Happy Father's Day Dad!!
I am loving every single one of the pictures! Hahaha, everyone
looks like they are having so much fun! That is incredible about Bubba's
team! What tournament was that? Bubba looks like a stud in those
pictures :) Haha Caders and Brockster are looking really
good as well. Brock didn't write me about his idea! You are going to
have to have him write me next week and inform me about what is going
on! Hey nice job Coach Beyer! Sounds like you are tearing it up! You
better be careful, if you keep winning they are going
to send you over to take Leo's spot!
Okay, Nice was incredible.
It seriously seems like a big dream. I swear that we never even
went there. Monday flew by as we all drove down in the bus. It turns out
that the buses were actually really, really nice so the ride down was
more of a luxury trip than anything. The pizza
in the hotel was delicious as well! The next day we got up and took the
bus down to the Acropolis! This big conference center in Nice. First
off, Nice is an incredible city. It was seriously so beautiful. The city
itself is kind of dirty, but when you hit
the nice parts of town there is not too much that can beat those palms
trees up next to the beach looking over the French Riviera.
It was a pretty incredible experience getting off of those buses
all at the same time with the missionaries across the mission. I
honestly thought it was going to be weird not talking to anyone that was
not in our districts, but it was actually kind of
cool. Everyone was quiet, and when we were all walking to the conference
center there was like a spiritual force that I could have sworn was
tangible.
We got in and sat down, and at this moment was where we got the
special treatment. Because Elder Taylor is in the stake of Elder
Andersen they pulled us out a little early so that we could take a
picture with Elder Andersen and his wife. It was a really
cool experience that I was able to tag along for. They gave him a little
present, recorded him bearing his testimony and took a few pictures
with him. I got to sneak in on one of those pictures, so maybe in the
future you will be able to get your hands on that
thing!
Okay, the conference. . .
I don't even know where to begin.
I can truly say that that was one of the most spiritual experiences
that I have had in my entire life. With all of the preparation that
went in we ended up with a spiritual downpour. Sister and President
Roney started off and did an incredible job. Sister
Roney talked about how important hands are in the work and how important
the hands of the Lord are in the ways that they heal and lift people
up. In the end her message was that we can never look at our hands the
same again and we need to be reaching out to
others like the Savior would. Next up, President Roney talked about
choosing faith at all times in our lives. He shared examples in the
scriptures where the disciples of Christ we given the opportunity to do
something that compromised their earthy logic, and
because the chose to follow Christ instead of their earthy logic they
received a downpour of spiritual blessings that our earthy words cannot
describe. Next up was Sister and Elder Kearon, Sister Kearon talked
about in order to be a true message of Christ
we need to give it everything that we can and not waste a single second.
She said that we are here to do the Lord's will, not our own. Elder
Kearon, (one of my favorites), talked about how who we are is far more
important than what we say. He talked about the
fact that he was blessed because the missionaries who baptized them knew
who they were and they didn't just preach the message, but they lived
the message. He inspired us all to become better and apply the things we
learn and teach. He had another message about
repentance and shared the scripture in 2 Nephi 32 that says the Lord's
arm is extended all the day long and that it is always there to lift us
up when we fall down. It was an incredible message. Then came to Sister
and Elder Andersen, I could write for hours,
but the main focus of both of them was faith and not living your mission
without seeing miracles. They shared experiences from when they were in
this mission and they set goals that allowed them to accomplish
miracles. They shared many things about faith and
they said this is what we are lacking, we need to develop more faith. In
brief they said that we need to stop thinking our mission is hard and
that we can't baptize, because they said we most definitely can. They
did it, and they said if we believe there is
not reason that we cannot do it. They then challenged us to baptize
every month! So, we are going to raise the faith bar a little bit!
The trip back was great and we found ourselves in Bordeaux on Wednesday!
I just wanted to tell you about a few quick experiences. . .
S...... is doing really good. He is progressing like crazy and he
is going to be so ready for his baptism. They announced it the other day
in church and he was very excited. Right now he is at Helaman chapter
12! Not too shabby huh?!
Another cool thing that happened was that there was this boyfriend
of a member that we have been trying to work with for a long time now.
Long story short we were finally able to set something up and they
invited us over for dinner last night! We went
over and had a great time together, we were all laughing and joking
around and we developed a great friendship. The boyfriend of the member
has been asking a lot of questions about the church over the last little
while so it was wonderful because we were able
to explain a little bit more about what we do as missionaries and he
said that he really wants to keep meeting with us and talking. On the
ride home though, he explained to us that his girlfriend has a terminal
illness and she only has 4 more months to live,
as he kept talking about how sad he felt and everything he was thinking
we just sat there not knowing what to say. So a little background on the
boyfriend, he is not believing at all. . . He said that he was praying
for his girlfriend during sacrament meeting
and he had this warm comforting feeling come over him. He said he
couldn't describe it, but it felt amazing. We were able to then testify
to him of what that feeling was. It was such an amazing experience
because he was able to recognize the love that the Lord
has for him and he said he believes that the feeling came from God. We
then expressed how grateful we are for people like him and we told him
that people like him are what inspire us as missionaries and keep up
wanting to go out and work. We were able to testify
of the plan created for each of us, and although we couldn't do much we
left him with a little more peace than he had before. I think that is
one of the times that I have felt the most helpless on my mission. We
are going back next week to teach him about the
plan of salvation though :)
Well my beautiful family, I love you all so dearly and I hope that your week is excellent.
By the way, funny story.
People here see us in our white shirts and thing that we are
controlling the trams and buses. . . so people get on without a ticket
and they see us thinking that we work for the city and they get really
scared and hop of the bus or the tram so that we
don't fine them haha. . . If nothing else we are helping people be more
honest!
Much love,
Elder Beyer
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