Nice Week

We had a good week this week. We had a member introduce us to a less active that is wanting to come back to church and get their 10 year old daughter baptized. So that was really cool. We also saw Trish and got some plans for the temple. We had lessons with Ashley and Carla and a book of Mormon referral named Belinda. We also did service in the scorching heat of like 95 degrees with 60 percent humidity and nearly died. 

Ashley's baptism is this week and it looks like everything is set for it all. So that'll be really nice. We had a child baptism yesterday, from the forrests, who are the ones whose son just died and are related to the densmores. They've been at church every week since his death which has been the first time in like 5 years. And their daughter Beautiful, (yes her name is Beautiful Forrest) was baptized yesterday, and I had the opportunity to talk on the holy ghost and was given that assignment the last minute and it was a lot of fun. We also had dinner with a member last night and had another lesson with ashley. And that was it for this week. 

Love you all,

Elder Bertoch

Happy Father's Day

June 17, 2019

Here’s the latest from Jackson.  He didn’t write last week - he called on Wednesday which was p-day because of transfers. His companion’s two years were up and he went home on Thursday.  They will be roommates at BYU-I in the fall though.  Jackson called on Father’s Day.  He told us his new companion is from Washington state and has been out about 6 months.  Jackson will be finishing his mission in Simpsonville.  He has a baptism scheduled for this Saturday.  He gets home 5 weeks from Friday!  We’re pretty excited!  

Good short week this week. We had transfers on thursday and i said goodbye to elder powell. I then got my new companion whose name is elder bartholemew. Then we went home and shopped and I went over the area with him, then we went out and I took him to meet some of the members. Friday we did some weekly planning and then went knocking for a good bit, before we had a lesson with barbara and we had a great lesson with her. Taught a restoration and everything went really well. 

Saturday we went down to Laurens with a member and we visited some members down there. We were fed a steak by one member that was so rare it was cold still. The cow was still mooing. So we didnt finish that and got ridiculed by the member. After Laurens we had to pick up the other elders and take them to firestone because they popped a couple of tires. That took up a chunk of time. Later in the day we had a lesson with sharon. And that went really well. 
Sunday we had church and fatheres day pie. After church the other elders had a baptism so we went to that. Then we had a lesson with Gail, Ronnie, and Ashley and that went really well. Then we had dinner with Bishop and his familiy then that was it for the day. I also called dad that night.

That is all, Love you all,

Elder Bertoch

We're going to hell

June 3, 2019 

Good week this week, we found 5 new people, 2 of them being a Hispanic part member family that just moved in. We had dinner with the member family on Tuesday, where I ate 10 tacos and had a supposed ghost pepper sauce, although it tasted more like pasta sauce than anything. Then we did a little lesson to the non member daughter and her cousin. Hopefully we can get them on date soon. 

Wednesday was English class. Thursday we had a small lesson with Carla's husband.  Friday I fixed a hole in a ceiling for a member and we went out with our ward mission leader and did some visits. Saturday we had lunch with our ward mission leader and his family. He hosts 2 foreign exchange students, one from Brazil and one from Germany and they go home in 1 week and 2 weeks so we wished them well and asked if they would seek out the church afterwards. Then later we had a lesson with Jay and his friend and his Pastor father. And that was a very bashy lesson and we were told we don't believe in Jesus and that we are going to hell over and over. But its whatever, what else can you expect in the bible belt. Yesterday was church and a lesson with Gail and Ashley and Ronnie, and us trying by a bunch of other people. That was all.

Elder Bertoch