Elder Evan Baer: Canada Calgary Mission: "There Is No Secret Ingredient"

[Title refers to this clip from Kung Fu Panda. (Caution: spoilers!)]

大家好！Hello Friends!

Sorry for no email last week! I'll make up for it with a bunch of nonsense pictures.

Remember that time I was in Lethbridge, and things were starting to go smooth? Not anymore! We're starting over in a new area, but more on that later. First things first:

DAT GENERAL CONFERENCE THO!!

Holy Smokes! I don't know what it was, but this weekend was just an absolutely elite experience! Several messages just shook me like a dog. The music had me weeping! I don't know quite how else to describe it, other than to say the veil between us and the heavens felt a lot thinner the last two days. In one moment at the end of the conference, when the organist was shredding the postlude in the background, I looked at the faces on the stand and in the crowd and thought, “These are the kind of people I want to be with…these are Saints I hope to call my neighbors in Zion.” Thanks for being a good neighbor everyone!

The rest of the week was good:

Had a goofy exchange with Elder Holland! Providence forever!
Found Vietnamese Subs in Lethbridge!
TAUGHT A GUY IN CHINESE! He made an incredible parallel between covenants and the 5 societal relationships in Confucianism! He is incredibly prepared to hear the good news of Jesus.
¡¡¡FURAHA WAS BAPTIZED!!! I actually might not have written about her much. Her whole family is from Rwanda and her kids were all recently baptized. We had a member translating in Kinyarwandan for several lessons. She quit drinking, cold turkey, for God! We scrambled to pull a baptism together for her the day before transfers, but miraculously the small group of members there said they felt the Spirit, so I guess it was okay. Elder Ferrin got to confirm.
I got transferred. Woot. I'm back in Calgary, in a former Mandarin apartment, but not in the Mandarin ward. We're double covering one ward and we have NOTHING in our area book to go off of. Our dragon scroll is blank, so we're doing all of our work by the guidance of the spirit and by the seat of our pants. We did have a cool miracle when we met a lady who said to us “I've actually been looking for a church around here.” *What?!* and then she showed up at church. *Double what?!!* Her name is Challeah, and we found her when we knocked on the doors of an incredible ghetto housing complex. The area has some incredible potential!

EASTER IS ON SUNDAY!! Everyone get your Jesus Jerseys on and your hymn-leader pom-poms, this week is going to be EPIC! Check out the church's Holy week study guide and other resources surrounding Christ during Easter and Passover. These are the greatest holidays ever! I’ll just add my testimony here that I know of a surety that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is THE flock of saints led by Jesus Christ Himself. He truly rose from the dead, so that we could all rise from our pain in this life.

Stay Warm Everyone! Love you all!

Elder Baer 熊长老

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Exchange with Elder Holland