Elder Beard

Happy Memorial Day!   Hey Y'all, I hope things are going well for you. Happy memorial day to all of the veterans and families who have someone serving our country right now. I hope that y'all are enjoying your summer as well. Today it is 88 degrees outside with 59 percent humidity so it feels more like 95 degrees. Hopefully it isn't too hot where you are at.  It has been an interesting week full of dropped or rescheduled appointments. We were able to see some cool miracles though.   This week I started off by going on exchange with Elder Stowe from the Hudson ward. He is a newer missionary, but he is super sincere. We were able to go to a neighborhood where I ran into one of my friends Donny who I was teaching before. He is doing well, but was still kind of lenient about meeting with us. Hopefully a few more soft touches will do it.   Then I was able to have my last interview with President Cooper. I was able to ask him some questions to help one of the people we are...

  Transfers and finding solid people! Hey Y'all, I hope that things are going well for you. This last week has been interesting. I have been able to see some cool miracles though.   This week started out by dropping off Elder Case at the mission office to go serve in Lake Wales with my good friend Elder Dickey. I am excited to hear how he enjoys Lake Wales at a future date.   I then met my new companion Elder McCubbins. He is from the big island in Hawaii and has been out on his mission for almost a year and a half. He is really good at referencing our conversations to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I am excited to see how things go over the next few weeks.   We were able to have some awesome lessons this week. One lesson that we had was with a man named Chris. He had requested a bible a few weeks ago and hadn't been in good contact with him. We were able to meet with him on Saturday and help him understand part of the Plan of Salvation and repentance. We are excited to...

  Happy Late Mothers Day! Hey Y'all, I hope things are going well for you. Happy late Mothers day to all of you Mothers out there. I hope that it was a great day for y'all yesterday.   Things are going pretty well here. The last little bit has been a lot of biking. As missionaries, we are only allowed a certain amount of miles to drive our car so Elder Case has had to do a lot of biking recently. One of the routes we go on pretty regularly is 20-25 miles. It is a crazy time. When we aren't biking though, we are having a lot of fun. This Wednesday we had a zone service day. We went to an assisted living facility and helped redo a patio area there. It was really fun especially since I got to catch up with my old companion Elder Hird. That was a great time. I was also able to go on a couple of exchanges though. This week I was able to go back with my good friend Elder Eisele for an exchange in Hudson. During that exchange though, I was able to spend some time with a new missio...

group email won't send   Hey Y'all, I hope that things are going well for y'all. School is wrapping up and so is the early visits to seminary. (Seminary is at 5:20 in the morning here. These kids are dedicated to the Gospel) I am excited to sleep in on Monday again.   Things are also going well with finding here. This week we started off by going to a neighborhood we had not been to for a couple weeks. When we were there we reconnected with a man named David and he said that we could come back in a couple days. It was awesome to be directed back into his path. We were then able to teach him and after we taught him the Gospel of Jesus Christ he wanted us to come back so we are going back today. I am excited to see him again!   Then on Thursday we received some bad news. Our friend Michael who was going to be baptized this week was asked by his parents to wait until he graduates next year. We are hopeful that he will make it. We were also able to teach a family of 4 who has...

I. love. referrals.   Hey Y'all, I hope things are going well for you. I hear it is finals week in most colleges. That is definitely a stressful time. I wish y'all the best of luck with your finals and hope that y'all pass. For those of you not in college, I hope that your classes or lives are going well for you.   Things are going pretty well here. We started off this week by going to zone conference. This time we learned about using the Gospel of Jesus Christ pamphlet to teach repentance and repentance in general. We also got new tiwis in our car that have a female voice instead of a male voice like the old tiwis. That has been interesting to get used to. For those of you who don't know what a tiwi is, it is a little box on the front of our car that keeps track of our speed and driving and if we go too fast or brake too hard, the device speaks to us. (such as saying "check your speed") I enjoyed it.   I was then able to go on exchange with Elder Lewis in the...

Happy late Easter y'all   Hey Y'all   Happy belated Easter!! This Easter was a lot different than any other Easter I have had before, but was probably one of my favorite Easters yet.   This week started off really well. We started off by going to our friends the Deleonardi's family. We have been visiting them for a while, but this week we were able to teach them about the Book of Mormon and the beginning of the Restoration. It helped them to feel comfortable with the Book of Mormon. We are excited to see how they enjoy it the next time we go over there.   Then on Wednesday we were able to visit our friend Ted. He has a desire to be baptized, but has not kept many of the commitments we have left with him. We were able to set up a time to help him with today. We are excited to see if we can help him be baptized in the near future. We also met with our friend Francisco. He is also doing o.k. We are trying to help him recognize the importance of church. We are hopeful th...

Another Jam packed Week Hey y'all, Man this was a jam packed week. A lot has happened and I am excited to tell y'all about it. I hope that y'all have as cool adventures as I have been able to.   We started out this week with a really cool miracle. On Tuesday we were biking to the other side of town and, to save time, I suggested that we eat at a restaurant. When we got there we decided to go to Taco Bell. Right when I ordered my food, the cashier asked if she could sit with us for her lunch break and talk about God. We found out her name is Victoria and she just moved here and has some trials she is going through. We were able to talk to her about church and the Book of Mormon and it really seemed to help her. We haven't been able to get in contact with her again yet, but hopefully soon we will be able to.   Then on Wednesday we had a few meetings. First off we had our correlation meeting with dinner before. Our correlation was really inspired and we were able to come u...