Arrived in Charleston

When I last left off I went off to see shellie to see why see didn't come to church and it turns out that there was some miscommunication between the member that was giving her a ride and her. So it was for a good reason I guess, then we just spent a long time talking since I was leaving soon.

Tuesday we spent more time just saying goodbye to different members and such. We also went to see some office staff and while we were there our driving coordinator elder shumate spilled the beans and told me that I would be going down to Charleston, which released a lot of stress for me. Plus I packed all that day too. 

Wednesday we have to figure out some apartment missionary stuff in the morning because people were switching apartments then we went and did some service pushing old people around Walmart and then I hung out with some missionaries that I would be leaving for lunch. Then we went to say goodbye to the careto family with the Hermanas and had a good day there. Then we went to say goodbye to shellie one more time.

Thursday we woke up and went off to transfer meetings, and the transfer this time was the biggest in history. 85% of the mission was being transfered and almost all of them were white washes. There I was reaffirmed that I would be going to Charleston with my companion elder Powell. I also learned that one of the hermanas in my district would be going down with me as well with a trainee too. So we went down to Charleston with one other elder and a member driving us down. Then we got to north Charleston where I am stationed where we cover the east side of north Charleston. Met my new companion who is super cool. I can already tell I will get along with him. His name is elder Powell by the way. Then he went over the area with me. Apparently half of our members and investigators speak Portuguese, so I have to learn Portuguese now. We went around and I met a couple of members including our group leader, then we had English class. Then that was that.

Friday we weekly planned then studied and such. Then we visited a member, then we taught a lesson to an elect family that has already watched the Joseph Smith movie without us telling them about it and loved it. So we're pretty sure they'll be ready to be baptized in 2 weeks. Then we had soccer night after that which is a good time with members missionaries and investigators.

Saturday we had another flea market activity that we helped set up and then passed some stuff out to people and made friends there. Then we studied some more and left for the day. We went over to some members houses to invite them to a Christmas party and such. Then at the Christmas party the missionaries were judges for the desserts so that was nice and we met a lot more members both English and Spanish.

Sunday we have church at 11.30 so we went there and had a Christmas program which was really fun and cool. We are joined with an English ward so we had to translate which was a fun time. Then we had Sunday school and priesthood which were cool as well. Then we went home had dinner then started biking🚲🚲. We had to bike because we had no gas and couldn't get more because of Sunday. So we biked over to a less active but she didn't answer her door. So we went over to a Portuguese investigator who just had a baby instead. I just introduced myself to him and stuff. Then we went over to a light the world missionary fireside for a couple of the wards. Where we had musical numbers and testimonies and such. Then we had food and went home. 

Today we are playing soccer and volleyball. And that's all. 

Elder Bertoch