Monday, October 28, 2013 "CongratsTroy!!"

HEY HEY HEY!!!

 

CONGRATS TROY!!!!! Smack him in the face though. He told me he was going to wait for me and then didn't.. TOOL... but then give him a hug and tell him good work for working on progressing in the gospel ;) hahah! Hes a good dude! I'm super happy for them! I really thought i was going to get married before Blair AND Troy ;) ;) Just Kidding!!

Tell Everyone Hi and that I love them! Things are really going well right now! I have really no complaints! We have had some AWESOME experiences this week! We have been teaching so much lately haha, E Prochnow and I both are just sitting back and just thanking the Lord, because we aren't doing really anything too special! Its ALL Him. You have no idea how happy it makes me to see His work progress.. It really is, and it really will continue as long as we try and strive to be the best that we can be. These past couple of weeks I have really been reflecting on life, and on my mission and it really has been the greatest experience of my life. I have felt so much growth from the Lord, i cant even believe it! Everything we have really does come from Him.

 

So this Saturday was probably one of the funniest experiences that I have had on my mission haha! Are you ready for this?? We had a CHAPEL OPEN HOUSE! What we did was we had about 7 companionship's down at our church in the busiest section. So we had specific jobs for everyone, and would have some missionaries go and run down on Bloor (One of the busiest streets in Toronto), and they would be running and dragging people into the church! Once they brought the people into the church, we had missionaries and members doing the chapel tours! There were people showing the church and just really helping them understand what we really believe in! After that, we had a table for when the people finished the tour and we would give them lots of free stuff like Book of Mormons, Bibles, Pamphlets, Proclamations to the World and Living Christs, etc etc, and would get their information with a Chapel Comment Card! and they HAD to come to that desk haha, but then they would leave from there and could get some refreshments and leave. In like 3 hours, we found 15 new investigators! It was AWESOME! We really were on fire as a zone and have really seen some great miracles!!! THE LORD LIVES! I love my mission, and have been really loving the fun that we have when we serve the Lord!

 

HEY!! I have a friend from here, named Julio, who is coming to Utah for a couple of months in November and December! He is AWESOME, I am going to make sure he calls you so you can give him some free grub :) Deal?? Hes AWESOME! He is really one of the people that has changed my mission and made it ALL worth it.

 http://ldsvoicesofhope.org/voice.php?v=33#.UmaTKM1Tk-W

that is him, he is seriously the MAN!

 

I love you all. I know God lives. I am convinced that we are in the places we are for a reason. Make a difference in someones life. Whether it be sharing them your testimony, or if you just make them smile. I know happiness is the source of progression. I also know that LOVE is all you need. "ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE" right? The center of our lives should be based on the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the center of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is Christ and His Atonement, and the center of Christ and His Atonement is LOVE. Use it, because it works! I love you all :) Forever and ALWAYS!

 

Elder B Beyer

Monday, October 21, 2013

HEY THERE!!

 

So Andrione is a guy ha ha! Hes from Brazil. I have sent lots of pictures with me and him in them! But yeah he just took a picture and sent it to E Prochnows mom and asked what yours was ha ha! Hes a really good dude! I sent you a picture of him! Hes so awesome!

 

Man, this week was one of miracles... Usually when we write from like Wednesday on P day to the normal one, its like... really really weird and i have nothing to say. But this weekend was INCREDIBLE. Probably one of the most successful ones I have seen on my mission. Its been SO incredible to see the Lords hand in just about everything that we are doing. He really does live and is with us out here as missionaries. The zone has been on an incredibly great growth since E Prochnow and I have been together. We have just see the Lord constantly pushing us again and again to be better. Right now, this last week ( I'M BRAGGING FOR THE WORK THAT THE LORD HAS BLESSED US WITH), we found 55 New investigators and taught about 100 lessons as a zone. SO INCREDIBLE. I know that the Lord is hastening His work. I have absolutely no doubt about that. We all need to be partakers of it as well! YOU DON'T NEED A NAME TAG TO BE A MISSIONARY.

 

A thing that I did the other day, was I started to right down all of the things I have been able to sit in on.. For example, with baby blessings or with baptisms or blessings i have been able to give... and It made me realize how grateful I was for the priesthood and everything that we have in life. I really do know that the Lord blesses us with these things. I was fortunate enough to sit in the circle for a guy that I have helped on my mission for the Mel. Priesthood. It was so incredible. I was so honored to be able to help out with that, because its just so great! I know its the authority of God, given to man to perform HIS work.

 

Helping move the missionaries!

We have been teaching this little guy named Mike. He is 9, and was never baptized. Well, I'm sure we told you the story of how we found him the other day.. But now we have finally gotten to sit down and teach him and we set him with a date for the 3rd of November. He is AWESOME. Such a good little guy! He reminds me of Bubbs. Its so funny. But we have just simplified EVERYTHING to make it make sense to him. But its just been really cool. Yesterday we were at a baptism for someone else and with him as well and he came up to us and was like "Elders I want to get baptized!" We asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up and he said "a missionary in Utah" haha! SO AWESOME! I love the kid. We have another guy named David who is working towards the same day, hes like 24. Its been so incredible to see how MEMBERS are the key in missionary work. We have found both of them on our own efforts, BUT we have gotten members in as fast as possible and THEY are the ones who have made the difference. I know that for a fact. WE ALL NEED TO BE MEMBER MISSIONARIES. I will stress that in every single email until we all start doing it. haha. My favorite thing about Christs gospel, going back to Mike, is its so simple that even children can understand it... Because they are "of the kingdom of God'. Its SO incredible. We just need to recognize that. Its nothing hard, just the simplicity itself brings the greatest divinity to it. I know it changes us too!

 

My testimony has grown so much lately. I feel so close to my Savior and am SO grateful for Him. I feel such a desire to share His message with the world, because its so real. Even when I'm not the best, I know its true.

 

I challenge you ALL to find something to fix in life, and to really make wrongs right with anyone you have wronged and feel the power of the Lord more fully in your life. Just do it.

 

I love you. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. :)

 

Love FOREVER AND ALWAYS,

Elder B Beyer

 

 

I love you Mom :)

Wednesday, October 16, 201

DADS BEARD IS WICKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND WHITE!!!!!!!!!!

 

Do you want my Christmas list?? Pay for some boxes that I can send home... Put money on my account so i can get things for all of you... and.... Nothing else. I don't need anything. I honestly just want new scriptures when i get home... that's all. :) deal?

 

Things are going SO well here!!! I have been so blessed lately to see the things that I have and just to have been able to be in the situations that Ive been in! I am so grateful for the gospel and everything that it brings to us!

 

Just some random stuff here,

 

Can you send me Ashton Reinhold's email?

 

Did you get my photo card that i sent like a few months ago??

 

Tell Caden not to use my Red lacrosse stick.

 

Now with all of those things, those are things that came to my mind this week and i just wrote them down so I didn't have to think about them haha. Let me know, OK?

 

This week was a very cool week! We were able to teach in church this week. it was pretty fun! We go to the gospel principles class for 2nd hour and that's when we taught. Basically its just us, 2 other companionship's, new members and investigators! So we got in there and just taught the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ and were able to watch the restoration video. haha it was really cool. we have just so many people in there and were helping all of them to be able to understand it that much better and clearer! It went really well!

 

One of the coolest experiences of the week were that we were at ESL and this lady came in. We invited her to learn more about the gospel and she said, "you guys only believe in John Smith, or whatever hes called" and we were like come to church and see what we really believe in.. well she came, and it was right in the middle of a talk on the Atonement of Jesus Christ.. Then we just talked more and more about Jesus Christ... Then we gave her a Living Christ article... haha she was like "uhh.. ok.. maybe you do believe in Jesus Christ more than I thought!" It really was a testimony to me that the center of our church and everything IS JESUS CHRIST.

 

I want to share a pretty crazy experience that I had the other day. I went to bed, and it was just normal and then I had a dream. This dream has changed how i look at being a missionary and how I focus every day of this work... I was coming around the corner in the SLC airport and was greeted by my friends and family... It was basically like when Troy came home, but this time it was me.. I embraced you all and was just SO happy to see you, and you were to see me. I went around hugging you and was just so happy and you were all so proud of me.. Then I got to Grandpa Bob.. He gave me a hug and was like "hey Brockster! how are you feeling? Do you feel like you did EVERYTHING that you could out there? did you leave it all on the table?"... I remember thinking about that question, really hard... and for some reason i felt like I couldn't.. I felt like i did a 75 percent job.. decent but not my all... I said "Please just send me back for one more transfer.. I PROMISE I wont let you down I PROMISE!!" and then I looked down and my tag was gone... my clothes were normal... I wasn't a missionary anymore and I couldn't do ANYTHING about it... Ever since then, I have woken and said.. I CANT let that happen... I don't know why I felt I should tell you that, but I promise I wont let you down, and especially I wont let the Lord down. I am so grateful for the blessings of the gospel and I feel that that dream can be applied to ANYTHING that you do... DON'T GIVE A HALF ASKED JOB. WORK HARD TIL THE END. The Lord needs us to work hard in EVERYTHING that we do.

 

My testimony means the world to me, and I am so grateful for it. I love you. Let me know if there is anything that I can do for you :)

 

Forever and Always,

 

Elder B Beyer

Monday, October 7, 2013 "Conference was AWESOME"

HEY!! That last picture gives me the chills! :) I LOVE DHS! I agree with you quickly, tell them to NEVER stop the tradition of going to the stake center, they will get WAY more out of it there then in the house... That's just how it works. E..... has been kind of flaky... he hasn't really showed too much interest lately! But we will try our best still! My comp is eating something like the poutine haha. its called Shwarma Pizza haha!

 

Conference was AWESOME! We went to the church and were there for all the sessions, I think that the Saturday Sessions are probably my favorite ones haha! They are soooooo good! But I really learned many great principles that I need to apply in my life. I know that the Prophet and the Apostles are inspired men of God and that if we live what they teach us we WILL be blessed. Its simple but powerful!

 

We have had some amazing experiences this last week! I hope that I will have time to write them to you, but I might get kicked off of the computer!

 

One of the coolest things that happened was that we started a new game kind of thing in the zone! What we focus on is really trying to invite as many people as possible to come to church, be baptized and things like that! We have made like a chart to measure it, and have been sending out highlights of it! Its has been SO fun!!!! For example, one companionship invited 31 people to be baptized and like 156 to come to church! It was CRAZY! We are really focusing our contacts on commitments! Its been SO great and we hope to see more people come to church and eventually be baptized! Its wonderful in the Ossington Zone right now :)

 

I had a really cool experience this week on the subway! We were just getting done with an exchange with other missionaries and were heading back home. And we started going there and while on the train I saw a guy that looked like an old version of P Lunt.. It was WEIRD and I thought, "Man, I need to contact this guy.." and then I had all these weird thoughts like "NO. DON'T." and whatever, I thought.. "I don't think the Lord wouldn't want me to talk with His children.. What If I promised THIS GUY in the preexistence that I would talk to him and share the gospel with him.??"" and Then counted down from 5 and went for it. "Hey How are you?" then he said "I'm great! Do you have a book for me?".... I'm not kidding, it was one of the coolest experiences of my mission. We just talked about the Book of Mormon and I gave him an overview of what we believe! It really helped me understand that we all have specific purposes in life and we need to help others to gain the purpose of the gospel. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. I know this work is real, and true. I have No doubt about it. One of my favorite lines from conference was "Sharing the gospel is a BLESSING, NOT A BURDEN". I hope we can always remember that. They focused A LOT on missionary work and especially in the stand point of members... LET GET ON TOP OF IT EH?? Find ways at home to share the gospel with ANYONE around you, and I promise you will be happier in life. JUST DO IT.

I love you all. I know this work is REAL, and its GODS.

 

Forever and Always,

 

Elder B Beyer :D