Alright well not much exciting happened this week either. We had some
errands that we were asked to see completed by the stake, hunting down
some less actives in Simpsonville which really was the first time we
worked down there. So we found one of the families and started to
meet with them a bit. It's weird because we work with them and hope
they go to church, since they will not meet in our ward but in the
Simpsonville ward. But the Simpsonville ward is really cool hispanic-
wise.  There are a lot of active members there that will definitely help
us. 

We also had interviews with our mission president this week which
went well. William, also one of the people we are teaching, just moved
to Anderson which is somehow farther away from us then he was before
so we have to figure something else out for that since he says he is
definitely interested in still meeting with us and everything. 

Let’s see, we also have the mission conference with Elder Bednar tomorrow
which should make next weeks email a lot more interesting. And that's
about all. I'll make sure something interesting happens next week to
have a good email. I also don't know if Greenville is effected by
Fall, because none of the trees have started changing color yet. But
pictures will come if nature starts acting normal here. That is all
love y'all a lot.

Elder Bertoch

Some Cooler Weather

Alright well things were able to pick up a little bit more this week. We were able to go back to some referrals that we've been working on for a while now. But at last we had contact with them and taught them. One of them whose name is Basilio is seeming to be really solid. A friend in Florida had invited him to his son's baptism and he really liked it and liked the spirit that he felt. So he talked to missionaries in Florida before coming back up here and now we are teaching him. Then we finally got schedules aligned with a family who is always super busy but has loved missionaries coming over in the past and we went over yesterday and had a really good lesson with them talking about general conference. Hopefully they can come to church next week. Yesterday we were also able to see Zach again. He has been reading the book of mormon for the past little while. The challenge will be having him come to church since he's only home Sunday afternoons and works out of town any other time. But we'll figure something out.

Other things to note this week would be the weather has finally changed here. On Friday we had our first day under 75 degrees since spring hit. And it was great, it was like 68° and when you walked out the door you weren't instantly sweating. It was super refreshing. It also super helped because we later had to move someone that same day and I would usually be dying afterwards but I was totally fine. After moving we also got some food at the legendary BBQ place The Smokin Pig which was super good. Oh I guess a hurricane also supposedly hit around here too. We had no idea one was coming until the night of when we were told we would be put on lockdown for a couple of hours. I guess it hit us during the night but we woke up and it didn't look like anything had happened, so it was just another let down.

That's all that really happened this week I guess. I hit my 14 month mark this last week. We have a really young district, me and my companion are the oldest in the mission. We have a trainee and one that's just out of training. So I'm starting to feel super old and yet I still have 10 months left. It was super weird seeing the last group go home because a lot of them were people who I was around when I first came out and I was with them celebrating their one year mark, and now they are done, and it has felt like no time has passed. So I'm kinda scared how fast my time will past as well. But as long as I'm working hard I got nothing to worry about. And boy am I working hard. It almost seems impossible to work this hard with how tired I feel all the time. But that's just God blessing me in this work I guess.

Pues eso es todo, les amo mucho,

Élder Bertoch 

Too Busy to Write Last Week

So been a while, thought I had enough time to write last week but we
were stupid busy with a district pday and helping some people out and
an early appointment with someone and things didn't go as planned.
Luckily nothing happened last week anyway so nothing much was missed.

The one thing to report on was we had a spanish fireside on sunday
which could have gone better but it was still okay. Everyone that was
invited didn't show up both from us and members. So we didn't have
anyone there that doesn't come to church anyways, but the good thing
about it was that we had a lot of english members show up and that
boosted the moral for our spanish members, and it also kinda gave the
members a reality check in the way of that they need to work a little
bit harder in member missionary work and also being more of a friend
to the less actives and not just only talking with them when a church
activity comes up. But the talks were really good (mine included) and
the food afterwards was also really good. 

Besides that we aren’t finding much but we are teaching a lot. Our investigators are all
doing really good esp. santos and carmen, plus zach and yasmin almost
watched conference with us this week but they had to make an emergency
trip to her mom's house. So that was a bummer. Conference was really
good, a personal favorite of mine was Elder Andersons talk sunday
morning. That's all that is really happening here. The big news here is
that we have a mission conference in a couple weeks and the rumor is
that Elder Bednar will be there so thats pretty cool. And that is all.
Have a great week everybody love you all.

Elder Bertoch