Monday, July 6, 2015
Tayler - June 1, 2015
So yeah its nice that it is cooling down here in argentina now the only problem is that this is the rainy time of the year and i am in the absolute worst area for rain because there are maybe like 3 or 4 paved streets in my area and when it rains it makes a lot of mud and it is not that fun to walk around in that because it gets really slippery but thats ok. So this week we had stake conference and my mission president came and the temple president and also one of the seventies. They talked a lot on saturday about haveing family home evenings and stuff like that for the family and on sunday about missionary work, temple work, and about that sabbath day they were all really good talks i enjoyed it a lot. Also we found out last night that on wednsday my comp is getting transfered so i will be recieving a new comp this week i will let you know who it is next week. And thats about all that happend this week, we are teaching this one girl who is the girlfriend of a member and she is awesome and is a sure baptism for june so we are excited for that should be a good month. I cant beleive may is already over the time is flying by i feel like it was like christmas yesterday and now we are almost halfway throught the year. I love you mom and i got your card for easter and my birthday card they were very nice thank you.
Love Elder Baer
Lexie - May 25, 2015
Hey everyone.
I am writing a together email today. We dont have tons of time. This morning we FINALLY bought gas, so dad if you want to send me money for that I wouldnt mind at all! lol jk. But the guys brought the gas and we didnt have the right hook up so he said he would go by it and be back in an hour. Well...... 3 hours later. Holy smokes my monday time is precious! So I have been way more than stressed out all day long but I guess that is kind of the story of my life.
The funny story this week comes from the table at the bishops house where we ate on Friday. I have officially ate the worst thing of my entire mission. I couldnt even believe it lol. So they served us the food and then sat in front of us on the couch. They never eat with us and it is super uncomfortable. So our food was meat and rice and there were some tortillas in front of us. So I made myself a little taco and took a bit and really smelt the food and then really started looking at the food when I realized I was not eating real meat. So I somehow got it all down holding my breath. This stuff had tubes to other organs and all sort sof nast crazy. There was a whitish part that was semi crunchy and I wanted to die. Leaving the house I said to my companion, what did I just eat? She said it definatley was tongue but she didnt know what else. She thought it was liver but said that it wasnt so we asked another member later in the day and they said the white stuff is ear cartlidge. Ear?? What in the world! and who knows what in the heck the other stuff was, it is probably better that I dont know. Funny story of the week.
In other news, we are starting a new transfer today and I will be with Hermana Fuentes again. Honestly other than the begining of my mission this has been the hardest transfer yet. We have one person that is sort of progressing and I feel like I have wasted 6 weeks and it frustrates me to no end. I feel like I am not being the best I can be and anyways... this week was really hard. I wasnt myself and I was just stressed out in every single moment. I started reading my journal that I kept when I started the mission and it helped me a lot, along with a lot of prayers to help pull me out of my weird lexie depression. Anyways, reading was really good for me. It made me realize the changes that have happened in me in this year. I think as missionaries we always want to be better, we always want results, and we always want to do things in the right way. I had to take a step back this week and realize that I cant be perfect. I should always try to be better but I shouldnt push myself down for not doing everything exactly perfect. Mom you mentioned that you are going to share about faith this week in your class. We always say that faith is action, but something more that I have learned is that a lot of people say they have faith because they believe in christ. Like you said, faith and believing are different and its true. Faith isnt just believing that Christ exists, it is believing in the promises that he has made us and the sacrifes that he made for us as well. When i read your letter I thought about the different between testimony and conversion. It is osmething I like to talk about with the members. I know I have mentioned it before but look in the bible dictionary at the difference between testimony and conversion, because I believe that someone that is really excersizing their faith is someone converted to the gospel. Everything goes hand in hand. I will try to think of something more while I am writing.
Anyways, I think that is it, this week was super hard and I am a little nervous and down about this next transfer but I have been praying all week for Heavnly Father to help me accept whatever answer he sent for transfers and the answer is that we are staying together another transfer and He knows why much better than I do. I trust Him, and I know that the trails, areas, and people we meet all mean something. Nothing is by chance. I love you all and hope you have a great week. Talk to you soon.
Love, Hermana Baer
Tayler - May 25, 2015
Wow that is cool that Morgan is going to Russia who would have thought, i wonder where jacob is going to get called could be anywhere. So this week was actually pretty hot. It was in like the high 70s almost all week and then on saturday it rained and sunday was cold so i think from here on out its going to be cold until summer. But that is ok for me its easier to work in the cold than in the hot so i am excited the only problem is that in the winter it gets dark ealier and nobody is outside so it is harder to find people to teach but whatever every day has its challenges. And to answer your question, i think you are absolutely right about faith it needs and action. There is a section in preach my gospel about faith in chapter 6 and in one place it says faith is a power that we have to be able to make miracles happen. Also this tuesday in our district meeting we talked a lot about faith, hope, charity and love wich are all kind of interconnected and i found a scripture in Jacob 2:19 that talks about having hope in Jesus Christ that comes from faith and we will have the means to be able to help others. I dont know faith to me is a very big part of the gospel and for that reason Jesus taught that before anything we need to have faith that is why it is the first principle of the gospel, articles of faith 4. And with faith brings repentance and everything else in the gospel. So yeah it happens a lot in the mission where people say they beleive us but they never really do anything they are missing the action but the people that actually do the things that we ask them to do are the ones who progress because they are the ones who put their faith to the test they are the ones who had the desires to know and beleived that they would recieve an answer, 1 Nefi 11:1. So that is what i have to say about the faith hopefeully it helped a little. But you are right faith is more than beleiving it is acting on what you beleive. I love you mom and i will talk to you next week.
Love Elder Baer
Monday, June 1, 2015
Lexie - May 18, 2015
Hola Medusa!
Holy smokes your life is about as crazy as mine! It was a good week, still struggling to find those new people but honestly the members here are awesome, I dont think I have ever felt so loved. One of the members is taking us shopping fo rmexican clothes today! Woohooo! I am going to take advantage of her being there and she can buy my stuff so it is cheaper. They always make me pay more than I should! Her name is hermana Kenny! Then yesterday we were invited to ward council and shared a could ideas to help with the missionary work and the counselor in the bishop bric was all sorts of happy with me. It felt good to be loved! Sometimes I miss that about being close to family, especially you. You always tell me a look pretty or that my ideas are good, even when its a lie hahaha. But seriously this ward is awesome. We went last week to see el chiflon! Seriously one of the most beautiful places i have ever seen. Its 5 waterfalls but the gigantic one is the third and the other 2 are way on top and we didnt have a ton of time so we stopped at the gigantic one. But it was amazing. After I drank water straight out of a cocunt then they cut it in half stuck some lime and chili on the cocunt to eat. Mmmmm delicious!
This week I have really gotten myself kicked in gear with my studying. I learned some awesome stuff. Rigth now I am in Alma where all the lamanites are being converted. It amazes me how many times it says that their faith is greater than any of the nephites! Crazy huh. Anyways, I love ch. 24 with the lamanites come to kill the anti-nephi-lehies and they start praying and a bunch of them are killed. When I share this chapter with teenagers I always make it a super big deal, can you imagine a bunch of crazies coming at you and kneeling instead of running? Kind of blows my mind. Anyways, it was a good week. And this is the last week of the transfer! It went by sooooooo fast!
I think that is about it! I love you tons! Have a fantastic crazy week and keep me updated on missionaries!
Love, Hermana Baer
Holy smokes your life is about as crazy as mine! It was a good week, still struggling to find those new people but honestly the members here are awesome, I dont think I have ever felt so loved. One of the members is taking us shopping fo rmexican clothes today! Woohooo! I am going to take advantage of her being there and she can buy my stuff so it is cheaper. They always make me pay more than I should! Her name is hermana Kenny! Then yesterday we were invited to ward council and shared a could ideas to help with the missionary work and the counselor in the bishop bric was all sorts of happy with me. It felt good to be loved! Sometimes I miss that about being close to family, especially you. You always tell me a look pretty or that my ideas are good, even when its a lie hahaha. But seriously this ward is awesome. We went last week to see el chiflon! Seriously one of the most beautiful places i have ever seen. Its 5 waterfalls but the gigantic one is the third and the other 2 are way on top and we didnt have a ton of time so we stopped at the gigantic one. But it was amazing. After I drank water straight out of a cocunt then they cut it in half stuck some lime and chili on the cocunt to eat. Mmmmm delicious!
This week I have really gotten myself kicked in gear with my studying. I learned some awesome stuff. Rigth now I am in Alma where all the lamanites are being converted. It amazes me how many times it says that their faith is greater than any of the nephites! Crazy huh. Anyways, I love ch. 24 with the lamanites come to kill the anti-nephi-lehies and they start praying and a bunch of them are killed. When I share this chapter with teenagers I always make it a super big deal, can you imagine a bunch of crazies coming at you and kneeling instead of running? Kind of blows my mind. Anyways, it was a good week. And this is the last week of the transfer! It went by sooooooo fast!
I think that is about it! I love you tons! Have a fantastic crazy week and keep me updated on missionaries!
Love, Hermana Baer
Tayler - May 18, 2015
Hey mom, so this week was pretty good. It went by a little slowly because we did lots of walking. We dont have lots of investigators but the ones we have are awesome we have a baptism lined up for june twentieth so we are getting excited for that. Also it was my comps birthday this week so we ate more cake this week, we have eaten so much cake the last few weeks i am kind of sick of it. Also yesterday was the dedication of the Cordoba Argentina temple it is the second temple in argentina and we were able to go to a session of the dedication in the stake center here so that was a cool experience. I had never been to a dedication but now that i have i want to go to more. I liked something that one of the speakers said i dont remember who i think it was President Uchtdorf he said, with every temple built satan loses more power so that was cool its going to be a blessing for all the people here in argentina to have another temple in their country. So that was cool, president Uchtdorf and Elder Christofferson came to do the dedication, i really liked the dedicatory prayer that President Uchtdorf said it was amazing. Also my converts were able to come so i was happy for them. And well thats about it, I love you
Love Elder Baer
Love Elder Baer
Lexie - May 11, 2015
Hola Mamita!
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
This is the Iguana I had to catch. Look at its nasty feet! Ahhh!
Me with the Iguana. You cant see it very well, but its tail is sticking out the bottom
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
Tayler - May 11, 2015
Well since i talked to you all yesterday i dont know what to tell you guys today. I sent you all the pictures from the baptism that was cool, And i am sending some more pictures too. So for lunch today we ate tacos we made some finally and they were really good not that hard to cook either. We found in the walmart here they have like and area for imported stuff and we found some good stuff but its all really expensive. but we found some noodles made with squid ink so we bought those to try them out i will let you know how that goes. WEll thats about it I love you all and it was very nice to see your smiling faces yesterday.
Love Elder Baer
Actually this is the day after my birthday but it was fun, this family is from Paraguay
Love Elder Baer
Actually this is the day after my birthday but it was fun, this family is from Paraguay
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