McDonald's Is Expensive Here

How's everyone doing today? Hope all is well! 
This week has been good! Last pday we played Gringos vs Latinos in soccer and somehow won. We had zero strategy and ran football plays and it worked! Then we went to McDonald's for lunch and it was not worth it, gave us a tiny burger for way too much money. We really only went for the McFlurrys. We finished up the concrete floor in the house of our recent converts and they were so excited to move all their furniture back into their house! 
We found a possum in our house. I couldn't tell you how it got in, we are still trying to figure it out. 
We put on a family home evening in a member's house and brought all of our friends from Filidelfia over! We went to our friends house and walked with them to show where the house was. But it started pouring so we gave our friends our umbrellas and put all the phones in my waterproof backpack and got we soaked. First time I've felt cold in about 9 months! 
Zone conference on Saturday was so good! President Cates gave some super awesome advice and shared some really cool experiences from his personal study as a mission president! On the way back to Filadelfia, we were waiting for the bus and there was a crazy lighting storm, it looked like it was out of a movie. When we got on the bus it started pouring again and leaking through the roof, so I can say I've been rained on inside of a bus. 

We have a lot of friends progressing right now that we are super excited for! Pray for our friends that are praying to know if they should be baptized! 

I've been studying the talk of King Benjamin in the Book of Mormon and it's so good! I invite all of you to read it this week! In Mosiah 1-6. 

Pura vida, 
    Elder Kirby 

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