It was absolutely WONDERFUL to see you! I cannot even believe that the next time will be in person. Isnt time just flying by? So good news, we get to go see the waterfall today! I will take lots of pictures and send them next week. I sure hope morgans call gets here and that Jake gets those papers in quick! I am soooo anxious! I hope I didn’t make anyone feel bad while I was talking yesterday about the converts in ely. I felt like I was kind of scolding everyone. But make sure you find out who they are! I cannot even tell you the difference in missionary work when we as members do our part! If we all did missionary work like we should the church would explode. It is something I have to change when I get home. Invite the missionaries to bring someone over for Family Home evening. Ask them if there is someone that you could help them with. Maybe stop by and bring them to church on Sundays. Something! They always need help. I know one of the reasons heavenly Father needed me to come on a mission wasn’t necessarily for all the people here but also for all the people that I will be around at home. I am already forming in my brain how to get friends and those I love to listen to the message of the restored gospel. Everyone needs the gospel and we should always be thinking of the ways to present it to them. Invite them over for Family home evening! Something.
My companion in Tapachula Hermana Agustin told me one time that her dad is the Bishop in her ward and whenever couples or families came to him with problems that were going on he asked them three questions. Are you praying as a family and personaly? Are you reading the BOM daily? Are you having FHE every week? And if they said no to any of those things he told them that he wasn’t the answer to their problems. The answer was in those three things. He would tell them to go home and do those 3 things and them let him know if they still needed help with anything. I was thinking a lot about that the other day and about our investigadors that struggle to keep commitments in order to be baptized, but what about us? How are we going to share the gospel when we aren’t living it completely? There is so much I have to change when I get home and hopefully we will be able to make those changes in our family together. There is a promise in the page two of preach my gospel that says that as we come to really understand and use the atonement in our lives we will have desires so strong to share the gospel with other people. So if we don’t have the desire or we are scared to share, learn more! Especially about the atonement and how it blessed our lives. Think about how it has blessed your life and then about all the people that you know that don’t understand it and that don’t have full access to the atonement like we do.
It really is amazing what happens to our hearts as we start to really live what we believe. I love you TONS mom! I know we have an amazing family that I am so blessed to be a part of but I want to be sure that my family is together for all eternity, and we need to help each other in order for that to happen! Thank you for always strengthening my testimony and helping me to be better and for supporting my decision to serve a mission. I am so blessed and I love you so much!
Love, Hermana Baer
Me with the Iguana. You cant see it very well, but its tail is sticking out the bottom
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