News from Baytown

Hello,
My address in Baytown is:
619 Rollingbrook #2005
Baytown, TX 77521

Okay so for this week I again really don’t have anything spectacular to say. We teach over thirty lessons a week which is even more then I taught with Elder Trappett but they are mostly less active or recent convert lessons and active member lessons. We don’t have any investigators that are really progressing very much. I don’t think it is their fault I think it is our fault but we have to change our focus to investigators rather than if we want progressing investigators. I have already explained this situation a lot so I don’t know that I am going to go into it anymore.

We are still working with Iris however we have not been able to teach her much lately. She didn’t come to church and we have not taught her since then. We taught a crazy old drunk black lady the other day and that was really wild. She got up and left in the middle of the lesson because she thought we were arguing with her but we were actually agreeing with her. I couldn’t understand what she was saying half of the time and so Elder Daniel could understand even less. However, she was with another white lady Charlie, and she wants us to come back and teach her and she seems like she might be a good investigator.

Nacho and Chayo left to Mexico and we did not get to say goodbye because they didn’t have a cell phone and we stopped by like three times but they were not home. The other recent convert that was baptized the week before I got here is named Neyba and she is going back to Mexico in the next week or two. It seems like everybody is going back.

The member family that was really poor and had their water shut off a week ago or two ago somehow ended up getting a car. We have no idea how but we are very excited and he said that because God blessed him with a car he will help us with visits as much as possible. I think that is cool that he got a car because now he can go to interviews and get a better job.

I am sorry I have nothing to tell you. Nothing exciting has been happening. Elder Trappett goes home in a week but I don’t think I will even get to say goodbye and I am super depressed about that. I loved him to death and I am not excited for him to leave.

Elder Daniele and I have become good friends but we still see everything different. My attitude for now is to never have contention and to make the best of it. I think I will do things way different when it is my area because I want to have people to baptize but that will come soon enough.

I still struggle with Spanish. I feel like I am really stupid and other missionaries can get it down but for some reason I don’t. I don’t know why it is so difficult for me. I hope that I figure it out and can do it well. I am tired of not being able to express myself and of seeming like the timid missionary. It is interesting because my personality is so much different when I am speaking Spanish than in English. Oh well, I am working on it.

I know that God loves me. Even though I am not having ample amounts of success I know that I am where I need to be. I no longer am missing home or allowing distractions to get in the way. I know that there are people here that God has prepared for me to teach and I am excited to teach them the gospel. I know that the gospel is the only way to be happy and I am striving to share it with everyone.

I love you all,
Que les vaya bien,
Elder Bernard