Tayler - March 1, 2016

HE'S HOME! After 2 years of faithful service, Tayler has returned home from the Buenos Aires, Argentian South mission. There are few moments as precious as this one for a mother. I am so proud of Tayler, for his service to the Lord, his service to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, to the people in Argentina, and for the personal growth he experienced while there. He left a 19 year old boy and has returned a man. Watch out world, he has much to contribute! I love you, Tayler.

Jacob - February 22, 2016

Hey mom, it sounds like you had a pretty good week. Well to tell you the truth, not a ton sticks out for this week. But everything is good. My comp and I have people were working with. One's a teenager that has a date for the 6th of March. He's been doing pretty good on the commitments and everything so we're excited about him. Um I guess other investigators are doing ok. Some definitely progress better than others. But we're trying to help everyone we can to grow closer to Heavenly Father and Christ. The language is coming, im starting to get more compliments about my Spanish from members so that's cool. I still feel like I know zero about the language, but I guess it's going ok. Also something that I'm excited about is a packet we got from our mission president. He gave us a 100 and something page packet all on the Atonement. I've read a little about it and man it's super good. One thing that PMG says is when we understand the atonement more, our desire to share the gospel will increase, so hopefully that'll ring true with me as I read it. Anyways I can't think of much else to write, so I love you mom. Take care.


Elder Baer

Birthday Boy!

Tayler - February 22, 2016

MY LAST P-DAY!



well i can hardly beleive this is my last week either its so weird. But we had a pretty good week we found some new investigators so that was good hopefully they will progress and also we got back in contact with some investigators that we couldnt find for a long time. also today we had a district activity wich was planned very poorly but we had fun anyway. we ate tacos cause one of the missionaries in my district is from mexico. Well other than that not much happened. Wednsday elder bednar is coming to talk to all the missionaries in buenos aires so there will be like 800 missionaries there wich should be cool. And yeah so thats about it i dont know what else to tell you. I love you and i will see you next week.


Love Elder Baer

Jacob - February 15, 2016

Hey everyone, first off sorry about writing a group email this week.
It's not my favorite since I don't get to personalize it as much, but
hopefully it's alright with you guys. Anyways this week was mostly
good. It started out super good with a member present lesson on
Tuesday that was super powerful, but unfortunately the investigator
has a lot of problems that she is trying to fix before she commits to
taking lessons from us. We're going to try and keep in touch with her
though because we know that she likes our message and what we stand
for. We also had a lesson with our most promising investigator, He is
super white, we teach him in English but because of the circumstances.
But he is doing super well, he reads the scriptures and pamphlets,
prays and goes to church. He also has a date for the 6th of March. We
have another lesson with him tonight. Um also I went on an exchange
with Elder Cahoon. He is pretty good and super good at talking with
everyone, something I need to improve on. But I feel like when my
Spanish improves I'll get better at that. My Spanish right now is
alright. People can generally understand what I'm trying to say. I'll
give an example of what i said the other day. So we knocked a less
actives home, he wasn't there, but instead of going out the normal
way, I wanted to try the back exit which was definitely a spiritual
impression because we ended up seeing the less active coming up the
stairs. Anyways what I said to him at the some point in the
conversation was "quiere nosotros a llamarle?" (Super bad, but he
understood.) i should of said "quiere que nosotros le lamamos?" But
also the guy was in a huge hurry and I had to think super fast, plus I
didn't understand a whole lot what he said, but that was my guess of
what he did say and I went for it. That same day I was on an exchange
with Elder Cahoon and one think I like a lot from him is that he leads
by example. He does a super good job at talking with everyone, but
also giving me those same opportunities where I can practice my
Spanish. Oh also this week I made the cake you guys sent me for my
B-day, it's super good. Thanks for that. Um and lastly we got robbed.
I forgot to lock the car when we were at the church and we were gone
for like 45 minutes.. But when we came back out a bunch of stuff was
missing... But I'm sad because my comps marked up Book of Mormon was
stolen along with his bag... I felt pretty bad, but he says it's
alright and doesn't seem to be bothered by it. I guess it's just a
trial, I'm sure I'll get over it soon. We just laugh about it now. I
think that's mostly it for this week. Sorry about the group email
again, but I love you all and hope you have awesome weeks. Cuidan se!

Tayler - February 15, 2016

Well the time sure is flying by. And yes i am kind of stressed out about coming home. I dont know what i am going to do it is going to be a big change in lifestyle i think. Well this week it rained alot again but that happens every week it seems like this summer it has been raining a lot more than last summer. we had zone conference so we talked about teaching repentance and baptising converts wich was good i always like when president thurgood talks to us he knows a lot of stuff. Also we did some exchanges with other elders this week so that was fun but it makes the time go by a lot faster and this week we are going to do 3 exchanges so that is going to make the time fly by even faster. Well i have been buying some stuff to bring home and gifts and stuff i dont really know what to buy everyone so i am just buying random stuff and i hope that you all like them. And yeah so its going good our investigator that we thought wasnt going to go to paraguay in the end went to paraguay and we arent sure what day he gets home so if he doesnt get home before the 27th i wont have anymore baptisms that is kind of sad to think about. So i think thats about it for this week i only have one more p day so i will write to you next week. I love you


Love Elder Baer

Jacob - February 8, 2016

Hey mom, I guess I'll answer your questions from the get go. This week was pretty good, there were some pretty cool things that my comp and I were able to do. We had a ton of opportunities to serve this week. One activity was helping out a humanitarian organization, it was a lot of fun and we were able to play some basketball and baseball in this pretty big wear house type building. The other activity was helping out with a neighborhood clean up in our area. We just were moving a lot of old furniture and throwing stuff away for people. But we were able to do that with the Priests in the stake and after that we tried doing missionary work with them. Just talking to random people and giving out Books of Mormon. It was pretty fun. Also this week the other elders in my district had two baptisms. That was a lot of fun as well especially since I knew one of the guys that was getting baptized. I met him in my first transfer. He's a pretty cool guy that was dating a member so that opened the door for him and now he is a member. Another thing that was cool was that we had a lesson that was super good. We had a member family with us and we re-taught the restoration, but everything that needed to be said was said. It was super cool and the spirit was really powerful. I just hope the investigators finally make the decision to start acting one the commitments we leave them. Oh and for my scripture I want it to be Jacob 5:71. I read that analogy of the tame and wild olive trees and man it's super good when you figure out what it's relating to. So yeah, if you can change it that'd be awesome, I'd also talk to dad about it because he sent me some stuff about my plaque as well. Well I think that's mostly it, today I moved apartments which was t very fun. I don't even live in my area anymore, just the district boundaries. But it's all good, were pretty much all settled now which is why this email is pretty late. But I love you mom, let me know if there is anything else you want me to be writing about. Se cuida!

Tayler - February 8, 2016

well we had a pretty good week. We have one investigator who is progressing so that is cool and his bapism should be on the 20th so we are excited for that. His name is Dan and he is 10 years old, his mom told us he was going to go on vacation to paraguay and wasnt going to get back until march but plans changed and he isnt going afterall so we should be having his baptism here in a few weeks. Also this other lady named Mirta came to church wich was cool we found her last week and she really liked church, the only problem with her is that she is not married, we call those people juntados cause they are together but not married and that happens all the time here. well those are our two main investigators rigt now and we feel good about them. Now we have to find more new investigators we found a ton but they didnt progress and in the last few weeks we have found only a few but they are the ones who come to church its weird how that happens. and yeah so about the homecoming i dont really care what kind of food we make. Something simple, so that would not include anything from argentina everything is so complicated to make here, so what ever you think would be good is good for me. but i will think about that and let you know next week. And as for himns i dont know either i will think about that too. and last week i took money out of my savings to do some more shopping i am trying to find some cool stuff to bring back so i am good on money dont worry about that. well I love you and have a good week.


Love Elder Baer