I am. . .
Staying!! I get to spend one more transfer with the great Elder
Taylor. I am so excited and we are going to have so much fun this
transfer and even see a few baptisms. Not to mention. . . Both of my
sons who I trained are coming into our zone, Elder Einerson
and Elder Ambursley! So I am going to be able to do a couple of
exchanges with them!! Haha yeah that little girl was pretty awesome and
this guy we are teaching right now is seriously incredible. He is so
prepared to hear the gospel and he is getting really
excited for his baptism the 5th of July!
Congrats Caders! That is seriously so cool! Hey, don't stress the
football. Just keep working hard and trust that it will all work out. Geezzzz!! Bubba and his friends are getting so dang tall! I was blown
away when I saw those photos. The fact that Bubba and Caden might be
getting stronger than me motivates me to do my morning exercises. . .
Don't worry though, I could still take them :)
That is amazing for TJ! I am so happy for him! If you see him send
my love his way! Crazy for Adrian! Tell her congrats! Yeah, that is
seriously so crazy!
This last week was a good one for us. . .
We were able to teach S...... a few more times! Everything is
going really well with him and he is very receptive to everything that
we are teaching. It is super cool because he always reads way more than
we ask him to which makes our RDV's a lot more
spiritual and useful. Not to mention, he spoiled us again this week and
took us out to a really good Chinese restaurant. Seriously, he is like
the coolest guy ever!
C.... is still doing really good to. She has been to church every
week since she has been baptized and she has been helping us a lot in
teaching our other investigators. Right now we are just trying to get
her to go to institute. . . for some reason she
doesn't really like it.
Okay,
I don't know if I have told you. . . But on June 10th we have an
apostle of the Lord coming to our mission!!!! Elder Andersen is coming
to visit us with his wife. We are all seriously so excited and I think
that is going to seriously motivate our mission
to work really hard and have some baptisms soon. We also have Elder
Kearon coming as well.
It is going to be one of the coolest experiences of our missions
because the Monday right before we are all taking buses all the way over
to Nice to the conference. Our whole mission is going to Nice to take
part in the conference! The only thing is that
we have lots of rules and we have to make sure it doesn't turn into a
big reunion, so if we see people we know we just have to smile and wave,
we can't talk to anyone that is not in our district.
Anyways, with him coming this whole transfer is focused on
preparing for him and having as many baptisms as we can in the mission
on July 5th at 6:00! It is going to be one of the coolest life
experiences to be a part of this mission wide effort. It is
going to be one for the record books. So this transfer, our job as ZLs
is just to get everyone on board and stoked to be a part of this huge
event! Ah I am seriously so excited! To prepare we are reading all of
his talks and working our butts off to learn all
of the things that he has been teaching over the past few years!
So I learned something kind of cool the other day. I was reading
around and I found something in the bible dictionary. It kind of goes
with the scripture that you sent. Under Fear the bible dictionary
states, The immediate result after Adam transgressed
was that he became afraid, ever since that event God's children have
been afraid and he has been trying to persuade us to come back and
humbly ask for forgiveness. I think that is so interesting. I have
noticed that one of the biggest factors that Satan hinders
us in this life and especially right now as missionaries is that he
wants us to be afraid. He wants us to think that we can't do it, that we
are not good enough, that we cannot be forgiven, but the truth of it
all is completely contrary to that. God want us
to feel loved, cared for, confident, be faithful and trust him. There
are many ways that we can acquire these attributes and one of the biggest
ways is that God gives us opportunities to grow our faith, by testing
our faith. I have noticed that on my mission
I have been scared to do things. . . actually that happens a lot. . .
and through these opportunities, but choosing to act on my faith it has
grown instead of diminishing. That is where I have gained the personal
testimony that trials help us to grow!
I love my mission so much and despite the fact that it is one of
the hardest things that I have ever done, it is one of the most
rewarding!
I love you all so dearly!
Love,
Elder Beyer
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