Kirby, James

Good afternoon everyone! Hope all is going well! This week has been good! Last pday we played soccer, watched the Chosen and hung out in the chapel with everyone. Also a random mini mall opened up close to the chapel and everything there is dirt cheap! We found those water balloons that you can inflate 100 in a few seconds and want to plan a water balloon war one of these upcoming days. This week has been tough finding new people. We have a ton of contacts with everyone we see and not one of them want to hear our message. The other day, one of the companions from the other zone came in and we took one of them out with us to do visits while his comps went to the medical appointment. We were going all over the place trying to find people, at the end of the day, the companion that was with us for the day kept asking us how in the world we find people. We just told him that God just puts them in our path when they're ready. We visited our ward mission lead...

How is everyone doing? I hope all is well and you are all reading your scriptures. This week we finished up most of the stuff we had to do for transfers so I can actually write an email. This week we had to do a lot of contacting because none of our friends that we were teaching showed up to church. We had about 12 people that told us they were on their way to church but just never showed up and didn't decide to call us back when we tried to find out what happened. So we've knocked a lot of doors with not a ton of success. We did get to play ping pong last sunday after church.  Transfers were absolutely  crazy. We were supposed to get the photos of who's going where in the morning on Sunday so we could have all of the travels, bus tickets bought and a list created for all of the missionaries so they could know what they were doing. What ended up happening was that we didn't get the photos in the morning so we went out to work and we get a cal...

Hope everyone is doing well and you are all reading your scriptures! This week has been pretty good! As the title says, we took an Uber and he just had an Ipad in his car and was watching Shrek in English. But I am alive don't worry, just super busy! President Maddux decided to white wash 14 diffrent areas and we are going all over the place!  But love you all,     - Elder  Kirby   Photos link:   https://photos.app.goo. gl/991BzUk4fjcGu8h17

How's everyone doing? Costa Rica is good!  Last pday, we hiked up a hill close to our area and chilled with some cows. We went up with some cardboard to slide down the hill, which was pretty fun! The view was amazing, too! We came back down, got lunch, and hung out for a bit before going home.  The biggest thing that happened this week is we got a new mission president! President Maddux and Sister Maddux are so cool! We got to go to the airport to pick them up, and we've been helping them out getting settled in. On the way back from the airport, the Sturgess bought us McDonald's!! The Maddux's have had a ton to do, and we will get to talk a ton tomorrow in the mission leadership conference, and then we will have interviews afterward. Saying goodbye to the Cates was a bit sad, but I'm excited to see how President Maddux does things.  The other day, we had all 14 beds filled in our house. (Our house is nicknamed the mission hotel) it's always a party with a whole ...