More Pics (V)

Ok this is the last! Sorry!!!

 

1.) Elder Sanderson! He was in my zone! He also came to LB. Love him!!

2.) Elder Murphy. He's from Canada! We got to be good friends! Also going to LB.

3.) Me and Kinzie and Cameron Hess!

 

Ok!!! that's the last of them!! sorry! I just had to many I wanted to share!!! :) Love you all so much!

 

Please Write me! my address is:

 

Sister Jacqueline Bauer

6500 Atherton St.

Long Beach, CA

90815

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More Pics (Part IV)

1.) We did a Mormon Helping hands service Project

2.) Our sweeeet cell phone! It's touch screen and everything!! :)

3.) I have been having technical difficulties... so I don't remember it I already put this pic! But this is me and elder miller!

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More Pics (Part III)

1.) Me and Sis. Park in front of "The Map"

2.) My district and Bro. Sikahema ( I LOVE HIM!!!)

3.) ME and my trainer, Sis Hyatt! She's a "Rockstar"! :) (She calls everyone Rockstars!)

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More Pics!

1.) Me, sister Gibson, and Elder Miller

2.) Me and sister Gibson

3.) No Hugs! Just Handshakes! :) Me and elder Miller! 

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More Pics (Part II)

1.) Elder Sanderson. Also came to LB. Another cool cat! Love him!!!

2.) My MTC District

3.) 2 Districts in my Zone both going to LB!! REPRESENT! :)

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Hello California!

Hello Family and Friends!!!!!! How are you all doing??? I am so happy to be writing to you all!!! It feels like it's been AGES! Well, I wrote down everything I wanted to talk about so that I wouldn't forget! AnI have sooo many pictures! Sorry about that! :) haha

 

Ok, Sooo! Let's start with the MTC. So I finished things up at the MTC and Made my way to Long Beach on the 23rd of April. Oh man... I had to wake up at 2:00 CA time and I was up till 10:30. Needless to say it was a long day. So It was super cool because I saw Mekayla Gibson and Alex Miller in the MTC and we got to take some pics together. It was so great! It's always fun to see people you know because you are there doing the same thing and you are there for the same purpse, plus its a little peice of home! :)

 

My MTC teachers were AMAZING!!!! I loved them so so SO much and will miss them terribly. Especially Bro. Sikahema. He was half tongan Half Samoan and He just always knew exactly what I needed to hear. I love him! And seriously will be eternally grateful for him! My other teacher's name was Bro. Holmquist. He was also Amazing! I just loved the MTC. It really was so awesome!!!

 

Also, I don't know If any of you have seen the Mormon Message called "Stay within the lines" its one with elder Holland. Well, look it up even if you HAVE seen it because it is amazing and i love it! Well anyways, I me the kid who plays the main charactar in it! haha I was like wait a second that kid looks SUPER familiar. And then I realized it was him! So then I took a pic with him and it was funny! :)

 

 

Well, I am now in Long Beach! The way they do areas here is by ward. and then our zone is our stake. The ward I am in is the Woodruff ward! :) and I am in the Long Beach East Stake. My companion's name is Sister Hyatt. She is actually from Boise! Kinda funny! She went to Centenial!  We live with a member names Betty Adams! Hahahahaha. Oh Betty.... She is 89 and has dimensia! :) but I love her to death! She's hilarious and she repeats herself over and over because she forgets to much! :) haha! (I thought dad repeated himself :)) We get a car! Which is soooo nice! and GUESS WHAT! Everyone here has worse driving records than me so HA! :) I just have to take the driving class thing and I'll be good to go. The weather here is SUPER nice. Not super hot but not super cold! The members feed us pretty much every night and I am going to get fat. I already know it. I can feel myself gaining weight as we speak. Because the area is so geographically small but there are so many people. They have multiple sets of missionaries is each ward. Our ward has a set of sisters and a set of elders. It's kind of cool. Well I  have to be going but here is an explanation as for the pictures.

 

1.) Me and Allyson before entering the MTC

2.) Steph and I

3.) My MTC companion, me, and Elder Valle (the kid from the mormon message "Stay within the lines" WATCH IT!)

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Missionary In Training!

Hello Everybody!!!!! How are you all doing??? Well, I have so much to day and so little time! It's crazy how fast the 30 min on the computer flies!! Well, I am doing well. The first 2 days here were SUPER hard! So much harder thatn I even expected... and not for reasons that you would think. I havn't been super homesick, but I do miss you all! I had all these things I wanted to say and now that I am here I don;t even know what to write haha! Well anyways. Time here in the MTC is wierd.... The days feel like weeks and the weeks feel like days. Some times, actually a lot of the time I feel like dinner and breakfast are in two seperate days. It's super wierd. Yet here I am sitting here and I can't believe that It's already been like a week since I have been here. I am learning so much at the Missionary Training center. The first few days I felt so overwhelmed with everything they were trying to teach us. I have come to already develope a much stronger realtion ship with my Heavenly Father because of it. One thing that I have REALLY learned here in the MTC is that I am NOT THE TEACHER!!!!!!!!!! AT ALL! I am simply a tool in the Lord's hand's and a vessel for the Spirit to teach. It's so important that I am not the one teaching the lessons and that it is the spirit because If I decide what to teach, lessons go SOUTH! (If ya know what I mean). So in the MTC you have different types of "Investigators" one of them is your teacher who role plays someone, and the other is someone who comes in from outside the MTC. We have no idea if they are real investigators or not because some of them really are. Although some of them are members who just volunteer and pretend. We do a TON of role play here. Hahaha! It'a actually kinda funny because it's because SUPER natural. It's not wierd at all anymore. Espeecially with our "progressing investigator" (teacher). We pray for them when we wake up and stuff and it feels totally real. We actually asked out PI (Progressing Investigator) to be baptized and he agreed. It was so amazing. My companion's name is Sister Park. I love her!!!!!!!! We really make up for what the other lacks in just about everything. She has this incredible way of inviting the Holy Ghost into lessons that is just so powerful. It's truly amazing!

 

Well, I'm running out of time, so I will start to sum things up. At the beginning of this week I was having such a hard time. I really felt like I just Couldn't do it. I kept thinking of a million reasons why I should quit. And trust me when I say I SERIOUSLY contemplated just running away. But, It was the overwehelming conformation of the fact that I KNOW that I am supposed to be here that kept me strong. If I didn't know with all of my heart that I NEEDED to be here for SOME reason, I think I would have given up for sure. It has been so amazing to witness the power that prayer has. I have REALLY REALLY REALLLLYYYYY developesd such a stronger realtionship with my Heavenly Father in this past week. I thought I had a strong testimony before, but honestly this experience has already made me grow so much. I pray every night for strength and courage to continue to do the Lords work. I know that he needs me in Long Beach. Please Pray for me and the people !!! I love and miss you all SO MUCH! I pray for all of you every night!

 

God is REAL! He loves us, and he wants us to know that! The Book of Mormon Changes Lives! READ it! and PRAY about it! I can PROMISE that you will recieve and answer from God!

 

Well, my time is up! I love you all!!!

 

God be with you till we meet again!

 

Love, Sister Bauer

 

P.S. I love letters. They keep me sane! Go to DearElder.com and write me there because we get the letters the same day you write them. All you need to know is my MTC mailbox number and my Mission code and send it to the provo MTC. I leave April 23, so send it before then.

If you send it to the Provo MTC it is FREE!!! Yay for free things!

 

Here is what you need to know!

 

Sister Bauer

MTC Mailbox # 51

CA-LB 0423

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