Keeping up with Elder Bird

Hey everybody! 1/13/14 Hope everyone is doing well! Things are great here and I have had an awesome week! So Monday night I headed to Caserta to do a scambio with the anziani there and I got to go on the American Base for the first time. Or as people call it here, "fortress America" haha The next days we spent teaching their investigators and finding new people for them to teach becuase they are going back up to 4 missionaries there this week. I had a lot of fun there and it is always cool how much you can learn from other missionaries. Also met their ward mission leader there who has a brother in law that was in our ward in Louisiana! Crazy! Thursday was our transfer day so we spent a lot of time at the train station dropping people off and picking them up. And that evening Anziano Kemple arrived, my new companion! He is from somewhere in Utah, and is a good guy. We went to english course that night and got the news that one of our students who was only 26 had died in a car accident the night before. So yesturday we attended his funeral, we are so blessed to have the knowledge of the Plan of Salvation. The other days have been filled with tons of appointments with members and investigators, it is a good excuse to go see people when you tell them you want to introduce them to your new companion! We have another investigator, Alex, who is set to get baptized towards the end of the month so that will be incredible!!! I love ya'll so much! Luke 17: 12-19, And think about why the did not come back, and how important it is to be greatful for what we have! Have a good week! Vi voglio bene!! Anziano Bird