Monday, August 26, 2013

HELLOOOOO!!!

 

Wowww.. I'm SO glad that everything worked out with Blair! That is SO awesome! Tell them congrats for me and that I wish them the best. That is really great! Caden is great ha ha those pictures are nuts!

 

Everything is going really great. We had some great experiences these last couple of weeks! The coolest thing that I wanted to share is just that a few times over the course of 3 weeks I really have felt the Saviors love and appreciation for what we do as missionaries. I really do know that He loves us and if we work hard, no matter what He is pleased. When I left Barrie, I felt His love and His gratitude. When we helped some people in our zone, I felt it as well. I know that the Lord is SO happy with what we have done and that is hands down the thing that makes being a missionary worth it.

I know that the Priesthood is real. I have experienced the power of it and have seen lives change and really have come to know that we are beyond blessed for having it in our lives. We have been really lucky to be able to grow from experiences to exercise our priesthood.

 

I want to add a part into this letter from President Scott's this last week... It really is a great one and helped me realize a few things about life.

"I heard a story recently that some of you are probably familiar with. It illustrates the value of the time we are given each day. I will reference part of it below. It says, “Imagine that each morning your bank would deposit $86,400 in your private account for your use. However, this gift has rules, just as any game has certain rules. Rule 1) Everything that you don’t spend during each day will be taken away from you. You may not simply transfer money into some other account. You may only spend it. Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $86,400 for that day. Rule 2) The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say, the game is over! It can close the account and you will not receive a new one. Ask yourself what you would do with this wonderful gift. Would you buy anything and everything you wanted? Would you buy things for your friends and family? Would you even buy things for people you don’t know? The options may vary but you would undoubtedly try and spend every cent every day because otherwise it would be gone forever. In reality we do receive a similar gift each morning. We can’t see it like the money in our bank account but it is very valuable and precious. It is our time. Each morning we awaken to receive 86,400 seconds as a gift of life, and when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is not credited to us. It is forever lost.  So, what will you do with your 86,400 seconds?” "

 LIVE LIFE TO ITS POTENTIAL!!! ITS GREAT :) :) :)

 

The City has been great as usual. I'm really really happy to be back. We have been playing like a game, that you have to speak with 2 people EVERY bus, subway and train that we take... MAN its challenging sometimes but its SO fun ha ha. Its made it a good way of measuring that we are working hard, rather than just going through the motions!

 

Sorry this letter is short, nothing too crazy, but I really don't have much to say other than that I LOVE being a missionary and am so grateful for the chances Ive had to see the Lords hand in my life. I love the Savior and know He is real, and feel true sorrow for the people who don't have Him in their lives, because His love is real. I know it. I have felt it, and hope that ALL people can feel it as well.

 

Have a good week! Be happy and positive! its worth it :)

 

Forever and Always,

 

Elder B Beyer

 

Monday, August 19, 2013 "Exhausted!"

HEY HEY HEY!!!

Carsen really does look way tiny!! ha ha COACH! Tell him hi and that I

love him! He's a great guy! ha ha and whats funny is that, I ALWAYS have been

saying Start Fast Finish Strong and that's been a motto Ive been using for

the time being! Ironic. haha.

The city is GREAT ha ha it hasn't changed a BIT! The apartment is the same,

the church and the ward is the same. The zone has changed A LOT! There are

so many different people and stuff, but its SOOOO GOODD still! I love it!

The rush is intense, and I come home every single night EXHAUSTED haha! its

pretty ridiculous at times but I really really love it that's for sure! One

thing that has been really good is just being with a really really chill

comp again! This guys like my twin ha ha he's so similar to Cade miller its

not even funny!!!

Honestly I'm out of time to email ha ha I will try my best to get some more

stuff in, but I just want you to know that a testimony comes from God and

not from knowledge.. There are many people in the world who try to PROVE

that God is there or try to PROVE that the Book of Mormon is true from

facts.. but really when it comes down to it the way to do so is by praying

and asking God for that revelation. I know it. I was having a really hard

time in English work because I got caught in the habit of showing where it

the bible it proved this and that... but now I really do know that it is

all from Him above. I challenge all of you just to simply pray and ask for

strength and guidance.. not try to PROVE how it'll come or what not... but

just to see how a relationship with Him will do that. :)

forever and Always,

Elder B Beyer :) :)

Monday, August 12, 2012 "Back to Toronto"

HEYEYEYEY!! :) :) :) :)

How are you all doing?? ERRY TING IRY? (Jamaican Slang) hhaa! So I've got some transfer news for you.. I'M GOING BACK TO TORONTO hahaha!!! To the exact area that I was at before! I'm STOKED! hahah I'm going to be with a guy from Morgan UT, named E Prochnow haha he was trained by E Steele too! Its going to be really fun! I have been using the exercise ball haha I got one last week, but yeah its been really great! I have been DYING ha ha my core is weak as weak gets haha! But I'm excited to get that rolling haha! Oh funny story actually! haha so we have been going into the Physio lately because of my back, and during it the people have been asking us about what we do... well... as I have been getting everything done with me we have just been teaching the people haha, and all 3 of them so far have gotten Mormon.org cards and we are going to be following up with them tonight haha! How funny is that? Its really laid back, not like normal teaching, but its just sharing the things we do and saying that we know they are true! Its great stuff!

We have been teaching quite a bit lately.. we range from about 10 to 15 lessons, on a good week! Its been good.

We have been working HARD CORE with this family from Portugal. They are AWESOME! They are Catholic, like most people are, and they really just have been the greatest people ever! We have been teaching them for about 3 weeks now and they came to church this last week for the first time :) its was SO awesome! Its a father, mother, son and daughter and they really are just SUPER great! We have actually eaten at their house once and go like 2 or 3 times a week to teach them! Its been super great, I think finding and teaching families is the greatest part about missionary work HANDS DOWN!

Zone Training Meeting was a great experience this last week.. We did the normal thing and it was like 2 1/2 hours, and things went really well. And then at the end we did something a little different! It might seem really cheesy, cause it kind of seems that way, But it was really really SPIRITUAL. We went into the gym where the font is, and we had it full. and that was like the only light in the gym on, so it was just SUPER bright. and we just were trying to reflect on our missions. We read our missionary commission and we just talked about our desires, and then had a musical number "When I am Baptized" and then just had a few testimonies.. it was one of the most spiritual experiences of my mission. The zone has really really been doing well from all of it and it seems that the missionaries are just PUMPED to baptize! I LOVE IT.

I am really grateful for the gospel. I really am. I know its true, and it helps us to become the people we could never become without it. I love it so much.

I hope that you all have a WONDERFUL week and that things are just going great!

Forever and Always,

Elder B. Beyer :)

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 "August already?"

HEY HEY!

Wow. I cant honestly believe that it is August already... YIKES.. can you believe that? I'm grateful though because it is seriously starting to cool down and this is my FAVORITE time of the year, fall. Because its not too hot and not too cold ha ha. I hope that it stays this way because the winters here are BAD! haaha too much.

This is Brock showing the name of a guy in our ward that left his name!
It is in the apartment by the mission home.  Look close and it says Norton!

To begin, things with my back are getting much better... I really don't think that it is all that bad as of right now because of some recent events. I have been doing physiotherapy lately and it is working hard core! I feel a lot better, my back doesn't hurt as bad because they are having me work out more and trying to strengthen it! They basically think its because I went from lifting as much as I did to nothing.. then to just straight walking as my only form of exercise hahah... so yeah I have to tool it up again I guess! I weighted in at 175 this last week, so I guess that's another sign to actually do something in the morning workout ha ha! anyways...

Things in the mission life are going peachy! I feel like this has been one of the greatest things ever. I honestly feel just like... i dunno, giddy to work ha ha! Its been weird lately. Sometimes its really hard, but since Ive been working out again I seem to have more energy and its just been great weather and the work is really starting to come along! I LOVE IT!

The other day we were speaking with a member from our ward. He is a GREAT guy, we think that he's going to be a mission president some day ha ha he's awesome. But he was talking about member missionary work and how its seriously the best form of finding, teaching and everything along those lines... if members don't do it... well the work doesn't progress. because in all reality when the missionaries leave, they re gone.. but the members stay there! They are the center to it all. And from the broadcast that we saw the other day (Work of Salvation) clearly we also see that there are other means of providing our very own "member missionary work" just thinking about it.. Utah its pretty tough to find non members... but I can think of some off the top of my head.. if you don't feel "comfortable" enough.. who cares, just do it. There are also means of doing it such as REACTIVATION... cough cough... DO IT! we need to all be on board with the great work. We have plenty of people to help, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN OUR OWN FAMILY. Now I've said this probably 10 times in some emails... and NOBODY has reported back to me on how that is going... I would LOVE to hear how that is going... seriously. We need to help EVERYONE come back to the fold.

Well... Tomorrow is Zone Training. We are really excited to get these missionaries excited :) Its the best thing in the WHOLE WORLD!

I love you all. Just smile. its worth it.

Forever and Always,

Elder B Beyer