Jacob - November 28, 2016

Hey everyone, it was good to hearing from you all. I hope you all had
a good great thanksgiving, mine was pretty good. But I'm going to try
and go through the highlights of the week. So I'm going to start with
Monday. Last Monday we went to downtown Disney as a distract. It's not
Disneyland, but it's like an outside mall right outside of it. It was
kind of interesting, we did lots of window shopping. But at least I
can say I went. I was going to try and get somethings, but it was
really pricey. Then on that following Tuesday we did service down in
Costa Mesa at the soup Kitchen, but that day was pretty strange
because elder Clifford had a doctors appointment and so did elder
messer, so we spent the majority of the morning doing that stuff and
then we had a weird hour between service and finishing the doctor
stuff, so we went to a thrift store that other missionaries do service
at. Wednesday we had district meeting that was pretty good. Thursday
was good, we did a service event at the Honda center, we just helped
them put away chairs and tables, but I got a free shirt so that's
cool. Also that night we ate with the Lopez Family, they cook super
good every time we go over. The meal was really simple, just chicken,
rice and beans. It was a good time though. Friday wasn't too special,
just weekly Planning. Saturday I went on an exchange with elder
Bermudez, I was in his area and we had a good time. We worked hard and
we were kept busy throughout the night. We taught a really powerful
lesson to a RCLA and he ended up coming to church so hopefully he
begins to re-activate, he's going through a lot of trials tough so
it's tough for him. Lastly is Sunday. So the companion of elder messer
got sick so I went to church with elder messer while my comp was home
with elder Schoen. It was fun, I hung out in primary with him while he
played the piano. And lastly we had transfer calls. Not many changes
are happening, I'm staying with elder Clifford for another transfer in
the grove. We then are getting a new sister training leader because
one of them is going home. And then another elder is coming to the
district so there will be a trio with us. It will be an exciting
transfer. But I believe this is it for this week. I love you all! Take care.

Jacob - November 21, 2016

Hey Family, this week was good. I'm not going to have a lot of time to
send personal emails this week so I'm writing to all of you this week.
But I'm grateful for the emails you sent to me, but I probably won't
respond to anything in particular this week. Anyways this week was
good. We taught a good amount of people and saw a few new faces. Also
we had a zone conference where we learned about the Faith to Find, the
new Christmas Initiative and also a lot about Family History. I'm
really excited for this Christmas season and to share the new video
with people, I think it'll bring a lot of success to the mission.
Usually hearts are a little softer during this season too. Also we had
service at the soup Kitchen this week and they got this huge donation
of candy. So we got to take a 40 lbs box of candy home with us, so
please don't send anymore candy plus I still have tons back from when
you first sent me stuff. Also we had a really fun church activity this
week where we ate a bunch of turkey and all the members danced. It was
a lot of fun. I'll send ya some pictures. But that's all for this
week, hope you have a great week!

Jacob - November 14, 2016

Hey mom so i want to start out with a confession, the reason why I did
not write you last week is that I just didn't have motivation to do
anything. It was just one of the P-days, plus we were out and about a
lot so it was a little tough to find quality time to get writing. I
actually did write something that i was going to send, but when we got
back to a source of wifi, it was too late to send something. It's best
to be obedient even in those times when we think something is
acceptable or not. That's something I've learned a lot on my mission,
the difference between a good missionary and a great one. It's tough,
but it's the great missionaries that have an everlasting change from
their missions. the thought just came to me that all the missionaries
in the Book of Mormon experienced the same thing, because of their
decisions, thousands of lives were affected down the road and well
that's something that I would like. So I hope you forgive me for being
obedient. Also thank you for sharing that thought with me about what
you learned at church. Something that i've enjoyed is sharing the
story about the title of Liberty or also a scripture in Mosiah 29:20.
I liked the title of liberty story because the "people came running
together... rending their garments in token, or as a covenant, that
they would not forsake the Lord their God" (Alma 46:21). The people
understood what mattered most, which is faith in the Lord. Mosiah
29:20 says something similar, it talks about humility and how the Lord
prospers those that put their trust in him. So they both go to say
that we just need to have trust and confidence that everything will be
for our good.

Wow not sure where those thoughts came from, i guess it's somethings
that I have thought of hear and there this week. But overall this week
was good. We taught a good amount of people this week and our teaching
pool is looking pretty good. We got some people on all ends of the
spectrum, people that we barely found and also a lady that has been
coming to church and all the other stuff in between. I just hope and
pray that my comp and I can continue to work at our finding so that we
don't run into a shortage of investigators (that's the worse). The
lady i mentioned early has a lot of potential, she has come to church
twice now and the members are super friendly to her. My only concern
is her personal praying and scripture reading to find the truth, but
we will be checking on her throughout the week. Other than that I'm
not too sure what else to mention. I have 2 weeks left in training,
that has been going good, I've seen a lot of progress in my Trainee,
especially his Spanish. I think that's it for this week though. I love
you and hope you have a great week!

Elder Baer

Jacob - October 31, 2016

Hello family, it was good to hear from you. I'm writing a group letter
first to make sure you all know how I am doing, hopefully I'll have
time to write some more personal ones to you. But this Monday is sort
of strange since it is Halloween. The plan for today is to have P-day
till 2, proselyte from 2-5, have dinner and then go back to the
apartment. So tonight will be interesting. I think we are going to
play uno with some other elders that live in the same complex as us.
Also we might bake some cookies, we'll see. But anyways this week was
good. We did lots of finding and things are looking good. We have a
few people that we are working with that have good potential so
hopefully good things happen with them. But we are working hard and
working with members to try and get them to help put in the work. We
just have to follow up with them, we'll be doing a lot of that this
week. Also this week I went on an exchange with Elder Seibold, it went
pretty well. We talked a lot about trying to help the mission and
others find Joy. It was something that we've been wanting to apply
from elder cook's address. But joy is a real cool topic, elder Nelson had some really cool comments about it in his conference talk. But I'm
excited to see what will come to the mission as we all collectively
try and increase the joy within us and within others. But I think that
was the highlight for this week. Everything else is kind of slurred
together. But I love you all and hope you all have a great week. Take
care.

Elder Baer

Jacob - October 24, 2016

Hey family, this week was pretty good. Due to the changes in the
ward/district our areas where moved around a little bit. So our area
was cut in half, definitely a good thing since we our area was huge
and really tough for us to get around on bike. But the changes still
took a lot of our investigators so we are back to finding again. But
we are working hard and I'm staying optimistic. Also this week we had
a mission tour, it's sort of like a zone conference, but instead a
seventy came to give us instruction and council. The seventy that came
was Elder Cook. He spoke a lot about the Gospel of Jesus Christ andalso conversion. Our prepared to learn was a talk by elder Bednar called "converted unto the lord" in Oct. 2012. If memory recalls, I
think Tayler used his analogy in his homecoming talk about the 10
virgins. But it's a really good talk. Also something worth mentioning
is that it rained yesterday and we had to bike to dinner, it was
pretty fun, y comp didn't like it, but I enjoyed it. I miss the rain.
But I'm doing good, everything is well, I'm not too sure what else to
say for this week.. I love you all and hope you have a great week.

Elder Baer

Jacob - October 17, 2016

This week we met together as a stake. There were lots of
people and we all got to partake of the sacrament together. It was
cool, but the reason was that there are some changes going on in the
Spanish Stake. Two wards are going to be discontinued and their
members will meet in different wards. The boundaries of the ward I am
currently in will expand a little bit and we are going to have another
companionship here for at least this transfer. So we will have 6
elders and 2 sisters here. It's pretty crazy, but I'm really excited
to see what we'll happen this transfer. I think a lot of good will
come of it. Oh also this week I had the opportunity to have an
interview with President Taggart. We talked a little about humility
and also about Alma 5:33-34. I like this scripture because the
invitation the Savior extends is one word: Repent and his promise
blessing is that he will receive us. I find it amazing how simple the
doctrine is and that it's the only we thing we need to do to receive
the Savior's love. But there's a ton of other scriptures that I've
enjoyed as I've read the Book of Mormon. Currently I'm in Alma 18
where Ammon begins his ministry among the Lamanites. But I think
that's mostly it for this week. I'm doing well and today is transfers
which equals change, lot's of change with this new stake layout, but I
know everything will go well. I love you mom, I hope you have a great
week and that you can feel 100% again. Also that you can overcome
those negative feelings. Just remember the savior has felt it all, so
let him help you out. Take care.

Elder Baer

Jacob - October 10, 2016

This week was good, pretty normal I'd say. We had a 12 week follow up
meeting to see how the training has been going. That was really good
and gave me some good ideas how I can better train. But this week we
had a lot of finding and teaching. So things seem to be picking up. We
found some cool people recently that I am excited to work with. This
P-day has been pretty crazy and I haven't had much time to write
emails. But today we had some super good sushi with a member. Um yeah
sorry that's all I can think of. Have a good one!

Jacob - October 4, 2016

Hey Family, thank you all for writing me. I'll try to respond to your
emails at a more personal level when I write them, but I just wanted
to make sure you all hear from me. So this week went well. It was a
little tough finding people to teach. We didn't teach a ton and it's
been tough finding people that are willing to progress. But we're
doing alright, just have to keep at it. Fortunately there was a ton of
blessings this weekend that made up for the hard week. First off
general conference was awesome. The talks were super good and I
enjoyed it a lot. I can't wait till they're put on gospel library so I
can study them more. Also after the Sunday afternoon session we had a
baptism for Juan Carlos, an investigator that elder mark and I taught
back in SA11. That was a really spiritual baptism, I'm really happy
for him. Then today, (the reason I'm writing today), was that we went
to the temple. Also super spiritual and peaceful. So lots of spiritual
events these last few days that I have enjoyed. It's been nice to get
a little break from all the hectics of missionary life. But those were
probably the highlights for this week. There some more cool events
coming soon like Zone Conference with a seventy & as well as president
interviews. Oh and also my study in the Book of Mormon has been going
really good. Studying the Book of Mormon with a focus on the savior is
super powerful and I've been able to understand a lot more. Lots of
scriptures have taken greater meaning to me. one scripture I liked
this week in preparation for general conference was Omni 1:13. It
talks about the people having to leave into the wilderness, but how
the lord lead them and blessed them. It made me think about how when
we receive council from our leaders, they in a way ask us to leave to
the wilderness. The wilderness isn't easy, but it's a lot better than
being destroyed. So sometimes the things that leaders ask us to do
won't be easy, but they know what's best. Also we have the promise
that the lord will lead us and bless us. So that was one cool
scripture. I also liked all of Jacob, but I don't have time to talk
about all of that. But that's pretty much my week. I love you all and
hope you have a good one.

Jacob - September 26, 2016

Hey family, so I'll probably just say what happened this week to save
a little time. Anyways this week was ok. We taught a good amount, but
none of our investigators are progressing which makes it tough. Also
we have some RCLA's that are hard to work with. They either are all
working Sunday's, have super deep doctrine questions or they just
avoid us.. So it's tough. Also the area is so huge for bike that it
makes planning the day difficult. But anywho this week went by good.
Training is fun, it's trying at times, but I'm enjoying it. Also this
week we had sushi with some members. That was super good and tasty. I
tried to bake those cookies you sent me, I'll show you what happened.

Also I just about got killed, well most likely. There was a car that
swerved towards us unexpectedly, fortunately they hit the curb which
sent them back towards the road, but yeah had they of gotten over it,
I probably wouldn't be writing this. But fortunately God had other
plans for me. Hmm oh and also I shared a little scriptural thought
during a meeting with some members this week. It went well and it lead
to a good discussion of things members can do to help out in
missionary work. I think those were probably the highlights for the
week. I'm super stoked for general conference, I'm eager to hear what
is in store for us. But I love you all and hope you all have a great
week!

Jacob - September 19, 2016

Hey Family, it was good to hear from most of you. This week was good,
a lot better than last. When I arrived here we had next to nothing to
work with, but now are teaching pool is building, slowly but surely.
Also we are getting to know the members pretty well, it's pretty
awesome how often they feed us here. They feed us really good too. The
other day we ate at a family where the cooked us fish and the left the
head on. I tried some of the head and it was tasty. Also this week I
went on an exchange with a Zone Leader, elder Seibold. Not sure if you
remember, probably not, but he was my very first exchange in the
mission. That was ages ago. But this time around we practiced a lot on
how to do contacts, street or doors. I learned a lot from him. Also this week
we had stake conference, that was cool. I actually understood what
they were saying and I took a little bit of notes. I'm not sure what
else to say than that, our investigators are good, but they are so new
that I'm not sure what to say about them. My comp is cool, we get
along well. But that's about it. I love you all and hope you have a
great week!

Jacob - September 12, 2016

Hey Everyone, this P-day has been awfully busy.. I didn't like it.. I
didn't play any B-ball. But this week has been probably the toughest
in my mission. So Tuesday I got my Trainee, Elder Clifford. He's from
Grand Junction, Colorado. It's pretty funny though because people of
course call me Oso or Osito (Spanish for Bear), but now people can
call him Pero Rojo or algo asi. He's a really great guy with lot's of
energy and a really strong desire to serve. I speak a lot of Spanish
with him that has helped me have an increased confidence in myself. As
far as lessons go.. I'm pretty much the lifeline. It reminds me a lot
of back when I was trained with Elder Galleguillos. But this week was
hard. Tuesday and Wednesday night we were bunked with another pair of
missionaries and we had a bunch of meetings that threw everything out
of Wak. We haven't had a lot of opportunities to have a full study
session. Also we had zero AreaBook the entire week so we did a lot of
door contacting, member visits, and street contacting. But the
blessing of living here in Garden Grove where the population is
straight Asian, They know where Latinos live!! I have never seen so
much successes in getting referrals in my life. All we do is ask that
questions and then boom, they point to 2-3 houses which we knock and
schedule return visits or teach. Super cool. But even with that little
success, it's been tough. I think I could just be stressing because I
feel like I didn't give him the best first week in the mission. But
it's tough without bikes, no Areabook, whitewashing, no apartment
first few days, all that stuff. But on the bright side, the rest of
training should be easier than what happened this week. We've
scheduled tons of teaching events these next few days so I'm excited
to get our teaching pool rolling. We'll be starting fresh with this
area, most previous investigators that the previous missionaries
taught didn't seem to be progressing, but Elder Clifford and I will
find them. I'm pretty determined to make this training a great one.
Also the members here in the Ward are awesome. I've hit it off pretty
well with them and I can't wait to start visiting them and getting
them to lessons. I know the only way to get an area on fire is through
the help of members. I have so many high expectations, but I just pray
that I'll be able to carry them out. I love you all so much, you've
all been such a great example to me. I'm glad to hear everything back
home is going well and that the Utes won! Win is a win as far as I see
it. I miss football, every now and then I see those Friday night
lights and think of my kick return for a touchdown a little while
back, but of course my mind gets back on to what it's here for. But
thank you all for writing me and for your patience with these group
emails. I love you and I hope you all have a great week. Also Tayler &
Lexie, ya saben la importancia de los miembros en la obra misional.
Por favor ayuden a tus misioneros, ellos no pueden hacer nada sin tu
ayuda. Y es el mismo con ustedes Madre y Padre, hagan la obra, y les
prometo que sus barios crecerán! También qué sentirán un gozo que no
puedo describir. Les amo mucho!

Elder Baer

Jacob - September 5, 2016

Hey Family, so this email will be pretty short once again. But it was
good to hear from you all and I hopefully everything will go well. It
seems like everyone has different things going on in their lives,
which I guess is good and bad. I know that God gives us times of
hardship or challenge to test us, I'm probably going to have my fair
share of challenges these coming weeks. But first off this week was
good. We taught a bunch of our current investigators and invited them
all to church, but once again, they didn't come. So I'm not sure what
will happen with them.. I'm moving areas, I'm going to GG10N. The town
is called garden grove and it is pretty much little china town of the
mission. There are tons of Vietnamese speaking people which will be
interesting to proselyte in. Also this Transfer I'll be training a new
missionary. I don't even know what his name yet is since he comes
tomorrow. Also something interesting is that as of now we don't have a
place to stay. I've got a lot on my plate to start the transfer, it's
my first leadership call so we'll see how it goes. But I'm excited and
it's pretty much the only thing I can think of to say for this week.
But I love you all and hope everything goes awesome for you all this
week. Take care!

Elder Baer

Jacob - August 29, 2016

Hey mom, sounds like you had a crazy week. Also all of your little
thoughts. I liked how the armor might be uncomfortable, but it does
the job. This week was ok. No one came to church which was hard. I
fear I'm losing my patience a little. But it's tough when my purpose
to help others through the ordinance of baptism, but no one comes to
church to prepare themselves. But we'll find people that are a little
more prepared. I'm not too sure what to report this week. It was
another normal week in the mission. Last night we taught a man that we
think was possessed. Man that was weird. But I can't think of much
else to say. Love you mom, have a great week. Sorry I didn't write
more. But I think you understand.

Elder Baer

Jacob - August 22, 2016

Hey mom, well this week went well. We are teaching a good amount of
people, but no one has came to church so that's tough.. But we are
still finding pretty well so hopefully we'll find those that are ready
to accept our commitments. I really liked your thought though. I think
it applies to many situations. It's something that we share a lot when
we read Moroni's promise in the Book of Mormon. We have to have faith,
true intention and a sincere heart if we are to know the Book of
Mormon is true, but if no one acts well they aren't going to know if
it's true. Anyways.. This week was really good. I had a zone
conference about using the Book of Mormon. I went on an exchange with
Elder Castillo and lastly I was able to shake Elder Oak's hand this
week. That was super cool. He also gave us some great advice for how
we can be better missionaries and members. Also the mission is doing a
really cool study on the Book of Mormon. We are reading 4 pages a day
to finish by Christmas. And some of the things we are looking for are
the names of Christ, when he speaks, his attributes and also times
when it mentions his atonement. But other than that this week was
pretty good. Just a lot of teaching and finding. But I got to go soon.
So thanks for emailing me and I hope you have a great week! Take care
mom.

Elder Baer

Jacob - August 15, 2016

Hey everyone, sorry that I'm writing another group email.. but I got
everyone's emails a little late so I don't have much time to write
individualized emails. plus I just bought a basketball so I'm going to
be shooting around during the time that I do have. Anyways this week
was really good, well pretty good I should say. We have some
investigators that are doing alright and others that we'll probably be
letting go. But this week I was thinking a little and realized that
Elder Pitt and I are blessed with Investigators that lack something
super small that is stopping them from getting baptized. It's tough
because a lot of them have strong testimonies, but just their
situations make it difficult. Will continue to help them out, but as
for other people, we'll see. Also this week we had some really sweet
service for Habitat for Humanity. It was a lot of fun and a lot of
labor. We were throwing sandbags along a fence line to stop water from
going out... Which is strange since there is no water here. Um other
than that this week was pretty normal. Just biking, teaching and
finding. Nothing too crazy worth writing about. This following week
should be really good though. We have zone conferences tomorrow & on
Sunday we will have a special meeting with Elder Oaks & Elder Costa.
I'm pretty excited for those. But I think this is it for this week.
Take care everyone, love ya.

Here's me doing missionary work and from service

Jacob - August 8, 2016

Hey everyone, it was good to hear from the most part of you all. From
what I can tell it seems like everything is going good back home.
For me this week was good. We had a good amount of lessons which was
nice. Most of the lessons came from people that we picked up the week
before or maybe a little bit further back. We invited a lot of people
to church this week, but unfortunately all the people we invited
didn't come. The only people that did was Marisol, an eternal
investigator and another guy named Juan Carlos. He's an interesting
story because we taught him a bunch with Elder Mark, but it turns out
that he lived outside of our area... But he still comes to church and
has gone for the past 8 weeks now, all we have to do is wait till he
moves into our area which should be in about a month now. So we're
going to be patient with him and once he moves in, he'll get baptized.
A lot of our other investigators have potential, but they just need to
come to church.
Something I've been doing lately is reading a lot of talks by Elder
Oak's, he's coming to the mission pretty soon so it's out "prepared to
learn" for his coming. One talk I read this morning was really good
called "The Atonement and Faith." I really enjoyed it. One thing I
liked is how it said that Faith is our willingness to accept whatever
it comes. It's more of a sign of how we will react, even if the result
isn't what we wanted. Another part it mentions later on is how
repentance plays a part in those two principles. It mentions how
repentance only works if someone suffers through it. They have to have
Godly sorrow for them to receive the promise of forgiveness. I liked a
quote that President Kimball said, "One has not begun to repent until
he has suffered intensely for his sins. … If a person hasn’t
suffered,” he said, “he hasn’t repented.” Which makes sense to me,
since Christ suffered, we probably should experience a little bit of
pain as well. I can't think of anything that super crazy happened this
week. But everything is going great. I'm excited to see what this week
will have in store for us, to see which of the people I am teaching
are ready or not to receive the gospel into their lives. It should be
a great week, and I hope it'll be the same for all of you. Keep doing
what you're doing and Heavenly Father will bless you tremendously.
Love you all and I'll hear from you next week.

Jacob - August 1, 2016

Hey everyone, I'm glad to hear that you all had a good week. It sounds
like the family reunion was pretty fun. This week for me was good. We
were able to teach a bunch of people. Um I'm not sure what else to
really say for this time around. Everything is going really well, sure
there is ups and downs, but nothing too out of the ordinary. We found
a really cool couple that have been pretty interested in the
discussions. We taught them the plan of salvation yesterday and they
seemed really interested in the eternal families. So we'll see what
happens with them. Right now it's a matter of seeing who does their
commitments. Personally I think that's the best way to know of someone
is interested. But anyways we got a lot of work cut out for us with
all the new investigators we have, plus we'll probably continue to
find people. But I think we'll be just fine. Anyways I think that's
mostly it. Everything is going well. I hope you all have a great week!

Elder Baer

Jacob - July 25, 2016

Hey everyone, so today is transfers and I'm staying in the same area.
But I will be getting a new companion, elder Pitt. I'm pretty excited,
he's a transfer younger than me so we'll see how it goes. I think
it'll be good. Anyways it was good to hear that everyone had a good
week. Apologies that I'm not writing to you all separate, but I'm sure
you understand. This week went really good. We taught quite a bit of
lessons and we have a good list of new investigators, but we need to
keep up on updating the teaching pools so that its constantly
circulating with people. Also I was able to go to a wedding this week
on Saturday, and the Sunday following the family that got married was
baptized. Super cool experience, I think it's amazing how the gospel
can change people if they allow it to. I can't think of much else to
write about, but I'm excited to see what this next week and transfer
will bring. I love you all and I hope you each have a great week!

Jacob - July 18, 2016

Hey family, I'm doing good. There's not much to report about these
past few days. I'm still kicking it. Juan came to church again, but we
weren't able to teach him this time. I'm still pretty sure that he'll
get baptized someday though. I did hear about how an investigator back
in SA10 is getting baptized this week. I found him with Elder
Galleguillos and this Saturday he is getting married and Sunday he's
getting baptized. Hopefully I'll be at both, but I'm really happy for
him and his family. Other than that there isn't much to say. Hopefully
this is enough for my email for today.

Elder Baer

Jacob - July 14, 2016

Something I've noticed over here is how beautiful
the sunsets are. Some evenings are super pretty. I'll put in a
panorama from the 4th of July for proof. I finally got more pics to
send today! It was temple p-day. Super cool experience there. I read
the analogy of the olive tree inside and was able to find a cool
relation to missionary work. Sometimes on a mission we get "poor
areas," but the tree grows very strong there (the missionary), and
others times we get "good areas," but the missionary doesn't grow very
well, maybe because the area is too easy that the missionary doesn't
stretch and therefore grow. Sorta like muscles I guess. Stretch =
growth. Possibly an eternal principle? No idea, maybe I'll study that.
But this week was really good. We had lots of opportunities to teach
which was a nice change and so far this week has been really good too.
We've still got that solid investigator. He'll hopefully be baptized
in August, just because we aren't able to teach him more than once a
week. But I'm confident that he'll make it. Um as far as you sending
me stuff, I'm not sure what I need, but I'll think about it this
weekend and I'll write you some stuff Monday. Hope that works out. But
I'm not sure what else to say for this letter, everything is good. And
if I forgot something I'll send it to ya monday. But I love you mom
and I hope you have a great weekend since I'll be writing you soon.
Take care!

Elder Baer

Jacob - July 5, 2016

Hey Mom, it's good to hear that you had a good week. Just to let you know, I was able to write out an email for John so hopefully he can get 50. But it sounds like your week was pretty busy. I enjoyed your little "gate of baptism" lesson. It sounds really interesting and that is a perfect mentality to have, because it's true! I guess sometimes we get caught up thinking about being perfect that we aren't worthy to be in the kingdom, but like how you said it... That's the reason we have the atonement. Brilliant! You always were a great teacher.  Also super cool that you did a song deal at sacrament meeting. I think that's something they don't do super often in the Spanish wards, also there are like 100 songs missing compared to the English hymn book. But it's all good.


Anyways this week was good for me. Juan came to church again and it seems like it'll be a little tough to teach him. He's a very busy man so Sunday's will be our only days to teach him. But I'm confident that he'll be ready after teaching him everything. Also 4th of July was sweet! We had to be inside at 8, but from 8:45-9:30 it's been nonstop fire works. Elder Mark and I also found a pretty tall building where we took some pictures and videos, it was cool. We also ate some tasty food at an investigators house. Oh and something I can't forget, the mission had its 50th anniversary! So we had a cool program where a bunch of the cultures did little things to participate. There was a Spanish & Tongan dance (separate), the ASL missionaries signed a son, and the Korean elders sang a version of "I believe in Christ," oh my goodness it was probably the best song I've ever heard as far as hymns go. Super spiritual. We then heard from a bunch of past mission presidents. And for the closing remarks we heard Elder Acosta. I'm not sure if you remember, but I served in the same Ward as him back in SA10, but he is an amazing man. So humble, and knowledgable of the gospel. He's a concert and shared with us his conversion story. It was super spiritual. And lastly the Mission Choir sang a song to close it off. It was a mission song from 50 years ago called "Our Hearts Beat Strong." Man that was a great event. Oh and also I was able to go an exchange with elder Galleguillos since he is a ZL in my zone. It was a lot of fun and super cool to see the improvements we've made over the past few months. Something we talked a lot about that day is the importance of members in missionary work. I loved how he put it, he said, "the only way an area can catch fire, is with the help of the members." It's definitely something that I've seen in my time here. Everything is better when a member joins us for a lesson or fellowships people at church. And also referrals! Those are always awesome. And the last thing this week worth writing about is Zone Meeting. We went over the importance of the Spirit. We talked about the importance of faith filled prayers and having the right mentality as we pray. It was a good zone meeting. But overall the week was good, I can't really think of much else to say. Hopefully that's enough for this week. Love you mom and I hope you have a great week!


Elder Baer

Jacob - June 27, 2016

Hey everyone, it was good to hear from you all. Apologies for writing
a group email this week. But I don't have a lot of time before sport
time begins. I got a get my b-ball on. But this week went by pretty
good. We still weren't able to have a ton of lessons, but we were able
to see an awesome blessing. So even though our numbers hasn't been
great, we were able to finally teach Juan yesterday after church (the
guy who has been coming the past 3 weeks.) it was sweet, he kind of
dropped out of the sky. But he has a date for the 17th next month so
hopefully that'll happen. Also I had a crazy exchange Saturday with
elder Castillo this past Saturday. We were teaching a lesson with this
guy named Roberto, when all of a sudden in the middle of the prayer
his crazy sister came out and sprayed him with a hose and then turned
it on me... Probably my most crazy experience yet in the mission. But
it was a refreshing ride home (on bike). Um that's mostly what comes
to mind for this week. But I love you all and hope you have a great
week.

Elder Baer

Hey mom, I'll make this one a quick email since I wrote one to you
all. But a few weeks ago I thought of a super cool thought. I know you
love math so my comp and I made a math equation for how the attributes
of Christ work. (At least in my mind.) so an exponential equation
starts out super small, like .0000000000047 or something like that,
but as it goes down the graph it slowly becomes bigger until it shoots
right? So I like to think our earth life is those beginning moments.
We might not see the progress as clear as day, but when we die and are
later resurrected we begin to see the signs and when we are exalted it
just shoots! I'm not sure if it's exactly how it works, but it's a
cool way to look at it. Also the idea came because it seems that if
you increase one attribute of Christ, another will increase too until
it goes around in a circle to the one that started. Idk it's a cool
thought, we also had the idea of how black holes are like a visual
representation of sons of perdition. That one was interesting too, but
I'll try and have some more spiritual ideas as I write you. Right now
I'm reading the New Testament and so far it's great. I'll probably
finish the gospel of Mathew tomorrow. But I love you mom, you're
awesome!

Elder Baer

Jacob - June 20, 2016

But this week went ok, not much to write
about honestly. It was tough and frustrating because we had not a lot
of lessons, but I'm hopefully because there was an investigator that
came to church for two weeks straight now without even hearing the
missionary lessons. So he has tons of potential. But we're working and
trying to patient. Hopefully this week we'll go by a little better.
But I love you both and hope you have a great week!

Elder Baer

Jacob - June 16, 2016

Hey mom, it's good to hear from you. That's pretty cool that a family
got baptized back home. That's also cool that Tayler got to
participate in the blessing circle. I didn't even know they had
another child so it was weird to hear that from grandma last week. Um
also it's good to hear that your college stuff is finishing up. I
think I took my time with that a little for granted. I could of tried
to work a little harder at it, but it's good to see that you are
determined to finish it. Also it sounds like Tennessee will be a lot
of fun. Maybe it's not math, but at the least its an opportunity to
learn. That's a characteristic that is super awesome. It seems like we
talk to a lot of people each day, but hardly anyone is interested in
learning more about the Gospel, or increasing their faith. It's tough,
but I'm staying patient with it. Just today we saw a family at the
mission office. They were looking for things to study so some
Hermana's gave them a bible and Book of Mormon. But they could be in
our area so hopefully we can teach them soon. Also another member
brought a friend to church yesterday and it turns out that he lives in
our area. So we'll see what comes with them this week. Oh and I did
get the pants, they fit me nicely so thank you a bunches for doing
that. I think I'm good as far as stuff. I did like the pics you sent.
Please feel free to send me anymore at anytime. I'm sorry I haven't
been able to send you any lately. I haven't taken a lot of pics, but
we'll see about these coming weeks. And if the video won't send, don't
worry about it. It hasn't even been in my mind this week. It's pretty
crazy how Monday's I usually think of family in friends, just a
little. But then when the week starts back up its all on the work.

For this week it went ok. A lot of the appointments to visit members &
investigators fell through... That was tough, but elder Mark and I are
going to try sacrificing a few things to hopefully bring more success
to our area. Also today is transfers! Nothing is happening to me and
my comp, so not much to say about that. But there were a bunch of
other moves in the mission that were exciting. Oh and also this week I
finished reading the Book of Mormon for the 2nd time in the mission.
And I'm almost to Alma in the él libro de mormón. I've noticed that as
I read that I've been able to get pretty good at looking for context
clues so I understand more and more each time. But there are still
lots of words that I still don't understand. Also reading Spanish and
hearing Spanish are two different things entirely, but it's coming
along. I'm not too sure what else to report on for this week. It was
pretty normal, just a lot of work on trying to find people to teach,
but also in helping the members to be more active/strengthen their
testimonies.

Elder Baer

Jacob - June 6, 2016

Hey mom, well I'm glad to hear that you had a good week, it's also good to hear that all the wedding stuff is settling down. My week went pretty well, but overall I'd say it was pretty normal. We've been trying to improve the missionary work within the Ward & from what I can see so far.. It's looking good. There were still a few times were my patience has been tested, but they're just moments that I shrug off. Um the Spanish is going good. I've sort of developed a more optimistic view on it. Tomorrow I hit the 1/3 mark so I figure if people already believe I speak Spanish now, who knows what they'll think in another 16 months. But the work is fun and I'm excited to see what this week will bring, we've been able to schedule a lot of visits so hopefully those all happen. But there's not much more I can think of other than that. Well actually I take that back, I do remember one thing that was sweet. I got to go on an exchange with elder Groesbeck. It was a lot of fun and we had some pretty humbling experiences with some members & other potential investigators. So we both are still pretty young in our missions so sometimes we understand Spanish and sometimes not. But one house we went to their was a lady that would throw in what she knew about English and it was pretty humbling to see someone to try they're best to help us out when that kind of stuff should be our job. But anyway that was a great day and I was able to learn a few things. But that's about it. I love you and hope you have a great week!

Elder Baer

Jacob - May 30, 2016

Hey mom, I'm glad you had a good week. Hopefully this week will also
be good, but you'll have to forgive me because I got a headache so
I'll just send the stuff that I wrote earlier, it goes a long the
lines of this... This week went by pretty well. It's been a little
tough finding people to teach. E get usually a good amount of street
contacts per day, but we only receive a few addresses from those and
then when we do stop by, not many people are home. So it's tough to
find those people that are prepared. Fortunately we had a meeting with
the Bishop. We pretty much asked what we can do to best work in this
Ward. He mentioned a lot about visiting members and it's something
that we're going to try out. But hopefully we'll find a balance
between teaching the members and finding new investigators. That's
pretty much how the work went this week. We also had an activity that
was pretty fun. It was designed for the Primary so there was tons of
little games. And also for Saturday's dinner we went to the Galvon's.
Oh man it was so tasty. They cooked a cow, but they did the method
were they buried it underground. It was super tender and they also had
a bucket down there to catch all the liquids. So we had a soup thing
and then super good barbacoa. Also they made tacos and it was just a
blast. I think overall the week went pretty well. I was also able to
go an exchange with Elder Castillo again. We went over to his area and
we had a good time. We weren't able to have a lot of lessons, but we
were trying our best to fulfill our purpose. For some reason I feel
like this transfer has been a lot about patience... I'm not completely
sure why, but we aren't having the success we would like to have or we
don't have a ton of people that we are teaching. Even though,Newell at
least to me, we are trying our best. So idk what's up, but I just hope
to keep a good attitude through out it. Missions definitely have ups
and downs, but I think a lot of it just depends on how we look at
what's going. But anyways I think that's mostly went down for this
week. I love you & hope you have a great week!

Jacob - May 23, 2016

Hey everyone! Sounded like it was a great week. I'm pretty sure
Lexie's wedding was the main event, but that's way cool. I don't have
a lot of time so I'm not sure how long this email will be. But this
week went well. We weren't able to teach a lot of people so we have
been street contacting like crazy. It's pretty fun and I'm starting to
be comfortable in uncomfortable situations. Also I went on an exchange
with a ZL named elder cottam. He's a really cool missionary and gave
me a lot of advice. He also showed me a few different ways that I can
street contact. Something I hope to do this week is read more
scriptures as I street contact. I got that idea from Christ reading
the scriptures with his apostles as he walked with them. It's
somewhere in Luke I think. Um also we had zone conference and that
focused on us using the key indicators a little more wisely. Using
them as a way to see the progression of who we teach rather than a
rating system for missionaries. Also we went over a lot about
conversion. Something really cool and interesting. That was mainly the
highlights of the week. But I love you all and I hope you have a great
week!

Elder Baer

Jacob - May16, 2016

Hey everyone, sounds like you are all having a good time back at home.
It seems like the main topic is Lexie's wedding, pretty crazy that
it's happening this week. Hope fully it all goes well. But anyways
this week was good. I had an exchange with an Elder named elder
Castillo. He's a pretty sweet guy. We are a lot a like as far as music
taste and what we did back home. So it was a lot of fun and we saw a
ton of miracles. We taught a guy named victor, he's a brother of one
of the sisters in my ward. But he's really cool and has a great desire
to change his life to be a better example to his family. He's got a
date at the moment for the 5th of June. Also we saw a lot of small
little things that led us to see miracles. For example instead of
visiting with a member family we thought we should try and work, so
that led us to meeting a guy that also wants to change his life. We
haven't had a lesson with him, but he's in our thoughts. Oh and this
week the mission had a "power week," we saw a lot of cool things. The
other elders in my district ended up casting out an evil spirit too,
haha lots of cool things. I'm not sure what else to really write this
week. But I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Jacob - May 9, 2016

Hey everyone, so it was super good seeing you guys yesterday! I'm not
sure what to say in this email because I probably said it to you guys
already. But I love you all and hope you have a great week. Take care.

Elder Baer

Jacob - May 2, 2016

So this week is transfers so I don't have enough time to write each of
you a personal email.. Hope you don't mind. But this transfer is a
little crazy. From what I've heard it seems like a lot of district
leaders are just moving around. My companion, Elder Fonnesbeck, is
going to Garden Grove to be a DL over there. My new companion is Elder
Mark and he's pretty cool. It's his first time being a DL, but he's
pretty excited and I am as well. I'm also a little nervous because I
only have 6 weeks here and I'm pretty much leading it now... So
hopefully I can do a good job of showing him around. As far as
stories.. Um idk. Not too much happened this week. We've been having
more street contacts, but we still don't have a ton of investigators.
Right now we are teaching an old lady, but she is having a tough
understanding what we teach... So we're going to continue try helping
her. Oh I just remembered we had a nice encounter with a homeless
man.. Haha he had some crazy ideas for what religion was suppose to
be. But other than that I can't think of much. Everything is good
here. Spanish is coming along, I'm still trying to figure out what
people say sometimes. But I am on page like 100 in the libro de Mormon
so that's exciting. I can usually understand the stories as I read
them. But that's it for now. I love you guys and hope you all have a
great week. Take care!
Elder Baer

Jacob - April 25, 2016

Heavenly Father knows what he's doing. It reminds me a little bit
about a talk that I read a few days ago. It was by Elder Bednar and
how not shrinking is better than surviving. It was really good and
changed my perception on the work here. I think a lot of missionaries
expect to have results, but from what I understand.. We're suppose to
have faith to find and to teach, the faith or I guess the hope that
everything will turn out awesome. But after reading the talk, there's
another part that I think people will sometimes overlook, not just
missionaries but everyone. Out here, no matter what happens, it's all
up to Heavenly Father. I think rather it's important to develop the
faith in God and to succumb to his will, but at the same time
understand that whatever happens is and will always be for our
benefit. Which reminds me of The opposition talk from elder oaks. Man
I could probably go on this for a while. There's so many cool things
I'm learning and experiencing. But this week was pretty good. We had
president interviews which were awesome! We talked about President
Monson's talks and the commitments he extended us. Also we talked
about things that I can do to become better which included putting my
thoughts towards others and avoiding casualness. Really good stuff. Um
a crazy experience I had is that I was almost attacked by a dog. That
was crazy, but I'm fine. Nothing happened. But I'm having a tough time
of thinking about what else happened this week... We've been doing a
lot of finding lately so it's tough, but I'm enjoying it. Anyways I
love you mom, hope you have a great week!

Elder Baer

Jacob - April 18, 2016

This week was good. My comp and I are have
been doing a lot of finding. It's tough, but we are staring to get
better at street contacting and some other things. Um something that I
did this week was the attributes of Christ activity in PMG. One thing
that has been on my mind this week was faith. I've been studying it
quite a bit and it's a pretty interesting principle. I think it's cool
how the scriptures say what can come when we have faith, but from what
I could tell, there isn't a lot of scriptures that say exactly what we
have to do in order to increase it. It's something that is different
for everyone I guess. But that's my opinion, I could be completely
wrong for all I know. Anyways there are other things I need to
improve, but it's pretty cool how Heavenly Father has been providing
me experiences where I can become more like the savior. I have been
starting to notice a lot more miracles and tender mercies as I have
focused on bettering myself. I can't think of too much that happened
other than trying to improve myself, but my comp made the nice comment
of how many Christlike attributes that I do have at the moment. That
was really comforting. It's good to know I'm doing something right.
Anyways this is mostly what I can think of now at the moment.
Hopefully it's enough for you guys to have an idea what's going on.
But I love you all and i hope you have an awesome week!

Elder Baer

Jacob's first baptism. He's a giant! Pretty awesome! 

Jacob - April 11, 2016

Hey mom, I thought I'd send ya a quick email.. this week was good. I
had my first baptism! I baptized an investigator back in my old area,
he's super tall. I'll try and send pictures soon, but man it was
tough. Haha, but it was super cool and humbling that he chose me to do
it. Also this week I had 2 exchanges. One with a ZL (I'm district mom
right now, so that's fun), I also went on one with another elder in
the district. They both went pretty good, but you can definitely tell
the difference between a ZL and a missionary that's one transfer
younger than me. Hmm I think that's mostly it for this week. The
language has been picking up pretty good recently. I'm starting to
understand a little bit more, especially with gospel discussions, but
I still get lost a few times. 

Um this week I've been trying to figure

out what makes imperfect past so special. Or I guess when it's
appropriate to use it. I've kind of came to a conclusion. Um also I've
been working on subjunctive, that's a killer, but it's not too bad
once I start to recognize the triggers. I've already got a few down.
Like querer or esperar, to name a few. Oh man what else... I think
that's mainly it. The teaching is good, lots of finding, but I mean
it's all part of the work. Hopefully we'll find some solid people
soon. We got a referral yesterday that looks promising so we'll see
what happens with that. But that's it for this week. Love ya mom, hope
you have a good one!

Elder Baer

Jacob - April 4, 2016

Hey mom, sounds like you had a good week. That's good to hear, this
message probably won't be too long because I wrote you on Thursday,
not a ton has happened since then. Probably the most awesome thing was
conference and talking with a member that goes to an English Ward. His
name was Mark but he has a sweet 65' Impala. I'm going to need some
pictures with it, but he himself is way cool as well. We were able to
connect on a few things like what we've done for work. I told him
about the D.O.T. And he told me about his trucking job and some other
stuff. But we both came to the conclusion that working with a bunch of
other guys can be crazy. Haha, that was a fun chat with him, that was
on Sunday and overall that was one of the best days of my mission.
Conference was so awesome! I could not believe how fast it went, I
really regret how I looked at conference in the past. It truly is a
blessing to have prophets and apostles. There was a ton of good
messages, even Priesthood was super good and how I can better magnify
my calling. Unfortunately I didn't baptize Ethan quite yet, it's
planned for next Sunday because a lot of the members that gave him the
most support were up in Utah for conference. But next week it should
be going down. Anyways I can't think much else to say. I love you mom,
take care.
Elder Baer

Jacob - March 28, 2016

Hey Mom, has it going? Sorry I didn't write Monday, our P-day is today
instead. We had a temple trip and we just finished our session so that
was pretty relaxing. But this past week and a half has been good. The
new area is pretty good. It's definitely not as bad as Elder
Galleguillos made it sound when I talked to him about it. It's super
small though at least compared to my old area, but I like it. We are
on bike and I bought one that is pretty nice. The entire package with
brakes and lights and the bike was like $475. Not too bad since the
bike is really good quality. But I don't think you want to hear about
my bike so I'll get back on topic. Um Elder Fonnesbeck is pretty cool.
He is pretty goal driven which I like and also he is super good at
exercise in the mornings so that's also fun. And he also helps me out
a lot with the Spanish which is sweet. Right now I'm trying to improve
my ability on Subjunctive which is different since there isn't a
English equivalent, but I'm picking up on it. One thing that he said
to me is that my Spanish now is how his Spanish was at one year so
that was a pretty nice compliment. I know I can speak it alright, but
understanding it is still tough. Another thing that happened this week
is that we had a zone meeting on the importance of studies. I need to
change up mine a little bit, but I always love those meetings because
I learn something that I can improve. Oh and the people we're teaching
are doing pretty well. We've been teaching a family that are sweet! I
think they're questions are some of the best I've heard yet and it's
awesome because there is zero hesitancy in them asking them. Super
cool, but so far they like everything they've been hearing. Oh boy I'm
having trouble remembering stuff... Ok one last thing. An investigator
back in SA10 (old area) wants me to baptize him this Sunday! I'll send
some pictures of that to ya soon. But that's pretty much the past week
or so, hopefully it's enough to put in the blog thing. Love ya mom,
you're awesome!

Elder Baer

Jacob - March 21, 2016

Hey everyone! Sorry again for sending out a group email, but I know
for a fact that I'm not going to have a ton of time to write today.
Today is Transfers! I'm changing areas and companions. I'm heading to
Santa Ana 11 West. The same area that my trainer was in before he
moved to Santa Ana 10. He was telling me all about for the last day or
two. People I should try and visit or things to watch out for. I guess
it's pretty much the most ghetto area in The mission so I'm stoked. My
Comp is going to be Elder Fonsbeck. He's been out for quite a while,
but I'm excited because I'm probably going to learn a lot of Spanish
because I won't have a native companion to rely on. Hopefully all will
go well. I'm a little nervous because I want to leave a good
impression, but it'll be hard since I don't speak fluent or anything,
but it'll be ok. Anyways this week was good. My comp and I tried to
keep busy with finding people. Nothing too crazy happened. Spanish is
coming along, I'm doing my best to stay on top of it. I like to read
it. I can understand Tayler and Lexie's emails that they send me, but
speaking it is a little tough. Um what else... Oh we had a talent show
this week that went pretty well. We brought an investigator with us
and also another member brought a date that will soon be an
investigator. But that's all I can think of for now. So I love you
guys and I hope you have a great week.

Jacob - March 14, 2016

Hey everyone, sounds like everyone had a good time listening to
Tayler's homecoming. I know conversion is a big part of the gospel so
that was probably a real good topic. I think each day I become a
little more converted to the gospel and to this work. It's pretty
humbling to go door to door and realize the significance that the
gospel is. There are so many people here that turn us down and they
don't even know what we share. Sometimes I wish people would give us
more chances, but it does make me really appreciate the people that do
give us a shot. But anyways this week was pretty good. We had some
good lessons and found some new people that were excited to work with.
But one part that was pretty disappointing was that our investigator
that wants to get baptized didn't have any time for us this past
week... So he did t get baptized, but hopefully this week we'll get
him. I think a highlight for this week is that we got to have a
,eating with Elder Hamula. That was super cool and shared a lot of
advice how we can become more Christlike and be better consecrated. It
was really good. We also had a good district meeting about using
scriptures in our lessons, that was good as well. But nothing super
new happened this week. Just working everyday, trying to find people
interested in the gospel. My Spanish is going good. If it's a
discussion regarding the gospel I'm pretty good. But if it's small
talk trying to get to know them, it's tough. But it's going well. I've
been reading random scriptures in the Book of Mormon like yesterday I
read 1 Nephi 8 about Lehi's vision. Um I'm not too sure what else to
say, but I got some sweet photos for you guys so stay in tune. Love
you all, I hope you have a great week.

Elder Baer

Jacob - March 7, 2016

Hey mom, that's pretty awesome to see that Tayler is back home. Man it's weird, but I'm not too far behind, considering I've got 5 months already. That went by quick. But this week was pretty good for me. My highlight was definitely Sunday, but I'll save that for the end. Another highlight is that I had an exchange with one of the ZL's. I went to his area and had a lot of fun with him. We started the day out right by playing soccer with another set of missionaries. That was a lot of fun because usually missionaries don't live within the same apartment complex. Plus I knew one of them from my first transfer in the field. With Elder Thornton we had a pretty good day of mostly teaching less actives. Those were pretty good lessons and I understood quite a bit of what was shared. But I had a lot of fun with him and just trying my best to become better by following his example. We also spoke a ton of Spanish, that was nice. But also we found some cool people this week, we'll sort of. We taught some cool people. One is Luis and the other is Jose. Luis is pretty cool cause we're 95% certain he has been taught in the past because he has a picture of the San Diego temple in his home, but he is super open to the message. Also Jose is a teenager we found that has a super tough life, but we're trying to show him how much the gospel can bless him. He's pretty cool, but his story really makes me appreciate what I have... Sometimes I wonder why Heavenly Father decided to bless me with all I have when there are tons of people out there that could be in my shoes. Not sure if I'll ever figure that question out, but anyways. Back to this Sunday. Everything went super well. Testimonies were really good and one of the members shared her testimony in English so that one of my investigators could understand, but man it was powerful. And later in gospel principles I finally had a class where I understood everything, also nice. Later after church we taught Ethan about some of the commandments, also went really well and right after that we watched a baptism with him. But the thing that I'm most excited about is that after the baptism he was going around telling people that he's getting baptized next week. He even told my mission president. So my comp and I are super excited and are probably going to super focus on him this week. But man I can't wait! Anyways hopefully that's enough for this week. I love you mom, hope you enjoy the company of Tayler. Se cuida!

Jacob - February 29, 2016

Hey sorry again that I have to write a group email, hopefully it's not
too bad for all of you. I figure I write usually the same stuff to
everyone anyways. But this week was pretty good. The Spanish is coming
along. I still don't give myself a ton of credit, but I usually pick
up on most things and I can usually figure out certain words by the
way sentences of flow, so that's improving as well. I think I mainly
need to work on teaching simpler with better verbs, probably also my
ability to conjugate. But so far so good, can't really complain about.
I just barely read Tayler's email, granted there were words I didn't
know, but I understood everything, so that's pretty cool. Also I make
more jokes now since I can understand people, so people are starting
to like me more. Um this week for teaching was good, we were able to
find some people we've been struggling to get a hold of, we also found
some new people were going to teach tonight or later this week. I'm
pretty excited about them because they seemed to have genuine
interest. We passed a super cool family this week to English, the
Vargas Family. Man their sweet, we have a visit with them tomorrow to
help them switch over to English. Also we have another kid who is
progressing really well. Yesterday we taught him the law of chastity
and how he has to move out, he was super ok with it and took
everything really well. He's got a date for the the 13th of March, but
he has a lot of distractions going on right now that we're concerned
about so be sure to pray for him. Other investigators are doing well,
I think the toughest part is just not seeing people do commitments
because I see them as blessings, but they see it as wasting time or
something. I just wish people could change their minds a little bit.
But also the packet on the atonement is super good. I really like the
several messages that I've been able to read. One of the things that
caught my mind is that we need to be submissive when it comes to
making change. I know all of us want to change for the better, but
Heavenly Father is only going to help us if we are willing to follow
his will. I guess it's something to think about. Ok last thing, we had
a service and school called el modelo or "Elmo" we did a blood drive
and it was pretty chill. Um I can't really think of much else to say.
Les Amo! Que Tengan un buena semana! Yo espero que ustedes tengan un
gran tiempo cuando Tayler llegue. Se cuidan!

Elder Baer





Here's some pics for you guys. The reason we're wearing sweats is
because of a rule that wasn't being very I forced, but president
thought it was time to re I force it. It's not too bad, but I'm just
waiting till it's actually summer. But following the lord equals
blessings so it's define toy worth it. I think Mosiah 4:9 fits it
pretty well. We may not understand the purpose of some commandments,
but the lord does, so we just need to be obedient and trust in him. I
think that goes for a lot more than just this no shorts rule. Oh and
the shirts are from the blood drive we went to earlier this week. Well
that's it for today. Love you guys and take care!

Tayler - March 1, 2016

HE'S HOME! After 2 years of faithful service, Tayler has returned home from the Buenos Aires, Argentian South mission. There are few moments as precious as this one for a mother. I am so proud of Tayler, for his service to the Lord, his service to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, to the people in Argentina, and for the personal growth he experienced while there. He left a 19 year old boy and has returned a man. Watch out world, he has much to contribute! I love you, Tayler.