Hello there beautiful family!
Dad no need to worry the years haven't been hard and you, you still
look like a teenager. . . although if the stories that mom tells me are
true then it sounds like you are getting a little tired, so you need to
cut out of that quick before Brock gets
home. . . you can't let him think that he is stronger than you. That is
awesome that you were able to have such a relaxing birthday, I think
that sometimes we forget to just relax every once in a while when in
reality that is exactly what we need. Oh my goodness,
that countdown just made it that much more real haha. I love it though.
My companion was loving the Canadian flag as well :) Brock is still
looking very happy and from his letters it sounds like he is finishing
out strong. Don't worry, before too long he will
be there so that Caden can punch him so that he can get out the
frustration before he goes to lacrosse.
Wow, today was a really nice week. Man did it fly by. We had a few
cool things happen this week. One of my favorite things that we did was
that we had a missionary day for all of the youth in our ward. We had
about 16 youth show up and we had about 10
missionaries there. We spent the morning doing studies and role playing
how we were going to talk to people during the day and then at 11 we hit
the Streets. It was a lot of funny seeing the little kids go an contact
people. There was a 12 year old kid that
acted like Bubba and was super shy, ahh he was the funniest little kid
ever. At around 12 we headed back to the Church and Grabbed a bite to
eat and then it was back out for finding some people. We actually lucked
out because we were able to have a RDV during
lunch and it went so good! We committed our investigator to baptism!!
Her date is the 22 of March, and although she doesn't think that she is
going to be ready she fixed the date with a hole lot of faith behind her
decision. After that we went out and we tried
to find a less active. After searching for what felt like forever we
found his building, but he had moved :( To add to that it started to
pour! My companion and I had umbrellas, but the two little guys we were
with didn't have any. . . so we gave them up. Yeah
I know what you are thinking, you would have thought that being me I
would have kept it. . . But, I figured it was going to grant us some
miracles in the future. Finally when we got back to the Church we were
soaking wet. It was a lot of fun because all of
the leaders were joking about how they were able to experience a real
day of missionary work. The thing that was cool though was that the kids
we were with had huge smiles on their faces the whole time and on the
way back we were singing there is sunshine in
my soul while we were getting soaked. As we finish up every day of
missionary work we had a baptism. . . Okay, maybe every day is not like
that, but the sister missionaries in our ward had a baptism!! It was
awesome because I was finally able to see some of
the fruits of all of the work that we do! I was laughing because that
was actually the first baptism that I have seen on my mission. The next
day I was able to take part in giving the gift of the holy ghost and
that was really cool. Well, the whole day was
a great success and in the end all of the youth were very excited to
serve missions.
The ping pong day was so much fun last week. It was one of the few
days that it was really nice outside, so we actually took the ping pong
table outside and played. The game was that you have to let the ping
pong ball hit the ground once before you can
hit it. We had a lot of fun joking around and hanging out with the other
missionaries. Like I had mentioned last week, my companion and I had
decided to go out to this huge sand dune this week. . . and well, that
is where I am writing you from! I am in a little
cybercafe in a city called Arcachon. . . In about thirty minutes we are
going to be hoping on a bus that is going to take us to this world
re noun sand dune called the Dune du Pilat! People come from all over the
world to see this attraction so we figured just
in case of one of us getting transferred this week we need to enjoy our
last p-day together. . . We are right next to the ocean and thank
goodness that we lucked out with the weather today. It seriously has
rained almost every single day since we have gotten
to Bordeaux, but today it is so beautiful and the skies could not be
more blue. . . There is a slight breeze, but it kinda feels nice so that
is okay.
The other day I was walking on the street and I remembered
something that Brock had told me, he said to contact one person every
single day that you would not normally contact. So we are just walking
by and I see this huge guy covered in tattoos with long
hair storming by on the street. . . I am just thinking in my head ohhhh
no, he is going to turn me down SO bad and he is probably not going to
have anything nice to day, but then I figured oh well, might as well
give it a shot. So I stopped him, he was in
a hurry so I asked if we could walk with him. . . We started to get to
know him and took the Lucky guess and said, you look like you are from
Tahiti! Sure enough, that was his home country. . . So long story short
we followed him to his tattoo parlor, where
he was working and set up a time that we could return. . . He then
invited us to eat with him on Sunday! So we went this Sunday and had an
amazing Tahitian meal with this really cool guy and in talking with him
it turned out that on his dad's side of the family
they are all Mormon! Cool huh?! We invited him to come to Church and he
said he was too busy right now, but he said we could come back anytime
that we want. . . so we are going to be passing by and seeing him soon.
Well my most amazing family, I hope that you have the most amazing week ever!
I read something cool about the Sons of Mosiah the other day where
they were really discouraged because they were having no success and all
of the Laminates were persecuting them and right as they were getting
ready to give up and angel appears and comforts
them. . . Through the angel the Lord declares that if they support their
afflictions with patience, and if they show a good example (very
interesting) to their brethren that they would bring many souls unto
repentance. . . So, sometimes if we are patient and
endure our trials showing others through our example how the Lord would
want us to act that is how we can bring others the closest unto Christ.
Love,
Elder Beyer
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