So I had a good week this week, on monday it was the dia del amigo here in argentina so we had noche de hogar with a ton of members and it was pretty fun. Then on tuesday i had to go to capital to do some immigrations paper work but i ended up not actually doing anything so that was cool. Then wednsday until sunday was just normal. We are working with lots of people and it feels like there are not enough hours in the day to do everything we want to do we try and visit everyone but somtimes we just dont make it. On sunday 2 investigators came to church. And also the 2nd coucelor of the temple presidency came to church to speak so that was cool also. On saturday we went witha family to the temple and talked about haveing your life focused in the temple. PresidentUchtorf said in the temple dedication of the cordoba temple that everything we do in our lives needs to guide us towards the temple every decision we make needs to help us get to the temple and have that as our goal. So yeah it was a good week, I love you.
Love Elder Baer
Friday, July 31, 2015
Lexie - July 20, 2015
Mi distrito! No soy la única extranjera! Woo!
It was a ridiculously fast and hard week. Honestly I just feel like we have done nothing and I dont understand why. WE are planning a ward talent show type thing for the end of the transfers, so I figured I could do some little gymnastics things. OH MY GOSH MOM I CANNOT DO THE SPLITS! I havent done them In a good 5 or 6 months I bet and yeah... gone. Lots of pain, GRRR! And I did a backwalk over today and about died my back and stomache muscles were so mad at me. Sooooo basically I have to start practicing if I want to do something haha. We will see if I am even capable of a BHS still lol.
We have had little to no success with people going to church for 2 weeks and it is kind of discouraging but we keep working. There is someone here in Comitan waiting for hermana Baer and Hermana Lopez. Hopefully we can work hard enough to find them.
On Saturday night they called us and said, you get to speak in church tomorrow! Woohooo! The good thing is the gave us 24 hours lol. Sometiems they just say, go talk! But anyways, I talked about becoming a disciple of christ and 3 things that can help us to become more like him. The first is letting go of the sins, habits, and customs that hold us back. The second, share the gospel! With EVERYONE. I shared about how sometimes in the street contacting or with the members when they are thinking about family friend and neighbors we sometimes thing, this person is going to reject the message. There is no way they will listen. But I told them in my talk that in these situations I tell myself that God loves this person exactly the same amount as he loves me and he has given me a gift and so many talents for the soul purpose of sharing with others. The third point was LOVE! because Without charity we are nothing! I love that scripture, its in Corinthians 13. Anyways, it was good and I think more than anyone the talk helped me. Every day I feel like I need to be better and there is more I can do, and that is always true. So we keep working and trying to be better every single day!
Con amor, Hermana Baer
Every morning out the back window. Vivo en un paraíso!
We have had little to no success with people going to church for 2 weeks and it is kind of discouraging but we keep working. There is someone here in Comitan waiting for hermana Baer and Hermana Lopez. Hopefully we can work hard enough to find them.
On Saturday night they called us and said, you get to speak in church tomorrow! Woohooo! The good thing is the gave us 24 hours lol. Sometiems they just say, go talk! But anyways, I talked about becoming a disciple of christ and 3 things that can help us to become more like him. The first is letting go of the sins, habits, and customs that hold us back. The second, share the gospel! With EVERYONE. I shared about how sometimes in the street contacting or with the members when they are thinking about family friend and neighbors we sometimes thing, this person is going to reject the message. There is no way they will listen. But I told them in my talk that in these situations I tell myself that God loves this person exactly the same amount as he loves me and he has given me a gift and so many talents for the soul purpose of sharing with others. The third point was LOVE! because Without charity we are nothing! I love that scripture, its in Corinthians 13. Anyways, it was good and I think more than anyone the talk helped me. Every day I feel like I need to be better and there is more I can do, and that is always true. So we keep working and trying to be better every single day!
Con amor, Hermana Baer
Tayler - July 20, 2015
This week i had my first interview with president Thurgood. HE is awesome, very friendly loving person. We talked a little about my family so he could get to know me better and we talked a little about the day i will end my mission. Because this mission has different transfer schedules i will be ending my mission on march 7th so that means i will instead of ending my mission 2 weeks short of 2 years, now i will end 2 weeks after 2 years so that is cool. I had to do some more immigration paper work this week with this mission so that went well too i got to go to some cool places i have never seen before. This mission i think has more rich areas than the west mission and it is a lot smaller too. I am in a place called Ciudad Evita, but the area is called Villegas. So also this week we hada few less active families come to church wich was awesome, we didnt have any investigators come but we will work on that for next week. I have a few requests for you if you have a chance to write me back i need a recipe for peach cobbler, and also you should get on my facebook and update it a little because its been a while. and thats it. I love you mom and i hope you have a good week.
Love Elder Baer
Monday, July 13, 2015
Lexie - July 13, 2015
Hey Mom!
Sounds like everything is going good. We did my little mini insanity routine as companions 5 times this week! Makes me feel so much better. So dont you worry, your running partner will be home in 4 months and it will be a lot easier to go! I am not sure if I have told you to watch this video but reading about the atonement and what you shared made me think about it. It is about missionary work but is honestly one of the most powerful videos of Elder Holland I have ever seen. It is amazing! And honstly it applies to everyone of us, its called missionary work and the atonement, there is a part with Elder Eyring too. But go watch it! I cry every single stinkin time!
So my new companion is Hermana Lopez and she is from Guatemala! She is super short like my trainer and tries super hard. I dont think she has recieved a lot of formal eduaction in her life so that is a challenge for her but she is here to work hard so we have had a good week. We have a family home evening planned tonight with a part member family and a family in the ward. I am super excited and we are going to start the week in a great way!
So funniest thing this week. Well not really that funny, but it made me laught. We always hand out pass along cards with our number so people can contact us if they are interested and every now and again we get a message from someone who wants to take one of us out on a date or something like that. It only happens every now and again but it happened this week lol. This big old dude with a beard asked me to go drink a beer with him the other night haha, obviously hasnt heard much about the mormons before. Made me laugh.
Anyawys, it has been a good week. Crazy with the rattle snake! That would stress me out. There are so many weird things here in Chiapas. They tell me that if you head out of all the city and into the jungle part here there are jaguar type things and monkeys and the young men in our ward had to kill a big huge green snake the other week when they went camping. Welcome to the jungle! Not going to lie sometimes I sing that in the street if we have to walk through a place with a bunch of vegetation lol.
We have a lot of good things happening, not necesarily a ton of people progressing, but we have some ideas to help with the ward and all the young adults are going on visits with us every day becuase they are on vacation! Woohooo! Hope everything continues to go well and that you can chat a little bit today. Love you tons!
Love, Hermana Baer
Sounds like everything is going good. We did my little mini insanity routine as companions 5 times this week! Makes me feel so much better. So dont you worry, your running partner will be home in 4 months and it will be a lot easier to go! I am not sure if I have told you to watch this video but reading about the atonement and what you shared made me think about it. It is about missionary work but is honestly one of the most powerful videos of Elder Holland I have ever seen. It is amazing! And honstly it applies to everyone of us, its called missionary work and the atonement, there is a part with Elder Eyring too. But go watch it! I cry every single stinkin time!
So my new companion is Hermana Lopez and she is from Guatemala! She is super short like my trainer and tries super hard. I dont think she has recieved a lot of formal eduaction in her life so that is a challenge for her but she is here to work hard so we have had a good week. We have a family home evening planned tonight with a part member family and a family in the ward. I am super excited and we are going to start the week in a great way!
So funniest thing this week. Well not really that funny, but it made me laught. We always hand out pass along cards with our number so people can contact us if they are interested and every now and again we get a message from someone who wants to take one of us out on a date or something like that. It only happens every now and again but it happened this week lol. This big old dude with a beard asked me to go drink a beer with him the other night haha, obviously hasnt heard much about the mormons before. Made me laugh.
Anyawys, it has been a good week. Crazy with the rattle snake! That would stress me out. There are so many weird things here in Chiapas. They tell me that if you head out of all the city and into the jungle part here there are jaguar type things and monkeys and the young men in our ward had to kill a big huge green snake the other week when they went camping. Welcome to the jungle! Not going to lie sometimes I sing that in the street if we have to walk through a place with a bunch of vegetation lol.
We have a lot of good things happening, not necesarily a ton of people progressing, but we have some ideas to help with the ward and all the young adults are going on visits with us every day becuase they are on vacation! Woohooo! Hope everything continues to go well and that you can chat a little bit today. Love you tons!
Love, Hermana Baer
Last day with Hermana Fuentes
Ice-Cream!
Sunday
Lady bug...
Zona Comita!
Tayler - July 13, 2015
Sounds like you have had a good week with lots of work. I saw the pictures of the house they look very nice but there is still lots of work to do but it is doable. And i think in all my time in Nevada i have only seen one rattlesnake in the wild thats crazy and i am glad that bailey obeyed and did not get bitten. So we had lots of people come to church yesterday lots of less actives and some investigators so it was a very good day yesterday so i am pleased with the week i had. There is this bolivian family in the ward here and we visit them and when we do they always give us traditional bolivian foods wich is awesome. We eat Sopa de Maní wich is peanut soup wich is really good and the other day they gave us stuff called apí wich is a drink made out of purple corn all grinded up with sugar and cinamon and it was delicious so i am getting to try lots of stuff. Well other than that it was a normal week. i hope you have a great week and i will talk to you later. I love you
Love Elder Baer
Lexie - July 6, 2015
Holy smokes!
I am too excited about the mission call and the speaking SPANISH! I cannot even remember anything I wanted to tell you about this week haha. I guess the important stuff is that today is transfers! Hermana Fuentes is headed to tuxtla and my new companion is Hermana Lopes, she is suuuuuper short and from Guatemala. Presidente george told me that she is super shy so hopefully I can help her out with that.
I seriously cannot remember anything.. All I am thinking about is california and SPANISH! And how I am going to go search for Jacob in the MTC in Mexico! Holy smokes, I cannot even believe it! So so happy. I will write more in a second if I have time. Our time is limited becuase my companion heads out today but I will try to think of more to tell you lol. Love you!
Love, Hermana Baer
Tayler - July 5, 2015
Wow that is really cool for Jacob and you will have 3 missionaries at the same time that is cool too what a blessing. So i really liked what you said about humble testimonies because there is one man here in the ward here in villegas that every time he bares his testimony i feel the same. He is from paraguay and in paraguay they speak a different language called guaraní. So when he lived there he didnt even know a lot of spanish and then he moved to Argentina with his family and learned spanish. he has lived her for 10 years but to this day he has trouble speaking and you can tell but when he bears his testimony it is powerful i love it because a lot of times we teach investigators in his house and almost always he bears his testimony, very humble and you can tell the sincerity when he speaks it is awesome. So i know how that is about humble testimonies. Well other than that it was a normal week in the mission south but all is good. Also the transfers already passed and i am with my same comp Elder Jarquin in the same area Villegas and i will be here for a while i think because Elder Jarquin finishes in August. Well other than that not much to report I love you
Love ELder Baer
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