Elder Evan Baer: Canada Calgary Mission: "Sacre Booooooo!"

I'm sure that's what all you Frenchies out there will be thinking about this email.

[Title may reference this Gravity Falls clip.]

17 March 2025

大家好！Hello Friends!

Imma be honest, I've been pretty cooked today due to a fabulous experience throwing up and dry heaving all of yesterday evening & last night. So I don't feel like writing a ton this week. Here's the highlights tho:

I had the noodle dream this week! ...almost. I dreamt that I had to conduct the Mandarin Ward's Fast Sunday meeting, and I remember speaking a lot of real Mandarin in the dream! Crazy.

Sundays have been wild. See above for exhibit A. Exhibit B happened the week before when Sunday included the following:

meeting a bunch of new members
giving an impromptu 15 min talk about the Book of Mormon at the Assisted Living Center
trying to call everyone in the ward to help a non-member youth get a ride to the Stake Youth Activity
stopping by a family in-person to see if we were supposed to have dinner with them in an hour, because they had no phone number
being asked to play piano for the Spanish ward baptism taking place 90 minutes later
going to said dinner
attending said baptism
getting called by confused youth who got the wrong address to give a ride to the non-member
going to the the Stake Youth Activity to apologize to the confused youth
getting an anxious call asking why I wasn't on the mission Zoom call giving the presentation on D&C 19 that I did not prepare.
my phone dying in the middle of said Zoom call

And all of this made me ask the old philosophical question: "Who's driving this flying umbrella?"

We saw Elder Gary E. Stevenson and others at a REAL mission meeting on Friday. . . . I really wish I had more to say here; it was a good experience, but I can't quite say what was marvelous about it. Maybe it was the fact that they gave profound and helpful answers covering many topics in response to more specific and less helpful questions.

Read 2 Nephi 2! It's super good. I found a cool parallel in verse 11 where misery is the opposite paired with both "holiness" and "happiness." Does that mean they have the same meaning? Or the same result? Is the secret that by becoming holier, we naturally become happier? Read!!

Thanks everyone! See you next time.

Stay Warm Everyone! Love you all!

Elder Baer 熊长老

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