Hola!
Well hello there amazing family! I loooooved the pictures that you
sent hahaha. They were seriously killing me. Good old Bubby with his
cheeks. I looooved the Christmas card. The transit ties are pretty sweet
too, so definitely keep mine at home for me
to keep it in a good condition. So did he like trade the bus drivers or
something??? That is so weird but awesome.
Okay, as for the training of new missionaries. Yeah it is the best
thing ever. It is by far the most fun thing ever too. You are always
laughing about something. It is pretty nice right now because with Elder
Crawley and myself we just kind of take turns
talking to people and helping out Elder Einerson, but every once in
awhile we don't say anything and let him work through it haha. It is the
best. He is doing a great job though, he is learning very quickly so
before no time he is probably going to be teaching
me how to speak French.
I am glad to hear that Bubba is still the toughest one in the family. . .
Mom! What are you doing doing last minute Christmas shopping? That
should have been done months ago!! Haha. As for Christmas day, we are
going to be calling at 5:00 our time so 9:00 in the morning for you. Be
expecting our calls! Like I said before I am
only going to have an hour so come prepared! I will go through my
journal and find a couple funny stories to tell as well :) As for our
Christmas shopping. . . we don't really do any. The other day we bought a
present for our investigator Jie and today we are
going to buy a gift for the Pelucchi's and the Fontanella's (the Italian
families), but other than that not really. That is too bad for
Brockster, I know that if anyone can deal with that it will be him
though. That would be so hard if you were a young missionary,
but I think it wont even be a problem for Brock. Besides there are some
families that he needs to go and baptize back in London that he was not
able to baptize the first time around.
Keep hitting up the slopes everyone!
Okay, so this week was a pretty cool one.
It has been a little crazy because all of our investigators are
leaving on vacation. . . but we were able to have some teaching
appointments with a couple of them. So the coolest thing that happened
this week was that on Tuesday we decided to have a fast
for one of our investigators, Jie from China, so throughout the whole
day we fastest for him and it seriously went by so fast and we were not
really even that hungry. A couple days after that we had our appointment
with him and we taught the end of the Plan
of Salvation. We testified of the eternal family and how that comes from
living the Gospel of Jesus Christ and even though we had asked him to
be baptized a few times in the past where he said not yet, the spirit
was soo strong so we decided to ask again. It
was seriously was of the best feelings that I have ever felt on my
mission and he immediately said yes :) So it is going to be tough with
his work schedule right now because he is really busy, but hopefully
within the next month we are going to able to help
our amazing friend to make some covenants with our Heavenly Father.
Well, missions are seriously the best, especially over Christmas.
People are just happier. A lot more people stop for a second on the
street, people have smiles on their faces more often, and all of this is
because of our Savior Jesus Christ who came into
this world to save us. I know that because he loves us he was born, he
died, and he was resurrected. Because he loves us we can change and
repent so that we can have joy in this life. I remember an awesome quote
that I heard in seminary one time that said,
"The best smell in the chapel is the smell of cigarette smoke." That is
one of my favorite quotes because sometimes people see change and
repentance as a negative thing, when in reality it is a positive thing. .
. now that doesn't make it easy, but in the end
we will be happier than we have ever been.
Well my dear family, keep being amazing, keep going to the temple
and doing missionary work for our ancestors because it is just as
important as the work that the full time missionaries are doing, and
have a wonderful next few days! I am soo excited to
see your faces. . . Even if they might not be as cute as they used to be
Caden and Bubba. . .
Love,
Elder C. Beyer
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