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12/16/2024
大家好！Hello friends!
The pattern of purging my apartment continues! I don't know what the high score is for the mission, but I'd be interested to see how mine would compare by the end of the mission. Elder Kim and I were both exiled from Cardston and sent back to Calgary to our respective language areas. Yay for Mandarin again!
The kicker, though, is that God has a fabulous sense of humor, because he put me back with Elder Bigler, my trainee, for the 3rd transfer or more. This might be an exciting transfer and a very transformative one at that. That said, the past couple days have been going pretty well, and it’s cool because I’ve already seen quite a bit of difference from the experiences last winter with all sorts of criticism and what not. I also got a couple cool encouraging messages, which came in with incredibly inspired timing, and that deserves a huge thank you! You truly capture the charge this season to “Be Someone’s Angel,” and you can count me in as a witness of that! I’ve got the greatest family, the best friends, and the coolest neighbors!
The Mandarin Christmas party was on Friday! It was fun to see some familiar faces there!
. . . I really don’t have a lot of memories of what happened this week, tho. We said a bunch of goodbyes to people in Cardston. I’ll just list out a few memorable people out there for you to imagine me meeting in Cardston:
- Bishop Nish: very successful, and you would never guess it. We told him we were leaving, and he replied with a text saying, “Well, that’s not good.”
- Marty: used to be an office missionary in the Calgary mission, had a lot of funny space doctrine that he would tell us very seriously.
- Pat: a very old lady that was kind of crazy and intimidating, but also super generous in inviting a homeless native couple to live at her home.
- Dave: an absolute stud, who was super actively working with people on the reserve
I’ve been thinking about the wise men as recorded in the New Testament, who looked for signs of Christ, and after seeing them traveled to give Christ gifts. We too can look for the symbols of Christ in the Christmas season, and we can offer something of ourselves to God and to others this Christmas. As you think of gifts to give one another, think of something you’re willing to offer the Lord! He will give you great blessings for every good thing that you offer him.
That’s it for this week!
Stay warm everyone! Love you all!
Elder Baer 熊长老
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'nutha sushi run with the Elders
Holy Giant Toblerone, Batman!
Good ol' Cardston sunset
Marty
Some random spot on the reserve that reported a skinwalker. never saw it.
Calgary
Christmas party food!
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