Hey mom, that's awesome to hear about Jessica! I wish I could of been there for it, but it's all good. My Spanish is coming along fine and it probably is better than 2 weeks ago, but at the same time it's a little frustrating sometimes because I want to help, but the language barrier Is the only thing stopping me. But I'm trying to stay patient. That's something that a lot of missionaries have told me to do. I did the attribute of Christ activity and in PMG and I kind of learned that I'm pretty patient with others, but not so much with myself and that I don't give myself much credit for the Spanish I do know. So idk it's something I'm going to work on. But anyways nothing super crazy happened this week, but I did have some cool experiences. Saturday this week was Exchange day so my companion was Elder Seibold for the day. He is another missionary in my district and was Elder Galleguillos (my trainer) old companion. He has been out for about 6 months in his mission and he gives me a lot of hope because he knows the language pretty well for not being out too long. I hope that I can know the language as well as he does by the time I'm a couple months in the field. But anyways we had a ton of success when we were finding/teaching. I think that day we had about 6 or 7 lessons. Granted the lessons weren't super informative, all we did was share Christmas videos with people and teach about Christ. We even had the help of a member for some of the lessons. But I learned a pretty important lesson from that experience about planning. The Night before I was super tired when I was trying to plan cause it was like 11 at night. (Missionaries generally stay up way late on exchange night so don't worry) but anyways I told Elder Seibold that I was just going to plan the rest tomorrow. He thought it was the smart thing to do because if we're tired were not thinking about investigators rather we think about trying to hurry up and finish. The other reason is that the spirit isn't really guiding us when we are too tired to think. So I went to bed and finished the planning the next day. But it turns out the area I chose to tract in was having a giant neighborhood yard sale. So there was people everywhere in the streets. We had a lot of success just talking and sharing our message with everybody. We even got a free taco from one of the vendors, but elder Seibold was smart and thought we should buy it with a Christmas video, it worked out pretty well. But it just reaffirmed what elder Seibold told me the night before. Because if I did plan the night before maybe I wouldn't of chose that area to tract in.. So that was my experience with planning for this week. And another good experience happened yesterday (Monday). We had zone conference and had the opportunity to listen to Elder Dube, a member of the seventy. He gave a great message that was very helpful. He spoke a lot on missionary work and the overall theme was that this work isn't about us, rather it is about the Lord. President Taggart also spoke at the conference about consecration and his message was really good as well. All the talks focused on missionary work. I learned a lot and I know I got some room for improvement so I hope to remember the words which were spoken and do my best to apply them to me. Um those were probably the most memorable things this week, but me and Elder G also had some pretty good lessons last night. One was with Miguel and Gloria, they are some of our progressing investigators. They are doing well but they just need to study on their own and they would be golden. They feel the spirit during our lessons and they even commented on it a few lessons ago. I hope they make the decision to be baptized soon.. But anyways I think that was my week. Oh wait last night we didn't have a dinner appointment so we watched the Christmas devotional while we ate at home. I don't remember a ton since I was cooking while listening, but I did like elder bednar's on Christ's birth. Ok now I think that's mostly everything. Anyways I love you mom, I hope you have an awesome week. I'll try and ha some pictures later today, but we'll see.
Love, Elder Baer
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