Hey there wonderful family!
Hahaha I was loving that story about Brad and Brad and it got me
laughin' over here in France so I can only imagine how much you were
laughing over there! I am sorry to hear that the Lacrosse season ended
like that. That is never fun :( As usual though,
I am stoked to hear that Caden played so well! Hey by the way, I loved
your joke to! I feel like Grandpa Gene might have told me that one. . .
This week was a great one though. I have a lot of awesome things to tell you.
Okay, so a few weeks ago we met this really cool guy named S....
when we were knocking doors. He let us right in and we were able to
explain our message, give him a Book of Mormon, set up a return RDV and
leave in about 15 minutes. We went back a few
days later to teach him the restoration. We taught him and the spirit
was really, really strong and I asked him to be baptized if he came to
know our message was true. He was shocked by the question, absolutely
shocked. He said, we have only met a couple of
times, and I said, I know. He thought, and he thought, and after about 5
minutes he said, yes, I would. So we fixed a date and told him that we
were going to have to start seeing him more often so we can help him
prepare. He thought that was a great idea, so
we taught him a few more times, he came to church, he loved it! Then he
invited us out to eat on Monday night, we had an amazing Bordeaux meal
and he bought us books about Bordeaux, he wrote us really nice letters
thanking us with Book of Mormon scripture references
on them and he explained to us that he believes our Heavenly Father put
us in his way to help him. The teaching is going great right now, he has
been to church two times, and as of right now he is going to be
baptized on the 5 of July, but most likely we are
going to be moving up his date. . . Pretty cool huh?!
This week we had district meeting and the sisters in our district
are both from the South and are really, really good at cooking. So,
after district meeting they made homemade fried chicken with mashed
potatoes that was seriously to die for! So I am pretty
excited for district meeting this week :)
I have a cool story for you. . .
So I was on a bus standing there a little bit scared to start
talking to people, they were all looking really scary that day for some
reason. I swallowed my fear though and started contacting. . . The first
person told me no immediately and said they were
too tired to talk, I went on to the next person. . . who ignored me. . .
then to the next. . . who did the same! At this time there is someone
up front laughing at me, so to prove him wrong I talk to another person
who immediately shut me down! I was just like,
man it is not my day today! So not knowing what to do I look behind me
at the cutest little girl in the world, she looked at me with this huge
smile on her face and she blew me a kiss! Hahaha isn't she just the
nicest little girl in the whole world? I would
dare say that that was one of my favorite experiences on my mission.
That is really cool what you said about music. One thing that my
mission president said is that music and love are common denominators of
heaven. Most things in this life do not correlate with the things that
happen before and after, but there is something
special about these two things. There is nothing stronger than listening
to spiritually uplifting music while in am ambiance of love.
There is a cool quote that I heard one time that kind of goes with
what you said, "Hell is where the man I am meets the man that I could
have become," Joseph Smith. So, the invitation to us all is to never let
minor obstacles get in the way of your divine
potential.
I love you all so dearly and I hope that your semaine is excellente!
Bises,
Elder Beyer
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