his sister Joyce.  We are teaching them lesson 2.  We invited them to church but they didn't come.  But we will try and work hard with them.  We have other people that we are working with too.  We have RC in our area.  She is very good.  We call her Grandma.  She is very kind to missionaries.  I had a chance to share my testimony yesterday.  I gave a small talk about the birth of our Savior.  I quoted from Isiah.  I really love that scripture and the words of King Benjamin from the Book of Mormon.  The greatest gift which is given to all of us is to save and redeem us from our Father, His only begotten Son in flesh.  I'm grateful for that and I'm happy that I know it for myself.  That He lives and He will come again.  Thank you so much for all things that you are doing for me.  I will talk to you all soon.  I would really love to talk with Emma and Lydia too...
Much love,
Elder Birresa

December 14, 2015

Great to hear from you again.  I love the movie Home Alone, a Christmas movie.  The snow looks cold though.  Anyways I wish you all the best one.  My new area is a rocky and dusty place.  It is really nice we have people that we are teaching even though I'm new to the area.  But it was good.  I'm finishing my companion's training so we leave the apartment at 5am.  Before lunch we don't do contacting, we just go and teach.  The weather is too hot.  Then we will come back for lunch.  We do contacting and teaching and visiting members.  We found really nice people that we are teaching.  David and Joyce, his sister.  We are teaching them.  Saturday we give service to our branch president.  We painted his house for him.  We had a great time doing that.  Yesterday was missionary Sunday.  We taught all things at church.  I taught Sunday School and Elders Quorum.  It was great.  The first class was the last chapter of New Testament and the second one was about missionary work.  It was great.  It is a newly opened branch.  They want to be a ward very soon.  We will do our best by working with them.  We are four missionaries in the same apartment.  We are having a great time.  Christmas is coming and we are preparing to have Carols again in the mall and for our Zone conference.  The time flies.  I'm almost done with my mission and am grateful to have you as mother, friend, and family.  Yes, I will be calling.  Should I call the same number that I called on Mother's Day?  It would be great to hear from Griffin too.  I was just talking to people back home and they told me there is a problem between government and people.  More than 60 people are killed by government force and they are students in Ethiopia.  Democracy is zero.  There is none.  You can't talk anything.  I personally hate politics because they will kill you so because of that just this year they had an election and they said they won by 100%, which is not true.  When you see the economy is growing fast but the gap between rich and poor is very high.  We will see what will happen but that makes me feel sad when the leaders do such things to their people.  I'm very sad to see people being killed everywhere.  Too sad.  We must pray to GOD to give us good leaders.  Thank you so much.
Much love,
Elder Birresa

November 16, 2015

Hope you all are doing good.  For me I'm just doing good.  We had a hard week.  We had program for our Mission President last Saturday.  It was good.  He's a very strong man.  It was somehow a boring week.  I'm having a hard time to sleep lately.  I'm not sleeping enough.  Just 4 to 5 hours.  I will stay awake in the midnight.  We had people that we are teaching.  We contacted 3 young men.  They are students.  Our first visit was wonderful.  We will hope to see them in this coming week.  So Christmas is almost here.  We are preparing to make a difference so will have Carols around our area.  Thanks for all things.  My hug to all.
Much love,
Elder Birresa

October 26, 2015

Great to hear from you again.  Yes, mission life is challenging lately.  Yes I was talking to president about that asking him why its making my time hard and he told me that he didn't put him with me just because he wanted to but he said that he knew I can take care of him more than anyone so he just told me to try my best to help him.  So this week we are okay but passing everything.  I hate living a fake life but no choice.  I'm living a fake life to make someone feel good and I'm okay if he will learn to humble himself and do his work.  We are having 2 baptisms this coming Saturday for Clement and Sister Ofori.  They are both PM with very active family.  They are going to have interview this Friday and will be baptized the next day.  Before that we have member devotional with Elder David A. Bednar.  It will be great to hear from him this coming Thursday.  We will take investigators with us so they can have a chance to hear from him as well.  Last when we are walking on the road to our apartment we meet very nice family who are very interested and want to learn with us even.  They asked us to come and visit them every Saturday.  They are happy family.  I can't wait to meet them again.  Yesterday was a nice day.  Had a great time at church.  8 people come to visit us.  3 of them are referrals to other missionaries but 5 are progressing.  We will look forward to seeing all of them in this coming week.  I don't want to give up on anything.  There is always tomorrow.  You can be better tomorrow if you are not today.  Just look forward to having fun and making my mission memorable, and going home with honor.  I really know for myself that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is for all mankind and He loves all of us.  He makes it possible for us to go back to our Father which is above.  I'm so grateful for the Atonement of our Savior and His love toward all of us.  For sure we will stay in touch.  We are family.  Thank you so much for all things.
Much love,
Elder Birresa

October 19, 2015

Yes it is challenging.  Guess what?  We are at mission house.  We had a really hard time last night.  We fight.  I don't want to but he tried to bite and punch me on the face but he missed me so I have to punch him back and I did it.  The other missionaries come and helped to hold him back.  He is not humble.  He don't want you to tell him anything.  But I can't live a fake life.  If I need to tell him I will.  I will keep telling him.  I promise I'm not bad and I will get along with everyone.  So we meet with the mission president just now and he talked to us.  Now my companion is with the mission doctor.  He needs help.  The transfer is just last week and President wants me to stay with him for small time.  Again it wouldn't be hard for me to stay with him.  I will change my ways and try to help him.  But we had a great week.  We received 3 referrals.  Two of them come to church.   Actually we taught 2 of them.  The other one is from TOGO.  He's a French man.  He stays in sister's area and was referred to us from a member.  We try to pass to sisters but the member said to teach him and he will go to their branch when it is time for him to be baptized.  We can give to sisters so they can baptize him.  I don't know it wouldn't work but we will talk to president about that.  Even before we go back to apartment.  But it is great thing we are having people to teach for the next month.  My companion is from South Africa.  Yes, I do have a lot of friends that are Muslims.  I really enjoy being around them.  Our culture is very similar to each other.  It is not hard for me but it is hard to teach Muslim people but I enjoy their companionship.  Yes I did have a Muslim girlfriend.  Yes she is married now.  I will probably date Muslim again when I go home and convert her maybe.  It is really good to hear that Rachel is married now.  With the oldest dress.  I think that is good idea to pass the dress to generations.  Back home if you go to wedding or hear wedding you will say this word.  Let me say it in Amhric first.  YE ABRAHAME EN YE SARA GABECHA YE HUNELACHU.  Hope you will manage to read my Amhric.  Let me interpret to English.  I'm wishing for their life to be like Abraham and Sara.  Will you forward to them for me?  Say it in Amhric to them.  It wouldn't be hard!!  Thank you so much for all thing.  Wish great time and week.  Please I miss Emma and Lydia.  Please give my hug to them and tell them my much love for them.
Much love
Elder Birresa

October 12, 2015

Hello.  How are you?  I'm doing good.  Yeah  my past week is somehow very hard.  My new companion is having a hard time.  I really try to help him.  I have to tell him all things.  I have to do all things with teaching.  Yesterday before we left the apartment we have to pray and I start praying.  He start talking.  I didn't say anything.  I finish my prayer and we left.  But I will do my best.  He's left with 6 months.  But we had a great week.  Clement is progressing very well.  He comes to church and is studying all the things that we told him to study.  He have a lot of young man friends at church  so for sure he will be great young man.  We received referral yesterday from members.  She stays with them.  We will start teaching her from this week.  Our next transfer is in 2 months.  One of the longest transfers but the time go fast too.  We contact 6 days for one hour and most of the people in our area are Muslims.  We try to contact all people that come in our way but no return appointment.  Yesterday we get to know 4 members where they stay.  We both are new to the area.  We don't know members houses a lot so we are trying to know members houses.  We start from leaders.
Yes Abdi is looking forward to serving mission.  He is 16 years.  He has 2 years left to prepare but probably he will go after 4 years after he finishes his school.  You know when we moved to Addis to stay with Jason he started school from 1.  Now he's grade 8.  He is doing all the best at church and home.  He's looking forward to serving mission.  We have very good leaders.  They do support young men and women.  In the district the church is not too big back home.  We are under Uganda Kampala Mission. My mission is the best 2 years of my life.  Being here is the right thing for me at this time.  I have learned a lot.  Not just for myself but for all those around me.  Mission is school for your life.  It is the place that you will develop Christlike attributes.  I just get hope, faith and charity.  I will never give up with anything.  I don't know what will happen.  We live in faith but I'm lucky that I had a chance to serve a mission.  Think of all the young men all over the world.  A few of us have had a chance to serve and bless others through our service.  Anyways a lot of things to say.  Hope you understand me.  It is time I think about my future as time is going to finish up my mission.  I don't want to go back to my hometown, but I will live in Addis.  I don't know where the life will take me but at the end I will live in Addis.  Anyway I'm happy to talk to you.  Thanks for the things that you have done for me.
Elder Birresa
Much love

August 17, 2015

Good to hear from you again.  Yes he's somehow young.  I'm the oldest grandson to him.  He's on my father's side.  I know 7 generations back myself.  I was told when I was small but only their name.  I don't know much where they come from or their birth date.  That is my father's side.  But my mother's side I know much.  Originally they are from the middle east and they are Jew people.  It is really easy to search my mother's side.  I will do my best to search for the names when I go home.  I can't wait to go home.  Even my dreams and everything is home recently.  So for my sister, she was told to not do that.  She is 19.  They don't have children yet.  It was not great choice for her.  I'm really out of the game.  I told her to do not.  I just care about my mom and she don't stop thinking about her.  I haven't heard anything from them today.  Probably next week.  Great to hear about Rachel. It is really good to have a companion.  We believe marriage to be between a man and a woman.  We are living in bad times with wrong people or wrong culture.  Anyways we don't stop fighting against sin, not the sinners.  For my people and my area we are doing great teaching, even though it is hard to find people to teach here in this small town.  But we are going to have 1 baptism this coming Saturday.  Her name is Rita.  She is part member.  She is ready to be baptized for she believes, but the father is stopping her to be baptized.  But we are still working with it.  Thanks for everything that you are doing for me.  Wish you a great week.
Elder Birresa
Much Love

July 6, 2015

Great to hear from you and it was your birthday too.  Happy Birthday.  Wow!  That is a very big family coming over and having fun together.  I really want to meet all of them badly and get to know them.  It is a really great thing to have family that loves God and his commandments.  I'm really sorry about the weather.  It sounds super hot.  I really want to hear from you how it looks like to have church at home with family.  The Bush means a remote area of the mission, far from the mission home.  There is nothing but the church start it here in this town, when the church came to Ghana.  There is really good, good, members that come from this branch.  There is a book that talks about church history here in Ghana.  I'm thinking to get one and send it to you so you can read the church history in Ghana.  Yes, very bad roads here.  It takes hours to reach just the next town because of the roads.  If the road is okay in half hour you will be there.  People are farmers.  They all farm.  In the morning when we go teach, there is no one home.  Then they will come back from the farm at noon and prepare their food.  So we use our time and teach them.  Most of the time we teach LA members.  We had 6 LA at church yesterday.  It was great to have them at the church.  We have a few people that we are teaching.  It is not easy to teach people like other parts of Ghana because of the language.  When the church came here first, many joined the church and then many left the church.  That is why we have a lot of less actives but we are doing great.  We had 60 people in Abomosu and 105 in Sankubunase branch.  It is really boring to stay at church for 6 hours doing everything.  We will give a talk, bless sacrament.  But it was not bad to work hard.  I'm always busy doing something.  Yesterday was the hardest day of my mission.  It is fast Sunday.  Moving from place to place.  Looking for car to come back to Abomosu branch and talking all the day without food.  But I'm happy for the work that I'm doing down here.  Thank you so much for all things that you are doing for me.  Hope you had a great birthday party.  My greetings to all.
Much love,
Elder Birresa

April 26, 2015

It is good to hear from you.  Jamie  how are you?  Yea I do understand many people think that Africa is one big country not a continent b/c the war and natural disasters we face many challenges as a continent.  But now when you see the world bank report out of ten growing fast countries in the world 7 are African countries.  I know much about my country.  It is growing very fast next to China and India.  When you see our capital city it is the top 10 most visited city in the world in 2014.  Yea there is a lot of poor people and at the same time there is a lot of rich people from expensive cars and private jets.  Will you come and see one day?  I know you will love it very much.  All things that you have in U.S. you will find here if you come.  We do have X-box or PlayStation.  I like to play FIFA when I was home b/c I like football.  I promise for you it is really different from the image that you have.  There is a lot of good things which you will never hear in the news.  Anyways I heard about Caleb from Ann and am sorry.  I do know how it is painful.
We had wonderful week finding and teaching.  We are planing to have a baptism next week for Brother Harrison.  He is 19 years old.  That would be the last baptism of this month.  The people that we are preparing for the next month and our RC are doing good.  They came to church yesterday.  Emmanuel and Samuel.  They received the Aaronic priesthood.  That was so cool.  My companion dropped the phone in the water so since Friday we are out of the phone.  Hopefully we will have one tomorrow.
Thank you so much.
Much love
Elder Birresa

March 30, 2015

Hello.  Thanks for emailing me.  Great to hear from you.  The true happiness comes from serving others.  Thank you for being a great example to your grandchildren. Tell Brody I'm proud of him too.  Yeah I'm doing great.  Am going on transfer this Wednesday.  I'm going to the eastern part of Ghana to a small town.  I'm really sad to leave my area.  The Camp I really want to stay more months. But am going.  We had wonderful week.  We are having baptism next Saturday for Osman and his Mother.  They are from New York but her husband is a member.  She came to visit him last month.  She was born in Muslim family and moved to USA 15 years ago.  So her husband is a member.  She likes the teaching and about the temple work because her family are Muslims and she knows that they don't believe in Jesus Christ.  She was thinking of her family.  Those who passed away and when she heard baptism for the dead she was happy.  We helped her to understand.  She is happy for that so she went to be baptized in her husband but she is going back to New York on 11 of April so she is moving after her baptism.  The good thing is her husband is a member.  Even strong member.  He's our ward clerk.  He will help her to gain her testimony but am leaving them Wednesday.  For Regan he's such great father.  We meet with his x-wife.  She is really living very hard life.  She stays around his house but she drunk very much.  We meet three times this past week with her.  She is drunk all the time.  We try to help her to stop but she don't want to give it up.  He don't want to stay with drunk woman too which is right for he don't drink, don't have any problem that will hold him to be baptized.  He came to church yesterday. Another bad history, the husband and wife have 4 children.  They all are members.  We visited them 4 weeks ago.  They cooked for us.  We had wonderful time with them but I don't see her husband at church and I asked her.  She told me he travel but yesterday I asked her again and she called me and told me that they are not living together anymore.  I'm sad and asked her why.  She said he don't want her again.  She is Liberian and he's Ghanaian.  Bishop knows the problem but I don't really know if he's working on it.  She took two of her kids with her and moved to the camp.  I really feel bad about him.  He even got married to other woman after his wife left the house.  He took his new wife to his house.  Ohhhhhhh weakness but when I was in Ashtown I met a member who's a hero to me.  His wife passed away in birth-time of their daughter 9 years ago.  He since that time is not married to anyone and lives with his daughter doing everything with her.  Going to church every single Sunday with her in each ward in our stake because he's Stake Family History Director but he attend Sunday in different wards in our stake and he will take her with him anywhere he go on Sunday.  During the week she will be at school because he don't have anyone to take care of her for him.  He's a great father.  For Charles he's doing great.  He's a movie director.  He's going back to Liberia soon to shoot his new movie.  I told him I want to study Cinematography.  I really want to work with movies.  He told me he has a place for me to work with him.  I told him I'm a missionary and can't do that for now.  He's going to be married in November and he invited us to Liberia.  He will pay all my needs but I told him I'm still on a mission and I can't go to his wedding.  I feel bad but no choice.  All the RC are doing great and active.  We have a dog.  She lived with members and when we visited them she became friends with us so now she will go all the day with us.  She don't want to leave us and do her business.  She eats her lunch with us too.  I love that dog.  For my school I really want to study Cinematography and work with Cinema.  If you help me with this I will be grateful to you.  For your money I used it to buy shoes and suitcase and other needs but I still have some of it.  I will use wisely.  Thanks for all things.  For the love and care about me.  Tell everyone Happy Easter and have wonderful time.  I miss Emma and Lydia.  Please tell them I missed them too.
Much love,
Elder Birresa

March 23, 2015

Hello.  Yeah long time since I heard from you.  I'm doing great.  Good to hear from you again.  So Griffin is going to Madagascar.  That is wonderful.  Is he going to learn French?  Is he going to Provo MTC or Ghana MTC or South Africa MTC?  I hope he will love his mission.  I had a few friends from Madagascar when I was in the MTC.  As for me I'm doing great here in the camp.  But there is some bad news.  They are going to destroy the camp and build a market so they asked everyone from the camp to leave in three months, which is so bad and a lot of people don't have a job so they can't support their family.  I feel life will be hard to them when they leave the camp.  Our ward is going to be closed too.  But the good thing is we baptized Charles last Saturday.  He's happy.  He's leaving to Liberia very soon.  He's dating a member in our ward too, which is good.  We are working with Leon, Regan and Dolly for the next month.  For Leon his brother is a member we baptized last month.  He referrers to us and we are teaching him and he will be ready for the next month.  Regan is Liberian.  I feel bad about  him.  He has three children under 8 years and their mother left them with their father and he's doing his best.  It is not easy.  We are teaching him.  He likes the teaching and he wants to be baptized.  We are having his baptism on 25 of April.  For Dolly, she stays with members so she comes to church since we start teaching her.  Having wonderful time with members doing what is right.  Our conference was nice.  Talked about to stay strong and faithful.  Many missionaries are going back to their home.  It is really hard honestly.  It is really hard to survive with weather and power and other, but it is for small time and not forever.  I'm happy for Brody.  Try to send me email once in a week please.  It means a lot to me.  I don't have anyone to write me.  Thank you for all thing.
Love
Elder Birresa

March 9, 2015

Hello, how are you?  Happy Birthday!!!!  We baptized two people last Saturday.  Troken and Jimmy.  Jimmy had special interview with President Patrick.  We passed his baptism for March 21 with Charles.  It has been great week.  We did great.  We had 8 people yesterday at Sacrament.  We have few people that we are working with for the coming month.  I went on exchange with Elder Reeves this week in their area.  It was wonderful to be there with him.  There is an orphanage in our area run by member.  They are from Idaho.  We went there.  They have 46 children.  They are nice to play with them.  All our recent converts are doing great, coming to church on time and participating in church meetings.  Justice is planning to go on mission next year.  He's preparing himself for that.  My past one year in Ghana is very good.  I really learn great things.  I past some hard time and very good time in the past year.  I have talked with:
949 contact,
855 other lesson
172 member percent lesson @ 3 convert
14 people from Ghana
5 people from Liberia
4 people from Nigeria.
I love the work that I am doing here in Ghana.  Sharing the things that I truly know to be true has helped me to have unshakable testimony about the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Wednesday we are having a mission tour (conference) with the West Africa Area President, Legrand R. Curtis Jr.  Thank you so much for all the things that you have done for me to support me with my mission.  I'm half done and I will finish the rest.
With much love and respect.
Elder Birresa (your son).

March 2, 2015

Hello, how are you?  For me am doing great.  We had wonderful week again.  We had 15 people yesterday at Church.  Troken and Patric they are ready for next Saturday to be baptized.  We taught all thing they have to know before their baptism and Troken helped us to teach his younger brother.  He's somehow a hard person to teach.  I feel we are forcing him to teach but his brother, Troken wants us to teach him.  Charles, we are preparing him for the next month.  He comes to church 2 times.  He's Liberian.  We taught about the restoration of the Gospel, the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith.  We asked him to pray and ask if these things are true.  We gave him his own copy of the Book of Mormon.  We marked for him a place to read from the Book of Mormon.  It helped him to know the truth about the Book of Mormon.  Yesterday he shared his testimony with members about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith.  That is a wonderful moment of the week.  Our recent converts, they all are doing great.  They are coming to church every Sunday.  Even Agustina.  She came to church this past two Sundays with her mother, which is very good.  We found few people that are interested to hear our message.  We will work with them.  We will have two baptisms next Saturday.  They are ready for that.  They will have interview by zone leaders this week.  Next year at this time I will be in mission home to fly back to Ethiopia.  I really miss my family and Injera.  Thank you so much.
Much love,
Elder Birresa

February 23, 2015

Hello how are you nice pictures I really love it Lindsey Emma and Lydia they are looking great even am having there picture in my room I really always have great Love for them I get my money 300$ thank you for that I get new missionary from my Branch which is very nice I know him very well and come to my mission my week have been great too.  we are working with Patric and Troken for the next Month they both stay in the Camp but Patric is a Ghanaian they do keep the commitment they are doing great and Troken he asked us to teach his Brother too we had 7 people at sacrament meeting and 2 Less-active Members Jimmy come to church yesterday his wife she in Hospital his Hospital bill is too much 1000$ or 3000GH he payed 200GH and come to ask help from Bishop for the rest Bishop told him to bring some rist (document about the amount of money or whatever) for that I hope he will help him with it you know many people need help here in this ward I don't know it is really hard to be a bishop but hes a good man his young maybe 28 years we stay next to his house we are still working with Augustina and her mother about there problem and relationship between them.  Kelvin is still straggling with his drug we try to help him and his having problem with his wife too.  we received 2 referrals from our ward Clark they are from Sierra Leone they are really nice they are new to Ghana just come and they are sisters too.  am really enjoying my mission March 7 will be my year mark on mission I can fill that the time is flying thank you so much for the all thing that you are doing for me you are such great mother please good take care of your self and DAD...
Much Love
Elder Birresa

February 2, 2015

Our week have been greet and sad as well.  On Wednesday we went to members house for service it some how far.  We cleaned for him his chicken farm.  He's having more than 2000 chickens. We had wonderful time with him by helping him. He's doing great with his business.  The next day we all are feeling sorrow in our body but we have to finish our 2 year so we went out. We taught 9 lessons all the day Sister Lucy our RC and her Husband, he's RC too.  They invited me and my companion for lunch.  On Friday sister Mosglina member in our ward she cooked food for us then we walk to our apartment after we left her house. We have to go on exchange. I am with Elder Ferrin he's from Linden Utah. We had wonderful time with 6 lessons. On Saturday is busy day. Most of investigators will be at home.  We taught 9 lessons.  Tried to fellow up with our contact. We are preparing 2 people for 14th in FEB.  Brother Justice and his father Brother Edwin. We had wonderful time with them in the evening we heard very sad news.  Augustina she is our Convert she is 17 years old she is having 1 boy with out married but she is 4 month pregnant.  They don't have anything to eat.  Her mother she kicked her out of house.  We prayed and fast for that to help her. Sister Mosglina she went to help her even to take her to her house and help her to take care of her self.  I really feel bad for those kids.  We come back to Bishops house latter in the evening.  After we done with them we come back to apartment we have to prepare for Sunday.  We have to be at the church building at 7:30 am and it is fast and testimony Sunday too.  We had 6 people in sacrament except Augustina.  3 of our convert they come to church yesterday they are doing great too. After church we visited a Kenyan man he just come to church his working here and we taught Harrison. We past his baptismal date for 14th of FEB and we visited Augustina with 2 RS women.  Today we visited them with Bishop and we are doing great.  Working hard.  My grammar is not good if you have to edit it please you cane help me in my English.  Thank you so much for all thing that you are doing for me.  I hope you all are doing great.
Much love
Elder Birresa

January 19, 2015

Hello,
How are you?  For me I'm doing great.  We baptized 4 people on Saturday.  3 Liberians and 1 Ghanaian.  The camp is a nice place to work hard.  There are people to teach.  Really the church is growing very fast here.  I was so happy when I heard the good news last week that one of my converts, her name is Kafui, we baptized her last July.  She served as ward missionary in our mission.  Now she is working on her mission papers.  She is planning to move in July.  It is great news for me.  My convert she is going to serve mission!  The weather is getting hot too much now but the work is moving forward.  Yesterday we had 10 investigators in sacrament.  We are working with them.  Next week we will have baptism.  Brother Harrison.  He's 19 years old. Our area is big.  Last Thursday we visit Bishop.  He lived far from our area.  We take motorcycle taxi to get there.  It was nice.  We enjoyed our time with them.  I hope you got my package.  I sent it a long time ago.  Thank you so much.  Have a wonderful week.  I'm going to be a year soon...
Much love
Elder Birresa