Hola familia! Sorry I'm getting this out so late, but today has been a busy day as you will later find out, but since I don't have a lot of time I am going to keep it pretty short.
The highlight of Tuesday was interviews with President which went well, and long. President gives himself twelve minutes for each interview, but quickly doubles or triples the amount of time allotted, my interview was about 45 minutes. Then after that we had another review with our District Leader, new mission policy to have those now from time to time.
Wednesday we had a lot of service all day, we helped finish the guy's yard that we had done the week before, moving all of the pine straw out of the backyard and into the front yard, that took a good amount of time, but we were rewarded with lunch, so it was all worth it. Plus we had English class where we had 3 people show up.
Thursday we had a meeting with the hermanas to figure out our training in Spanish conference, which was about online proselyting, nobody with us had any knowledge about what to do or how to use it. So we came up with some pretty broad questions, and figured we were good since every other training had online proselyting in it at some point.
Friday was the big day of Spanish conference and the state wide fiesta. We had the Spanish conference at 11:30, it went really well. We set some good goals like to collectively get 300 new investigators before July 12. Then we had the party which was a lot of fun, I got to see everyone that I have been away from for a while. Shellie and lizhet came, so that was a lot of fun, and I really only spent time with them talking and catching up with them. We planned a vacation after the mission, they're taking me and some of their other favorite missionaries to Mexico, back from where her husband is from, nayarit and San Luis and his best friend is an adventure guide, so we get to do all these excursions for only 5 pesos. That's about 50 cents if you were wondering. So I got something to look forward to now, if they're actually serious about it. So that day was a lot of fun.
Saturday we woke up in the wee hours of the morning to drive to Sumter and help our member move up to Columbia. We moved all his stuff, all without a dolley, and let me tell you, fridges are heavy. We got done moving him and then went home, only to see that someone was moving into our apartment building, so we offered our help and moved all of their stuff into their apartment. They had the world's heaviest mattress by the way. Then later we watched conference, and went knocking after conference where we got a return appointment with someone, so it was good.
Sunday was Easter and general conference, we went to the church to watch it and then had an Easter feast made by some members for us, and then we watched the last half of conference and that was that.
Today we helped move someone again with the other elders this morning from 9 to 11:30. Then we went home grabbed our bikes. Not sure what he is explaining next. I think he was in a rush and left out a pertinent piece of information. Hopefully it wasn’t anything they’d get in trouble for: And sent it to Columbia. We parked on the outskirts of downtown, and with the bike elders as our guides we started to bike. We went down to a park, where we sent it off some stairs and such, then we went to the broad river, then we went to campus, then we went up a parking garage to take some photos on top of there, then we went to Wendy's to get lemonade and frostys, then we went to see the capital, then all the old churches, then we went back to campus, found a taller parking garage, sent it up that and took more pictures up there, then we went to find some jumps that we could send it off. Then we went all the way back to the car. It was a total of 15 miles in 88 degree weather. We are now so dead. That is all.
Elder Bertoch
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