Tuesday, April 24, 2012

FAMILLYYY!!!!

OK so at first I thought that changing my whole schedule around was going to be some bad news... I didn't want to do it and I just wasn't positive, but I have some cool stories that are minor, but are still cool to me... So like you know it changed and I wasn't aware of it until Thursday night! I was super stressed and thought that first mom would think I was dead and second that it was going to be crappy! I was stressed but I wrote mom a letter! I was way worried that I was not going to get it out on time and didn't think that she would get it before Monday.... because usually the mail is that slow and the workers in the MTC don't help any ha ha ha they are super lazy!!! but anyways... we weren't allowed to get on and email and say that this whole thing got changed and that everything would be different... of course though some people got one and were able to email their families just because they were being disobedient... but I stayed strong and pushed through... I was really tempted but I didn't do it and guess what? Oh no big deal, the Lord just helps the MTC mail place work for once and it got there Saturday!! coincidence??? I think not. Heavenly father really does love us and wants us to be happy as long and we just work hard and have a change of heart. The thing that I have really been working on is living in the moment and trying to be as happy as possible... it  has been helping actually quite a bit! Sorry this isn't too long and not that cool but I have nothing to say ha ha the MTC doesn't change.... you eat, go to class, eat, class, eat, class then sleep! Its pretty fun...... hahahahhaa not, but its really not that bad.  This last week was hard though, it was one of the worst weeks yet.  I was way homesick and depressed and just being stupid, but whenever I just stop worrying and just relaxing it gets good! Thanks for the packages with all the letters I loved it! I will be getting on in like 20 minutes and what not so... yeah!!! I love you all and I hope everything is going well for all of you!!! I LOVE YOU!

LOVE

Elder Beyer

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Dear Familia!

So I love You!  I want to just write a solo one to all sorry there aren't individuals except Bubba (He's me favorite though come on ha ha just teasing!) But I just want to tell you I love you and that you make me feel so loved and are helping me through this!  So I hope you like these pictures!  I cut my hair again! it's way short!  Just so I don't have to deal with it though ha ha I'm lazy!  Anyways, I love you and I wanna bear my testimony to you!

Yo se Que esta iglesia es verdadera. you se Thomas S. Monson es un profeta de dio. Esta mision es muy dificil pero es Que bueno tam bien. quiero ustedes saber que yo tengo un much testionio de dios y mucho testimonio de el libro de mormon! n me gusta, no ver ustedes pero en dos ano es ir a estar maravilloso!! imuy maravilloso!

That's just a sample of my Spanish ha ha.  It's not to good but it's improving!  I love you all so much!  Mom keep me updated I love you all and love hearing about you all!!  I can't believe week 6 is this week!  Ahhh!  I'm stoked for it!

I LOVE YOU!
Elder Brock Beyer

P.S. Don't stop being the best fam ever!!

Monday, April 17, 2012

FAMILIA!!!

How is k town?? Provo is doing fine... Not gonna lie this week flew by pretty fast BUT yesterday and the day before were pretty hard.... I was pretty homesick and was dwelling hard core on the negatives.. No bueno!! Umm I loved the cake ha ha I shared it with tons of people! They loved it as well! On the schedule TALL is the online learning class, when we come into the computer lab and just do this program for Spanish and what not... nothing too exciting! Its actually quite boring!! So this week like I said flew by, nothing way cool, BUT what was awesome was yesterdays devotional! So this is how the whole thing went... They have us sing the opening hymns and just bring the spirit into the room, then the guy under President Brown, President Nally's 3 daughters played the violins and his wife played the piano to the song "Lead, Kindly Light".   It was so incredible and it brought such a spirit! Not only that but then President Brown got up and bore his testimony about missionary work and all this other stuff along those lines and that was incredible as well! Think I'm done??? You better not, because I'm just barely starting! So then after those two parts, the spirit is completely in the room, everyone can feel it and is just the best feeling ever, and the one and only David Archeleta gets up there and has a solo!!! Yeah I know what you are thinking, lameeee. NO!!!! We always made jokes about him everyone does, but I was blown away by how strong the spirit came even after that because of him!!! He sang "Spirit of God" The first verse in English, second in SPANISH and then finished with English again! I seriously can't believe how good his voice was... and at the end he kinda started to tear up and It was... jeez... like seriously good ha ha. I don't know what more to say than that! OK so now the spirit is just bouncing off the walls of the gym by now and guess who gets up now to speak?? hmm... lets see.... M. RUSSELL BALLARD!! This is the 3rd quorum of the 12 that has came to speak to us... it was freaking gnarly too!! He just spoke about Joseph Smith and about how bringing people unto Christ will bless us and will make us not only better people, but better FATHERS, HUSBANDS, PEOPLE!! Yeah its pretty steezyy! But he said the funniest thing ever in it too ha ha he was like "I know sometimes us General Authorities get up and speak at places and you think we are just a bunch of old men, but we're pretty cool! We know what's going on!" hahahahahah its much funnier if you were there! Just for him to say that! Another cool thing he said too is he called him and the General Authorities "fellow" missionaries, because they are doing what we are doing and bearing testimony all over the world! He said we are the number one thing over anything else to the conversion though... us missionaries... It was a really good talk and he brought such a great spirit into the room! umm... yeah then after we watched The Testament again, still a great show!

Then today I just got back from the temple and AGAIN the spirit blew my mind away! Just sitting in the chapel before the session I just closed my eyes and listened to the music for like 15 minutes... AHHHH!!!!! Its so amazing to feel the spirit this much in my life. I can't believe how much its really helping me through this! Sometimes I wanna just give up, but I make it through the next minute, then the next hour and finally the day is over and the lord just blesses you that much more when you are climbing some small mountains! I am so glad to be here... for sure! I miss you guys a ton, but I know that everything will be fine and that the Lord will work wonders for me being here!! The Spanish is coming along I guess ha ha I'm not way good, but I'm starting to get a feel for it I feel like I can understand a lot of what people are saying and I feel like I am answering back with child like comments, but hey it's a start ha ha. I love you guys a lot! I am getting on during laundry so write me back!!!!! Les Amo!!!

ELDER BROCK 

Monday, April 9, 2012

AYYYY MI FAMILIA!!!!

Crazy, Crazy, Crazy!!!! I just got home from the temple about 10 minutes ago and I can I just say I love the temple! I not only learn from it every time but I grow so much spiritually every time! It's like a vacation here ha ha you are always cooped up in a little classroom all day and you are also just inside and its hot and gross, but then you get some fresh air and then go to the temple and it brings you such PEACE!! Like how dad was that one time saying you need to go outside and get fresh air like a little goldfish or whatever... you really do ha ha I got the biggest headache of my life when I didn''t! Lets see... This week was pretty solid. Went by FASTTTT umm... we got a new district in our zone, and 2 of them are our new zone leaders, which is kinda random, because they know no Spanish, but its whatever ha ha it''ll be good for them! So on Tuesday of this last week a man named Lance B. Wickman came in and spoke for the Tuesday night devotional and it was sooo good. He got up and seemed like a way stern man and I was like ""oh brother, hopefully this benefits me some how..."" Guess what.. It DID! He spoke all about how we need to be prepared for things in our missions and in our lives and how great will be the blessings if we are! It was so good, my favorite thing that he said was this though... ""In our lives before this we have things that we are leaving behind right? And we make excuses why we don''t wanna leave like families, girlfriends and etc.. Why do we worry so much about losing all of them? Do you really think that the lord is going to let you down?"" (it was roughly that ha ha) but still. I know that the lord is not going to let me down out here, because this is where I need to be and I know that this is a growing experience. In 1 month it has taught me more about myself and about life than anything before. I know that by helping the lord he is going to bless my life, why would he let me down??? HE WON""T! Days seriously blend together in here, I started writing note cards so that I can remember what to put in the next emails ha ha its hard to believe but its true! So nothing too happened for the rest of those days... Except when we were teaching our investigator (our teacher) I swear the gift of tongues hit me.. At a certain point I just bore my testimony and it actually made sense, it was all the spirit though! Even though its not a ""real"" investigator its still spiritual, everyone whether they are a member or not, can always use some spiritual reminders or heads up to help strengthen their testimonies!

Okkkk so on to Easter! Every year you think of Easter as ""Oh gnarly, a big bunny is gonna come and give me some candy and maybe a new swimming suit for this year!"" or something like that ha ha, but really its about Christ dying for us and his Atonement. I can''t even explain to you in words how yesterday was for me... I can't at all. I felt the spirit so strongly, because all I tried to think about was Christ and what he has done for me and its remarkable that he treats us so equally when we should be making statues and worshiping him... (We shouldn''t because its sac religious but you get my point) I didn't know who was going to be speaking because I didn't watch them set anything up but right when President Brown walked into the room and then the whole auditorium stood up... I was literally devoured by the spirit as I watched them wheel Boyd K. Packer up the ramp and into his chair.. I can't even explain to you what it was like. I was on the front row and to the side because I was passing, but I could see the whites of his eyes.... I can''t even explain how incredible it was. so his son Allan Packer of the 70 spoke first and it was really good, but then when they wheeled President Packer up he just was incredible. The main thing I took from it was that we should not fear anything because FEAR IS THE OPPOSITE OF FAITH!!! I don't know why God loves me so much, but I know that he does... I pray like a thousand times a day for some guidance and to grow spiritually and it seems like everyday he grants me with something whether it be a scripture like Ether 1:43 (the last sentence) or bringing a speaker in and having him answer almost everything in my life! I don't know how I could doubt God when he has just made everything seem so clear to me! I LOVE THIS GOSPEL!!  I WANT TO SHARE IT WITH THOSE WHO NEED IT!!! Then last night also for that nights devo, the BYU men's chorus choir came and sang to us! It was actually way cool, they sang some Israely song and then they also sang La Cucaracha and put fake mustaches on ha ha if you guys saw it you probably wouldn't laugh, I had my MTC goggles on (which means you haven't seen the real world and got real humor or real anything ha ha) so that's why I thought it was pretty funny! Oh and best of all President Brown announced NO MORE SUITS!!!!!!!!!!!! except for devos! I'm so stoked. I sweat a lot as it is, and the suits don''t help me any ha ha! I love you guys so much and keep writing me!!! I LOVE IT!! Mom I will accept anything. I have starting gaining the weight I lost back, because I just don't think about it and eat and also cause of your treats! That and I'm a tool so I do push ups and pull ups nightly so it builds up a beastly appetite ha ha! I love you! I''ll send more pictures if you do!!! I loved my Easter package and the notes treats and Picture Bubba :)
LOVE FOREVER AND ALWAYS!

Elder Brock Stephen Beyer

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Mom and Dad!

I wrote a family email, but now I'm just writing a simple one to you!  I did to Bridge too so far.  He is awesome (ha ha He sent me mints! and I had to pay 20 cents, because it weighed so much, it was funny!)

Keep updating me on how everyone is and what they are doing.  It keeps me positive about everything!  I hope you liked this weeks letter.  I enjoyed writing it.  It's crazy to be thinking about how fast it's gone by, but I need to stop thinking about it and it will go by even faster!  Every time I go walk to the temple I look at the church where we said our goodbyes, at which is hard, but I don't have the same feeling as I did then.  Ha Ha.  Good thing too because I recall hyperventilating and not wanting to go!  But now it's gotten better.  I have made so many friends!  And seeing them is great so that keeps me on track of what I'm doing!

How's the house?  Empty?  Probably a whole lot QUIETER that's for sure!  Mom, you know how you said in college your eye sight slowly started to get worse?  Yeah...I think it's starting, because I can see far away if the object is big!  But if it's small it's blurring up.  That's words I mean!  Not objects!  But words are getting harder...Oh well!  I just remembered what I forgot to say to you!  In the email that is!  So you know how President Brown said he had something for me?  Well next week is Easter and not 1...not 2...but 3 General Authorities are coming to the MTC and speaking!  And we are doing a huge sacrament meeting or something like it and I am helping pass, so it's gonna be cool!  There is 2,500 people here so we are gonna have 5 prepare tables and like 30 elders are gonna be passing total!  It's crazy!  But it's gonna be cool seeing and finding out who is speaking!  I can't wait until I teach real people, with real needs! Ah...so gnarly to think about that right now I'm waiting for my companero in the doctors office!  I have been trying to not talk down on people even before Uchtdorf said "STOP IT!  But sometimes it's hard.

I love you guys and I know that this is where I'm supposed to be even though times are hard, like in my Patriarchal Blessing it says there will be barriers I need to climb (and this is a HUGE one!)  But it's gonna humble me and make me that much better!  And things at home will get better and I love it and even the hard times the good ones make up for it!  Oh and you know how I said I get peace from thinking about my future ?  Well it's because our Heavenly Father loves not only me but all of us as well!  It's a challenge we are facing but it's going to make us that much better.

Mom keep doing what you are doing.  Dad stay perfect.  And Yeah...I've only wore 2 church shirts this whole time ha ha!  Well I love you.  I miss you, but this is gonna be worth it!  I'll keep you updated only everything.  Keep me updated.  I love you.

Con Amor,

Elder Brock

P.S.  My faith has grown through prayers and study...It will help you too.  My Patriarchal Blessing makes more and more sense everyday.  I Love You!!

Monday, April 2, 2012

FAMILIA!!!!

Como estan?? So Its been weird still trying to adjust to everything but i will try to fill you in on just about everything that you asked me! P-day has been so incredible! We went this morning and did a session, and I''m not gonna lie at the start I prayed so hard for like 10 minutes while we were waiting to go in... I just prayed for peace and comfort and even revelation. So I prayed hard and then while I was in the room It hit me... The spirit seriously took over my body and I have never felt such peace. I have never felt just so loved by my Heavenly Father and never knew how amazing the feeling is!!! It made me cry cause I just thought about life and thought about how amazing things are gonna be once I have to climb some mountains first, but once I do it will be so much better! Then in the Celestial room I prayed to him again and thanked him and I had just the best thoughts about my life, what its gonna be like if I keep pushing through and if I can make it to the finish... I know that it seems weird cause it kinda is but I really just am at peace right now just thinking about the important people in my life and how I have faith that our relationships are gonna grow! Then we went and did some sealings, I had never done this before so I didn''t know what to expect. BUT It was sooooooooo spiritual. I made families, and marriages for the ones who are lost, be possible for them to be with each other forever!! (I was tearing up seriously the whole time, just thinking about how our family is going to be together forever and how that that''s how its gonna be when i have a family of my own someday... it makes me soo happy :) ) But anyways now I'm just relaxing just trying to take a break because usually by the end of the week you are pretty overwhelmed with everything but its all good! I have seen Wiggins, I have like 3 or 4 times, I have seen Jace Harris like 5 times and I have seen David Archeuleta like 6 haha. I saw them all when they came through just like I had 2 weeks prior, the best way to describe what Archeuleta was like is simply this... If you have seen Shrek 1 you seen Lord Farquad and he looks so majestic and then he gets off his horse and ends up being 3 feet tall... Yeah David looks like a stud on American Idol, because you don''t see the rest of him!!!! He comes up to my waste haha. Oh so about the cheesecake. get a load of this. I got the package for it and was way stoked to think i got that... I got a note in my box and it said that here at the MTC (Prison) You cant have any refrigerated things... So they took it out.. Well my district cleans the post office building and what not and 2 elders in my district saw, IN THE GARBAGE, an eaten red velvet cheesecake from the cheesecake factory... Coincidence? I think NOT. Can you believe that?? such a joke. Hmm... oh yesterday I Inked myself... that was not too cool haha It ruined a short sleeved shirt, my meshes, and it even stained my skin!!! It looked like I got shot haha... Too bad your not here to get it out mom because you probably would have been able to save it... Unlike me I think I made it worse!! Things that I need.... Hmm.... I think a good pillow would be awesome! the pillows here are like cardboard. I think that maybe a few razors (not electric) would be nice so I can get a smooth one on occasions.. Chips are awesome! Donuts don't always all get eaten... and by the time they get here they are smooched haha but its alright. I seriously just love hearing updates though... I love getting dear elders and hearing about what your up to... I love seeing pictures of you... I love getting packages with just random thoughts of love... if you cant tell by now I MISS YOU GUYS!!!! Keep doing what your doing because Im easily the most loved missionary here. (and the luckiest) Oh and look up a man named Vai Sikahema and read all about him because he is who came and gave the Devo last night. It was so awesome!! He basically just was there to cheer us up and to tell about his life and his mission and to tell how awesome the church is. He is sweet. But I miss you and love you so much! keep being awesome!!!
CON AMOR,

Elder Brock Beyer



MOMM!!!!!!!
Hey so im gonna write you a quick one... I just wante you to know how much i love you. and seriously the time is going by fast i'''m starting my month mark this week!!! WOW. i know for a fact everyone in conference talked to me. Eyring was my favorite Saturday and Neil A Andersen was my favorite yesterday. I dont think ive watched all of sunday session let alone SATURDAYS hahaha its so funny to think but its awesome!


Elder Brock Beyer