Monday, September 30, 2013

Hey THERE!

CADENS HAIR IS AWESOME :)  ha ha and SOOOOO LONG!!! I didn't really know that it was that long ha ha! That's so crazy! Give Pook a smack on the back and a hug for me!!! I'm SO proud of that dude! When did Caden obtain the nickname Seabear? ha ha it works, but Ive never heard it haha! Oh and if you haven't sent me a package, send me squeeze cheese and club crackers :)

 

Well this week was pretty awesome! We made this sausage called Chorizo and then we had a small party for our investigators haha! It was super Fun! We had a few come in our area, and its just been super good overall! Working with the members has seemed like the most effective thing I've done on my mission. We will just pass by like every once and a while and help them increase their knowledge on how to help their friends receive the gospel.

 

I think one of my favorite things in my mission has just been Administering and really teaching people how to become better. Its my FAVORITE thing in the world. I don't know if I told you this (I thought you would like this mom haha, I don't know why but still :) haha) but the Normal week here for us is this:

 

MONDAY: P Day 10-6

TUESDAY: District Meeting 10:30am (and we go there WAY earlier and take the bus and subway, and we have to study on the bus and stuff,  its pretty fun! ha ha) and

WEDNESDAY: 2 District Meetings 10:30am (they are at the same church, and my comp and I split up and go to both of them and just rotate weekly on who goes where)

THURSDAY: Weekly Planning

FRIDAY: Just a NORMAL day :)

SATURDAY: ESL at 1030am, Ward Coordination at 1

SUNDAY: CHURCH :) :) :) at 1

 

That is the life for us here in Ossington Zone haha! It's been super fun! I love it and have really enjoyed it. And then we have just random things here and there occasionally like soccer nights, MCC's (working with Stake Presidency), MLCs (Mission Leadership Councils w/ President & Sister Scott, Assistants and other Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders), and whatever else the zone really needs! Its super awesome :)

 

We are working with a bunch of random people right now! We had a pretty cool experience with a former from the sisters! This guy named Edwin, has been taught since I was here the first time... and he really just stopped progressing because he wouldn't get baptized. He moved into our area and we just were like "Lets teach him!" well.. he text us and told us to meet him at the church, and we just started going at it! Now, I'll tell you... there are a lot of times where I have just been teaching and I feel decent with Spanish... but when you can feel the Lord helping you, its like its your mother tongue! ITS CRAZY. You don't know what to think ha ha. But we got to the point where we just went to the font and just talked about it, and told him to picture himself in the font, and what it would mean for him to be completely cleansed of his sins... and promised him that if he prayed right there on the spot to receive an answer that he NEEDED to be baptized, that he would receive one.. and he prayed SO simply.. nothing too intense... and we just sat there... for about 2 minutes in silence... and my companion asked him "how do you feel?" and he said... "I have to be baptized.." It was pretty powerful for us, and we read Mosiah 26:18 with him.. I suggest you read it and the rest of that chapter.. I love being a missionary. We literally have the greatest opportunity in the world to influence people to become INCREDIBLE through the gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that it changes people, I know God lives. I have never been so happy in my entire life :)

 

Let me know if there is anything that I can do for any of you! Tell Kenz, "Suerte Prima :) espero que te vaya muy tranquila ahi con mucha seguridad y paz! NO TE OLVIDES DE COMPARTIR EL EVANGELIO AHI CON LA GENTE! Y busca a la familia Trujillo ahi tambien, son cheveres, sus hijos viven en mi barrio aca! Paz y Amor! TU PRIMO FAVORITO Elder B Beyer!"

 

I love you all! Don't do anything stupid, and just live the Gospel for crying out loud.. Its a guide line to happiness, I promise you.

Forever and Always,

 

Elder B Beyer

Monday, September 23, 2013 "So Grateful!"

HEYYY!!!!

 

Those are some pretty awesome pictures I'm not gonna lie! haha that's so crazy that Jason and Jessica have kids now and that Kendall came home haha! SOOO WEIRDD!!!

 

I would love to hear about some of the people you are teaching right now.

 

Right now we are teaching this lady named K., Shes from Chile. Shes awesome! WE have been really trying to help her to gain a testimony about the Book of Mormon. The coolest thing is that with her the only way we have gotten across to her is through testimony. Its been a "testimony builder" (get it? haha) that testimonies are pretty important to share in all of this!

We are also teaching a guy named G. who was a professional soccer player in Colombia!

We have a few potentials on their way too :) from members!

 

How many lessons do you get to teach a week?

 

We average like 6 to 7? sometimes more, sometimes less. Different than English work for sure

 

Do you get to interact with the ward a lot?

Yep. All the time. Right now we are really trying to work with them and to get the member work going we are thinking that in a few weeks or so we should be finding TONS of new investigators! We have had like 2 members come up and say they want us to teach their friends, its been pretty neat!

 

That's basically Toronto! We are STAYING, both of us!! One of the Assistants called last night and was like "E Prochnow, you're staying and your new companion is... E Beyer.... haha" We thought we were leaving and were TICKED haha. But now all its well!

We also made this food called Chorizo, its a Brazilian Sausage, and we made it for another ward party for next Saturday! We are really hoping that it turns out well. I'm really happy to be staying and really happy to be in this area! This is transfer 5 here :) hahah YEAHHH BUDDDYYY!! Its been SO good!

 

The past little while I have been really reflecting on my mission, and the past little while.. and I have been reading my journal and seeing the growth and just the change overall.. I just want to say that I am SO grateful that I came on a mission. Its so awesome. My favorite thing is just helping others out and having them understand that this message is true! BECAUSE IT IS!!! :)

 

I love you. Sorry my letters stinks
.. I really have NO IDEA what to say in them.

 

Elder B. Beyer

Monday, September 16, 2013 "ETTE"

HEY HEY!!

What types of activities do you do on p-day? Basketball, chair soccer, go to downtown, eat.. really nothing too crazy!!

How is the language going? SO good, I feel really good. I just want to express myself better, and have a bigger vocab

In your ward do you interpret? No, pure Spanish 

Tell me more about your companion. HE'S AWESOME 

Do you get along great with him? yes we do really WELL, except when I'm lame and bug him

What are his likes? Football and sports :) and acting like my little brother

What was your greatest moment this week? Probably... when we were able to help some of the members do missionary work and really focus on the missionary mindset! it was great!

CHASE AND JESSICA HAD A BABY???!!!

"We are going to write 5 things each day of what we are thankful for as a family" Do you want to know something funny?? ha ha this is a goal that I have and have been really working on for the past week now! It makes you really grateful for what you have and its just WAY great to have!

 

Well... like everything else in Toronto this is a quick email ha ha! Mom when were my grandparents baptized?? At what age? Who were the pioneer for our families??

 

Things are going really well! We had so much fun this last week, just really working hard and it went really quick because we went on 2 exchanges with other missionaries! It was so fun! One of the missionaries is named Elder Binford and I  have been serving near him for probably like 5 months now! Its been super great! It was a fun and fast week of training missionaries, getting Districts excited and just really doing the work of the Lord! We ended up in some GHETTO area haha so bad that we got the impression to skidaddle hahahah! soooo nuts! buts its been super fun!

 

Honestly... My favorite thing about my mission is just teaching people the restoration and promising them blessings about all of that... and when they act on those promises and they come true. I know that we are in the work of the LORD and its been SO fun! its probably the funnest thing I've ever done and I'm just... HAPPY... I have really no complaints right now... :) ETTE (Endure to the End)

Work hard. Be happy. This life is incredible :) don't waste it worrying :)

 

Loves forever and always,

 

Elder B Beyer :D

Monday, September 9, 2013 "I'm SO good"

HEY THERE!!!

How is everything??? I LOVED the letter! It sounds like you are all doing SO good, and I'm SO glad to hear that :) things out here are going really well! I'm honestly loving it Right now! We are working SUPER hard and just trying new means of finding the prepared! We have been passing by members and just helping them get STOKED about missionary work and also to just really really think about some people that they know who need the gospel and can think of them through questions such as "Who has recently lost a loved one?" or "recently moved in?" etc... and its going REALLY well! the members are getting excited and they are really loving it! its been SO fun!

This last week we got to go down to a Zone Conference with 2 other zones, and just listen to President and Sister Scott instruct and The Assistants! It was really fun! The biggest message was to get the members on the same page as us, as well as making sure that we push ourselves to truly be better everyday! President Scott said that the biggest way of having success and the thing that has helped him the most in life is this "to be better tomorrow than you are today" and he said "if you do that, by the time you reach 70 you'll be a pretty good person!". He really is an awesome guy, I have learned SO much under his council, and have really been applying his teachings into my life! I love it!

Honestly.. I NEVER know what to say... ha ha... Well this week I did... Missionary work?? ha ha its been fun just talking to TONS of people and working to the end! Enduring to the End is KEY with everything!

My companion and I are really growing and learning great elements of life together, its been really great! I have learned so much recently of what my purpose is and why i need to work hard.. its been really fun to serve with him! We have been finding new investigators and its been super fun!

I think one of the best concepts in life is to be yourself. The Lord made you the way you are for a reason, and you really can get across to people much faster if you are yourself, being a leader that is one of the biggest things i think i have learned.. If I am Elder Beyer, they are going to respect Elder Beyer's opinion, not just some written piece of advice... if that makes sense? I love it! Just be yourself, and just see what happens from there! Its the BOMB :)

Let me know if there is anything I can do for you guys.. and ask questions if you want my letters to be better ha ha.. I feel like I never know what to say to you ha ha! I love you all.

 

Elder B Beyer :D

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

HEY!!!

 

I LOVED those pictures!! I honestly have wanted to write Taylor SO badly but I don't have his address or email :(( those were AWESOME pictures though! I really loved them! It was really good to see all those things!

 

Honestly I really don't have too much time to write you all right now.. but I will try and get things happening with the fingers. ha ha

 

This week has been great, I

have really had some good experiences to grow and just make things a lot better!

 

The missionaries in our ward got to organize a big old party together for the whole ward and everyone came and there were TONS of people! it was SO fun ha ha! We had like big speaker, tons of food and just TONS of random stuff haha! I LOVED it. I'm so Spanish at heart!

 

We got to get the zone together and have a Zone training meeting, and it went really well! We have just really been focusing on GROWTH and we set a goal as a zone to baptize 11 people in the month of September! its been really great to just feel the unity, focus and love in the Zone and that is seriously the biggest thing that we are focusing on there. Its been really GREAT!

 

I love my mission. I had the opportunity to reflect back on it the other day and i was really grateful.. I thought of my 2 favorite songs "Redeemer of Israel" and "Called to Serve" and just thought about the mission i have served... I am SO grateful for my mission. I love it so much and it means the WORLD to me.

I'm really sorry that this is so short, but in the city we really don't have that much time to write emails ha ha... but just know that I know that the Lord lives, I really do know that. And I am so grateful for the mission I have been on.

 

Forever and Always,

 

Elder B. Beyer