Cleveland Week Three

hey everyone! hope all is goin well for you. things are goin good here. we had an awesome lesson with Marcy and her family this week. we taaught them about family prayer and theyre workin on saying them every day. she is our most promising investigator right now and will most likely be baptized soon. other than that were just trying to stay warm and find solid people to teach. every friday we go to the college here and have a booth up. its pretty fun. get to talk to alot of people. its really weird to see white people there too haha. one of the member families we have been working with finally invited some friends to church this sunday and we were so excited cuz they were really nice and interested to learn more so we set up an appointment with them this week but found out they dont live in our area. that was a bummer. still awesome though but we just have to keep looking for more families to teach. i want to teach a whole family so bad. that would be awesome. hopefully ill get the chance. also this sunday two less actives that weve been teaching came to church which was really exciting. the ward actually said hi to em and stuff too it was sweet. thank you all for your letters and make sure to write the other elder berry too! love you all. give hankers the lovins for me
elder berry

Cleveland Week Two

hey everyone sorry its been so long since iv emailed. its been a crazy week. we have all just been passin around different sicknesses and theres been some pretty funny stuff thats happened but ill spare you the details cuz it all involves throwing up. so not alot has happened unfortunately. although one of the days we were feelin good we went to this place called mama santas down in little italy and had the best pizza iv ever had in my life. it was soooo good. we also had interviews with president today which was good. i was sick and didnt shake hands with anyone so he gave me an elbow bump haha. but things have been good. i dont have much else to say really its been a slow week. love you all and give hankers the lovins for me. tell dill dill ill write him soon too.
elder berry

Cleveland

hey everyone! im up in cleveland now! its waay colder up here than down in the falls. i miss the people there so much. my new companion is elder judd and hes pretty cool. ive been sick the past few days which is a terrible way to start out a new area but im doin better now. this place is so different from anywhere ive been before. theres a little italy part of town which is awesome and smells so good all the time. then we have a really rich suburb of cleveland and the bad parts of cleveland as well. its strange too cuz e judd and i are the only white guys around usually haha. the church is really small here and struggling but it will turn around soon. its weird being in the kirtland stake now too. in the district there are seven sisters then elder judd and i so it will be interesting. its way cool being so close to kirtland though. we get to go there almost every week. other than that im just tryin to figure out my way around and stuff. oh and our apartmnt uses steam heaters to heat the place up. i thought that was weird. anyways i miss you all and thank you all for the letters. love you. take care of spanky for me.
elder berry

Transfer to Cleveland

hey mom and dad im in cleveland!!! i got called to be a district leader and have six sister missionaries in my district lol. my address is 2635 N Moreland Blvd #103 cleveland oh 44120

C Falls Transfer Five Week Two

hey everyone! thank you so much for all your letters and packages. i love hearing from you all. as far as the missionary work goes this week has been a trial week. on tuesday we went to the kirtland temple which was awesome. we had mission conference there and had the sacrament in the temple. it was amazing. on wed we had interviews with president which was good. we spent alot of time talking about the burgess family with him. then our week kinda fell apart lol. to start off our two most promising investigators dropped us within a half hour of each other. that was a huge shock i didnt see it coming at all. they were both doing so well and it was heartbreaking to know they knew it was true and turn away from it. hopefully theyll come around. then our other family we were teaching said they couldnt meet with us till mid january sometime so we pretty much lost everyone we were teaching. then e hicks got really sick and slept for like two days straight so not alot happened this week. we went from teaching twenty one lessons last week to teaching five this week haha. but this next week should be better. im just excited to not be sitting around the apartment anymore. weve gotten a ton of snow lately too. close to a foot just in the last day and its still comin down strong. but thats bout all the updates from ohio. i love you all and merry christmas! give hankers the lovins for me.
elder berry

C Falls

hey everyone good news....IM STAYING HERE!!!! i cant begin to explain how excited i am to be staying in the falls. e hicks is staying too which is awesome. i would love to spend the rest of my mission here but unfortunately that probly wont happen. this last week was pretty good though. we now have six people preparing for baptism in december and january which is sweet. this area is amazing. last night we actually taught a family at the bishops home which was a little intimidating at first but turned out really well. i think i also forgot to mention that we got new phones now that are really nice and we can text which is kinda weird. it helps though cuz people always text us and now we can text them back if we need to. unfortunately some missionaries use it way too much. but thats bout it for this week. im mostly just so excited to be stayin here with e hicks and have christmas and stuff here. love and miss you all. give hankers the lovins for me. speakin of i hear youre takin good care of him grandma. thanks
elder berry

C Falls

aloha!!! so this last week has been pretty crazy. first off we found out late monday night that we were going to be out of town all day tues and wed so we had to cancel seven of our appointments. it was sad cuz we worked so hard to get them all and they were all people we have been trying to teach for a long time. oh well. itll work out somehow. so we went to medina for those two days and i went up to cleveland for a meeting. it was really long but really good and i learned alot from president sorensen. its startign to get cold and even snowed two different days this week! its crazy. ill be glad when i dont have to worry bout snow in the winter anymore. we have an appointment today with the burgess family (one of the ones weve been trying to teach that cj, the deacon, referred us to). im excited for that. we also got a referral from a member family and saw them and set up an appointment for later tonight. we had a scare at church yesterday. sis gerstenslauger started having heart problems during sacrament but luckily theres a bunch of residents in the ward so they took care of her till the ambulance came. they arent sure if she had a mini stroke but thats their best guess. shes doin alright now though which is a blessing. but thats about all thats been going on this week. love and miss you all. give hankers the lovins
elder berry