well howdy from California.
well dad you had some questions in your last email and i have some answers. except that i don't remember all the questions. but you asked about the people we are teaching right now we have a pretty good pool of people. as for the ones that are progressing well that's a different story that's kind of the fight out here. but we have a lady named Michelle who has two kids and wants more for them than she had she still hasn't come to church but agrees that our church has everything she is looking for. we have a man and his family Harald Azuma who has been under the knife a couple of times and we just found out that there is a tumor still in his brain that is still growing. He has been baptized in four different churches so he thinks he is good. we talked about priesthood authority. a couple of times asked him to pray but he always tells us he got his answer. answer being that he didn't need to worry about it and that everything would be alright. we just hope that he sincerely prays to know about the true and living restored gospel. we have another family the cortez family. we happened upon them out in the yard the dad was like, youre out here for 2 years biking up these hills just to share the gospel with people? we told him that's what we were all about. He is catholic and with all the meetings we have had with he and his family have helped them come closer as a family. the problem is that they told us that all the stuff we have been telling them has made them want to go back to church we were excited until they said their church. we are still working with them though. Another girl we are working with Jennifer is coming along well right now she works at magic mountain so she cant really make it to church but she loves the church and our lessons. last time we met she said that she will be getting an internship with some studio Disney or Warner bros i dont remember and that she would be able to be in control of her Sundays so we are looking forward to that. An old guy we are working with Skip he is in a bad way lately he has been having alot of breathing problems we went to the hospital a couple of weeks ago and gave him a blessing he knows quite abit about our church by now but its hard because he is so old. the other day he asked us to put his dog down which was about as old as he is. probably not the best idea but we told him we would. he is a salt of the earth kind of guy. Have no fear we went back over and the dog was safely dead. we didnt take the 22 to him. we have been working with some less actives lately and we had one legend name Bro Frost who hasent been to church in years. the missionaries started teaching him 4 years ago. this past sunday who sat next to us in the pew? bro frost. he stayd for all three hours and had an interview with the bishop awesome. there are a few more people but there are the highlights.
the high council member over missionary work in this stake has been really focused on the 15 plan but the wards have trouble with it so he devised the plan for us to go around and teach the missonary lessons to any ward family we can get to take the lessons. he has us and the wards working up to the perry plan. its cool though we have been teaching the ward council members families, we have been teaching the bishop the elders quorum and stuff its cool because after the first week of doing this program we had our dinner calendar completly filled out its awesome the ward is really loving elder kunz and me. we love it.
as for the other question you mentioned about the bike. things are not going so well the bike is falling apart. im currently out of money again even my missionary money has been going into this bike. i think you and mom might need to do me a favor im thinking that i might need to sell the road bike for a new bike out here. its just not going well. i cant afford to keep putting money into a bike. i guess i asked for it, i bought it from an elder who was going home so it had already been through two years of wear and said elder also weighed 230 lbs so the bike is kind of a lemon.
i kind of need some help.
well as for every thing else life is good the mission is an adventure and i miss you guys and ducati and the home ranch alot i wish i was coming with you guys up to bonners ferry but it will still be there in a year so its all good.
love you guys
Elder Burbidge
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