Back in West Columbia

Jackson is back in West Columbia.  He doesn’t mention much about his new companion, but it sounds like he is enjoying seeing old friends.


So this week was transfers.  They mixed it up a bit and we don't figure out if we are being transferred 2 days before we are. So on Tuesday I learned that I would indeed be transferred, and so would Elder Mar, they were whitewashing our area again. So that day we had ddm where we said goodbye to everybody, the other elders in the district were also being whitewashed, and one sister was going home. So there were a lot of goodbyes to say and then we left. Then we went by to see some members, but we weren't able to see anyone that we tried to, even sister Escobar who was supposed to feed us that night canceled on us, so we went out and had a final companionship dinner at a hamburger place called Pawleys, then we went home and slept.

Wednesday was our packing and cleaning day. We did that up until we went to see the Dominguez’ to say goodbye to them. They held us there for a while, long enough to the point where we missed English class.  We came for the last 5 minutes to bear testimony and say goodbye to all the students.

Thursday we woke up and started heading down to the transfer building. I am now back in west columbia with elder Clifford, and it is pretty great here. Elder Mar is up in Spartanburg. We then got in our area and the very first thing we did was call up lizhet and Shelly and went over there to say hi. We were there for quite some time catching up and all. I've also have had the flu since Sunday. So we went home and I took a nap up until soccer night, then we played soccer, which made my flu worse.  I know I'm not very smart.

Friday we started teaching lizhets daughter since she turned 8 in January, and we're hoping that it'll help Lizhet go to church and hopefully she'll bring her nonmember husband as well. She said that she'll go to church on Sunday and that she would bring everybody as well, so we were really praying that that would happen. We also visited the Carreto's just to stop by and say hi. We also had English class but no one showed up.

Saturday we went to the international festival to try and find people for English class and to try and talk to a bunch of people. That was fun and we talked to some cool people. And we ate some really good food. We then went back to teach lizhets daughter and then we settled in to the apartment a bit more and then I rested to try and get over this cold. 

Sunday we had church which was super awesome seeing everybody again, with better Spanish so I can actually talk to them. Plus Shelly and lizhet and all of them came to church. It was lizhets first time going since Shelly's confirmation and before that it was about 3 years. After church we had a super storm where it rained the hardest it has ever rained ever, and there were even many tornado warnings. It blew out the power in our apartment so we couldn't make dinner, so we asked lizhet if she could make dinner for us.  We went there and we found out that her brother also would like to take the lessons, so we got a lot going for us just in her family. And that was about all for this week.

Elder Bertoch