Tayler - November 24, 2014

Well here there is no type of thanksgiving celebration at all so i will be going with out thanksgiving for now but thats ok. We had 3 baptisms yesterday i will send pictures. They were three kids whose mom is a member but they were inactive so that was cool and their confirmations are next sunday so that was an exciting day yesterday. we also went to the temple with them on saturday wich was also super cool i love to go to the temple it just doesnt feel like i am in argentina when i go there it definatley has a different feeling. So yeah we had a good week and we have 2 more baptisms planned for this weekend so we are very excited for this week too.Well thats all i can really think of to tell you. I havent been feeling the best this week i think i ate something bad the other day and i am still recovering and yesterday we ate a lot and i am not feeling the best today but thats just kind of normal. I love you.


Love Elder Baer

Lexie - November 24, 2014

Las Vegas!

Not sure If I have told you. But I am in las vegas. There is a section in my area called las vegas. So all the combies dice las vegas!

This week was intersting. One of our investigadors told us he didnt want us to visit again because my companion wouldnt give him a hug lol. It really isnt funny but I think he has a little bit of mental problems and he said we were fakes and he wasnt really our brother. Anyways, long story short is we are not welcome at his house. Sad deal. The good stuff is that we have an amazing family that came to church again this week. Not only that but the whole family went to activities at the church this week and the mom and dad went to a stake activity for married couples. So awesome. Hopefully the daughter will be baptized soon while the parents are figuring out how to get married. The dad is married to someone else so he has to get divorced first. Taht happens sooooo much here. But they are amazing. We are teaching them how to do Family Home Eveing tonight. Something we are going to do when I get home! Oh my gosh something else funny. We went to the pharmacy with president georges wife and she was starting to feel like she had a bladder infection or urinary tract issues. So I had to try and translate to the doctor so get her medecine right. Holy moly. That was so difficult. So hopefully the gave her the right stuff or I am in trouble!

This week went by super fast and we are teaching some really great people.

Tayler - November 17, 2014

Dear mom we had a super busy but awesome week this week. On saturday we had a meeting with elder christofferson wich was super awesome he talked about the atonement and that we need to preach repentence but in a different sense than people usually think we need to teach the restored gospel so that peple can actually have a true repentence and finish their repentence process with baptism wich is why baptism is so important. so that was pretty awesome i dont think i have ever had the opurtunity to listen to an apostle live so that was cool. also we got to go to the more nice part of buenos aires to listen to him my mission is basically pretty poor and its kind of dangerous but the north mission looks a lot nicer it was a lot cleaner not as much dogs and it looks very european basically nothing like my mission. But the meeting was super awesome and i could feel the spirit very strongly. Well also one day we did divisions this week and my companion went to the area of my companion from the mtc and they got robbed that day so that was crazy my area is pretty calm and nice but on the other side of the highway that splits us from the other area is super dangerous and the elders get robbed over there a lot more. so i am thankful that i am in this area so far in my mission i havnet been robbed yet so that is good. And basically that is what happend this week. we also didnt have a phone basically all week because our phone broke and they gave us a new phone but it could only receive calls so basically it was worthless for us. And thats it we had a good week. i will send pictures of the lizard we caught last week.


I love you
Elder Baer

Tayler - November 10, 2014

We had a kind of interesting week this week. We started off really good we were having a lot of success finding people and with our investigators and then on saturday we just kind of hit a wall or something. Sunday was really hard because President Robertson came and talked at our stake conference and then he did an interview with our crazy investigator and he told us that we cant baptize because he is to crazy wich kind of is disapointing but oh well life goes on and also we lost another person that was going to get baptized during lunch so we lost to of our best possibilities for baptisms this month wich is disapointing but its ok we have a lot of other good possibilities. But yesterday we did go and eat breakfast with a family before confrence we made pancakes and syrup our of the maple stuff that tyrel gave me and the family really liked it and then we all went to conference together. Also the other day we caught a lizard by the church and we braught it back to the apartment. When we caught it it started to scream wich i have never heard before so that was interesting and thats about it that happened this week. I love you and hope you have a good week.


Love Elder Baer

Lexie - November 17, 2014

So glad you are online to chat today! I hope that you will have time to write back. I like the picture of bailey and the kitty lol. How nice that they are friends! It sounds like things are going good! That is wonderful! Except of course for all the weird lumps and bumps you are having cut off of you lol. I am sure all will go well this week with Gordon. He is a miracle doctor! This week was interesting. We had some really good things happena and some stuff not so great but we are staying posotive! Sometimes it bugs me that we have to send all these numbers into our leaders but I know it helps us to work more! Can you believe I have officially been gone for six months? On this day next year I will be home! To mop the floor for you and eat your pancakes! My companion made us pancakes this morning but they were more like crepes lol. I really am loving this area and three weeks has gone by so quickly. I think that is part of being in a new area. We did something WONDERFUL this week and that was working with the members! So many member went with us to lessons and wow.. The work is so different when there is someone who actually lives here that is helping. My companion and I have decided we are going to asign our progressing investigadors a member, someone who can go visit them other days and pass by for them on sundays and be in the lessons. I thik it is going to help us out a lot.



I have been sleeping super weird since I got here. I feeling like my brain wont turn off. Like I am dreaming but it isnt dreaming, its thinking . Its super weird. But its making me ridiculously tired. Any ideas? I cant think of anything specific for christmas. Unless you wanted to send me one more of thos jody skirts. The four skirts you sent me are pretty much all I use. But other than that, made some chrsitmas mas goodies. I don{t really NEED anyhing else, but what ever you send I will be so happy with! Thank you! I cant think of anything more right now so ill get my other emails sent and write some more if I think of something. Love you!

Love, Hermana Baer

We had intercambios this week so I was in a different area with Hermana Rocha who is from Bolivia. The member that we went to visit here said there are HUGE iguanas behind his house that wade on the rocks in the pond thing that is behind us.

Our lesson with little ones this week lol.

Lexie - November 10, 2014

Whoo!
Hola!
Glad everything is going well and good luck to you and Jaocb tomorrow. I am sure all will go well! I am glad things are going a little better with the male drama. I think that what you said is perfect. President George has told us the same thing. We have to focus on today. Not on what we are going to do when we get home and not what we did before. Only in the now and if we do that Heavenly Father can bless our futures with out stressing! What a blessing! This week flew by again and we found a wonderful famliy. I am so excited for them, they went to church this week and the dad is has been inactive his whole life. The kicker is they arent married but that is like 90% of the people here so hopefully we can get taht figured out. If you are online and able to email me back would you please do me a HUGE favor and send me the picture of our family when we took tayler to the mtc? It is probably on my facebook or something but I want to make tayler a present and I need that picture. And any other with me and him or me and tayler and jake. Let me know, thanks!


My companion is really great and we are working tons. It has been really nice that we are both kind of newbies and are learing together how to do things. She is so patient with my spanish and when I feel bad for not being able to communicate somethihg perfect she is really good at reasuring me that I am learning a new languagea nd she understands. She is 23 and is from somewhere close to Mexico City. She has a law degree here in mexico which I think is a little easier than in the states lol, but she is really intelligent and knows so much about the gospel. I thank Heavenly Father every day for putting my a companion that makes me want to be better. I think that is what we are supposed to do when we get married too right? Find someone that makes you better. Anyways, It has been a wonderful week and I cannot even believe that in 4 days I will have 6 months in the mission! I just know 1 year is going to slide right on by and that freaks me out.

Con mucho amor, Hermana Baer

Tayler - November 3, 2014

Wow we had a really good week this week. Only that it was raining all week long and it is still raining like crazy basically lots of parts around here are flooding because the people here dont know how to build houses and no one has a good roof so yeah. But we did have a whole family come to church so that was really cool they all really liked it too so we will probably have 3 future baptisms with this family the dad and 2 kids because the mom is already a member . also we talked to one partmember family and the dad of the family who isnt member told us that he has made his own goal to be baptized for the end of this month so that is super awesome we have tons of possibilities for baptisms this month and we are really excited. and yesterday a man gave me a nice rain coat and rain pants to keep me nice and dry s that was super nice of him he isnt even a member but he is always really nice to is his wife isnt a member either but has been going to church for the last 5 years. I cant beleive that Jacob is already done with football i cant beleive how fast time goes by. I already have like 8 months in the mission and it feels like i left like yesterday and it is just going to keep flying by. But yeah i am doing really good i was also a little sick this week but i am doing a lot better now and i hope to stay that way i think i ate something bad and it mad me sick for a few days but i kept working anyway. I love you and also you really need to make me a profile on skype so i will be able to call you for christmas it is super important.dont forget to do that. Also there was a tornado in my mission the other day. It hit a little town in the country but that is crazy i have noticed the weather here is very similar to Iowa. I love you



Love Elder Baer

Lexie - November 3, 2014

Ok so this is about the slowest computer ever so this is all this week. My new district, awful picture of me. No worries. And the firestation is in our area and they have a little zoo next too it for animals they ahve taken out of peoples houses. There is this little guys. I think racoons. And thesse little crocodiles and a bunch of big old snakes. One is shadding right now and its all blue it is super weird. I will try to send more when I can.

Ok, I love my new area! It is so hot and the house has rats but I dont even care becasue the ward is awesome, the area is flat, and we have WATER! So yeah, really good week. I worked harder this week than I have my whole mission. Everyone keeps telling me that my spanish is awesome and even though I know it isnt it helps me work harder and feel better. Its amazing what posotive words can do! My companion is Hermana Agustin and she is wonderful. We have a lot in common and are very differnt too but it has been really good. But holy smokes she likes to make breakfast in the morning, well we trade off days I guess that is what she did with her other companion. Anyways, some days I eat a sandwhich, a quesodilla and a bowl of cereal for breakfast. Holy smokes that is a lot of food. So i try to eat less on my days to make breakfast. Anyways, the bus trip here was long and filled with super weird movies which are even weirder translated into spanish. 6 hours! And aparently the whole car sick thing is still in me because boy did I feel gross. But I didnt puke so its all good! We found some great new investigators this week, one is a famiy and the dad is an inactive member. Their lesson was great and I feel really good about them! We talk to soooo many people ever day. My companion is amazing with contacting and I can already tell some of the reasons I am with her and the things I need to learn. I love being a missionary but I also love that it is NOVEMBER! Can you even believe I will be home in almost a year? Taht blows my mind. Anyways, everything is going really great. We are going to centro today so I can buy these plastic shoes to use when it rains because it rains a ton here. And I guess we are in the rainy season too, so it is like 2 or 3 degrees cooler than normal. Yippee! lol. That and I really want a sombrero, so I will be searching for one of those too! Love you tons!


I have had some wonderful letters to read from family so thank you to all! Here are some answers to some questions! My favorite conference talk was proabably Elder Bedner (from what I could understand in spanish at least) I loved that he was speaking to people that are not members of the church so that everyone can understand better why in the world we want to share this messagewith everyone! They know about halloween here but they celebrate more the day of the dead! They take flowers to the cemetery but also food and drinks for the dead people! I love the food here but my favorite thing is the tortillas. They are wonderful and I am so going to buy one of the tortilla press things to bring home when I finish my mission! I think thats about it. I hope everyone is doing fantastic! Thank you for all your letters!
Love,Hermana Baer

Lexie - October 27, 2014

Alrighty everyone! I am printing out your letters to read but i have two minutes to write today because woooooo cambios! I am headed to tapachula!! six hours bus ride ahead of me today and tapachula is down by the coast and boarders guatamala. Youll have to look it up. Its way hotter there so lets hope I ose some dang weight! I love you alll soo much and I am sorry this is such an awful letter. I will make up for it next week. Love you all! Ill send pictures of my new place soon! Love you Love you Love you!!


Love, Hermana Baer

Tayler - Ocotber 27, 2014

Well thats cool that jacob scored some but a bummer that they lost and that is cool that utah is doing good dad sent me the article they are having a pretty good season so far so thats good. This week we have had a really awesome week. The inactive family we found are awesome only the mom is member and all fo the kids are super excited to go to church and everything and they all want books of mormon to read so that is awesome they didnt go to church though this weekend because they didnt wake up and when we visited them after church they felt really bad and they told us they are going next weekend and nother is going to stop them they are planning to get there like 30 minutes early so they dont miss anything. Also we ate lunch with some inactive members yesterday too and we were teaching some of the family members that arent members and the dad bore his testimony and it was so awesome i never expected this man to say anything so powerful it was super awesome though we just need to help activate the family and they will be very strong and very good to help the branch. We also so a guy in the street the other day that when we first looked at him he looked like bigfoot but when we got closer we sow that he was digging throught the trash to find plastic bags and when he found them he just tied them onto himself so that was weird. And it is so hot and humid here right now the weather here i think is similar to iowa there are even fireflies so thats cool. But yeah just sitting here writing emails i can feel sweat drippping down my back but thats just normal now. But oh well i just got to get used to it. Thats all i got and the lemon juice worked on those stains so thats good. I love you


Love elder Baer