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