Ohhh my goodness! Isn't it crazy how fast time flies by?! When I saw
all of those pictures I remembered that just a year ago I was there
getting ready to leave. It is amazing how fast that came by! Ha ha who ah!
That is a lot of family history :) The funny
thing on top of that is a lot of my favorite family memories are up in
Park City as well. . . I think that is one of my favorite traditions
that we have :) It looks like you all had so much fun up there and I am
loving Caty's new hair style ;) Hey now mom,
you can't be blaming it all of the time on the skis. That is my excuse
:) I think you will be happy to know that in honor of Baja Cantina we
have fajitas the other day and we made some guacamole!
Yeah. . . I am glad that I grabbed that kid too. :) We were in the right place at the right time. (Last weeks story)
This new zone leader thing has been awesome. Very time consuming,
but amazing. We spend a lot of our time doing exchanges and working with
other missionaries. That is one of my favorite parts, but that is also
one of the hardest parts. Sometimes when you
are exhausted all that you want to do is go and crash in your bed. . .
which you don't get to do too often on exchanges. I loved my zone
leaders in Gex though. They were seriously so funny. The night that they
showed us their dog we were laughing so hard.(Stuffed Animal) They
said that he is very obedient and the Tahitian Elder said that he eats
spit. . .
My favorite thing to do is tram contacting with my companion. His name is Elder Strom. He is from Salmon Arm Canada, I think that is in Hunter Murray's
mission. He is such a stud and I have so much fun with him. Together we
can get whole trams of people laughing and having a good time. He is
really good at talking with big groups of people around.
I liked that quote that you sent this week. (Never, Never, Never give up!) Sometimes it gets hard
and the natural man inside of us wants to give up so so bad. There have
been many times this week where I have contacted the meanest people in
the world, or so I thought at the time, and
for a second it kind of sets you back. At that point you kind of want to
give up and just go back to the apartment where you can be sure
everyone will be nice to you. . . but, every time that we continue the
Lord always blesses us with the strength to keep going
and in the end he shows his mercy and grants us a miracle.
Our mission president likes to tell the story when Peter is fishing
all the day long. Peter a skilled fisherman had caught nothing that day
and his spirits were kind of down in the dumps when Christ approached
him. Jesus then asks him to do something that
required a lot of faith, to through back down their nets. . . They
followed his council, didn't give up, and in the end they saw a
miracle.
This week we saw some pretty cool miracles.
We were working so, so hard and it seemed as if we had had no
success. Towards the end of the night we received a call from another
missionary on the other side of the mission giving us a referral, a
friend of someone they had just baptized. We called
the referral the next day, set up an appointment and then went and
taught her at the church with a member. She is so prepared and she is so
wanting to know more about why her friend, who grew up with her in the
same church, decided to change and be baptized
in our church. We are teaching her again tonight. . . So, I will let you
know how it goes next week :)
We had a few more instances where we found people who were ready to
hear our message and actually listened. . . That is truly the most
rewarding thing at the end of the day.
Well my dear family, I love you all so very much. You are the best support system anyone could ever ask for.
With all the love in the world,
Elder Beyer
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