2025 I Guess

How's everyone doing? Hope all is well and you are all enjoying 2025! It's crazy that it's already 2025. Anyways, let's get into this email. Last pday was pretty chill. We went to Chepe looking for random stuff and then ate at a really good argentina place. We also ran into Hank Smith just walking down the street, super cool guy. Then when pday ended we went to Wendys house with natasha for a family home evening. The 31st was crazy, lots of fireworks. Not like the ones in the states where there's cool colors, these ones are all just noise. We did a lot of visiting in La Carpio, met a member that is 112 years old! Then we walked by all of the bus stops in Barrio Mexico and ran into a bunch of missionaries who were traveling for transfers. Then, he had a New years dinner with Wendy and her family. On the 1st, only 3 people let us talk to them. The streets were empty, and all of the stores were closed. We tried another area in our area, and no one wanted anything to do with us, we will see if we ever go back, but as always, God answers prayers. We contacted a reference from online, and she responded within 3 min and sent us her location. So we coordinated with her to pass by later, and they are super awesome! They received the missionarys in a different country before and have a lot of family that are active members. They already have a testimony of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon! We are super excited to see them progress in the gospel. We have a lot of good friends because a lot of members have invited their friends and family to listen to us. 

Lots of love,
 Elder Kirby

Photos
Dogo
Hank Smith 
Restaurant 
Haven't seen one of these in a while 
Clean 
Dogo 2 
Hippie van 
Dogo 3
It was broken








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