Hey family, this past week was good. I also enjoyed talking with you
all this past Sunday, good to see and hear that everything is going
good. This past week was just another working week. There were a lot
of little cool things, but nothing too crazy. I know that it'll be
different this transfer than how the last one went. There's a few new
missionaries in the district, we all get along, it's just different
with the different personalities. Our investigators are doing so-so.
Some read and pray really well, but they haven't been coming to church
so we are trying to work on that. We'll probably try getting members
to offer rides to them and see where that goes. This week we also had
President Interviews. That went well, I've been trying to work on
Humility these past few days and so I asked him what advice he had
about it. He mentioned a talk called "Beware of Pride" by Ezra TaftBenson, It's a good one. I've also been reading a few other talks and
trying to understand it better so that I know what I can do to improve
it. That's probably the big thing that stood out from the week.
Everything else has been teaching and finding. But it was a good week
to start of the transfer. We found some new people that we are excited
to work with, one of them we'll be seeing tonight. I can't really
think of much else to say.. Everything is going good and smoothly so I
don't have much to say. But I love you all and hope you have a great
week!
Elder Baer
Sunday, May 28, 2017
Jacob - May 8, 2017
Hey family, I'm going to go a head and jump into how my week went. I'm
not sure if i'll have a lot to write about, but I'lll do my best. This
week was another normal week. Lot's of finding and teaching. On
tuesday I had an exchange where another elder named elder Reinsch came
to my area and we were able to have a really good day. We taught some
super good lessons and had lots of success. Wednesday was just another
working day. Thursday we had zone conference which was really good.
They announced some new changes to the mission, well they've actually
been in play for a while, but our mission wasn't told for some reason.
Anyways zone meetings aren't a thing anymore because we have zone
conferences every transfer, so that'll be interesting. Since I'm a
district leader I usually prepare the district meeting outlines and
what we discuss, but I might use the zone leaders more so that they
can provide training as well. During the zone conference we learned
about following the spirit to help discern and resolve other people's
concerns, how to extend appropriate and powerful commitments (PMG
chapter 11), and also about helping other over come addictions/
addictive behaviors. It was a really cool zone conference and our
mission president used a really cool analogy to the first vision about
overcoming those shortcomings. Just how when Joseph smith was being
overcome by satan during his prayer, he prayed more earnestly and put
all his focus and effort in his pray to god, then he was liberated.
Pretty cool connection. On friday we just weekly planned and taught a
few lessons. We have a lot of people we are working with, but it's
hard to catch people home and some aren't doing their commitments very
well, but we just keep working, trying to help these people out. This
week's district meeting is about "how to begin teaching" so that'll
probably help us out in our teaching, making sure people understand
our purpose. Saturday was another work day and so was Sunday. But
something cool was that there was a Recent Convert and an Investigator
that shared their testimonies and it was super powerful. They both
shared some super cool things and the spirit was really powerful.
Overall that was my week, another good one. I hope you all have a good
one. I love you all and I'll talk to you this next Sunday.
(Me, eating a Papusa, Soooo Gooood!!!!)
not sure if i'll have a lot to write about, but I'lll do my best. This
week was another normal week. Lot's of finding and teaching. On
tuesday I had an exchange where another elder named elder Reinsch came
to my area and we were able to have a really good day. We taught some
super good lessons and had lots of success. Wednesday was just another
working day. Thursday we had zone conference which was really good.
They announced some new changes to the mission, well they've actually
been in play for a while, but our mission wasn't told for some reason.
Anyways zone meetings aren't a thing anymore because we have zone
conferences every transfer, so that'll be interesting. Since I'm a
district leader I usually prepare the district meeting outlines and
what we discuss, but I might use the zone leaders more so that they
can provide training as well. During the zone conference we learned
about following the spirit to help discern and resolve other people's
concerns, how to extend appropriate and powerful commitments (PMG
chapter 11), and also about helping other over come addictions/
addictive behaviors. It was a really cool zone conference and our
mission president used a really cool analogy to the first vision about
overcoming those shortcomings. Just how when Joseph smith was being
overcome by satan during his prayer, he prayed more earnestly and put
all his focus and effort in his pray to god, then he was liberated.
Pretty cool connection. On friday we just weekly planned and taught a
few lessons. We have a lot of people we are working with, but it's
hard to catch people home and some aren't doing their commitments very
well, but we just keep working, trying to help these people out. This
week's district meeting is about "how to begin teaching" so that'll
probably help us out in our teaching, making sure people understand
our purpose. Saturday was another work day and so was Sunday. But
something cool was that there was a Recent Convert and an Investigator
that shared their testimonies and it was super powerful. They both
shared some super cool things and the spirit was really powerful.
Overall that was my week, another good one. I hope you all have a good
one. I love you all and I'll talk to you this next Sunday.
(Me, eating a Papusa, Soooo Gooood!!!!)
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Jacob - May 1, 2017
Hey everyone, this week went well. To be honest it was just a lot of
finding and teaching, but it went well. We have a good teaching pool
and we are excited about the people we have. I had the opportunity to
go on exchange this Tuesday with elder beyhmer, we were in his area
and had a good amount of success. We had a really cool miracle where
we went to visit a member at about 4:15 and we had dinner at 5:00. The
member we were visiting decided to give us food even though we told
her we had a dinner soon. So we ate there because you can't say no to
Hispanics and the food was really good. We then went to dinner to find
out that the family wasn't there so our dinner pretty much cancelled.
But fortunately we were able to eat a little bit and were fine for the
rest of the night. Pretty cool, small way to see the hand of God. This
Wednesday we had a zone meeting on chapter 10 of PMG (how to improve
teaching skills). That was really good and using scriptures was
emphasized a lot, which is also cool because later in the week we saw
a less active with the coolest scripture marking organization I've
ever seen. I'll share with you a pic, it's hard to explain so
hopefully this picture helps. Thursday, Friday & Saturday were just
working days, I can't recall what to mention about them, Sunday though
was super sweet! We went to our ward for 5th Sunday, I guess that's
not out of ordinary, I can't remember if Ely did this, but every 5th
Sunday is missionary Sunday, so we had talks about missionary work and
also the doctrine of Christ. It was super cool. After sacrament we
went to another ward so my comp. could do a confirmation there. Turns
out though there was a visiting seventy, elder weatherford t. Clayton,
he spoke in this last session of general conference. So he was there,
elder Acosta was there (an area seventy), our mission President,
president Taggart and his wife was there and also the Spanish stake
presidency and many high council members. Pretty crazy, my comp was
nervous to do the confirmation in front of them all, but did great.
But we got to hear from elder Clayton and during it he had translators
for his talk, but when he gave his testimony he had the them him go
sit down. He said his testimony In English, but it was so powerful, so
firm and with lots of conviction, idk how someone can't not be a
member after hearing it. Super cool experience. Anyways that's pretty
much my week this week. Love you all! Take care!
finding and teaching, but it went well. We have a good teaching pool
and we are excited about the people we have. I had the opportunity to
go on exchange this Tuesday with elder beyhmer, we were in his area
and had a good amount of success. We had a really cool miracle where
we went to visit a member at about 4:15 and we had dinner at 5:00. The
member we were visiting decided to give us food even though we told
her we had a dinner soon. So we ate there because you can't say no to
Hispanics and the food was really good. We then went to dinner to find
out that the family wasn't there so our dinner pretty much cancelled.
But fortunately we were able to eat a little bit and were fine for the
rest of the night. Pretty cool, small way to see the hand of God. This
Wednesday we had a zone meeting on chapter 10 of PMG (how to improve
teaching skills). That was really good and using scriptures was
emphasized a lot, which is also cool because later in the week we saw
a less active with the coolest scripture marking organization I've
ever seen. I'll share with you a pic, it's hard to explain so
hopefully this picture helps. Thursday, Friday & Saturday were just
working days, I can't recall what to mention about them, Sunday though
was super sweet! We went to our ward for 5th Sunday, I guess that's
not out of ordinary, I can't remember if Ely did this, but every 5th
Sunday is missionary Sunday, so we had talks about missionary work and
also the doctrine of Christ. It was super cool. After sacrament we
went to another ward so my comp. could do a confirmation there. Turns
out though there was a visiting seventy, elder weatherford t. Clayton,
he spoke in this last session of general conference. So he was there,
elder Acosta was there (an area seventy), our mission President,
president Taggart and his wife was there and also the Spanish stake
presidency and many high council members. Pretty crazy, my comp was
nervous to do the confirmation in front of them all, but did great.
But we got to hear from elder Clayton and during it he had translators
for his talk, but when he gave his testimony he had the them him go
sit down. He said his testimony In English, but it was so powerful, so
firm and with lots of conviction, idk how someone can't not be a
member after hearing it. Super cool experience. Anyways that's pretty
much my week this week. Love you all! Take care!
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