Dear Mom,

 I love the bike except for the fact that it doesn't have a kickstand. Yeah, I will get the suitcase I guess on September 2, what is in it by the way? My apartment is actually way nicer than the rest of the zone areas I have visited so that is a blessing. President Heap is cool, he is the one that is getting me my suitcase for me. My companion is cool, we get along except for one thing... he takes 50 minute showers so getting ready for the day is a trial haha. I keep bringing it up with him but he always forgets.

I have been learning how to budget so hopefully that works out. I learned that fast food restaurants like Dairy Queen replace ranch and BBQ sauce with country gravy with your order so that is a bonus! We got 6 baptism commitments so far so hopefully that works out.One thing I learned about Texans is that they will try to find a loophole with anything!

For example, we were teaching a couple the law of chastity and the man said that Pornography helped him a lot because it taught him how to do stuff, I ended up being blunt with him by saying instead of finding a loophole, we should follow God's commandments the way he intended. They ended up accepting to live the law.

They also have one thing in common, no matter what race, young or old, male or female... no one stops talking... like ever, the members we take out to lessons always take over the lesson and it frustrates Elder Barona a ton! So many miracles happened as well, such as people wanting to be baptized just by reading one verse in the Book of Mormon or saying that they have been waiting for an answer to their prayers. Elder Barona also told me this funny story about an Elder who got an infection on his butt from how dirty the apartment toilet seat was. So the doctor gave him cream which the best part is... his companion had to put it on for him. So his bottom line was, WIPE, CHECK, and NEVER GET IN THAT SITUATION!!! haha

I also was last minute asked to teach the Elders Quorum 2 minutes before class started. Luckily I knew the subject rather well and they said I did a very successful lesson. I also had to teach the Sunday school class with my companion as well about eternal marriage. It is a really small branch.

So anyways, how is the ward doing, how is school? How is the second location? Anything else?

He is not super informative... but he did say that the families he is teaching are doing well. I  have no idea who has committed to baptism?! He is enjoying cooking and learning new foods. I think what he is learning about 'Texans' is mostly something new he is learning about most people!! Funny kid!