Hay Fever

Hola Familia,

So, not much has happened in the days since I've last emailed. 

On Thursday we did have a huge service day helping probably the coolest member in all of South Carolina, super funny guy that makes it a point to be best buddies with every missionary that comes through. He is currently planting a lawn, though, and had these giant acres of dirt all around his backyard. Probably around 3 acres maybe more because I'm not sure how big an acre is. And there were thousands of big rocks in the dirt. And we had to remove the rocks so that the grass could grow. So we did that all morning, from 9 to 12, in 90 degree weather. Luckily it wasn't too humid though. Then after we removed all the rocks he recruited us to help him some more that the night.  First we went to a lunch appt with a sweet old couple in the ward. There they fed us a 3 course meal with salad, steak with potatoes, corn and squash, and then key lime pie with ice cream. So it was a good thing that we worked hard that morning because I would not have been able to eat all that if I hadn't. Then when night approached we went back to help out Brother Reid. This time he wanted us to unroll hay bales onto his yard and spread the hay around to help the grass grow. I learned that I was really good at that. That took about another 3 hours but brother Reid bought us milkshakes as payment so it was totally worth it. He also promised that he would take us mountain biking one of these P-days so I'm looking forward to that as well. 

Friday we saw our 2 progressing investigators Carrie and Jeff. Carrie is doing really well and committed to read the BoM each day, but Jeff said that things are starting to get a bit overwhelming and he needs a couple of days or weeks to take a step back and just sort of soak everything in. His fiance is still coming to church though so that's a good sign.

Saturday we did service for this 95 year old woman that we're good friends with. While we were there we saw someone else that we have been trying to see since I've been here and he invited us to dinner so that was cool too. 

Sunday we had church which was really good. After church we had a lot of finding and I used my Spanish to try and see a less active that really only speaks spanish and then we knocked around them and I talked with someone long enough for them to agree to having the hermanas come back so that was cool too. We then saw a former that was really excited to see us and eagerly made an appt with us for tuesday, so that was super cool too. 

That was all, I guess quite a bit actually did happen. We're the only Elders here for a good 30 miles, so P-days aren't gonna be super fun, but besides that I'm loving it here in Newberry. President said that he is considering opening this area up and that's why I'm here, to be the scout about whether or not it will work. So I'm hoping that it will happen soon and that I will be here when it happens.

Elder Bertoch