Did You Not Tell Him They Were the Lord's Chips?

 [Title refers to this clip from Nacho Libre.]

大家好！Hello friends!

Was it this smoky where everyone else is? We had some pretty dense smoke in Calgary for a couple of days, and then the answer to prayer came with the rain.

Elder Gimenez came to the mission! Here’s basically what he said in 5 words:

          READ PREACH MY GOSPEL DANGIT!

For any who don’t know, Preach My Gospel is basically the booklet of “How to missionary 101,” and it’s a great resource for all Church members and anyone who would like to deepen their conversion to Jesus a little more. Here’s some other cool things that he said, in some incredible Chilean accents:

• YOU are the culture of the mission
• Pray for love-inspired correction (We received a healthy serving this week.)
• Sometimes Joy has nothing to do with Fun
• Be okay with people not liking you. (Jesus had a lot of people that didn’t like him.)
• “Growing toward our divine potential is the purpose of our mortal experience” 🔥
• THE “YES, AND” PRINCIPLE! (Thank you RHS Improv for once again shaping my life.)
• Pray for the gift of smile
• The smart learn from their own mistakes, the wise learn from others’ mistakes
• As soon as contention appears, be like Joseph and RUN! (metaphorically)

Faith in Jesus Christ implies faith in yourself—in your ability to become like Him (Side note: Elder Gimenez insisted that while we won’t be perfect in life, we can be perfect at certain things, specifically those that the Lord asks us to do. Examples he cited were getting up on time, studying, going to bed, etc.)

There was a lot of other stuff that was shared, but that can be spared.

The week was otherwise not really exciting except for Friday when Elder Taylor had a phone call lesson with someone in Africa who shared how glad she was to know about the restoration of God’s church. We also gave a copy of the Book of Mormon in Arabic to someone this week!

This week’s challenge is to pick one of the above points and figure out how to weave it into your actions for the week. When we know the Why and the What of what we do, we can specifically figure out the How.

Wishing everyone some good rain up here! Stay cool everyone! Love you all!

Elder Baer 熊长老

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Canada Calgary mission? More like China Beijing mission

Chinese BBQ Pork shop with the Elders (complete with pig mural). That place can’t be legal

Exchanges with Elder Taylor

THAT BABY’S CHROME!!!!

Hudson Hornet??

Tell Me Whyee

 [Title refers to this iconic song by Backstreet Boys.]

大家好！Hello friends!

Enjoy another scuffed email from your favorite ADHD.

Highlights!

• As we tried to stop by someone who didn't answer the door, a guy named Luke pulled up in his car, and he said he was thinking of going back to church! We gave him some details.
• We met Kelcee outside the mall on an exchange. She accepted the challenge to attend church again! She lives in Edmonton, so the fact we bumped into her is cool.
• I got absolutely slapped by said exchange, but now my throat is a little less sore than yesterday.

Elder Giménez is coming to the mission this week! He gave a great conference talk about connecting what we do with the why behind our actions. This week, take a few minutes to think about what you do and WHY you do it. When we connect our actions to the why, as Elder Giménez says, we won't only be doing it right, but we will get it right.

Stay cool everyone! Love you all!

Elder Baer 熊长老

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Bunch of pictures, invent your own captions!

 

  

 

 

 

 

Kim Possible!

[Title references this Disney TV show.] 

2 June 2025

大家好！Hello friends!

Transfers were this week and the transfer board was one of the most wild ones I’ve seen in a minute: 

I am staying in the same 4-man apartment and same area with Elder Neff for his last transfer.

Remember when I was companions with Elder Kim 6 months ago in Cardston? We are now in the SAME APARTMENT AGAIN!!!! 😱🤯💥🔥🎉 My my my how the turn tables! ….We’re also doing a musical number for Zone Conference. Go figure.

Remember how there used to be 6 Elders in the Mandarin District? There are now 4 :\

Remember when I served in Lethbridge in March? Elder Scoresby is now going to the same area that I was in. (pls pray that Elder Scoresby and I can go back to the Mandarin ward next transfer.🙏We’ve been hoping so for several months now.)


This week was alright. We’ve been doing h*cka member work, and the more I meet the members here the more I think, “Y’all need Jesus!” In other words, I hope we can help fulfill some of the needs here. There were some good highlights though.

Our coolest friend here, Kelly, is someone we’ve never seen. We’ve only had occasional phone call lessons, and she always is so grateful for the truths we share. She asked once, “I heard about this guy named Melchizedek, and he seemed kind of important. Do you know anything about him?” Pray for Kelly. 🙏  

Met a dude named Andre, who took a Book of Mormon and said he would read a chapter and we could come back on Saturday.

We went tracting with a kid who just graduated from high school! It was so fun to see how nervous he was knocking on someone’s door. Relatable.

Elder Neff and Elder Kim make me laugh a lot.

I read the most incredible speech by Tad Callister called “Our Identity and Our Destiny.” He explains our relationship with God very well and our potential to become like our Father in Heaven, and he referred to several amazing sources. It made me think about two things that you now get to consider :]

1. What attribute of Godliness can you practice this week?
2. What is a favorite talk of yours? Favorite scripture? Favorite movie? Share that with someone you like! There is great joy in sharing good with others.

Stay cool everyone! Love you all!

Elder Baer 熊长老

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{so sorry I don’t think I’ll be able to upload any photos until Monday night so good luck!}

"BUT! If you buy THREE completos..."

[Title references this Kid History clip.]

大家好！Hello friends!

I’m afraid to inform you that the more time that passes in the mission, the less engaging my emails will tend to be. The good news is that before you can say "Fiddlesticks," I'll be able to have a real conversation with you. But for now, here's a cool epiphany I had this week and then some cool stuff that happened:

For a while I had this question on my mind, “Why do we need to ask for God's forgiveness?” God wants us to learn and grow and to choose that which is good, so aren't mistakes part of the learning process? Here's what I discovered:

Forgiveness heals the pain of Guilt or Shame.

Our lives are as if we are playing piano and constantly holding down the sustain pedal. Somehow all of our mistakes, good or bad, stay with us in our history and the memories of others, like how the notes of the piano are sustained. What Jesus Christ offers is a way to clear the sustain pedal to purify our souls and our music. When the pedal is cleared, the Great Teacher remembers the wrong notes no more. Whether it be the mists of darkness in sin or simply the veil that prevents the clarity of Godly thinking (“through a glass darkly”), when we ask for forgiveness from God and from others, we can receive true healing and clarity in our lives. So this week try and ask God for forgiveness in all your prayers, and see if that isn't true.

Anyways here's some other fun stuff that happened this week:

• Fay-Ann came to church! We met her for the first time this week, and we had an epic lesson! I was on an exchange with Elder White, who is from the Navajo Nation, and she is from the Siksika reserve here, where he served for 18 months. We also might not be hearing much about her anymore since she lives out of our area, so we need to pass her to a different ward.
• Margaret did not come to church ☹️ but she did come to a church tour! She had some cool questions, and she's the first person I've met who is Catholic and also somewhat willing to learn about the Church.
• Stopped by a member who said, “I would love to see Brother Verboom at church again soon.” Then we stopped by Brother Verboom, and he said, “I've been getting several impressions lately, and…it's time I come back to church.” God is brilliant in the way he leads his work, isn't he?
• Did a bunch of service on Saturday and got to eat some Chilean hot dogs!
• Elder Neff has some nifty tricks with the yo-yo, so a member had us for dinner and asked him to bring it. Little did we know he was the yo-yo MASTER!

Lastly here is this quote to chew on for a minute: “Never has the neighbor suffered so much since mankind got it into his head to save the world” ….don't feel like you need to save the world. Jesus already did that! All you need to do is love God and direct His love to someone.

Stay cool everyone! Love you all!

Elder Baer 熊长老

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Completos from Franny, our favorite Chilean member

“But the yo yo master did not stop, he just kept on yo-ing”

Elder Morell backing a car through two other cars between exchanges

Exchange pics (some still to come)

CoOl fiELd