[Title references Kung Fu Panda.]
17 July 2025
大家好！Hello friends!
Super crazy week (and a half)! I don't know how we're going to fit all of it in here so here we go.
- TODAY was our temple P-day, so we got to go to the temple. Our companionship did initiatory work. It was epic.
- We had dinner with our Chilean member friend Franny twice this week. Elder Neff was going home, and they were pretty close.
- I got to drive a ton of missionaries around! We chauffeured departing missionaries to the airport and also drove around the incoming missionaries on their first day.
- I am serving my last transfer in the MANDARIN WARD!!! President really had me sweating on this round of transfers. I'm in a trio with Elder Andrus and the brand new Elder Wong from Hong Kong.
- Hehe met with us online! He is the incredible Chinese man I met in Lethbridge before I got transferred, and he's ON DATE FOR BAPTISM!!!
- A lady named Seavan was baptized in the ward on Saturday!! We're excited for her.
- We have seen a bunch of rain, and the forecast for this week only looks like more. Thus we had an epic time street contacting in the rain downtown.
- Fun fact, I can no longer send friend requests to white people on Facebook. I can only friend Asians now, and Facebook probably thinks I am Asian at this point. New high score!
- Also fun fact, Elder Wong's family is mentioned in Elder Benjamin Tai’s April 2020 conference talk.
I had a weird epiphany this week when I was reading the classic verses in Alma about “No unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of heaven.” But after looking at some footnotes and cross references and Bible Dictionary, it suddenly made sense that the Kingdom of Heaven IS the Church of Jesus Christ. This Church is the group of people preparing themselves to return to God’s presence by making their mortal lives heavenly. When the Lord says the kingdom of heaven is at hand, he means that the church of His power is on Earth now. So the invitation is not “repent or you won’t make it to heaven,” but the invitation is to change in order to join God’s team. This week, think about the change you might need to make to join God’s team or represent Him better. Coming closer to Christ truly brings joy closer to you!
Stay cool everyone! Love you all!
Elder Baer 熊长老
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Dinner with Franny!
Elder Pace and I
Elder Roberts and I
Calgary
Elder Andrus
Huge crash that happened right by the church but we think everyone is okay 😬🙏
Temple in the rain
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