Monday, August 28, 2012 "Things get a little crazy!!"

This picture was taken by a member in Kitchener Canada!!!

MAma!

She sent it on Saturday!  They were practicing to sing in church.

Hey hey hey! SOOO everything here is going much better, that is for sure! so I have some funny stories for you guys this week!! So Kitchener is CRAZYYY!! The people here really are like funny... But I need to explain some things first.. so this last week we moved! and we now live in this attic but its pretty cool, this computer is weird so I will send them next week! But seriously its sweet! I love it! the only thing that I didn't love was moving everything haha it was a pain! and it took like 2 days!!!! What a waste of time eh? But whenever we didn't have anything we would walk these parks near our house and it was safe... for the most part I guess but now when we are walking around its a JOKE haha. We live right out of downtown Kitchener!!! ha ha like when we walk down, downtown its crazy ha ha! This place has given me some of the weirdest stories ever! like we were walking the other day just chatting with this guy right and then we were parting ways and he asked were I'm from... so I said the states... then this other guy hears that and goes off haha! He was like "those mother $#^(*)#, with their fat bellies in the states, always #(*&^$#@(^ @)(#$^(....." and then just kept going off of that haha and he wouldn't look at us but was walking right in front of us.  But this other guy was coming from the opposite way and he was crazy looking haha (homeless, long hair, filthy stache, and cig in his ear haha) and he just stops... and looks at this guy and watches him walk by and looks at us super confused and is like "man, that's one unhappy camper!" and keeps on walking hahaha! So this story might not be funny but just imagine how random that was haha!!!! It was soo funny. and then right after that we were walking and this like 40 year old guy was like "hey Mormons, Mormons, I mean morons... yeah morons" and we were like what the heck ha ha? It was a weird night that's for sure!

This place is just sooo different! Like yesterday we were walking around Waterloo park and in the middle this Indian people wearing their like veils and stuff were like blasting their poonjabbi music and like playing cricket haha how random!!!! Its insane. I got a bunch of random ties already! I'm starting to get a good collection :).... hmmm this week was sweet in terms of service! We totally hit up like 4 or 5 hours of it! I went and bought these steezy Velcro kicks for it haha they are sooo funny! I bet people when they see me are like man... that kid was either pampered, or home schooled hahaha or maybe both!! They are so funny though!

Things are starting to pick up! we have been finding people like crazy! and now we are hopefully going to help them get baptized!!! Like currently we have 2 people who have came to church the past 2 weeks... so I don't know what might happen with that! We have this lady name Ana and her 2 daughters ... holy cow.... SO PREPARED! Like the only reason she couldn't come to Church is work... guess what... got a new job!!!!! So she is totally going to come now! and like she just is SO awesome! So in need of the happiness and... YEAH! I am stoked for it that's for certain! I will keep you posted :).

The Spanish is getting much better, I can understand A LOT more... but the thing about it is its still tooo fast for me to understand it all but I can get the jest of it! that's pretty sweet! I think I'm starting to get converted to Canadian English hahaha like when i say things like an American it sounds wrong haha like here they say stuff like... PRO cess for process... and I'm totally converted to eh, eh? haha its good stuff. I have a random wart on my thumb... I have ripped it off like 3 times and now its bigger... sooo... yeah ha ha that's pretty cool? I dunno! Its hard to explain everything I'm doing because it really is like a blur haha it FLYS! Like we start week 4 of this transfer... HOLY SMOKES! its crazy!! Well ppppss... I love you much! keep me posted on like T Mitch, I miss that guy :( but yeah I seriously feel like Ive changed so much here.. its all so different! just send my stuff to the office... I don't think we are supposed to send things to our houses anyways but yeah its no big deal haha I can wait! I just don't get letters anymore! That's kinda crappy! but the lord will figure something out for me yeah? I love you all :) keep smiling, even if it brings wrinkles ;)

Forever and always,

Elder Beyer :D

Monday, August 20, 2012 "We are moving"

MA!

Those updates are great ha ha! I loved um! This last week was a really solid one! So I don't really know what to update you one back because it really is the same old routine out here, we wake up, study, get out, and WALK! ha ha this past week has really made me realize A LOT.... Because in Mississauga, I was constantly on the phone... constantly talking to people and constantly trying to improve our lessons... but here you really CANT ha ha..... the people we are teaching are basically ALL DIVORCED LADIES!!!!! So we cant go into their houses, and they work sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much haha.... the only guys we teach we can meet with only once a week too... sooo its sooo different! We walk to find people and sometimes we don't find a single person haha... its been REALLY different... its hard not to get discouraged you know? It's like I'm in a little cage and Satan has a stick and is poking the crap out of me non stop hahah..... I have so much time just to think.. and he gets in there and works on me. Its like the MTC all over again but here we are walking about a half marathon everyday...( if you think I'm kidding I'm really not hahah, we measured it last time) haha it really is CRAZY!!! 

But that is the average day... so the first couple days this week were, to me, days of wasting the lords time.. because for some reason you just feel like you are if you aren't teaching and talking to tons of people... BUT on Friday we started pickin it up... we got like 5 lessons that day and we were on fire! We ended up having 2 investigators come to our awesome branch this week and it was AHHH!! SOOO AWESSSOOMMEEE!!!!! We had this ward picnic on Saturday as well and we had 3 investigators go to that.. its a mom and her 2 daughters, when the missionaries found her she was lookin for a church but she just had to work A LOT! She applied for this job, the other day, and if she gets it she wont be working anymore on Sundays!!!! and after this ward picnic, she is SUPER interested! So we seriously are close to helping some people out! 

We are moving!!! We're going to this attic of some member, and its really a cool place! Its got a way old school feel to it, UHH you know how I love old/modernized buildings... its GNARRLLLY! :) haha but seriously its going to be insanely cool! But the other day we saw a tranny across the street there soo :/ that might be a little sketchy haha hopefully we don't run into him in the later hours of  the day eh? haha sooo I forgot to say this but in the new district we have like 10 missionaries?? I believe? but they are all cool but there is one named elder Dewey! I love him, such a good guy! But turns out his dad is like the churches artist! how cool is that? and his dad is SOO GOOD haha I have so many of his pictures at our place! but his name is Simon Dewey... he's insanely good! I think his art is on last months ensign?? I think.. I'm not sure though! 

Seriously the Spanish is getting better.... its SO hard!!! hahah I hate it but love it! I've always wanted to learn Spanish but its sooooooo difficult... missionaries who go to foreign countries have it easy haha I bet they learn it in months!! because its all they hear!! here, I'm constantly switching back and forth, so its slow. but it really is coming haha I feel way better about it! but yeahh... nothin too crazy here haha I love you guys so much :) oh in this weeks letter from the president there was this quote : “Satan doesn't care if you think highly of yourself or poorly of yourself, as long as you're thinking of yourself.  As long as we allow Satan to focus our attention inward, we defer to him the victory. Be it through the false pride of accrediting ourselves for achievement, growth, and learning rather than the Lord, or through worthless feelings of inadequacy and complacency, he will exert his power and influence on every front to dilute our motivation, frustrate our best efforts, and hamper our success.” I thought it was soooooo good so I thought I'd share it! haha I love you guys so much! I feel your love here in the crazy great white, and I cant thank you enough for your prayers :) I love you so much!

Forever and Always,

Elder Beyer ;)

Monday, August 13, 2012 "Walking, Walking and Walking"

MAMMAAA!!! FAMILY!

What is goin on?? I'm glad you guys had so much fun on the cruise! Sounds like Connie's fun just was so overwhelming that the old skirt couldn't stay on hahah! That's funny stuff. This week was Different! Holy... it was super strange but way good! So what it the most different thing is walking... walking... walking... and guess what else? If you said walking you are right! haha So why its so different is because in Mississauga we would go to a busy corner right and wait. Here there aren't busy corners... at all... so we walk EVERYWHERE and look for the people! Its been super different, I go to sleep every night completely wrecked from the day.. its crazy! SO I'm going to talk about the places... so we cover 4 cities. Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, and Guelph haha.. I have been to all but Guelph... and they are all so cool! Downtown Kitchener and Uptown Waterloo are basically right next to each other but at the same time they aren't so that's why they are different cities but at the same time everyone says they are basically one. But they are so cool! Pretty old buildings, modernized and just look super sweet and they are way cool! It looks like Salt lake in a way, but SLC Is better ;) but anyways its really a way cool place! There is one bad thing... There is seriously a bar on every corner haha... like no joke... and the people here are hammered basically 24/7... so they hate us "Mormon boys" and they don't want anything to do with us! But its not that bad.. in both uptown Waterloo and downtown Kitchener there are parks.... both of them are sooo cool! If you can look up Victoria park in Kitchener... oh my! IT AWESOME! We spend a lot of time lookin for people there and are constantly looking for some Spanish speakers!

So currently we are living in this basement but we have to move out of there by next week or so? So I haven't really even unpacked and I don't know the address.... it really is probably easier just to send it to the mission home! So you can do that :) I don't mind waiting haha my patience has grown greatly out here haha! So the ward out here is way cool! Its a branch so its small but they are soooo cool! And everything is in Spanish!!!! so I can practice it up haha! The only bad thing is, is that they all work tons so we aren't able to have them come to lessons which is hard because that makes it better and all of our investigators are like older divorced women so we cant go in! But oh well... the Lord will figure something out! So hahaha yesterday was probably the weirdest experience of my whole mission! we were walking right... and this lady gets out of this car and was like "boys wait! I have something for you!" and she goes off and gives us these prayer papers to be "born again and saved" so we were like what the heck and we were talking with her and she was SUPER crazy haha she started mumbling and saying creepy words and she said it was the gift of tongues and said we had demons in us! So we were like this lady is crazy haha and we were walking away and she put her hand on elder Mejia's head and started mumbling stuff and was "ridding him of the demons" hahha it was super creepy but way funny, I cant really explain it good but it was weird! so after that we were talking with her son too and they were just super weird and said how our church was wrong and some how prayer came up and they asked to pray with us... so she grabbed my hand and we were in this circle thing and me and elder Mejia sat there confused and she was like "father, baptize these boys with your spirit, that they may know they are wrong... etc etc" and her son was mumbling under his breath weird stuff haha so it was weird and me and elder Mejia were laughing towards the end and broke it off and said we need to go, and when we did that she said to elder Mejia "you have 39 demons and you have 69" I was so confused haha... it was the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me, soo please pray for me that the demons will leave me! haha but anyways yeah, its been good, I ask elder Mejia like 30 questions an hour of Spanish things and its starting to make so much more sense to me! I am pretty excited about it! i hope it gets better! Well... i love you all so much! Keep up the good work! You're awesome!

forever and always,

Elder Beyer :D

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 "I'm out of Sauga"

Mamasita y familia!

 

SOOOOO, I'M GONE! I'm out of Sauga :( haha I'm actually happy at the same time but it still kinda it rough! I loved it there! Its way big, lots of people and soooo much diversity! I loved it! Now... I'm in a place called Kitchener! It is TINY haha it really is so small, especially compared to Mississauga! in our area we are covering about 3 other cities and they are Waterloo and uhh... I don't remember the other but yeah, they are all pretty small! It was a lot easier to throw all my things into a bag because I didn't worry about the weight ha ha so that was a plus! My new companion is Elder Mejia! He seems like a pretty cool guy! His family is from Mexico but they live in Seattle right now, but they are still native speakers and it was his first language! So I'm hoping that my Spanish might improve! He speaks WAY fast and it really is way hard to understand but we'll see I guess! 

 

Umm.. yeah I dunno really too many crazy stories! This last week it rained Hippos and Elephants and I was Drenched ha ha! By the time we ran to our car it was a waste because we were dripping wet! So we just kept on tracting and knockin on the doors haha I think people thought we were insane! Some said stuff like "do you ever stop?" haha it was pretty sweet, it was pretty funny too when we would hand them these soaking wet cards and they were just destroyed but still were preachin and spreadin the good word no matter what!!!! One of  the coolest experiences of my mission so far though was going on exchanges with the Zone Leaders again! I was fortunate enough to go with Elder Somerfeldt! He is from Alberta Canada and has been out for just over a year and he is SO awesome! He talks to everyone and works sooooo hard, but makes it fun still! It made me realize we need to let loose and have fun but still be missionaries!!! We had A LOT of lessons and were able to speak with tons of people but one of the coolest things that I've ever done was this... we were able to teach this Hungarian family ok.. a Mother, Father and 11 year old son. The mother and father can't speak English at all and their little boy would translate. But not only that but we had to use Google translation to be able to communicate with them!! It was pretty crazy! So we would translate and teach through that and the little boy and it was just back and forth. We taught them some English in the mean time too but talked about blessings because the mom is prego! I thought she was going to pop right then and there!! She was having contractions and was in a lot of pain and elder Somerfeldt gave the little boy a blessing, then I gave the dad one and after he gave the mom one.... it was SO intense... SO spiritual too! So he dropped the spirit into them and everything... so listen to this, we left and just went and did our thing and we found out the next day that she went into labor and got to the hospital, had the baby and was back home in only 4 hours...... if that's not God's helping hand I don't know what is! It was a testimony builder to the power of blessings and the priesthood for sure! All and all that exchange was one of my favorite ones! They live in this little house with the assistants to the president so I was able to talk to them more! They are way cool guys, and guess what I found at their house?? One of Chase Norton's tags haha! It was pretty cool! 

 

This week was a good one, I love Elder Steele a lot.. ,but now I kind of miss him. He was a good guy for sure, helped me out a lot! But yeah, this is where the lord needs me so yeah haha I better work hard! I hope all is well, I love getting your guys updates! They make me super happy! I'm glad you guys are stayin the incredible family that you are! :) Keep it up! You're always in my thoughts and prayers! I love you :)

 

Forever and Always!

 

Elder Beyer