Last week Jackson called on Easter and did not send an e-mail. He sounds great! His p-day for the last two weeks has been on Wednesday. One so they could go to the temple and this week was transfers. He did not get transferred and will be staying in Simpsonville, which he refers to in the second e-mail. When he says he is staying there until he dies, he means until he comes home. So there will be another transfer on June 11 (his current companion, Elder Powell, goes home then. They are rooming together at BYU-I in the Fall). Then Jackson comes home the transfer after that (July 26). FYI - at the end of this week's e-mail he refers to the Gross family. Sister Gross’ grandparents, two aunts and one uncle and their families all live in our ward. Then her parents and another uncle live in the ward right next to ours (the Jackman Family).
May 1, 2019
Good week this last week. We went to the temple on Wednesday and that was really cool and such a good experience and all that. That was about it for that day.
Thursday we had our last lesson with aliviah and the whole family was there for the plan of salvation. Which was something we have been trying to do since we first started teaching then and it went amazing. We also went over the baptismal questions with her and she did wonderful.
Friday we had service with Chris again finally. We pulled a bunch of weeds and played basketball. And had some lessons cancel.
Saturday we had another lesson with Carla and we read the BoM. She seemed to enjoy it and said she would read more later. We also had interviews with the president which went well. He told me to set a baptismal goal for this area before I go home so he basically told me I'm staying here until I die. Hopefully. Then we had aliviah's interview which she passed. Hooray. Oh also in interviews we got president's permission to confirm aliviah the same day of the baptism, since it was right after church and stake conference is next week. So we broke some rules hahaha.
Sunday we had church which was really good. We had some really good testimonies and all that jazz. But the main attraction that day was the baptism which was super awesome. Aliviah was super excited and everything went good more or less. There were a couple hitches but she was dunked and confirmed so it was okay. After the baptism we had a lesson with a guy named Christopher and his friend Jay which went really good and they both definitely have some huge amounts of potential. Then we went to a fiesta hosted by a Hispanic family in the ward which had more Hispanics over and that was a lot of fun. And the rest of the night we ran some ward errands.
Monday not much happened, we had dinner with the Suarez family though and it was very yummy.
Tuesday not much happened again but we had dinner with the gross family (sister Jackman) and we discussed highlands ranch for a while and elder Powell was blown away by how the HOA works over there and all that fun stuff. They are a very nice family and am glad I got them in the ward.
Today we did gravitopia (trampoline park) again and tonight we have English class and all that fun stuff.
Elder Bertoch
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