Kirby, James

How's everyone? Hope all is good for you guys! This will be a short email because I don't like taking 30 minutes to write a giant email.  Last pday we went to the grocery store (it's pretty much a walmart) and bought 9 cartons of protein milk, a barbell, and about 72 eggs. All the food was gone by Friday. Like I said last week, if I don't gain 15-20lbs after this transfer, I will be very surprised. It's been so nice to exercise, I've missed it.  Well, we are on a roll. We've set 8 baptismal dates this week and had 10 friends at church!! God has prepared so many of these people! I love seeing everyone happy and excited to tell us that they read the reading assignment! I've felt the spirit so many times, and it's incredible when everyone recognizes it.  This week, we had a branch baptism! She's the daughter of a member who was less active that we helped get back to church and now hasn't missed a single Sunday! Her name is Hernani. Her daughter,...

How's everyone doing this amazing Monday? I hope it's well and that you all are remembering to read your scriptures! Well, this week I've been in the area for about 3 days. Tuesday afternoon me and Elder Sanabria took the 6 hour bus ride to San Jose because he was going back home! That bus ride without AC is brutal, to say the least. We got to San jose around 7:30 pm and had nothing else to do until 9 pm, so we played soccer and basketball. At 9 is when we had our Zoom meeting when we would find out about transfers! I am staying in Filidelfia, and as the title of this email says, I got an American companion! I'm now with Elder Blackwell. He's from Lehi Utah and was my first zone leader of the mission, and now we are companions! It's been a party all week, and we both like to lift and eat a lot of protein, so if I don't gain like 15lbs, I'll be surprised. We like a ton of the same things, and it's nice to talk in English.  Work wise, we've hit the...

Well, good morning to everyone, I hope all is going well! Yes, my companion has finished his companion (we call it dying) he's packing up now, and I will find out who my new comp is tomorrow! We will see what happens. I'm pretty sure I'll stay here in Filidelfia for at least another transfer. People keep telling me that I will train this transfer, but I don't think it will happen. But we will see tomorrow! We were on companion exchanges on Tuesday, and I was leading the area with our district leader, Elder Preston. We contacted one of our friends and had a really good lesson with her and her daughter! ( they went to church on Sunday ), but as we were leaving, we went to shake their hands, and the mom hands me $20 and would not take it back no matter what we told her. She said it's because it's so dang hot here and not for our lesson. So Elder Preston and I got smoothies and Gatorade and paid for the bus back home with the money. We will stop by and clean her yar...