Investigators at conference got bored and left

Buenos Dias,


I am so glad that Tracy will be having a baptism this week. I think she forgot to send me the email that said she was transferred to this new area and that she had someone to baptize because I had never heard of this Sister Spencer person. Tracy keep up the good work. I am so proud of you for being such a hard worker. It is so nuts that soon you will be at the halfway mark on your mission. These missions really fly by.

Man, conference was amazing. My favorite session was by far the first session especially the talks by Boyd K. Packer and Cheryl C. Lant. They really laid it down. We need to be working so much harder as families and members of the true church of Jesus Christ because it is getting so wicked in this world. I usually didn't like the talks the women gave at conference but that second talk of the session was amazing. Women need to stop trying to be like the wicked woman on TV, we need to turn of the TVs get rid off the DVDs and anything that supports them, and need to live up to our responsibilities as witnesses of the truth. I loved how they talked about the woman's primary role of being a nurturer and everything in society says otherwise but that is the responsibility. It made me change me realize that I need to really look carefully and find the right person to be my eternal companion after the mission. I am really grateful for the excellent mother that I have who is a strong woman and the epitome of the type of woman we need in the world today.

We had lots of investigators show up to conference but they all left after like an hour. I guess they got bored and it was really tragic to me that people in this world are so unaccustomed to learning pure spiritual truth and council that they reject it and label it as boring. They want a pastor that fills the room with his loud speaking and charisma and leads them slowly down to hell.

So this week we had about 10 or more investigators drop out of nowhere. We had an amazingly spiritual lesson with the family of Margarita Pena who we have been teaching for two months and the spirit was super strong. Her husband, who had never participated much, said the first prayer in his married life ( 25 years or so) and Margarita was so excited and they committed to read and pray together to know if it was true right after we left. This was last friday. They came to conference on Sunday. On Monday we were supposed to teach them and they called us ten minutes before and told us to save the trouble, they were not going to change religion. They still let us come over and we tried everything they just don't really care anymore. The sad thing is that it is a family of five and they have even told me that they all think the Book of Mormon is true and they have felt the spirit but they have always been catholic and "it has never treated them badly." Of course it doesn't, they don't have to live any commandments and they get an artificial sensation of the spirit as they worship their idols, their santos, y la virgen maria. Man, the catholic church is so freakin' corrupt... sorry I won't go on a Catholic Church rant right now but I would like to.

Yeah, we have basically been doing a lot of tracting. However we have one investigator that will for sure be baptized. His name is sergio and he is the 17 year old son of Nacho and Chayo that we baptized in January. He came up from Monterrey Mexico for spring break and he never even believed in a God before but we had some really spiritual lessons with him and he has begun to pray for the first time in his life and He now knows that the church is true. The only thing is, he has to return to school in Mexico on Saturday but he wanted to be baptized here so his parents can see it. However, he doesn't want to do it this week because as of right now he has only even believed in a God for 4 days and he wants to wait maybe a week. He says that he for sure will go to the church in Monterrey and he is reading the Book of Mormon a lot. He is way awesome and I think that he will prepare to serve a mission in two years.

Anyway, things are going good. Love ya all. The church is true and I love the gospel.

Love,
Elder Bernard


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