Monday, January 13, 2014 "Time is Flying"

Those are CRAZY pictures ha ha! I was in aw when I saw all of them!

How is your zone doing?

Super GOOD right now we are still on the upward climb right now and there are some really good things happening here! We are really working hard and the zone is doing the same thing. The District Leaders are really helping us out to make everyone stay on the same page with everything as well.
Are they catching the vision of working hard?

Absolutely. They are doing incredibly.
Did you know Carsen's new companion that came from the Toronto Stake?

Yeah what's funny is, he is a recent convert.. and I don't know if he did for sure, but I think Elder Rogers my previous companion in Barrie was there for his baptism.. I'm not sure though. But E Bramwell went teaching all the time with Jamari, and I was there for his farewell because it was at Stake Conference. I tried to go and talk to him but he was swarmed with people haha. Pretty cool eh? Small world when you're Mormon!
What is the funniest thing that happened this week?

Hmm.. Well we tracted a door and this Polish lady answered and then her Indian (From India) Husband came over and they started talking to each other "Behind our backs" in Chinese and Elder Bramwell started talking to them haha. It was pretty weird. More like "What the Heck?" kind of moment but still really funny.
What is the most spiritual thing that happened this week?

We have been teaching a lot of people and they are really understanding the Gospel. One is a kid named Isaac and he is doing great. He wants to go to BYU and is working with us to understand more about what we believe as Mormons. Its just really fun to look at someone and promise them that there is something better if they ACT. I think that is the biggest thing that was incredible, promising him that living the Word of Wisdom will bless him so much.

Thanks for sending me some questions to answer, it makes it so much easier to write letters that way haha. I honestly never know what to say when we sit down for emails anymore haha. I really don't. The week has been great and I know that some miracles are about to occur here in London!

This last week we had a really great meeting with the entire zone. We met together and got everyone rallied around the idea of being more unified and really doing our best every single day. It was cool because going in, we had some good amounts of unity in the zone, but leaving it we were like "Team London". It was great because we had the District Leaders get up there and discuss some important things that could really benefit us as individuals as well as companionship's. 

We are really starting to see the momentum switch and really start to be something incredible. I think my favorite thing about it all is when we are up there instructing there is just a HUGE amount of missionaries sitting up there and we have them all working towards the cause of becoming better. Its great.

Well the time is FLYING. I really cant believe how fast it goes sometimes and just cant believe that we have been as fortunate as we have been lately to see the blessings in our lives. The Lord is really hastening His work and I know that all of have the blessing of being a part of it! I love you all so much!

Forever and Always,

Elder B Beyer

Monday, January 6, 2014 "Move the Needle"

HEY THERE!!!!

 

Mom, something really funny is that I memorized that scripture already and I recite it to myself lots. I love that scripture. Its the best one to share with people going through a hard time. I love it.(John 14:27)

 

Man, I laughed SO hard about that story of Caden at Pepper Bellys hahah, I thought it was so funny! 

 

How were your leadership meetings this week?

 It was really good. We stayed the night at the Kitchener Zone Leaders apt, so E Prochnow and E Parker. haha it was really fun! But the whole meeting went great, we got some really good insight on how we will be able to improve the zone a little more and it seems that everything will be very applicable to what we have planned up to now.

Have you gotten any new investigators?

 We have found a few new this week yes. The way we do is mainly through tracting. I love it so much. Its so fun.

 

How is the garbage in the living room and you taking a few things each day?

 That night we walked into the house and threw it all away haha. Its been out since Christmas. Its really great now though, the Spirit can be felt :)

What do you think of your ward?

 I love it, the Bishop and Bishopric are incredible. They have a HUGE missionary focus and they are working on making it happen now. I really enjoy the ward. They feed us like crazy so no real complaints there either. We are having a really great time. This week E Bramwell and I got up and bore our testimonies to introduce ourselves a little more, and it really turned out great. We are loving it thus far.

 

How big is the ward?

like 130 active members on average are there.

 

Its been a great week to be a missionary in the Canada Toronto Mission. No complaints on my behalf. I really have been loving it. We are working hard, really trying to focus on what is going on and our whole theme right now is to "Move the Needle". My comp and I have come in and are really trying to just make sure that things occur and that only comes if you are on top of it. We have been fortunate enough to see some great things happen as the missionaries rally around a common objective to be able to really help others come unto Christ. Our zone has the goal of baptizing 10 people in the month of January and this week has proved to be a great one as we have started strong with 3 yesterday. I can not wait to see what is in store for the London Zone.

 

In our area we are working with lots of really great people. Some aren't as... willing as others, but overall they are incredible people who essentially could be members of the church. I think my favorite part about English work is that reason right there... that anyone you teach is a potential person that you can teach and bring into the Gospel. Its really exciting. But there is one named Isaac who is really incredible. He came to us and wanted to give us summaries of what he has previously read in the Book of Mormon just so he could make sure he was really getting everything out of it. He was so detailed as he explained Nephi's story and said "Did I miss anything?" It was so funny and incredible. I know there are prepared people out there who are waiting to hear the message of the gospel.

 

This week E Bramwell and I went tracting on a street.. now this street immediately was my favorite one yet, solely based on its name.. "BROCK STREET" haha. It was very funny because the parallel street to it just happened to be "STEPHEN STREET"... It made me truly feel like I was sent here for a reason hahah. but it was funny and great, so the first house we knocked just happened to be this happy guy who let us in from the cold and was more than willing to have a conversation about Christ with him. Now this story is not going to go in the way that you think.. But he ended up being a Pastor from a church and knew his Bible to the T... Now.. the reason i tell this story is because we went back and forth discussing different insights from the Bible and different views that other religions and Christians have towards this one book.. this man had studied and been a pastor for over 15 years while my companion and I both had never picked up nor read really in depth the bible until about 2 years ago haha.. and even then not that much.. but I knew as we conversed and stayed up to pace with him that he knew that we knew that what we shared was true. I love opportunities like that to really "Put My Faith On the Line" and see what comes out of it. Over the time that I have served I have come to really know that God lives, that Jesus is the Christ and that this is Their Church on the earth. I witness that with all of my heart and know that what we do now really does effect our future. I'm all about the Karma gig, and know that we get what we go for. Before leaving there, the man accepted a Book of Mormon and said that he'd give it a shot. To really read and try to come to know of the truth.

 

I love you and hope that you are well with life. If there is anything I can do for you, just let me know!

 

Much love forever and always,

 

Elder B. Beyer

Monday, December 30, 2013 "Love you"

HEY HEY HEY!

Christmas Day!

hahahahahahah I laughed SO hard about the Charlie thing hahahahha! You all seem really really good right now and seem like you are enjoying the great wondrous life! So the house looks SUPER different haha. That's so weird! Do we still have the piano?

Well.. I really don't know what more to write or say haha. This week was a really cool week for E Bramwell and I. We are seeing great success and are really having a BLAST. Ive never laughed so hard in my life. This has been really good for me because I have felt lately that I've had to "step up" so much with a lot of things that I've slipped out of who I really am for a while.. but now I feel like the Lords given me this opportunity to be able to keep those "stepping up" moments and still be myself. Its been really great. I love it.

The count down is on!!

Listen to the crazy miracles of this week. This kid named Issac walked into the bishops office and asked if he could be able to get an ecclesiastical endorsement from the Bishop so that he could go to BYU. So the bishop took his number and passed him off to us so he could "know more about BYU and the standards" we taught him and his mom and they are miracles. They told us that they have family in Utah and that they are members. The greatest thing that they said was that they have seen the biggest change in their families life for the better after they joined the church. They said they are looking for a sense of belonging and really want to know the truth. I cant explain how much the Lord is hastening his work by preparing people. Its incredible. Another lady, we tracted into and she told us she wasn't interested and to go to her neighbors. Well we went and set up a time and came back later. While we went back the first lady that sent us there was there and she was the most prepared lady ever. She almost was baptized, and the only reason she didn't was because she didn't receive this GIANT answer.. and the only reason she shewed us off was because she thought that people in our church would judge her because of that... by the end of explaining things to her she asked us for a book of Mormon to be able to read and see if she could get that answer again. SO COOL.

The best part about the week was our "Skills and Interviews".. Its crazy coming from a zone that you have been in for over 9 months to one where you know basically nobody... We came in with the expectation of letting these missionaries know that we love them but that the performance of the zone right now is at a minimum and that there is HUGE room for improvement. The way that we started it off was the day before we asked the missionaries to bring us 10 bucks each.. they didn't know what for and a lot of them (when we found out later) thought we were ripping them off. We showed them that we have to be obedient to the counsels of our leaders and E Bramwell shared this story of a mission President who asked for the right shoe of his missionaries to see who was willing to listen to his counsel. It set the tone strongly and we just went from there. It was one of the funnest instructions I've ever been a part of. The missionaries have been doing incredible things, and its only been like 4 days since then! They are out and really trying the best that they can. Its been great.

I love my mission. I love everything about it. This has seriously been the greatest thing that I have ever done and I'm so grateful for the blessings that I have seen. I know that this is the Church of Jesus Christ.. and it kills me to see people who have it in their lives but just don't apply it at all... its heart wrenching. Because they could really be able to see the most blessings of their lives if they just tried to come closer to the Savior. I know if we try to go to Him that He will run to us. I love it and I love all of you!

Forever and Always,

Elder B Beyer

Monday, December 23, 2013 "NOT homesick"

HEY THERE!!!

 

Mom. Homesick is the farthest thing from where I'm at right now. I don't want to be home, I'm sorry to say that but its SO true. I LOVE it out here ha ha! its SO much fun and being a missionary in this wonderful time is the thing that is most special to me, I love it. I love talking about Christ in the time of His birth and love talking about how all of us can come closer to Him. There is NOTHING like it. So don't worry, I'm not homesick :)

 

Those pictures are so funny. Caden is probably the creepiest looking kid in the world in the Christmas card hahaha I imagined him sticking his head out a window and saying "Ive got some candy in my car kids!" hahahah so funny! but his hair is really rad, i love it. Those pics of Bubs are so cute. Its so funny because hunt brax and bubs look the same just taller and stuff you know? really funny!

 

This week has been one of the craziest yet funnest weeks of my mission! hands down haha! I LOVE it. Elder Bramwells a champion! we are the triple threat, we go and talk to English, Chinese and Spanish and have been working our tails off. The apartment was literally the nastiest thing I've ever lived in. We cleaned it and threw tons of stuff away, I'll send you a picture of all the junk we accumulated over this past week. Its gross. We started the week with zero investigators and really have just been working hard and we've found some pretty incredible people. I love English work, you can set some great expectations with people and can express yourself SO much easier than in Spanish haha! we have been working really really hard and its really paying off.

 

I'M really so happy right now, i love my mission. I love life and I'm SO grateful for my Savior. I have a few stories I will tell tomorrow... i hope that we can find someone to use their computer... we haven't yet but we will continue to try. don't worry, we'll cal you tomorrow and set something up :) I really love you all so much. I cant wait to see you in 2 :)

 

Forever and Always,

 

Elder B Beyer

Monday, December 16, 2013 "Be Positive"

HEY THERE!

 

I LOVE the Caldwell's. If you want to go you can, I LOVE them.

 

My mormon.org is lame ha ha I made that in the MTC and parts out here! Its so funny! You should make one, they are like "Mormon Facebooks" haha

 

Release date. Gross. (We told Elder B. Beyer we got his release date...March 12)

 

I'm not going to lie, I have NO idea about skype ha ha we are whitewashing in.. so we know literally zero members and people down there so we will just play it by ear yeah? we'll call you on the 24 :) let you know how it goes. I was so sad when I found out that Elder Steele was going home I'm not going to lie! I LOVE that character ha ha he is from Eagle Idaho did you know that?

 

Well as you know, I'm going to be leaving Toronto here and go back down to London! Its going to be pretty crazy! I'm excited! its going to be so fun! I'm going to be with an elder named Elder Bramwell, he is a Chinese elder from California. He is super cool. I know him pretty well, but we are stoked! we will be whitewashing in tomorrow ha ha! this is going to be NUTS, the first time whitewashing for elder b Beyer! We are going to KILL IT! We are going to baptize nations out there!

 

This week was a really good one for me. I got to talk personally with President Scott about a few things, and the biggest thing that stuck out to me was this.. That we ALL need to exaggerate the positive. That's the thing of life. If its cold, say MAN I'm glad Ive got my coat! If you're hungry say, man that food is getting that much better! whatever it needs to be, that's what we need to say! We need to all be as positive as possible because if we do we will be able to access the light of Christ more fully in our lives and really be able to feel the Lords love. Its true. I have seen it in my own life and am so grateful for that! we need to look at all challenges with great happiness and joy!

 

I love you all and hope that you are well :) have a wonderful week, i will SEE you next week :)

 

Forever and Always,

 

Elder B. Beyer

Monday, December 9, 2013 "Christ into Christmas"

HEY HEY HEY!

 

Wow, you all sound and look great! I'm not going to lie, Caden looks filthy. I LOVE the hair!

 

Man, this week was a CRAZY one! CRAZY GOOD because I was a missionary! :) I hope all of you watched that Christmas devotional from the Church this Sunday! It was AWESOME, we had this great family go to it with us, but seriously it was SO good! I really enjoyed hearing the words of the Prophet and Apostles about the great meaning of Christmas. I don't know if I wrote this to you, or in a letter.. But I thought of this Christmas broken down is CHRIST mas.. So Christ- Jesus the Son of God, and Mas- in Spanish means MORE.. CHRIST MORE.. Take this time to think more of Him. One great quote from the Devotional yesterday was "True Happiness comes as you make others happy. When you lose yourself for them, you find Christ." and "The opportunities to give of yourself are limitless." I really hope that you can all grasp onto those concepts and truly strive to LIVE them.

 

 We had some pretty great guests this last week in the mission! Elder Hallstrom and Elder Homer. They talked about some pretty remarkable things that I have really taken to heart. Elder Homer talked about how we need to live our missions with no regrets and that when we get on the plane that we need to be feeling that you left it all there on the table. Elder Hallstrom talked about CHANGE and how its a NOW thing, not later. It was so great to hear those two talks and be able to want to apply them into my life. The 3 points that Elder Hallstrom said about change were that we 1. Gain a vision 2. Make Commitments and 3. Have Self Discipline. If we do those things in life and in a gospel perspective we will be able to become the people that the Lord needs us to be. IT was one of the greatest things ever!  Find something to change and Do it. I invite you! ITS GREAT TO CHANGE AND BECOME BETTER. ITS AWESOME!

 

We have been so fortunate in our area lately, we are teaching some pretty remarkable people who are searching for the gospel of Jesus Christ. It has really helped me know that the gospel is real, and that there are people who are looking for it. We are pretty close to seeing some great things in the area, we have a few working towards baptism and a few who are going out of town for the holidays but will return with the desire and need to be baptized. The coolest thing is teaching families. I LOVE teaching families. They are SO stinking awesome and CAN BE ETERNAL through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

 

I had a great opportunity to go give 2 baptismal interviews for a husband and a wife out in Mississauga. It was great to be able to talk with them and to go back to The Saga!!!! I miss it so much haha! I think the best thing about being able to go back there was just being able to see the growth that I have had from there to now... I honestly couldn't believe it. We would be driving and I would see places and remember all of the great memories that I had. I remember how GREEN I was haha and how inexperienced I was, and now to see where the Lord has taken me. It has been one of the greatest things to know. That the Lord truly has helped me for the time that I have been out on my mission. I love my mission and am so grateful for the change that its brought in my life. I have come to know that God really is our loving Heavenly Father, and that Jesus Christ is His son. They are perfect and their plan is to help us to become as they are. I know that They live and They LOVE us. The gospel is the means that helps us to transcend all iniquity and evade all the obstacles that Satan places before us. I really know that Joseph Smith is his chosen prophet.. It just makes sense. God has always conveyed His message through prophets, why would He stop now? I know that we are so blessed and have a prophet on the earth today, and am so grateful for that knowledge that I have.

I love you all, and hope you are well. Work hard in all that you do and you WILL see the blessings of the Lord. YOU GET WHAT YOU PUT IN. If you want church to be great and revelatory, then make it that way. If you want the scriptures to be Gods word, then read them as if they were. YOU GET WHAT YOU GO FOR.

 

Forever and Always,

 

 

Elder B. Beyer

Monday, December 2, 2013 "Happy Thanksgiving"

NICE TRIP PICS!

 

Man... All i have to say is that I feel when I look at Bubs that I'm looking at Carsen and when i look at Doctor Drey that I'm looking in the stinkin mirror.. what in the world is going on haha? what is in the water there in K Town? Steroids yeah? THEY ARE HUGE. haha so funny! I just got some good laughs at these guys!

 

This week was quite the week. I'm not going to lie! It was pretty darn great! We have seen some wonderful miracles and have just seen great success on the Lords part. Ive never seen so many blessings at once in my mission. THE LORD IS HASTENING HIS WORK. I am so grateful to be one of His servants at this time.

 

I think the biggest miracle was seeing this family we have been teaching for a while, come to church. This is a Venezuelan family that is AWESOME. I love them so much. They came and they just loved primary! The kids are really what are going to make this all work out. They are so stinking cool and really are receptive to the Spirit! When they just showed up, EVEN WHEN, they said they weren't, I thought i was going to die.. First of hunger (because we were fasting) but second of just shock! ha ha it was SO awesome. There is no doubt to me, that fasting really works. One cool experience, was that President and Sister Scott were at the church and we were with just the mom, and we taught a lesson with Sister Scott! Now, I'm not just saying this.. but she is like the most spiritual lady ever! The Spirit was SO strong and really helped Jahy to feel that this is the path that she needs to be on, i really have come to feel those blessings and feel the Spirit tell me MULTIPLE times that this is true.

 

Going off of that, we taught this remarkable lesson with this other investigator. He was being VERY evasive with us and was really hesitant with the answers he brought forth. But we testified and invited him to pray to know that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God.. and he did.. and ALL of us in the room, whether for the first time or fifth.. received the witness that he is. I know that because of the Spirit that i have felt.

 

Lastly, the coolest thing was hearing a 76 year old, recent convert get up and bear her testimony this week. With all honesty, she got up and told us all how she was found and what impact it has made on her life. The greatest thing was seeing the change and knowing that THIS GOSPEL IS FOR EVERYONE. White or black, young or old. EVERYONE. She is going on vacation this week to El Salvador for a few months.. and this is the thing that stood out most to me. When she said "when i get there, the first thing I'm going to do is thank God for getting me there. He WILL get me there. And then i will go and preach the gospel to my family. I promise you all, that i will return here with good news." I don't recall the last time that i felt the Spirit that strongly. This gospel is intended for families. This gospel changes and helps them. This gospel is intended FOR THEM TO BE FOREVER. Without it, they can NOT be. I can back that up with my testimony. If a 76 year old woman, with poor health but a heart of gold can share the gospel.. then anyone can. And AGAIN, I invite you all to do so.

 

I love you all so much. Pray for opportunities to share this "Good News" with everyone! Be happy and safe!

 

Forever and Always,

 

Elder B. Beyer