Speaking Spanish on His Own

After pday on Monday last week not much happened I think that we saw shellie and had a lesson there where we just read out of the Book of mormon but that was all.

Tuesday we had a lesson with a member family with the daughter who is about to turn 8 to get baptized. We had her less active brothers help teach the lesson as well and it was really good. We also had English classes again that day where we had a turnout of 3. Which was pretty good and we shared a really good message of light the world with them.

Wednesday we had service with the English elders near us where we helped this sweet old lady organize her storage room, not much could be done because it was an unbelievable mess so we just ended up looking for some things that she wanted in some random boxes, never found anything though. That day we also started using light the world when we would knock doors. Knocking the doors with sharing the Christmas video is super effective.  That day we knocked on 2 doors of former investigators and we shared the video and had an awesome lesson with one and got a return appt with both of them. So that was super cool

Thursday not much happened, we did service again with the English elders where we helped organize some guys backyard. And then we drove around trying to see some former investigators but we struck out on all of them.

Friday we went to the library with the hermana missionaries so we could plan out a light the world activity that we will be doing with them. Then after that we went to exchange with the other elders in our district. I was staying and doing Spanish alone with another guy who doesn't know Spanish at all. I was super nervous about it and 95% of the day before the exchanges I was just praying that I would be all right and that my Spanish would be okay all alone. I had decided to go see some former investigators in a trailer park where we saw a family that we had been trying to see ever since I first got here but hadn't been able to get into the house. Well that day I was able to get into the house and share the Christmas video with them and set up a return appt. So that got me a lot more confident for the rest of the day. Then we saw three Spanish families that we had never taught before but just kinda knew that they were there. I was able to share the video with all three of them and set a return appt with 2 of those three. So I felt really good about that entire night.

Saturday we weren't exchanging back until 12 so I tried to contact two people that we could share the video with and one rejected me and the other wasn't home. So Elder Michaelis suggested the taco truck and we went and got tacos to feel better. Then we exchanged back and went to go try to see some people but struck out on all of them, then we went to the tri-ward Christmas party for a little bit, then we visited a member and that was that night.

Sunday we went to church where shellie came and even bore her testimony on how the book of mormon and God has changed her life for the better. So that was definitely a highlight of my mission right there. That night we also went over with her and a member where we had a good dinner and watched the Christmas devotional which was really good.

Today we haven't done much, we got our haircuts and tried to film our Christmas skit that each district in the mission does but it didn't turn out very good so we stopped and am now writing emails.

That is all, I love you all so very much.

Elder Bertoch