Lexie - May 18, 2015

Hola Medusa!
Holy smokes your life is about as crazy as mine! It was a good week, still struggling to find those new people but honestly the members here are awesome, I dont think I have ever felt so loved. One of the members is taking us shopping fo rmexican clothes today! Woohooo! I am going to take advantage of her being there and she can buy my stuff so it is cheaper. They always make me pay more than I should! Her name is hermana Kenny! Then yesterday we were invited to ward council and shared a could ideas to help with the missionary work and the counselor in the bishop bric was all sorts of happy with me. It felt good to be loved! Sometimes I miss that about being close to family, especially you. You always tell me a look pretty or that my ideas are good, even when its a lie hahaha. But seriously this ward is awesome. We went last week to see el chiflon! Seriously one of the most beautiful places i have ever seen. Its 5 waterfalls but the gigantic one is the third and the other 2 are way on top and we didnt have a ton of time so we stopped at the gigantic one. But it was amazing. After I drank water straight out of a cocunt then they cut it in half stuck some lime and chili on the cocunt to eat. Mmmmm delicious!


This week I have really gotten myself kicked in gear with my studying. I learned some awesome stuff. Rigth now I am in Alma where all the lamanites are being converted. It amazes me how many times it says that their faith is greater than any of the nephites! Crazy huh. Anyways, I love ch. 24 with the lamanites come to kill the anti-nephi-lehies and they start praying and a bunch of them are killed. When I share this chapter with teenagers I always make it a super big deal, can you imagine a bunch of crazies coming at you and kneeling instead of running? Kind of blows my mind. Anyways, it was a good week. And this is the last week of the transfer! It went by sooooooo fast!


I think that is about it! I love you tons! Have a fantastic crazy week and keep me updated on missionaries!


Love, Hermana Baer

Tayler - May 18, 2015

Hey mom, so this week was pretty good. It went by a little slowly because we did lots of walking. We dont have lots of investigators but the ones we have are awesome we have a baptism lined up for june twentieth so we are getting excited for that. Also it was my comps birthday this week so we ate more cake this week, we have eaten so much cake the last few weeks i am kind of sick of it. Also yesterday was the dedication of the Cordoba Argentina temple it is the second temple in argentina and we were able to go to a session of the dedication in the stake center here so that was a cool experience. I had never been to a dedication but now that i have i want to go to more. I liked something that one of the speakers said i dont remember who i think it was President Uchtdorf he said, with every temple built satan loses more power so that was cool its going to be a blessing for all the people here in argentina to have another temple in their country. So that was cool, president Uchtdorf and Elder Christofferson came to do the dedication, i really liked the dedicatory prayer that President Uchtdorf said it was amazing. Also my converts were able to come so i was happy for them. And well thats about it, I love you

Love Elder Baer

Lexie - May 11, 2015

Hola Mamita!

It was absolutely WONDERFUL to see you! I cannot even believe that the next time will be in person. Isnt time just flying by? So good news, we get to go see the waterfall today! I will take lots of pictures and send them next week. I sure hope morgans call gets here and that Jake gets those papers in quick! I am soooo anxious! I hope I didn’t make anyone feel bad while I was talking yesterday about the converts in ely. I felt like I was kind of scolding everyone. But make sure you find out who they are! I cannot even tell you the difference in missionary work when we as members do our part! If we all did missionary work like we should the church would explode. It is something I have to change when I get home. Invite the missionaries to bring someone over for Family Home evening. Ask them if there is someone that you could help them with. Maybe stop by and bring them to church on Sundays. Something! They always need help. I know one of the reasons heavenly Father needed me to come on a mission wasn’t necessarily for all the people here but also for all the people that I will be around at home. I am already forming in my brain how to get friends and those I love to listen to the message of the restored gospel. Everyone needs the gospel and we should always be thinking of the ways to present it to them. Invite them over for Family home evening! Something.

My companion in Tapachula Hermana Agustin told me one time that her dad is the Bishop in her ward and whenever couples or families came to him with problems that were going on he asked them three questions. Are you praying as a family and personaly? Are you reading the BOM daily? Are you having FHE every week? And if they said no to any of those things he told them that he wasn’t the answer to their problems. The answer was in those three things. He would tell them to go home and do those 3 things and them let him know if they still needed help with anything. I was thinking a lot about that the other day and about our investigadors that struggle to keep commitments in order to be baptized, but what about us? How are we going to share the gospel when we aren’t living it completely? There is so much I have to change when I get home and hopefully we will be able to make those changes in our family together. There is a promise in the page two of preach my gospel that says that as we come to really understand and use the atonement in our lives we will have desires so strong to share the gospel with other people. So if we don’t have the desire or we are scared to share, learn more! Especially about the atonement and how it blessed our lives. Think about how it has blessed your life and then about all the people that you know that don’t understand it and that don’t have full access to the atonement like we do.

It really is amazing what happens to our hearts as we start to really live what we believe. I love you TONS mom! I know we have an amazing family that I am so blessed to be a part of but I want to be sure that my family is together for all eternity, and we need to help each other in order for that to happen! Thank you for always strengthening my testimony and helping me to be better and for supporting my decision to serve a mission. I am so blessed and I love you so much!

Love, Hermana Baer

This is the Iguana I had to catch. Look at its nasty feet! Ahhh!

Me with the Iguana. You cant see it very well, but its tail is sticking out the bottom

Tayler - May 11, 2015

Well since i talked to you all yesterday i dont know what to tell you guys today. I sent you all the pictures from the baptism that was cool, And i am sending some more pictures too. So for lunch today we ate tacos we made some finally and they were really good not that hard to cook either. We found in the walmart here they have like and area for imported stuff and we found some good stuff but its all really expensive. but we found some noodles made with squid ink so we bought those to try them out i will let you know how that goes. WEll thats about it I love you all and it was very nice to see your smiling faces yesterday.

Love Elder Baer

Actually this is the day after my birthday but it was fun, this family is from Paraguay