So I had a good week this week, on monday it was the dia del amigo here in argentina so we had noche de hogar with a ton of members and it was pretty fun. Then on tuesday i had to go to capital to do some immigrations paper work but i ended up not actually doing anything so that was cool. Then wednsday until sunday was just normal. We are working with lots of people and it feels like there are not enough hours in the day to do everything we want to do we try and visit everyone but somtimes we just dont make it. On sunday 2 investigators came to church. And also the 2nd coucelor of the temple presidency came to church to speak so that was cool also. On saturday we went witha family to the temple and talked about haveing your life focused in the temple. PresidentUchtorf said in the temple dedication of the cordoba temple that everything we do in our lives needs to guide us towards the temple every decision we make needs to help us get to the temple and have that as our goal. So yeah it was a good week, I love you.
Love Elder Baer
Friday, July 31, 2015
Lexie - July 20, 2015
Mi distrito! No soy la única extranjera! Woo!
It was a ridiculously fast and hard week. Honestly I just feel like we have done nothing and I dont understand why. WE are planning a ward talent show type thing for the end of the transfers, so I figured I could do some little gymnastics things. OH MY GOSH MOM I CANNOT DO THE SPLITS! I havent done them In a good 5 or 6 months I bet and yeah... gone. Lots of pain, GRRR! And I did a backwalk over today and about died my back and stomache muscles were so mad at me. Sooooo basically I have to start practicing if I want to do something haha. We will see if I am even capable of a BHS still lol.
We have had little to no success with people going to church for 2 weeks and it is kind of discouraging but we keep working. There is someone here in Comitan waiting for hermana Baer and Hermana Lopez. Hopefully we can work hard enough to find them.
On Saturday night they called us and said, you get to speak in church tomorrow! Woohooo! The good thing is the gave us 24 hours lol. Sometiems they just say, go talk! But anyways, I talked about becoming a disciple of christ and 3 things that can help us to become more like him. The first is letting go of the sins, habits, and customs that hold us back. The second, share the gospel! With EVERYONE. I shared about how sometimes in the street contacting or with the members when they are thinking about family friend and neighbors we sometimes thing, this person is going to reject the message. There is no way they will listen. But I told them in my talk that in these situations I tell myself that God loves this person exactly the same amount as he loves me and he has given me a gift and so many talents for the soul purpose of sharing with others. The third point was LOVE! because Without charity we are nothing! I love that scripture, its in Corinthians 13. Anyways, it was good and I think more than anyone the talk helped me. Every day I feel like I need to be better and there is more I can do, and that is always true. So we keep working and trying to be better every single day!
Con amor, Hermana Baer
Every morning out the back window. Vivo en un paraíso!
We have had little to no success with people going to church for 2 weeks and it is kind of discouraging but we keep working. There is someone here in Comitan waiting for hermana Baer and Hermana Lopez. Hopefully we can work hard enough to find them.
On Saturday night they called us and said, you get to speak in church tomorrow! Woohooo! The good thing is the gave us 24 hours lol. Sometiems they just say, go talk! But anyways, I talked about becoming a disciple of christ and 3 things that can help us to become more like him. The first is letting go of the sins, habits, and customs that hold us back. The second, share the gospel! With EVERYONE. I shared about how sometimes in the street contacting or with the members when they are thinking about family friend and neighbors we sometimes thing, this person is going to reject the message. There is no way they will listen. But I told them in my talk that in these situations I tell myself that God loves this person exactly the same amount as he loves me and he has given me a gift and so many talents for the soul purpose of sharing with others. The third point was LOVE! because Without charity we are nothing! I love that scripture, its in Corinthians 13. Anyways, it was good and I think more than anyone the talk helped me. Every day I feel like I need to be better and there is more I can do, and that is always true. So we keep working and trying to be better every single day!
Con amor, Hermana Baer
Tayler - July 20, 2015
This week i had my first interview with president Thurgood. HE is awesome, very friendly loving person. We talked a little about my family so he could get to know me better and we talked a little about the day i will end my mission. Because this mission has different transfer schedules i will be ending my mission on march 7th so that means i will instead of ending my mission 2 weeks short of 2 years, now i will end 2 weeks after 2 years so that is cool. I had to do some more immigration paper work this week with this mission so that went well too i got to go to some cool places i have never seen before. This mission i think has more rich areas than the west mission and it is a lot smaller too. I am in a place called Ciudad Evita, but the area is called Villegas. So also this week we hada few less active families come to church wich was awesome, we didnt have any investigators come but we will work on that for next week. I have a few requests for you if you have a chance to write me back i need a recipe for peach cobbler, and also you should get on my facebook and update it a little because its been a while. and thats it. I love you mom and i hope you have a good week.
Love Elder Baer
Monday, July 13, 2015
Lexie - July 13, 2015
Hey Mom!
Sounds like everything is going good. We did my little mini insanity routine as companions 5 times this week! Makes me feel so much better. So dont you worry, your running partner will be home in 4 months and it will be a lot easier to go! I am not sure if I have told you to watch this video but reading about the atonement and what you shared made me think about it. It is about missionary work but is honestly one of the most powerful videos of Elder Holland I have ever seen. It is amazing! And honstly it applies to everyone of us, its called missionary work and the atonement, there is a part with Elder Eyring too. But go watch it! I cry every single stinkin time!
So my new companion is Hermana Lopez and she is from Guatemala! She is super short like my trainer and tries super hard. I dont think she has recieved a lot of formal eduaction in her life so that is a challenge for her but she is here to work hard so we have had a good week. We have a family home evening planned tonight with a part member family and a family in the ward. I am super excited and we are going to start the week in a great way!
So funniest thing this week. Well not really that funny, but it made me laught. We always hand out pass along cards with our number so people can contact us if they are interested and every now and again we get a message from someone who wants to take one of us out on a date or something like that. It only happens every now and again but it happened this week lol. This big old dude with a beard asked me to go drink a beer with him the other night haha, obviously hasnt heard much about the mormons before. Made me laugh.
Anyawys, it has been a good week. Crazy with the rattle snake! That would stress me out. There are so many weird things here in Chiapas. They tell me that if you head out of all the city and into the jungle part here there are jaguar type things and monkeys and the young men in our ward had to kill a big huge green snake the other week when they went camping. Welcome to the jungle! Not going to lie sometimes I sing that in the street if we have to walk through a place with a bunch of vegetation lol.
We have a lot of good things happening, not necesarily a ton of people progressing, but we have some ideas to help with the ward and all the young adults are going on visits with us every day becuase they are on vacation! Woohooo! Hope everything continues to go well and that you can chat a little bit today. Love you tons!
Love, Hermana Baer
Sounds like everything is going good. We did my little mini insanity routine as companions 5 times this week! Makes me feel so much better. So dont you worry, your running partner will be home in 4 months and it will be a lot easier to go! I am not sure if I have told you to watch this video but reading about the atonement and what you shared made me think about it. It is about missionary work but is honestly one of the most powerful videos of Elder Holland I have ever seen. It is amazing! And honstly it applies to everyone of us, its called missionary work and the atonement, there is a part with Elder Eyring too. But go watch it! I cry every single stinkin time!
So my new companion is Hermana Lopez and she is from Guatemala! She is super short like my trainer and tries super hard. I dont think she has recieved a lot of formal eduaction in her life so that is a challenge for her but she is here to work hard so we have had a good week. We have a family home evening planned tonight with a part member family and a family in the ward. I am super excited and we are going to start the week in a great way!
So funniest thing this week. Well not really that funny, but it made me laught. We always hand out pass along cards with our number so people can contact us if they are interested and every now and again we get a message from someone who wants to take one of us out on a date or something like that. It only happens every now and again but it happened this week lol. This big old dude with a beard asked me to go drink a beer with him the other night haha, obviously hasnt heard much about the mormons before. Made me laugh.
Anyawys, it has been a good week. Crazy with the rattle snake! That would stress me out. There are so many weird things here in Chiapas. They tell me that if you head out of all the city and into the jungle part here there are jaguar type things and monkeys and the young men in our ward had to kill a big huge green snake the other week when they went camping. Welcome to the jungle! Not going to lie sometimes I sing that in the street if we have to walk through a place with a bunch of vegetation lol.
We have a lot of good things happening, not necesarily a ton of people progressing, but we have some ideas to help with the ward and all the young adults are going on visits with us every day becuase they are on vacation! Woohooo! Hope everything continues to go well and that you can chat a little bit today. Love you tons!
Love, Hermana Baer
Last day with Hermana Fuentes
Ice-Cream!
Sunday
Lady bug...
Zona Comita!
Tayler - July 13, 2015
Sounds like you have had a good week with lots of work. I saw the pictures of the house they look very nice but there is still lots of work to do but it is doable. And i think in all my time in Nevada i have only seen one rattlesnake in the wild thats crazy and i am glad that bailey obeyed and did not get bitten. So we had lots of people come to church yesterday lots of less actives and some investigators so it was a very good day yesterday so i am pleased with the week i had. There is this bolivian family in the ward here and we visit them and when we do they always give us traditional bolivian foods wich is awesome. We eat Sopa de Maní wich is peanut soup wich is really good and the other day they gave us stuff called apí wich is a drink made out of purple corn all grinded up with sugar and cinamon and it was delicious so i am getting to try lots of stuff. Well other than that it was a normal week. i hope you have a great week and i will talk to you later. I love you
Love Elder Baer
Lexie - July 6, 2015
Holy smokes!
I am too excited about the mission call and the speaking SPANISH! I cannot even remember anything I wanted to tell you about this week haha. I guess the important stuff is that today is transfers! Hermana Fuentes is headed to tuxtla and my new companion is Hermana Lopes, she is suuuuuper short and from Guatemala. Presidente george told me that she is super shy so hopefully I can help her out with that.
I seriously cannot remember anything.. All I am thinking about is california and SPANISH! And how I am going to go search for Jacob in the MTC in Mexico! Holy smokes, I cannot even believe it! So so happy. I will write more in a second if I have time. Our time is limited becuase my companion heads out today but I will try to think of more to tell you lol. Love you!
Love, Hermana Baer
Tayler - July 5, 2015
Wow that is really cool for Jacob and you will have 3 missionaries at the same time that is cool too what a blessing. So i really liked what you said about humble testimonies because there is one man here in the ward here in villegas that every time he bares his testimony i feel the same. He is from paraguay and in paraguay they speak a different language called guaraní. So when he lived there he didnt even know a lot of spanish and then he moved to Argentina with his family and learned spanish. he has lived her for 10 years but to this day he has trouble speaking and you can tell but when he bears his testimony it is powerful i love it because a lot of times we teach investigators in his house and almost always he bears his testimony, very humble and you can tell the sincerity when he speaks it is awesome. So i know how that is about humble testimonies. Well other than that it was a normal week in the mission south but all is good. Also the transfers already passed and i am with my same comp Elder Jarquin in the same area Villegas and i will be here for a while i think because Elder Jarquin finishes in August. Well other than that not much to report I love you
Love ELder Baer
Lexie - June 29, 2015
Hola Medusa!
I was sooooo excited to hear about his mission call and now..... blah! Oh well, it comes when it comes and I will work on my patience, its a christ like attribute ya know? ha. Glad to hear you have had a fun week! You should have caught one of the iguanas and taken a picture! We could have been twins! I am sure everything is really awesome there, sounds a little bit like mexico from what you have said. You are absolutely going to love the sunsets here when you come visit someday. Everything about this place is beautiful, except for the trash. But you just ignore that!
We had a great week. We had a baptism on Saturday which was wonderful. Our ward mission leader went early to fill the font and left to get a hair cut and came back and had flooded that chapel hahaha. So he spend all afternoon mopping. Too funny. The baptism was great. He is going to be a great missionary someday and we are super happy for him. I will send pictures soon. This is the last week of this transfer so we will see what happens next monday. The mostly likely is that my companion will head out, she has been here for 6 months. but anything can happen, so we will shortly see!
Everything else about this week was pretty normal. We complete the normas de excelencia again. Which are the goals set for the missions with numbers of lessons and contacts and such like that. It is fun to feel like we are achieving things. Its been a great week. I think that is about all for now. I will send pictures soon. Love you! Have a great trip home!
Love, Hermana Baer
Behind me is Jesus that got baptised, and the hermana is in our ward and the family has been helping jesus get ready for his baptism. They are wonderful!
Tayler - June 29, 2015
Well i had a very good week this week. I will run it down for you. As you know we went to the temple on monday so that was a good day then a normal day on tuesday and on wednsday i went to capital to do stuff for immigrations so that was a long day but i took some pictures of good stuff, then thursday i went back to capital to do more stuff for immigrations. and i took some more pictures of some cool stuff i will send you some pictures. Then on friday we had a lunch with president robertson because it was like our goodbye lunch cause starting wednsday i will be in a different mission. Then saturday and sunday were normal the only thing is it rained on saturday and all day on sunday but it was a good week i have a few pictures so i will send those. Well i love you, and i hope you have a good week.
Love Elder Baer
All of the missionaries from the MTC
Love Elder Baer
The Argentina, Buenos Aires West Mission June 2015!
Also it was June 25th on thursday, so it was Half Christmas!
Also it was June 25th on thursday, so it was Half Christmas!
Lexie - June 22, 2015
Hey mom!
Holy smokes i forgot you are on vacation! Take lots of amazing pictures! I am sure it will be great. I was thinking today while we were walking down the street how crazy it is where I am at. Every where you turn they are selling pinapple right now. For 10 pesos! that is less than a dollar for a pinapple. I think that is pretty awesome. i almost always have it cut up and ready in the fridge. Yum! So delicious.
It was another great week. We have a baptism coming up this weekend and it is someone so special. This kid just gets it and accepts everything so quickly. I can already see im as a missionary and I cannot wait for his baptism on Saturday. In other news something really cool happened this week. I got a letter from Tapachula from one of my converts. Her name is Montse and she is the daughter of the mom that cant get baptized because she isnt married yet. Her letter was adorable, I thinkI miss that family more than anyone in Tapachula. It is so amazing to read about hwo she is reading the BOM and trying her best. Makes me realize how important this mission is, even after the mission. I have to always be a worthy example to the people I have taught and continue to help them.. Endure to the end seems to be the hardest step for everyone that joins the church so I need to be sure to keep working on that! That is awesome that you could go on visits with the elders at home. Keep doing it! The difference of an investigador when they have friends at church and people that care about them is 100% different. It is the way we met Jesus that is getting baptized this week. Weird to say Jesus is getting baptized right? Didnt he already do that haha. Too funny. Anyways, he is a friend of a family in our ward and has just loved every second of learning of the gospel. His first week he showed up to church in a suit and tie! Holy smokes! That never happens! But it was a good week. I am excited for this one too start and cannot even WAIT to hear about Jacobs call! Keep me updated! I love you! Have an awesome vacation!
Love, Hermana Baer
Last week when we left the ciber on Monday it POURED! We got home soaking wet. And then I slept the rest of pday away. It was wonderful!
On the way back from Sancristobal. i was in intercambios with hermana Wilson.
Not sure what this is but I ate it. I think they are like grasshoppers? It was super salty. Not that bad actually.
ME!
Tayler - June 23, 2015
Well we had a baptism woo!. ON saturday Karina got baptized so that was cool it was a cool experience like all the other baptisms are it just feels so rewarding to see the people that we have been teaching take the step to get baptized. I will send you pictures. Also yesterday we went to the temple, we went as the whole mission. And when i was int he celestial room at the end i was looking around at all the missionaries that were in there and was thinking what a powerfull army god has even though we are not many we are strong because of the priesthood we have and the gospel we have. And i thought it was cool that later that day President robertson was talking to us and he said that he was thinking about the same exact thing and i thought that was really cool. Well yeah aftert the temple we had a big family home evening with president robertson and his family it was fun, some missionaries shared their conversion stories and sang and stuff and afterward we played some games with the whole mission. It was really fun and no we have to get to work this week because it is our last week in this mission next week we are being moved over to the south mission wich is a little sad but luckily we had the activity yesterday to say goodbye to all our friends and stuff so yeah that was yesterday. Well i love you mom, you are the best.
Love Elder Baer
At the temple with my companion...
The Baptism
Lexie - June 15, 2015
Hola Medusa!
Sounds like everything is going good! Glad you are finally getting all done with the huge work stuff for a little while. We had an AWESOME week. I have never worked so much and I just feel HAPPY! We have another more probable baptism here in a coupe weeks and we worked a bunch with the members this week. Did I tell you that last week I had tacos of pig head? They were actually arlight until I went to another house this week that were getting ready make a pig head and I got to see the head all chopped up in a pot. Snout and all. Blech! Anyways, I bought another fun mexico dress last monday that is super cute. I look like a nice little grandma but I like it! AND DUN DUN DUN! About an hour ago I bought a paid of true religion jeans for 50 pesos!!! That is like 4 dollars. 4 DOLLARS! And they were made for me because they were even hemed in the good way to keep the cute stitching on the bottom and are the perfect length haha! Crazy huh! Also I was thinking, when jacob gets his call you should video him and send us the video to watch and see where he goes! I think that would be a wonderful Idea! We will be right in on all the action! Oh and sad deal guess waht, I melted a whole in one of my favorite skirts with the iron yesterday... uGh! Sad deal, but the good thing Is i probably would have given the skirt away in 5 months so I guess it is ok.
So I was studying this morning something that made me really think. It is something I havent realy thought about before. Obviously we know how important the BOM is right? We read it and study it and all that jazz but in Preach my gospel it told me to read 2 different scriptures this morning when Nephi and Moroni are both talking about how we are going to see them both at the judgement bar. preach my gospel asks, what are we going to tell Nephi and Moroni about how we used the BOM in our lives. Holy smokes. I guess I need to study more and more and more. Made me really realize how special this book is. I feel so blessed to be sharing it with others!
I love you tons and hope you have a great week! Tyrel told me that you are working lots on the yard! I am excited to see it! Love you love you love you! See you in 5 months!
Love, Hermana Baer
Divisions with Lulu and Vivi. The little girl in the back is a sister of an investigador. She was rocking the rollerblades.
Frying bananas!
My omelette.
Me and Hermana Fuentes!
Sounds like everything is going good! Glad you are finally getting all done with the huge work stuff for a little while. We had an AWESOME week. I have never worked so much and I just feel HAPPY! We have another more probable baptism here in a coupe weeks and we worked a bunch with the members this week. Did I tell you that last week I had tacos of pig head? They were actually arlight until I went to another house this week that were getting ready make a pig head and I got to see the head all chopped up in a pot. Snout and all. Blech! Anyways, I bought another fun mexico dress last monday that is super cute. I look like a nice little grandma but I like it! AND DUN DUN DUN! About an hour ago I bought a paid of true religion jeans for 50 pesos!!! That is like 4 dollars. 4 DOLLARS! And they were made for me because they were even hemed in the good way to keep the cute stitching on the bottom and are the perfect length haha! Crazy huh! Also I was thinking, when jacob gets his call you should video him and send us the video to watch and see where he goes! I think that would be a wonderful Idea! We will be right in on all the action! Oh and sad deal guess waht, I melted a whole in one of my favorite skirts with the iron yesterday... uGh! Sad deal, but the good thing Is i probably would have given the skirt away in 5 months so I guess it is ok.
So I was studying this morning something that made me really think. It is something I havent realy thought about before. Obviously we know how important the BOM is right? We read it and study it and all that jazz but in Preach my gospel it told me to read 2 different scriptures this morning when Nephi and Moroni are both talking about how we are going to see them both at the judgement bar. preach my gospel asks, what are we going to tell Nephi and Moroni about how we used the BOM in our lives. Holy smokes. I guess I need to study more and more and more. Made me really realize how special this book is. I feel so blessed to be sharing it with others!
I love you tons and hope you have a great week! Tyrel told me that you are working lots on the yard! I am excited to see it! Love you love you love you! See you in 5 months!
Love, Hermana Baer
Divisions with Lulu and Vivi. The little girl in the back is a sister of an investigador. She was rocking the rollerblades.
Frying bananas!
Monday, July 6, 2015
Tayler - June 15, 2015
Well we had a good week pretty normal. Lots of walking and we didnt have lots of lessons but we are going to do better this week. I talked in sacrament meeting yesterday, my topic was missionary work wich is a really broad subject so i took the liberty in talking about service. I beleive that anytime we do any type of service it is missionary work. They always say that misionary work is the work of the lord and when we service we are serving god so it makes sense to me. I shared a little about how when you were sick lots of the members in our ward helped me and jake out a lot with dinners and people were always dropping by to see how we were doing and if we needed anything. I dont think i will every forget how much the ward helped us out in our rough times. But now we always have the oppurtunity to serve others now we always need to be searching for ways to serve. We are also going to have a baptism this saturday, Karina is getting baptised and she asked me to do the baptism so looks like im getting wet again. She is from paraguay so after the baptism i will have converts from bolivia, paraguay, and argentina! Well other than that not much else to tell you, also do you have the emails of keaton and morgan i want to write to them. I love you
Love Elder Baer
Lexie - June 8, 2015
It was an AMAZING week. We had a zone conference that completely changed how I look at everything and I have been so happy all week. It amazed me everything that happened. This week we extended more baptism invitations than I ever have in one week. We also recieved an amazing and immediate blessing from fasting yesterday and finally have a baptism date set in stone! His name is Jesus and his baptism will be in 3 weeks. He is super excited and so receptive.
This week while I was studying I realized something really simple but something that helped me with my work this week. I was studying about promised blessings. For every commandment and everything that we do in the gospel there is a blessing that God promises us, and we know from the scriptures that God is bound when we do what he asks. So I started thinking about the blessings that the members had recieved for doing the family game that we did last week and I realized something. The things that were hard on the calender were the things that the families didnt complete and even though the felt happy and blessed for the things that they did complete, just think about all the blessings they missed out on. I know God always blesses us, even for the little things that we do right, but we really are cutting ourselves short if we dont do everything that we can. I read a scriptrure in DyC 1:37 and realized that I need to look for more things to change in my life to be better so that I can receive the blessings that God has prepared for me. It really changed how I worked this week, and I feel SO HAPPPY. Which is definately a HUGE BLESSING!
That is about how the week went. My favorite shoes are finally dying so I am going to see If I can find some others the same color today. Ill send a picture of the sad reality. ALSO I have showered in HOTT WATER all week! What a blessing! Makes me soooooo happy! That and we got to eat pozole twice this week! Once was with the converts in the ward. I cant wait for you to meet them some day. They are WONDERFUL! And they are grandparents and just seem like they have been members their whole life. They make me want to be better! I love you tons mom! Thank you for your email and I hope that you have an amazing week! Guess what, I just finished 50 weeks in Mexico! Crazy huh!
Love, Hermana Baer
This week while I was studying I realized something really simple but something that helped me with my work this week. I was studying about promised blessings. For every commandment and everything that we do in the gospel there is a blessing that God promises us, and we know from the scriptures that God is bound when we do what he asks. So I started thinking about the blessings that the members had recieved for doing the family game that we did last week and I realized something. The things that were hard on the calender were the things that the families didnt complete and even though the felt happy and blessed for the things that they did complete, just think about all the blessings they missed out on. I know God always blesses us, even for the little things that we do right, but we really are cutting ourselves short if we dont do everything that we can. I read a scriptrure in DyC 1:37 and realized that I need to look for more things to change in my life to be better so that I can receive the blessings that God has prepared for me. It really changed how I worked this week, and I feel SO HAPPPY. Which is definately a HUGE BLESSING!
That is about how the week went. My favorite shoes are finally dying so I am going to see If I can find some others the same color today. Ill send a picture of the sad reality. ALSO I have showered in HOTT WATER all week! What a blessing! Makes me soooooo happy! That and we got to eat pozole twice this week! Once was with the converts in the ward. I cant wait for you to meet them some day. They are WONDERFUL! And they are grandparents and just seem like they have been members their whole life. They make me want to be better! I love you tons mom! Thank you for your email and I hope that you have an amazing week! Guess what, I just finished 50 weeks in Mexico! Crazy huh!
Love, Hermana Baer
My dying shoe...
The front of our cute house...
Comitan!
Tayler - June 8, 2015
Well this week went very well i got my new comp his name is elder Jarquin he is from Nicaragua. He is pretty cool and we get along great so should be good he is also about to end his mission he only has 3 months left so i might be his last companion. Wow i cant beleive that Jacob has graduated its crazy you no longer have a high school student and pretty soon you will have 3 missionaries what a blessing. Its crazy how fast the time goes by. Dad sent me a picture of a christmas card that we sent out when we lived in Ames and it is crazy i cant even imagine myself being that little. And i hope you enjoy your vacation this summer it will be nice to take a little time off and unwind. Well i dont have lots to say about this week it was normal. I am just happy to have a family like all of you you are all an example for me and i dont know what i would do without you. I love you
Love Elder Baer
Lexie - June 1, 2015
Hey mom,
Feeling much better this week thank goodness. Pretty crazy that Jake is finishing up and all your children are officially OLD! What does that make you? Haha, just kidding. Seriously no one believes that you are my mom when they see your pictures. But anyways, I hope that everything is going well and that the graduation goes well too. This week was honestly the best week I have had here. I hope that doesnt mean this week will die again. Lets hope not. We had 4 people at church on sunday which is more than all of my time put together here in Comitan. Remember how I told you that we did a family game with the members in our area this month? Well we finished it up with 3 testimony meetings with the members in different houses this weekend and it was wonderful. I think everyone realized the importance of the little things and how much they really bless our lives. Doing something every day is so important. We have recieved so many blessings and they just keep on flodding in. I feel so happy. 2 of the investigadors came with members because they are all friends, a HUGE blessing. And the other two have more than enough attendances to get baptized but one isnt married and the other hasnt been able to make the decision. But we are seeing huge progress in her as well, she is the daughter of the recent converts here that got baptized in January. They are the most converted converts I have seen in my whole mission and worked super hard to complete the whole calender activity that we gave our. They are the only members that did the WHOLE thing. pretty cool.
Anyways, here in this ward the list for the food is by month and the same family feeds us once a week for amonth on the same day. So last month we ate with the Tovar family and they live about an hour away, still in our area crazy huh. We have to walk to the main street and then take a combie about 30 minutes out of town. They live really humble and are an amazing family. She told us last week that they are going to feed the missionaries every thursday for this whole year. I couldnt help but start crying. They are a family that really understand the blessings that come when we sacrifice a little bit of ourselves to the lord. We love eating with them and are so excited to get to go back every single week. She is an ex missionary and her husband is a convert and they have 3 little girls. Her husband is hilarious and always tells us funny stories while we eat and always is playing with his kids when we get there. It is super fun to see what really is important. I think that is one of the things that I have realized during my mission.
I am excited for a new week and time is flying by. I cannot believe that it is June. I love you tons and I hope you have an amazing week and are online to chat a little bit. Love you!
Love, Hermana Baer
En la selva!
Tayler - June 1, 2015
So yeah its nice that it is cooling down here in argentina now the only problem is that this is the rainy time of the year and i am in the absolute worst area for rain because there are maybe like 3 or 4 paved streets in my area and when it rains it makes a lot of mud and it is not that fun to walk around in that because it gets really slippery but thats ok. So this week we had stake conference and my mission president came and the temple president and also one of the seventies. They talked a lot on saturday about haveing family home evenings and stuff like that for the family and on sunday about missionary work, temple work, and about that sabbath day they were all really good talks i enjoyed it a lot. Also we found out last night that on wednsday my comp is getting transfered so i will be recieving a new comp this week i will let you know who it is next week. And thats about all that happend this week, we are teaching this one girl who is the girlfriend of a member and she is awesome and is a sure baptism for june so we are excited for that should be a good month. I cant beleive may is already over the time is flying by i feel like it was like christmas yesterday and now we are almost halfway throught the year. I love you mom and i got your card for easter and my birthday card they were very nice thank you.
Love Elder Baer
Lexie - May 25, 2015
Hey everyone.
I am writing a together email today. We dont have tons of time. This morning we FINALLY bought gas, so dad if you want to send me money for that I wouldnt mind at all! lol jk. But the guys brought the gas and we didnt have the right hook up so he said he would go by it and be back in an hour. Well...... 3 hours later. Holy smokes my monday time is precious! So I have been way more than stressed out all day long but I guess that is kind of the story of my life.
The funny story this week comes from the table at the bishops house where we ate on Friday. I have officially ate the worst thing of my entire mission. I couldnt even believe it lol. So they served us the food and then sat in front of us on the couch. They never eat with us and it is super uncomfortable. So our food was meat and rice and there were some tortillas in front of us. So I made myself a little taco and took a bit and really smelt the food and then really started looking at the food when I realized I was not eating real meat. So I somehow got it all down holding my breath. This stuff had tubes to other organs and all sort sof nast crazy. There was a whitish part that was semi crunchy and I wanted to die. Leaving the house I said to my companion, what did I just eat? She said it definatley was tongue but she didnt know what else. She thought it was liver but said that it wasnt so we asked another member later in the day and they said the white stuff is ear cartlidge. Ear?? What in the world! and who knows what in the heck the other stuff was, it is probably better that I dont know. Funny story of the week.
In other news, we are starting a new transfer today and I will be with Hermana Fuentes again. Honestly other than the begining of my mission this has been the hardest transfer yet. We have one person that is sort of progressing and I feel like I have wasted 6 weeks and it frustrates me to no end. I feel like I am not being the best I can be and anyways... this week was really hard. I wasnt myself and I was just stressed out in every single moment. I started reading my journal that I kept when I started the mission and it helped me a lot, along with a lot of prayers to help pull me out of my weird lexie depression. Anyways, reading was really good for me. It made me realize the changes that have happened in me in this year. I think as missionaries we always want to be better, we always want results, and we always want to do things in the right way. I had to take a step back this week and realize that I cant be perfect. I should always try to be better but I shouldnt push myself down for not doing everything exactly perfect. Mom you mentioned that you are going to share about faith this week in your class. We always say that faith is action, but something more that I have learned is that a lot of people say they have faith because they believe in christ. Like you said, faith and believing are different and its true. Faith isnt just believing that Christ exists, it is believing in the promises that he has made us and the sacrifes that he made for us as well. When i read your letter I thought about the different between testimony and conversion. It is osmething I like to talk about with the members. I know I have mentioned it before but look in the bible dictionary at the difference between testimony and conversion, because I believe that someone that is really excersizing their faith is someone converted to the gospel. Everything goes hand in hand. I will try to think of something more while I am writing.
Anyways, I think that is it, this week was super hard and I am a little nervous and down about this next transfer but I have been praying all week for Heavnly Father to help me accept whatever answer he sent for transfers and the answer is that we are staying together another transfer and He knows why much better than I do. I trust Him, and I know that the trails, areas, and people we meet all mean something. Nothing is by chance. I love you all and hope you have a great week. Talk to you soon.
Love, Hermana Baer
Tayler - May 25, 2015
Wow that is cool that Morgan is going to Russia who would have thought, i wonder where jacob is going to get called could be anywhere. So this week was actually pretty hot. It was in like the high 70s almost all week and then on saturday it rained and sunday was cold so i think from here on out its going to be cold until summer. But that is ok for me its easier to work in the cold than in the hot so i am excited the only problem is that in the winter it gets dark ealier and nobody is outside so it is harder to find people to teach but whatever every day has its challenges. And to answer your question, i think you are absolutely right about faith it needs and action. There is a section in preach my gospel about faith in chapter 6 and in one place it says faith is a power that we have to be able to make miracles happen. Also this tuesday in our district meeting we talked a lot about faith, hope, charity and love wich are all kind of interconnected and i found a scripture in Jacob 2:19 that talks about having hope in Jesus Christ that comes from faith and we will have the means to be able to help others. I dont know faith to me is a very big part of the gospel and for that reason Jesus taught that before anything we need to have faith that is why it is the first principle of the gospel, articles of faith 4. And with faith brings repentance and everything else in the gospel. So yeah it happens a lot in the mission where people say they beleive us but they never really do anything they are missing the action but the people that actually do the things that we ask them to do are the ones who progress because they are the ones who put their faith to the test they are the ones who had the desires to know and beleived that they would recieve an answer, 1 Nefi 11:1. So that is what i have to say about the faith hopefeully it helped a little. But you are right faith is more than beleiving it is acting on what you beleive. I love you mom and i will talk to you next week.
Love Elder Baer
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