March 5, 2007

I am sorry that I do not have loads of time. We had a zone activity today and it went pretty long. We are rushing to get to an appointment with a Less-Active member. That is one of our focuses of this transfer. That and finding a family. We and the Ward Mission Leader decided that if we brought a new and excited family into sacrament meeting, the ward would completely turn around. It would solve a lot of families. So right now we are searching for that family, whether it be through referrals or
tracting. This ward is a bit small, so we are also focusing on some less active members of the ward, especially priesthood members.

Birkenhead is medium big. It is much like a suburb of Liverpool, but more self-sufficient. Out in the outskirts of our area, we get some big houses and more fields. I am excited to spend some time out there.

The ward is small and has had some hard things happen over the past years. I guess some good missionaries have served here, but we are just trying to do the best we can to strengthen the ward and help make it grow. The Church in England seems to be struggling a bit at the moment. They are going to combine four ward into two in our area, so it is more than likely that our ward size will double, and we will get two more missionaries in here. That certainly will help the 10% of the members doing 90% of the work.

There is a city center to talk to people, but it is pretty tight and closes down early. We will be doing more tracting this transfer,
unless the Lord knows someone will be in the city centre and we need to talk to them. It has been interesting bringing an area out of the dust a bit, but we have the support of everyone, and Heavenly Father certainly is on our side.

Our miracle is about a less-active lady. Her name is S***** and she fed us, but that is not the miracle. Earlier that day she saw
a man asking for some change. She didn't have any, but she went back to her car to get some. Afterwards she felt good about it and thought that she would be blessed for it. Later that night, not two blocks away from where she lives, we gave her a call and boy was she excited to talk to us. She considers it her little miracle, so will I.

Elder Davies