Hola familia,

This week was cool. Life is good as a seasoned missionary and I say that with the most sarcasm. I still feel like a child and probably act like a child most of the time. But now I'm a child that other young missionaries look at and respect for some reason.

The highlights of this week would probably be when on Tuesday we were playing soccer before DC started and I fell on my leg and pulled my calf muscle and was about out for the rest of the day. I wanted to go without telling president that I had hurt myself, because he had enough of that to deal with, but when we called the senior couple to come and give me a blessing, it turns out we interrupted a call they were having with president, so when the senior couple got to us there was president on the phone wanting to talk with me. It took quite some convincing to let him know that it wasn't bad enough where I would have to go home. Just last week an elder got sent home for breaking his big toe to the point where he will need surgery on it. 

Thursday we had 2 people come to English class finally. But since there were only two we finished the class in 20 minutes. So they were both our age so we decided to play soccer with them. And at one point when I kicked the ball the sole of my shoe flew off and now I only got one pair of proselytizing shoes left. That's why you don't buy super cheap shoes I suppose.

Also on Thursday we found two new people, Georgiana and her daughter Janet. And they are excited to take the lessons and such so that was cool too.

Friday was a super fun day. We had a Hispanic member in Simpsonville invite us to their son's baptism. So we went down there and had a super good time meeting all the Hispanics in the Simpsonville ward. There are a lot of them. There are about 10 active families in Simpsonville and they are all super awesome. We just went from table to table meeting everyone and having a good time. That night was also a different Hispanic members son's homecoming party. He had just gotten back from Chile that day. And he offered to take us out and was really excited to have us here becuase he didn't think he would have a chance to use his Spanish when going out with the missionaries. So super cool day.

Then on Saturday we went to the flea market in the morning and passed out English class fliers there. And we had a really busy day that day, but every appointment except one canceled, but our lesson with bibiana and viridriana went really well and we are thinking we can put them on date next lesson.

Sunday we had an equally busy day, but this time everything went through. Church was super fun.  One of our investigators came to church and even brought her son. We had a really good first lesson with a couple of formers, and they were the most excited to take the lessons that I have seen in a long while. Plus we met another guy that used to have the missionaries over all the time and loved to see us back and invited us over for dinner. And that was about that day.

Today was awesome too. One of the counselors in the stake presidency owns a storage facility and one of his renters didn't pay rent. So he opened up the unit to see that it was full of illegal Nikes. And he invited us over to take how many we would like. So we went and did that today and we got about ten pairs of shoes each. So now I have a bunch of Jordan's and classic Nikes and Gucci Nikes and Coach Nikes and we got matching shoes for the whole district. So it was pretty sick. And life is good. 

Elder Bertoch