Okay. . . I. . . am. . . staying! Whoooh! I am really excited
because I really wanted to finish my mission here in Lyon. I am going to
be finishing up with Elder Taylor! So we get to serve together again! I
am really excited. However, I am going to miss
serving with Elder Elvidge. He is headed off to Lausanne, Switzerland.
He is a great guy and will be a great friend for the rest of my life. I
have really been spoiled with my companions over the past little while.
This next transfer is going to fly by a little
bit to fast with all of the conferences and things going on. I am a
little scared that before I know it I am going to be stepping on a plane
not knowing what happened. I am going to be serving with Elder Taylor. .
. however there is a little twist on the transfer.
Seeings how neither one of us is legal to drive the car and the church
is really cracking down on our mission, we have taken drastic measures.
President has called a missionary to be his secretary. Someone who is
young in the mission so that he is still legal
to drive :) So, we are actually going to have a third member of our
companionship some of the time. His name is Elder Nadauld, he is there
to help us out with organization and all of the little details that go
in with planning things, but he probably won't
be there if we don't need the car haha. We are going to have a lot of
fun together.
Hey! I think that is a great idea with the online shopping. That
would have helped me to do some shopping this year. . . with that being
said I am very sorry to tell you, but I was not able to buy any
Christmas presents for anyone this year hahaha. Don't
worry, I will just bring them with me in Feb!
Keep tearing up the slopes everyone! Oh and by the way, tell
Brockster to cut the crap. We all know that they were seeing ducks all
day, they just couldn't hit any of them and came home empty handed
because they were so rusty. Crazy news about Shelby!!
This week was great! We spend Monday at the Roney's. We played a lot
of games with all of the missionaries and had a lot of fun together.
Immediately after the missionaries left we started working on the
transfer. Just like last time it was a really amazing,
spiritual experience seeing how the missionaries move across the mission
into their new areas. Most of our time was spend doing that Tuesday and
Wednesday. We spent the nights out on the town contacting and we were
able to have a little bit of success teaching
a couple of lessons. We made another trip to a busy area in the mission
where we were able to do some contacting with all of the missionaries in
Lyon which was a blast!
Thursday we had a few meetings and got organized for the upcoming
week. Friday we made the calls to all of the missionaries. The most
exciting is Elder Dalton and Elder Crawley will both be in Lyon next
transfer! So I will be seeing a lot of both of them.
Friday night was where it got a little crazy. We didn't receive any
pass along cards from the Church for the He is the Gift video like they
had told us, so the missionaries were all hyped up and there was
nothing to give them. So, President decided to
make them on his computer and send it to a professional company and get
some of our own cards made up. They showed up Friday afternoon, and the
only was to get them distributed in time for all of the district
meetings in a way that they heavy boxes wouldn't
need to be shipped or carried by missionaries on transfer day was to
take them out to all of the missionaries ourselves. So, the office
Elders took the West side because they had a little bit more time, and
we took Switzerland and Lyon, and we both went around
like Santa delivering the cards! We had to pull an all nighter because
of our schedule, so Friday night we didn't sleep at all and every time
we would get to a city we would call the missionaries, they would come
down and get the cards, we would hop back in
and then head off to the next city! It was crazy! Haha, not to mention
it has been killing us since and we are exhausted!
We didn't have any time to sleep Saturday because we were really
lucky :) The senior couples came in for a conference and a little
Christmas benefit to see la fête des lumières! If you don't know what
that is you are going to have to go and look it up
on youtube! So, we had the blessing to have a little conference with
them, then after go out to dinner with them and President and Sister
Roney, and then lead them around through literally millions of people
seeing different light shows. To avoid losing our
crowd President bought all of us swords that lit up and we let the
senior couples. It was a really cool experience and something that I
never would have seen as a missionary, or probably the rest of my life,
if I wasn't here in this position. Pretty lucky,
huh?
We ate dinner at the Roney's tonight to have one last dinner before
Elder Elvidge leaves. It was great being with their family. Also, I was
able to have an interview with President that was awesome.
Life is great right now. Very stressful. Very tiring, but awesome.
I am loving being here and not believing how fast the time is going by!
In honor of la fête des lumières I thought that it wouldn't be fair
if I didn't share Matthew 5:14-16. 14 Ye are the light of the world. A
city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a
candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick;
and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so
shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your
Father which is in heaven.
I hope that we can all be the light for those around us during this Christmas Season!
I love you!
Elder Beyer
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