Tayler - October 20, 2014

Well we have had a good week this week. we have been working with a man named Eduardo and it is going really good with him the only problem is he is kind of crazy and we have to really go over things a lot for him to understand. also we found a part member inactive family the other day and they are super awesome too we taught them the restoration an the mom told us she wants to come back to church so hopefully they do next week. also yesterday it was mothers day in argentina because they do everything weird here so happy mothers day from argentina. and yesterday our branch president came up to us before sacrament meeting and told us we were talking in sacrament meeting so we prepared talks really fast and then they told us not to worry about it because a bunch of people were going to bare testimonies because we got a new branch president but he doesnt even live in our area so thats kind of weird he lives like 20 miles away. also it has been getting very hot and humid here so it is really tiring to walk around all day but its something that we have to do. other than that i dont have anything else about my week. I love you


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Lexie - September 22, 2014

So this week went pretty good. Really fast which usually means we worked a lot. Always nice! yesterday it rained buckets and buckets. We were up in a different area eating lunch with a member and its all dirt roads. So we walked through the mud to where the collectivo stop is and were soaking wet. Then we started the trek down to the main road. We were plowing through so much water lol. My companion was freaking out but I just felt like I was at home. Goodness knows why I know so many people that enjoy getting their trucks stuck lol. Anyways it was super fun. We got to the main road and there was a huge line of cars because there was a dip in the road with a river going through it. I cant even explain how much water there was. So crazy. But we finally made it home! Our house was like a cockroach cemetary this week. We killed so many (I love raid it is the best thing ever) But neither of us like cleaning them up so they were just dead all over the house. Goodness I hate those things. My comp found one in the bathroom upstairs (alive for the moment) and she screamed so loud I thought there was a dang python in the house. But no, just a cockroach. I sure dont like them but they freak me out a little less now.


I also finished the Book of Mormon today. Wow what an accomplishment and how crazy to think it only took me like 3 months to read the whole thing. I cannot even explain the amount of power there is in that book. What Joseph Smith says in the begining is so true, a man will get closer to god by reading this book than any other book on this earth. I love that promise. And I cant believe how much stronger my testimony is now. We had the opportunity to teach a guy this week who works one of the gaurd shacks for a priviate area near our house. he is extremely religious and reads the bible every day in his gaurd shack. My companion was little harsh with him and it was turing into more of a fight than a sharing the gospel moment and I dont like that at all. I still dont understand everything but I decided I was going to introduce the BOM. I cant even explain how the whole mood of the lesson changed. I absolutely love that we arent here to shove this message down peoples throats. Its not our purpose. Our purpose is to invite others to come unto christ. And what better way than through the BOM. Anyways, I invited him to read it and he agreed.I think he actually will because he likes studying so much. So well see what he thinks in our next lesson but it all depends on if he asks god if its true with a sincere heart. Because I have no doubt in my mind that if someone really wants to know this book is true and reads and ponders it they are going to know. Without a doubt of the truthfullness of this book and of the gospel. I am feeling so much better and more confident this week. The spanish is coming. I was reading through our practice book we used at the MTC and I cant believe how much I have learned. I have loved that I can actually communicate a little with the members and our investigators. Every day feels better. I gave a note book to a lady in our ward that cooks amazing food for her to write down her recipies! So ill keep that up during the mission so we can eat some real delicious food when I get home! Ohhh and we had pazole 2x this week and oh my gosh I love that stuff. Soooooo much. Anyways. Thats about it this week. It went quicky! Thank goodness! Cant believe how happy I am and how absolutely tired also! lol. Love you tons and I hope you have a good week!

Tayler - October 13, 2014

well we had a good week here too. mostly because of what happened last night we went to visit a sister that isnt member but goes to church every sunday for like the last five years. and when we got there she told us that she was praying for us to come but she didnt have our number to call us. so we were able to give here the blessing that she needed and after she showed us tons of pictures of her grandaughter who served her mission on temple square. and she got married a few months ago and lives in idaho now so that was kind of fun to see all those pictures. and then we went to visit some other members and when we got there they were at their daughters house next door and we talked to the daughters husband that has never talked to the missionaries before wich is weird because here all of the part member families always have been taught by the missionaries before but we found this man and probably have a good chance of helping him get baptized along with their daughter and we can activate the wife all at the same time wich is cool. but yeah my area is really big we have to take a bus like 20 minutes to get to church and lots of it is pretty poor. but there is a train station in my area and by the train stations here there is always a ton of stores and stuff to buy so thats kind of fun to go look at all the cool stuff to buy. but its all good here so far i havent been robbed so thats good and the other day the nephew of one of the members in my other area started talking to me but i didnt recognize him but he told me he was their nephew and he lived there so that was a cool coincidence. but yeah its a good area its only a branch so church is kind of stressfull sometimes but its good. Well thats all i think. i love you


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Lexie - October 6, 2014

Hola!
Como esta la madre mas maravillosa en todo el mundo!? Conference was great! Even if it was in spanish lol. Not going to lie I didnt understand much because it is so hard to concentrate for that long on the language. But what I did understand was really great! I am not going to lie I am feeling a little bit hate for spanish deep in my soul but Ill just keep working on it. I have to learn it! So last week I ate a chocobana! Just a banana dipped in chocolate and all cold and such and wow was that delicious. So prepare yourself for those when I get home! We went to the temple but missed the session.... sad deal. So we did initatories. They made us take our bras off? Is that normal? I can remember but I thought it was super weird. After that our president and his wife took us out to dinner and today we are goig with them to see the canyon here! I am so excited I will send pictures next week! He is so awesome. Glad to here everything is ok with taylers mission president. How crazy is that! So I go the best compliment of my life this week. Someone told me I am fat but I have a small face. Gosh people are blunt here lol. So my self esteem is through the roof right now! NOT: gosh dang it I am gaining weight and it makes me so mad. But oh well. Lets hope I am some where rediculously hot for my last area! I listened to a little bit of the john bythe way that i have on the ipod this week and he quoted something from a conference that I LOVED He said that nothing is going to suprise us more when we get to heaven than how well we know our Heavenly Father and how framliar his face is to us. How cool is that. I have realized that prayers are the most important thing here and that our prayers should never be something we have to do but something we want to do in every moment of the day. I ahve been trying to get better about having a prayer in my heart in the lesson and walking in the street to help me out here. Because honestly it is our relationship wit God that is the most important.

Tayler - October 6, 2014

Yeah conference was good i really enjoyed that they allowed the leaders to speak in their native language so it was cool to hear that in spanish. conference is not quite as good when its translated because you cant here the power in their voices but the talks that were in spanish you could here it. and yes i like president uchtdorfs tak too, also i like president eyrings talk about the personal revalation and i think it was elder hales to about the prophet and stuff like that those were my favorites and i also liked that talk about the 4 things that we can doto help our families 1. family pray, 2. scripture study 3. family home evening 4. temple attendence. i know that we didnt really do the best job at those things but i feel like i should tell you that if you and jake do them together it will be a blessing in our family and i donk know its just a sugestion that you could have family home evening with jake on the weekend or something and could invite dad over to so he can be involved i think that would be awesome. I have learned here that we can learn all we want but if we dont apply those things in our lives we will never gain the blessings from them. Well thats what i learned in conference and we also had 2 investigators go with us so that was cool they really enjoyed it too. And yeah it was pretty crazy that president robertson got kidnapped and it happened in the stake next to the stake that i am in right now but its good that he is ok. he has been having these problems recently he also gt his car robbed a month back i think but i am glad that he is ok. He is a cool guy very nice. Well i think thats all i got for this week. I love you


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Lexie - September 29, 2014

Hey mom,
Package arrived! Thank you lol. People get packages all the time so I am pretty sure all is well with sending stuff here. I dont think there is as much a problem here as in argentina. Dang it with football. I am sure jacob is pretty bummed. Dang it. Hopefully they can work through it and he has a fun last year still. so weird that it is his last year. I am already excited for him and keaton and morgan to start getting their mission calls. Its coming up fast! This week was.... well.. It was alright I guess. We had a conference with presdent george that was very exicting. Gosh he is so awesome, I am so blessed to have him here. He talks like ely folk and is just so relaxed its awesome! Anyways, drum roll please..... we have permission to go to the temple!!!! I am soooo excited! So we have to change half of our p day because the temple is closed on mondays. So today after lunch were going to work instead so that we can go to a session this week. I am soooo excited even though it is going to be ridiculously hard in spanish. Oh well! We have permission to go once every cambio if we are here in Tuxtla close to the temple. We also took one of our investigadors to the foyer of the temple this week for a lesson. Its so cool to have lesson in there. So hopefully it helps her out a little bit. Her mom and sister were baptized about 3 months ago but she is just not feeling it. So well keep working on that. Last monday was interesting. We made cookies at a members house all day long (the truth is they were awful cookies lol) my comp doesnt know anything about cooking so we were just putting ingredients in a bowl till it looked good and baked them at who knows what templerature till they looked done. Yeah, so that didnt go to well ha. Anyways, this week was good and honestly I am just really looking forward to going to the temple this week. Ill let you know who it goes! oh! Also we have permission to take our converts to do baptism. The deal is though that we have to take our own names in order to go. I am not sure if we have any family names or anything I know grandma is pretty on top of getting all of that work done but if you could check on that for me that would be awesome! Oh also we started handing out last week to our investigadors progress record things for reading the book of mormon. We found a cool one. Anyways, one of our investigadors that is 11 I think read 14 chapters and explained them all to us. it was so awesome! So it worked for quite a few people! Yay! I hope you have an awesome week, I am glad grandma and grandpa could come visit. I love you tons and I will talk to you again soon!

Love, Hermana Baer

Tayler - September 29, 2014

Hey this week i finally got transfered to an area called Laferrere 2 so thats pretty cool. And my companion is from canada so he speaks english and he only got to this area 2 weeks ago so we are learning the area together. The area is huge it used to have 2 companionships but now there is only one and we had a baptism yesterday because they just closed the other area so we inherited the investigators of the other elders and we met the lady on wendsday and we baptized her yesterday so it was kind of weird but it was kind of a cool experience. Well i guess the weather here is the opposite of home it is starting to heat up here because summer is coming its going to be weird to have summer in december. Thats too bad to hear about Jake game. Well i am not sure what else to tell you i have had a good week and i feel like i have a new energy to work in my new area. I love you


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