Baer Missionaries: Lexie

It was an eventful week! I ate an iguana! More on that later lol. So he had intercambios and I headed to another area. That is always super weird to work in another area but it is the hermanas that are in our ward too so I know most of the people that they are teaching from church! The other day I was showing my compaion how lizzy blows on her food (spits on her food lol) and it was in the wind and so I actually spit all over my companion lol. It was sooo funny. Then I almost fell on my face this week. It was one of those times where your face is super close to the ground and your feet are up in the air behind you lol. But no worries. Nothing happened! My shoes are starting to die though. the black super comfy ones the heel is starting to feel away. You know the fabric part? Anyways, hopefully they will last!

Ok now for the iguana. Pictures are coming. I told one of the members that I wanted to try iguana becuase they are starting to make them a lot right now because they all are running around pregnant and I guess the eggs are really tasty. Anyways, we were eating with the bishop and got a call from this hermano and he said he had iguana for me! I thought that ment cooked.... but nope! He caught one in the street and brought it over lol. We took pictures with it, my comp refused to touch it lol. Anyways, 2 days later I ate it! Eggs and all! It tasted like chicken but the texture is kind of weird. And the eggs were actually super delicious. So that was kind of cool. I have no eaten iguana!

Next is our trip to Tuxtla. We left at one in the morning saturday and got home at 11 at night. It was such a long day. 12 hours in a bus! Blahhh! But anywyas, me compaion and I travled in our matching shirts that we got made becuase we are super cool. We made goodie bags for our district. Complete with rice crispys that I made! Arent we just the most mormony mormons you ever did meet! Anyways, the conference was amazing. Elder walker and Elder Oaks. elder walker is a 70 That is from Argentina so now I know kind of Tayler is going to talk. His accent is super wierd! But he is living in Mexico right now and his talk was great. He talked about how preach my gospel is the culture of the church. He shared how sometimes people feel like we are trying to americanize them when we teach the gospel but the gospel culture is the same in every part of the world. It was a really good talk. But then all the REALLY good stuff came when Elder Oaks talked. It was so fun to listen to him. He had someone there to translate but it was nice to hear him speak and share in English. He shared a lot of things but I think that thing that impressed me most was when he shared about the sacrament. They say a lot in the church that we always need to be looking towards the next ordinance, but what is the next ordinance? It comes every single week. It helepd a lot with some questions we have had in teaching and made me have the desire to study more about the atonement this week. I started today and already cant believe the things I am learning about something that I have known my whole life. There is a part in Preach my gospel that elder walker shared that said as we come to learn and understand the atonement we will have a greater desire to do missionary work and share this message. I want the strongest desire I can have to serve so I am going to continue to study and learn more. I read a story about the atonement this week that I really liked. If i can find it I will send it your way.

I will send more on that in a second if I can find it but I hope you have an awesome week and I hope you are online a little more in a second! lots of pictures coming your way! Love you!

Love, Hermana Baer

Our district with our zone leader Elder Puentes. He is headed home this week! so sad, he is awesome. He always says, Que padre la verdad. So we got him a shirt made. Because we all know I love tshirts.