Dear friends and family,

This has been a very long week and a half. We had 3 really cool experiences though this week!

1) We got a call from Sister R in the ward last Monday telling us that one of her friends ( our new investigator ) wanted to have Christmas dinner with us, and the best part is, is that he is a chef!! What a treaaaaaaaat!! :) but the reason why he invited us over is really funny. So we went to his house 2 weeks ago, and he gave us fruit cake and milo. He was asking us what we were doing for Christmas, and I told him we didn't have anything ( we didn't at the time) then he was like, "Well don't a lot of people just say 'come one over!' to you guys?" haha All I heard was come on over, and I was like, "oh yes!!!!! would you be cooking?" haha then he said that he was talking about other people.. super awkward,  buuuut he said that he wanted us over.. but not in missionary clothes. haha we will see! But it's also cool though because his wife is wanting to quit drinking, so she decided she would cancel her new years plans so she can start the quitting process! pretty neat!

2) We were riding our bikes down this street on Saturday, and to be honest I was kind of zoned out, but then out of nowhere I just slammed on my breaks and pulled up to this house. I didn't really know what I was doing, but I had the STRONGEST impression that we needed to knock on the door. So we knocked on the door, and this old Chilean man comes out! outside his window it said 'bienvenido' so I knew we were in for a treat! I spoke to him in Spanish!! It was soooo so so cool! I asked him what church he went to and why he didn't go to church anymore. ( All in Spanish btw) egh hem. ;) Then he said that he is too perezoso ( which means lazy) jajaja But he committed to read the book of Mormon, and come to church, and we have an appointment with him on Saturday!! I CAN'T wait to teach this man. He said that we can come over ANYTIME and teach him. :))))

3) Last night we went to the himopos ( a recent convert family) for dinner. Sister H's cousin just so happened to be there for dinner, and she wasn't a member. So we had dinner and then we had a lesson. Right before we went to their house Elder Macki and I made a pretty specific lesson plan for them. So we watched the new Mormon message, "a saviour is born. " then I felt prompted to read from 3 Nephi 1. We related how Nephi's praying on behalf of the people can be comparable to us when we are praying on behalf of our struggles. it's really cool that right after he prayed he was assured that the Saviour would be born the next day, and that the sign would be given so he wouldn't be killed. this really touched sister H's cousin. She said that she had the butterflies and that something really just pinched her heart. We helped her recognize that it was the spirit. She said that she really wanted to start coming to the Mormon church. It was soooooo cool! the reason it was so good was because the spirit was soooo strong. like most of the time as missionaries, we have good lessons everyday, every week, but every once in a while we participate in a lesson where the spirit is so UNDENIABLY strong. It is a whole different level when the spirit is truly there, and that's what happened last night! SO GOOOOOOD! :)

one last thing: this week I learned a lot about faith. I found that there are 3 levels to faith. it goes as follows: Grow, Exercise, and Show. Grow being the weakest, and Show being the strongest. We can grow our faith by simply listening to the word of god, and Learning of simple gospel truths. In order for our faith to grow it takes consistent effort to do atleast those two things. Then we begin to Exercise our faith,  we can exercise our faith by doing the commandments and receiving assurances from the Holy Ghost that our works are pleasing before God. The Last is Show. Our faith begins to Show when our assurances become consistent. That is when people will see us, and they will see Christ. We then have "God's image engraven in [our] countenances." Christ will be shown to others through us, and Christ himself will begin to Show himself to us in greater and greater ways. Then our faith can become as great as the brother of Jared's faith. he couldn't be kept within the veil.

My faith in the saviour has grown significantly since being out here, and the more it grows, the more my desire to serve him does.

I hope your faith is growing too! especially around Christmas time.

merry Christmas! :)

Love,

Elder Beeson

Dear family and friends, This week was AMAZING!! Thank you for your prayers, I'm convinced that is why this week was awesome!! The ties and letters have been awesome! I open one note/ tie everyday :)

So first, I was on a direct assignment from Thomas S. Monson for a bit on Friday. For reals. So The AP's called me on Friday and asked if I knew this girl named Michelle.. blah blah blah. I had never heard the name before. Then they told me that she has been going to Thornlie ward (my ward) for the past 3 months regularly. I have never met her before. So I asked how they knew, then they told me that this Michelle girl had wrote the prophet, and that she was thinking of being baptized, then the Prophet emailed my mission president, who told the AP's to tell me because I am the district leader for Thornlie ward. Woah! So they told me to figure out the whole situation asap. So I asked around, and it turns out that Michelle has been going to Jandacott ward not thornlie ward ( jandacott meets in the same building as us) and that she has been being taught by the sisters in the ward for ages. She just turned 18 and was really contemplating baptism. But apparently she is on holiday for a month until the end of January. So yeah, I felt a lot better after that. I was so confused because I make sure to meet every unfamiliar face at church!

This whole week Elder Macki and I were praying specifically that we would find someone who has been waiting for an invitation to come to church. Then on Saturday, we were on a district blitz in our area, and we went to see this less active which basically lived in the bush! Super cool! We knocked on the door, and this Maori lady comes to the door, and she said that she and her partner just moved in 2 weeks ago. So the less active moved obviously, but then we kept talking to her. We got talking about her beliefs, and she believes that families are very important, and she is only really religious when her family is around. So we rolled with that and started talking about the plan of salvation with her. It was cool you could just see the light come into her eyes as we were talking about it. Then she told us that she had an accident with her 6 month year old son a few months ago, and that was when she and her Christian partner really started to turn to God. Ever since then they have been talking and they decided that they wanted to come to church, but they didn't know what the "requirements" were to come to church, so they haven't come. So we told her that there were none, and she was like, "Oh really?!" she was really shocked, so we invited her to church, and she said that she will come to church very soon 100%!!! Miracle. She kept saying after that, that she feels it was meant to be for us to knock on her door! We are going back to teach her tomorrow. She asked us if we could come back! We didn't even realize it was an answer to our prayers until later in the day!

Last night we went to the Christmas devotional at the church. We were late showing up. Then as we got off our bikes this Indian couple walked in right behind us, and asked if they could worship with us. I said, "yes, you can worship with us right now." So they came in and watched part of the devotional, and then they said they liked it, and they said they wanted to come to our Christmas mass. We told them that we didn't have one on Christmas, but that we did the following sunday, so they said they would be there. Then they asked for our number and we got their number and they said that they'll see us this next sunday at church! They asked us to pray for them and their family, then they left!!! holy cannoli! it was super cool!!

There were other small things in between all these bigger things, and it has been amazing to see how the Christmas season does change people. When I see people on the street I smile and tell them Merry Christmas, and they say, "thanks,You too mate, cheers!" I love that people are nice at this time of the year :)

I love you all, I hope your Christmas is white and stuff because mine isn't haha!

love, elder beeson

December 7th

G'day family and friends, 

This week was something else. We biked sooooooo so so so much. The thighs are strong.

Here are a few experiences of the week:

We had a referral from a member in the ward to see this kid named RS. Sister Richards told us that he lived on the street right behind the Sikh temple. She didn't know the exact address to his house, so she said to look for a post van on outside the house.There weren't any post vans outside... and there were like 40 houses on the street! So we got to the end of the street and I said a tiny quick little prayer in my head to know which house it was, and I found myself staring at this one house, and it just seemed like it was the house we needed to go to! 

So we knocked on the door, and this black girl from Zimbabwe answers, and we start talking, and then as we are talking to her, I started to realize that this kid is probably black, because I realized that RS is probably a black name, haha so I asked if R was there, and she was like, "oh that's my brother! He's not home right now though." What the heck?! that was pretty neat. 

We gave her a book of Mormon, and she thanked us sincerely for it! What a treat! So I learned how to recognize the spirit in a different way this week! :)

A few days later, we were going to see this less active lady who we never met before, so we got to her house, and knocked on the door, but it looked like an abandoned house. Then we realized that there were two houses that had the address 11 on it it was 11 and 11a. So we tried 11a, and that one looked abandoned too! So we tried it anyway, and yeah no one was home. Then as we were about to bike away, Elder Macki noticed that one of the nearby neighbours had opened their blinds on their house, so we knocked on the door, and This really nice lady answered. She told us that both of the houses were abandoned and that no one lived there for a few months. But then we got talking with her and she said that one of her really good friends was a Mormon. So we talked about that and we got talking about what she believed. It led into how the only way we can know of spiritual truths is through prayer.  She was VERY satisfied by that answer.She also told us that she could heal people! haha that was interesting, but we told her that we believe in healings, so she was happy we accepted her haha! but yeah, She said we can come back sometime to teach her! 

Other than that, just heaps of biking. On Friday I did the math and we literally did around 35 K's! woooo!!

I hope you are enjoying the winter! CTR!!

love, Elder beeson

November 29th

G'day friends and family! This week can all be summed up in Tuesday! It was one of the most diverse and eventful days of my mission so far haha! This is what happened:

We walked to J's house in the morning, he wasn't home, then we went to a few former's houses. One wasn't home, the other I think doesn't live there anymore.. we never really got a straight answer on that haha! 

 Then we walked up to this street we tracted a few weeks ago where we found 3 pretty solid potentials, and apparently there was a former on that street who just didn't happen to be home the day we tracted so we tried him as well!

 

 The former was this Sri Lankan fellow. He can't speak very good English, but he has an awesome heart. I bet the other missionaries dropped him because of the language barrier. Anywho, then we went to another house in the same cul-de-sac, because there was this totalled car on the front lawn. So we knocked on the door to ask about it, and to see if everyone was okay. It was this kid from Hong Kong. He said he was fine, then I felt prompted to start talking about how God is our Loving Heavenly Father. He was really intrigued, so he said to come back, and he'd listen. Nice! Our other potentials on that street weren't home, so we walked home for lunch and did some contacting on the way home.

We did some inspired knocking, and we talked with everyone. haha We talked to this one middle eastern dude at the back of his van. He looked like he was just packing up from doing an electrical job, so we asked him a few questions, and he didn't seem to interested, so he got in the drivers seat. Then as we were walking  away there was a passenger in the car and he he honked his horn and put up his hands, so I thought he was mad at us for some reason, so we started walking a little faster haha. Then they started their car, and pulled up next to us and asked if we were the Elders, we said yes, then he said he had a question for us, he said, " I saw missionaries like you in New Zealand a lot, and I always ask them the same question, " then he said, "What kind of clothing do you think Jesus Wears?" haha I just told him that I had no Idea, then he said, " I'm pretty sure he wears this kind of stuff," ( he was pointing to his clothing because he was wearing this robe looking stuff. haha I just started cracking up. I told him that he was very Christlike and he just started busting up! haha kind of weird. But he was a really funny guy. He asked for our number because of our humor! nice haha.

 

Then we had lunch, then we were on our way to Brother R's house annnnnnnnd Elder Macki got hit by a car. It was pretty full on. I was crossing the street, I kind of gapped it between cars, and he didn't look at all, and so he pulled out in front of this car and got NAILED. So I turned back around, and he was in the middle of the street just trying to get to the side of the road. A few people pulled over and asked if he was alright. Haha we were actually able to get a few potential investigators out of it! 

 

He was looking just fine. haha except his shoe was like 15 meters away from him. I guess that's how hard he was hit. Anywho, one of the dudes who saw it happen, said to call the ambulance because it looked pretty bad. So I did, and they came. He didn't break any bones or anything! He had a few massive scrapes, but all in all he was totally fine. His bike was messed up though. His kick stand got stuck in his wheel, so the ambulance guy helped us out, but he broke of his kick stand in the process. Oh well!

Then I rode his bike to the church, and he rode mine because mine was good. We washed up a little more there.

After that we went to M's house and taught him out of Helaman 5. He really needed hope when we arrived so we read that with him and it was super cool to see how much the feeling in the room absolutely changed! 

 

After that we tried a few members. They weren't home ( we were on foot for the rest of the day because Elder Macki's bike was in bad shape.) Then we tried this less active lady and she came out and she was suuuuuuuuuper anti. Apparently she hasn't gone to church in years because she thinks everything is fake in the church.  I realized that the best way to get me mad is to discredit the Book of Mormon, because that's what she was doing, and I just bore suuuuuuper super super in-your-face bold testimony about the book of Mormon. She had a look of shock by the end of our "discussion"d

Then we went to a potentials house. On our way there, there were these two young blokes following us and I just could not tell what language they were speaking! So we turned around and talked to them and they were German guys! One of the guys shares a birthday with me! The other looked exactly like Isaac Tolman. It was cool because they said that they are here to work so they can travel more of Australia before they have to go home. I really hope we catch them this week. They seemed super keen for us to come by and share stuff too! Nice! Then our potential wasn't home and so we went on ward split offs. I went with Brother H as usual. NO one was home. Then we had ward council, and that was the night.

Suuuuuper crazy diverse day. Oh oh oh ! One last story. In the morning on our way to our potential's house, we contacted this war vet, and he was getting upset that we were talking about God. So we left obviously because he was suuuper ticked off. Then at lunch Elder Macki felt like we had to go back. 

 

So we prayed about it, and my thoughts before the prayer was that I wasn't going to go back no matter what, but then after the prayer, I had an UNDENIABLE feeling that we had to go back. I was really shocked. So we did, and the same thing happened. He was upset we came back. Elder Macki wrote his testimony in a Book of Mormon after he slammed the door in our faces, and set it in his garage. So we will see what happens. But yeah, It was crazy, because Elder Macki and I did a role play of this guy's EXACT situation before. He just wouldn't let us get a word in. But I'm glad we followed the spirit

Yes, that was all on Tuesday. crazy, long, and hard working day. haha

Love you all, CTR

love, Elder Beeson

November 23

Dear family and friends,

 This week was all over the place!

3 things from this week:

1) I don't know If I have already said this on emails yet, but in ward conference, the stake president here asked for each member of the stake to pray for miracles in regards to missionary work in EVERY SINGLE prayer offered, even over the food. The work here has been AMAZING ever since then! So we have been expecting miracles everyday, and they have been happening. Some are bigger than others, but overall, they are just happening!! So we went to this home that bishop wanted us to go to because it was a part member family, except the member got divorced from her husband, so it was just the non-members who live there now. Any who, we knock on the door and this dude is just right there, and he was just like, "oh come on in fellas!" So we went in and he sat us down and gave us some water, and we just started talking with him. So apparently he is the house owners son. He said that his daughters were members of the church. Then he said that he has been to the church before, but everytime he goes, he said that they try to set him up with a wife! haha So I asked him if that was the reason that he didn't want to come to church, then he said that he was super keen on the wife thing, but he just doesn't want to have to give up his drinking for a wife! haha so basically he is super keen to join the church! what the heck?! he said we can come back and teach him! 

2) We followed up on this potential we found while tracting the other day. haha when we tracted into her a few weeks ago, she answered the door while she was on the phone with her mom. She answered it, then her mom on the phone was asking who was at the door, so I yelled missionaries, then the mom on the phone was like " bugger off!" hahaha it was alright because the lady who was talking to her mom laughed too! Anywho, we came back this week and she let us in. So we got talking about the plan of salvation. She really seemed intrigued. She said we can come back and teach her too! It has just been way cool because the past two weeks we have had people actually let us into their homes through tracting!

3) haha I got a call on Friday morning from President Fife. He asked what time our district meeting was, and I was just freaking out! haha So yeah, he came to our district meeting. I had to do a lot of last minute preparations to make it look like I knew what I was doing! ;) haha It went really well though. I taught everyone how to throw their voice for the activity. President was just cracking up at that! haha thank you dad for teaching me that! 

But yeah, we have been doing HEAPS of finding, and we are finding success in tracting which is definitely a miracle :)

Love you all CTR!!!

Love, 

Elder Beeson

November 15

Dear family and friends,

This week was all over the place! I wish I could tell you everything that happened because there were some amazing things!!

 

3 things:

1) We really focused on finding this week. We were tracting and nothing was happening  (as usual) but then we ran into this lady who was vacuuming the back of her car. I didn't want to scare her so I walked up to her slowly. Then she turned off the vacuum and was like, "oh what's up"?!

She was really happy to see us. haha It threw me off. We got talking to her and she is a really awesome Christian lady. In fact she reminds me EXACTLY of where my sister Eliza would be at if she didn't have the gospel. She looked like Eliza and she acted just like her too! She let us in and we taught her about the Book of Mormon and about families. She was really intrigued by the Book of Mormon and so we gave her one! We said a prayer with her before we left, and she said one too. In the middle of her praying, she paused for a really long time, and the spirit just FLOODED the room! Sooooo cool!

 

2) The sisters gave us one of their investigators they contacted on the bus last week. hahah He's so funny. He looks like  Dr.House off of ... House. His name is M. He's been addicted to every drug you can think of, but he has the BEST heart. All he ever talks about is how he would do ANYTHING for his kids. Any who, we taught him a few times this week and he said at the end of the lesson that we had with him on Saturday that he had the best feeling after we taught him. It's true though. When we walked in, he was smoking who knows what and watching the news about Paris and it was just the worst spirit in there. But right after the closing prayer it was completely different. He was so much more calm and understanding of everything we were about and what we taught!  Loved it!

 

3) We went by to see S yesterday (the Samoan dude we met while he was picking up a couch off the verge) we were kind of worried about how he was doing because we haven't been able to get a hold of him for almost 2 weeks, and we were scared that we had scared him off with the Restoration lesson. So anywho, we went and talked to him, and he was just like, "yeah I was reading the 2nd chapter and I kept thinking to my self that maybe my whole life I have been part of this big church of the devil, because you never hear of Mormon priests getting caught up with bad things with kids." and I was thinking that it doesn't say anything about the great and abominable church until way after 1 Nephi 2, and so I asked him how far he really read, and he said that he meant to say he read to the 2nd book not the 2nd chapter!!!!! FAR OUT!!!!!!  Long story short, he is on 2 Nephi 25, and he told us that every time he reads that he knows he needs to start making serious changes in his life. He said that he wants it to last his whole life because he has been baptized 3 times. We taught him enduring to the end really quick and he said that he is sure that this is what he has been looking for! AMAZING. Super golden!! And yeah he has read that much in less than 2 weeks!!

 

Miracles are happening here! oh and btw I'm staying here for another 6 weeks. Canning Vale for life ;) I love y'all! keep the commandments! :)

 

Love, Elder Beeson

Baptism!!!

G'day family and friends! What a week. hahah i'll just get right to it: the baptism

 so, first off our ward mission leader is basically out of commission because he has been very very ill for a few months, so we had to do EVERYTHING for the baptism. It was soooooo much planning. I've never planned anything in my life, so it was definitely a learning experience. I invited about half the ward annnnnd a total of maybe 15 people showed up. (that's counting everyone including other missionaries that came.) haha kind of sad. Anywho, we took a couple pictures, then we had the talks and stuff, then we went to the font. so... I didn't really take into consideration that I have only done baptisms in the temple a few times, and so I completely forgot how to hold his arms and everything. haha I was clueless. hahaha I now know that I should practice before the baptism. So it took me a solid 5 minutes to figure it out while in the font. The witnesses were all talking at once and so I didn't know who to listen to, but then we FINALLY figured it out. It was sad because the spirit was COMPLETELY gone, because one of the dudes from the ward was just yelling COME ON ELDER!!! haha I wasn't offended or anything though. haha so after we FINALLY figured it out, I put him down, but his knee came up, so I had to do it again! I got him down the second time. haha He's a pretty big guy, and apparently when I was putting him under the second time my veins on my neck were massive hahaha!! So yeah that's what happened. Definitely a memorable experience ;)

 We have been having heaps of miracles lately though. We are teaching this guy who was previously taught in Queensland by these other missionaries. He's from NZ and he LOVES basketball. It makes me laugh because he just seems like a brown version of jack. But yeah we taught him on Friday and out of no where he just brings up baptism, So I was just like, "So.. you're saying you want to be baptized then?" and he said yes!! haha his date is for December 4th! it was quite a treat :)

 Also, another miracle that happened this week (this one is pretty small) was we were riding our bikes (of course ;) ) down this busy street, and  the road was under construction so there was this lady holding the stop/ slow sign, and we went by, then I went right back onto the curb, and elder macki tried to, but he biffed it pretty bad! So I turned back around and one of the construction guys came over and helped him out. Then the lady we passed with the sign came over too. She was a medical person too apparently. So I was just talking to her while Elder Macki was dressing his wound, and she was super genuine. She was telling us about her family and stuff, but then she got called back to work the sign. So we left, and the people we were going to see weren't home so we went back to the site, and she was still there. So I wrote a little thankyou note to her and gave her our number and stuff. We have been praying everyday that she'll call us, but we'll see! I can't wait to see what the Lord has instore for us :)

I know that the Lord Will be more than happy to bless us when we are willing to sacrifice the things we REALLY DO NOT want to give up. But I learned this week that Discipleship is a process of being able to say, "I'm a disciple of Christ who USED to be a.... " and mine is drummer or something like that. But yeah, sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven!

 I love all of you. I keep you in my prayers. CTR!

love, Elder Beeson

It's already November!

Hello family and friends!!

This week was quite the week. It was really rainy, but it was good!!

 

I don't have a lot of time today, but I'll share THE experience of the week.

 

So we went by S and R's house on Friday, and we rode our bikes there in the pouring rain (hard core ;) ). They let us right in, and Stan was like, "I'll give you guys 5-10 minutes." So we sat down in his garage/ living room, and he just started talking for ages. haha He talked about how he used to play rugby in new Zealand right below the pro level for 10 years. He also said that he liked to fight. he loves a good fight. haha but then he just turned to us and said that he wanted to hear what we had to say. So we felt prompted to teach him the plan of salvation, and I was prompted to form it around the fact that each one of us already knows about the plan, and that the only reason we are missionaries is to help people remember this plan. As we were teaching him, he was just SMILING the entire time!! he even said that we was starting to remember!! Holy cow!! the Spirit was soooooo strong and thick you could just cut it with a knife. Then we were talking about the kingdoms of glory and he was just saying how he had the warmest feeling in his heart that he knew what we were talking about was true. We helped him recognize that it was the Holy Ghost telling him that what we were saying was true! Then he was saying that he was excited to start fellowshipping in our church!! Then at the end of the lesson, we said a prayer, then he said a prayer, and he was crying quite hard. it was SOOOO GOOOOOD! It was the best lesson I've ever been in by far. :) he wants us to start teaching his family too!!

 

Another cool experience. We saw brother T this week and while we were there he asked us to give him a blessing. He asked Elder Macki to give the anointing and for me to give the blessing. This blessing was very unique because at least for me, whenever someone asks me to give a blessing, I right then start thinking about the things I'll say in the blessing. Then as I was giving the blessing, I had a very strong prompting to NOT say those things. I even tried saying one  of those things, then the spirit took control and completely changed the sentence. It was a very unique experience. The spirit was strong there as well.

 

The focus of this week seemed to be the power of sincere prayer. There were many prayers that were answered this week. Heaps of my prayers were. I love this work and I love having the spirit with me. I feel it everyday, and I especially feel it as I kneel in sincere prayer.

 

I love yous (that's a NZ thing) ;)

 

Love, Elder Beeson

Switch Up

This week was interesting. I decided that I'm not going to do the day by day emails anymore because that takes way too much effort ;)  I'll share a few experiences I had this week.

This week was uniquely different than all of the other weeks on my mission so far. Instead of doing a member visit everyday, we doubled up on less active visits. It was hard work!

Thursday was rough. ALL of our appointments fell through. We ended up tracting for 2 hours, and we didn't find any potentials. Actually even the potentials we found the week before who seemed super promising wanted nothing to do with us when we came back around. We had one guy give back a Book of Mormon! LAME!!!!!!  After realizing how crappy our day went, we decided to work hard until then end of the day and just laugh it off. It worked just fine :) 

... 

Later that day we popped into one of our super solid investigators houses. As soon as we got off our bikes she came outside.. and I knew it was coming, she dropped us ;(. She was saying how her family doesn't like us coming over because they want to stick to their Maori beliefs. She said she was still super interested, but she didn't want to upset her family. She even said that she was reading the Book of Mormon, and LOVED IT! She was saying that she felt super good each time she read it. We invited her to pray and ask God what she should do. She felt really bad, but we left a really good last impression on her, and so I think she'll come back for sure!

Later that night we went to S and R's house. We found them earlier last week while they were loading a couch from off the verge (look it up ;) ) We helped them load the couch in, and then we got talking, and they said that they were looking for a church to go to. S is Samoan, and R, is Maori. They are in their 50's. Super super nice people. They said we can come by anytime to share a message. So we went by Saturday night, and it was only R home. We talked to her on her doorstep for a good 45 minutes. She was telling us how important her family was to her and how a lot of her family members were dying. She was getting teary, and we were too! We told her how important families were to God, and that she will be able to see all of them someday! The spirit was SOOOOO STRONG. One of the most spiritual experiences of my mission so far. Especially after having that bible bash earlier, it helped so much to talk to a true Christian. I got the impression after we left that they will be baptized within a few months. It was a very strong impression. It made the day so much better! :)

During companionship study yesterday we got a call from a random number (which I love) and the lady asked where our church was and what time it started. She said she'd come! What the heck?! Out of nowhere!! She actually did end up coming! It was this Taiwanese lady. She biked an hour through the rain to come to church!! She stayed all three hours too!! It was amazing because she came on ward conference, and we got to hear from the stake president, President Pemberton. His talk was sooooo powerful, and he talked about how miracles were ready to happen here, and that people would be drawn to the church. She was telling us after how she was just suddenly drawn to the church!! Crazy miracle. She lives in the Gosnells Elder's Area, and agreed to take lessons!! Super cool!

It was a good week overall, but it had its rough moments. R is getting baptized next Friday! That'll be exciting!

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I hope and pray that all of you are keeping the commandments, because I know that it is only through obedience that we are truly happy :)

Love, Elder Beeson

SPIDERS AND SNAKES

Dear Family and friends, 

This week has been pretty neat. It's been super bipolar with the weather, really hot and  then really rainy and cold.

Monday- We went to Cloverdale chapel to play some ping pong with a few other elders. Fun, fun. Then we went back and changed to go to J's house. A guy from the ward was supposed to come to be a member present, but he never showed up!! We called him like 20 times and texted, but he never showed up!!

 We went to visit a few less actives. They weren't home, of course. We went to President W's house.  Awesome dude. He made us some grilled cheese sandwiches, and then we had a quick lesson with them and that was the night!

Tuesday- Loooong day, but awesome day! We had a lesson with his Maori girl we met on the street the other week. Her name is M. We had sister V come. We had an awesome lesson. We taught the plan of Salvation. She LOVED it. She really loved the spirit world part, because apparently the spirit world is something big in Maori religion. She committed to come to church (but didn't end up coming) 

We went to our ZLC meeting at the chapel. After the meeting, we went to our next lesson with Brother P. We taught R the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  He looks like my cousin Patrick, but he is like Bob Wiley in personality. I love talking/ teaching him!! He said he'd read the Book of Mormon, and come to church ( he came! ) 

We went back to the flat, and the assistants dropped off Elder Macki's lost suit case, and a package for me from Morgan!! Then we had lunch, and then we went finding. We found like 4 solid potentials on this tiny street that came to mind as I prayed!  Half of them were Malaysian. 

Then we did a few potential follow ups and we went to D's house, but he wasn't home!   We tried a few other less actives, but they wouldn't let us in. We went to A's house, and we taught him and the Ks kids the Restoration.  A gave us HEAPS of feed back haha. Then we went on ward split offs. 

We tried to see this one phillipino less active, and he told us he wasn't a member.  We went by P's house and had a quick lesson with him and gave him a scripture study schedule.  Brother C dropped us back off at the chapel, and we rode home!

Wednesday-Super rainy on Wednesday. We had to go to the shops in the morning to get Elder Macki a jacket, because he didn't have one. His credit card didn't work, and I didn't have any money either, but luckily it wasn't too rainy for the rest of the day! 

Then we had lunch, then we went to a less active's house. She didn't let us in, so we went to Sister L's house. We shared a quick message and then our appointment fell through with his guy we met on the street the day before. 

We visited sister Bi in the rest home, and we had to put on all of this sanitary stuff, because they had a break out of gastro there! haha We looked like doctors! We shared a message with her.

 We went and dropped our bikes off and took the bus to a potential's house. He wasn't too interested. Then I realized that a former/ potential investigator lived pretty close, so we walked there and he was home! He let us in. His name Is J, he is from Singapore. He has been having some hardcore depression problems. We shared the Plan of Salvation trying to raise his spirits, but he was still down. He asked heaps of good questions though! We told him we would text him inspirational scriptures throughout the week! We walked to the C's and they weren't home. So we went to the Co's, and they fed us some dinner. It was Maori bread with tomatoes!! Sooooooooooooooooo gooooooooooooooddd!! I could eat that stuff for the rest of my life. We talked about the Book of Mormon for a long time there. It was such a good discussion. Then they gave us a ride home, and that was the night!

Thursday-We had weekly planning, so we didn't get out of the flat until 3:30... so long! 

Then we tried to visit a few potentials that we tracted into on Thursday, but they didn't let us in. 

We tried to see a chinese potential, and as soon as we got to the house, the girl's mom was walking out with these chinese doughnut things... haha so we asked if her daughter was home, she was, but she was studying, so her mom gave us a doughnut. We went by this other potential's house. It just so happened that it was another Singaporean named J. He is part of the Sikh religion. He let us come into his prayer room, and taught us about what he believes. We had to take our shoes off and cover our heads with this cloth thing!   Then he let us tell about our church after he talked about his. He thought the First Vision was super cool. He said we can come back any time to teach him! Nice! We  went to the P's for dinner. We shared a simple scripture and had a discussion. Then we went home for the night to prepare for zone conference!

Friday-The Zone Leaders picked us up at 6:30 to go to Zone Conference. We had a district leader training before the conference at 8. Then we had zone conference. Soooooooo so so good. It was centered around us as missionaries being worthy enough to be baptized again, and going into depth about the armour of God. Awesome. 

After zone conference, we went to the C's for dinner and a lesson. We had Pizza Hut with hot dog stuffed crust!!! So gooooooooood  We had a lesson about the sacrament, and prayers.Then we went to the M's. We talked about the importance of the Holy Ghost with them. Then we rode home and that was the night!

Saturday- Spider and snake day! Haha. We went to the church in the morning to give Sister C a blessing>

Then we went to this house and did heaps of weeding.The man ordered pizza. When he came out to help us, he was putting on his shoes, and there was a Red Back spider on his foot!!!! ( a Red Back is the equivalent of a >Black Widow, but since we are in Australia, it's super deadly!) 

It didn't bite him luckily! But yeah, scary. I saw it. I was freaking out just a bit.  

When we finally finished service, we went to go see this potential that lived ages away. On our way there I saw this snake in the middle of the side walk! It was huge! It was gray and black and had a yellow belly. I didn't get to get a picture of it because it slithered away too fast ;( it was cool though! We finally found his house, but he wasn't home. So we visited the assistant ward mission leader, Brother H. We had a lesson about the Book of Mormon. Then we rode home and called all of our investigators to come to church.

Sunday-It was madness at church. During MCM right before sacrament meeting, R called and said he needed a ride. So Brother P picked him up. We got out of the meeting right as sacrament meeting was about to start. There was no one playing any prelude, so I played until the organist came. The organ wasn't working, But I somehow ended up playing the opening hymn. haha 

We sat in the back with a less active. Then Elder Macki and I taught Gospel Principles. It was on the spirit world. We TOTALLY winged it!  It went decent though.  

After church we went to the zone leader's flat to borrow some umbrellas and jackets for Elder Macki. It was raining hard on Sunday. Then we had dinner and we went to this less active's house. She wasn't home but her partner was, so we had a spiritual thought with hime Nice! 

We went to J's house, and he was pulling out right when we got there. We will go by Tuesday.  We tried the N's and they weren't home. Then we got our bikes and tried a less active/ recent converts house, but we had the wrong address!  We biked home and I correlated and that was the night!

Things have been crazy here lately. Super super busy! So if any of you wrote me hand written letters, just know it will take me time to write back! In fact, it may take months. I love you all though! I keep you in my prayers :)

I LOVE LOVE LOVE my mission.  I've really come out of my shell with talking to people.  I think Dad would be proud of me with that.  I was in a room with my companion, 3 19 year old boys, and a 32 year old guy, and I was the ONLY one making conversation.  They were sitting back and being super awkward.  I have learned hot to not be shy.  I just go for it now!  HA! I embrace the awkward! I have noticed that I am getting better at articulating myself and relating with others.

Love,

Elder Beeson

Far Out!!! Oct. 11, 2015

Family and friends,

This week has been one I wont forget! many interesting/weird/fun experiences.

here we go!

Monday- we went to L&L's house for a bbq for pday.  After that  we went to the shops and then tried visiting people, but no one was home!!! lame. We didn't get to teach any lessons ;( that was the night.

Tuesday-We thought we were going to transfer Elder mamea Tuesday night, but we ended up transferring him on Wednesday morning! We did heaps of goodbye visits! we probably biked 30ish k's!! he wanted to see families from all over the ward! but hey, we taught 7 lessons :) It was a really fun day. I gave M, the girl who lives at the k's a blessing right after we shared a thought there. They fed us heaps, then we had ward council, then I got a few letters from home!! :) then that was basically the day!

Wednesday-crazy long day. We dropped off elder mamea at queens park. It wasn't hard saying goodbye to him at all, haha he makes me laugh. Then we went to the mission office, and met up with all the other trainers. I played piano for the meeting we had. Then we had a trainers training session. After that I was paired up with Elder Preston for the day! He's the man!!! he is serving up in Karratha right now. side story, so he was one of the trainers who was there when we found out who are trainers were when I first came, and apparently he was supposed to train me up in Karratha because he literally had a plane ticket with my name on it!! what the heck!!! oh well, I know I'm meant to be here :) 

 

anyways, we were in the zone leader's area in ballajurra the whole day. Every person we talked to was sooo keen!! we got like 3 return appointments!! what the heck?! I swear my area is the hardest! haha. We'll make it work better here though! :) 

 

Elder Preston used to be a zone leader in the area we were at, so we visited a few former investigators and such. On our way to one of their houses, we were talking to this really odd lady who was talking about how the catholic church is going to start baptizing aliens haha. far out. But then while we were in the middle of talking to her, she just turned to me and asked how my sister was doing... I turned to elder preston, and he was as confused as I was. I had this super weird feeling come over me. I'm pretty sure it was the holy ghost telling me to leave. so we did! 

I hope Eliza and Claire are doing well!! 

 

any who, then we went to this guy's house and he was one of those people who has an insane memory. He gave us a calendar of last year and he told us to name a date on there and he would tell us what day of the week it was. he was right every time!! we had a really good lesson with him! After that we went to a recent converts house. He used to be a muslim. His house mates don't know he's a member of the church. Then we went to his malysian guy's house named K. we read Mosiah 21 with him, then he gave us some super authentic chinese food! it was really good actually! kind of looked scary to eat, but it was fun! Then the zone leaders picked us up and that was the night.

Thursday-Long day as well! We had to be at the chapel by 8. We played some basketball in a park for our morning work out. then we went to the chapel, then we met our trainees!! I saw Elder Jensen there haha! lucky guy, he's being trained by elder cordner in Kalgoolrie!! way out in the bush. My companion is Elder Macki!! He is fron Colby, Kansas, and he is 21. He looks 18 though.  I love him already because  has the strongest desire to serve. I've already learned heaps from him. After we had training. I played piano for that. Then we had lunch. then the trainees had to go get their working with children cards. 

Then I was talking to Elder Cordner for a long time. He's a good guy. We continued our meeting, then we got his bags and left for our area. The only little problem is that there were some sisters that drove up from Bunbury and took some bags with them and they took one of elder Macki's bags. hahaha So he still doesn't have it. Hopefully we'll get it soon! 

 

Then we got to our area, then Sister C dropped us off some dinner, then we ate, then we went to bishop's house, but he wasn't home. Then we went to J's house, but he wasn't home either, then we went to the N's, and we had a lesson with them. Then that was pretty much the night. Poor Elder Macki, he was feeling pretty sick, so I gave him my bedding and let him sleep.

Friday-We had district meeting. We have 2 more sisters in our district now! so there's 8 of us in the district now. It was good! we played that one matthew mark luke john 1 2 3 4 game where you call the other persons name or number while clapping and snapping. hahah it was fun. Then we had a good spiritual discussion. 

 

After that we went to the flat and weekly planned. I was getting so sick of sitting there, so we bagged weekly planning for a bit and went to work! We went to D's house again. it was the first time I have seen him since the first full day I was out in the field in July!! He is still super keen to be baptized!! We had a really good lesson about the plan of salvation with him. He committed to read the bom, pray, ask his mom about baptism again, and come to a session of general conference!! It was all elder Macki ;) Then we tried to see a few less actives, they weren't home. 

Then we went to set up an appointment with these potentials we met on the street the other day! the lady was home and we set an appointment! She's super keen to have us over, she was thinking of having us over on her birthday! Far out!! then after that we went to a former's house. His name is R. He IS BOB WILEY. from what about bob!He has a bit of schizophrenia. One of the first things he said to us when we showed up is that he wants to be baptized!! far out!! Then he let us teach him the restoration right there, and he committed to be baptized on Nov. 6th!! Nice!! I'm telling you though, it's all Elder Macki ;) Then we tried another potential, then we went back to the flat for the night to finish weekly planning, to do 12 week and eat dinner, good day though :)

Saturday-General conference!!!!!!!!!!!! so good!! I loved that one southern lady's talk! After the first session, we went to go teach A&S. We went there and apparently andy just barely moved!! What the heck?! He's now building silos in the bush!! gahh! but Sani was there and we had a good lesson with him about how he needs to be a good influence for his kids. 

 

 After that the zl's picked us up and we saw the second session! I lovvvvvvved it!! After that, we were dropped off at the m's for dinner. we had some super good fish n' chips. We had a quick lesson on prayer, then they drove us back to the church for priesthood session. I loved elder uchtdorf's talk :)  then after that we went home for 12 week! That was the day.

Sunday- We met with bishop for an mcm meeting at 9 right before conference. After that we watched conference. Then after the first session, we went to our flat for companionship study and lunch. Then Br. P came to pick us up to pick up R! He came in this sweet Hawaiian shirt. I just feel like I'm on a movie when I'm around him. He's so funny. Then we watched conference.  I think Robert fell asleep through some of it, but then again so did a lot of the missionaries.. sad!!! Then we went to our flat to make a reading schedule for P, then we went to brother R's house to text the zone leaders on his phone because we left our phone in the zone leader's car. 

 

We shared a message while we were there about trusting in God. It was cool because Sister R's sister's boyfriend was there and apparently he is an investigator down in Armadale! Then we went to bishop's house and shared a quick thought. Then we biked all the way to P's house. No one was home. haha I guess that's what you get when you forget your phone! Then we biked home to do some 12 week and have dinner and correlate. then the zone leaders came and gave us our phone! then that was the night.

This week was madness. It was fun though. I love the mission life, you just never know what kind of  people you'll meet hahaha!! I love you my friends and family, keep being Saints, latter day saints that is ;)

yours truly,

elder Beeson

K's for Days!!!! October 4, 2015

Dearest family and friends,

This week has been an absolute blur!

We have been riding our bikes so much. It's a good thing we don't have to worry about running out/ keeping track of how many k's we go because we ride ALL DAY EVERYDAY!

Tuesday-we went down to Armadale to play some basketball with a few other elders at a rec center place. After that, we went back to our flat and freshened up then we went to J's house and talked to him for a while we shared a scripture about trusting God. Then Brother M picked us up so Elder Mamea could go on ward visits, and so I could go home teaching with him. We went to the S's house and had a good lesson on enduring to the end. Then we met back up at the church and Brother M shouted us some Nandos!! nice :) We got take out and we ate it at our flat. Then we started our fast for the next day!

Wednesday-We had ZLC in the morning, then we went to sister M's house. We talked to her on her doorstep for an hour because she refused to let us come in and share a message We ended up sneaking a spiritual thought in there though ;) After that we rode to the H's which was ages away. We did an object lesson with talking about the importance of the sacrament. They liked it. Then we went to the P's, but Br. P wasn't home so we couldn't stay. Then we tried the M's, but Brother M wasn't home, so we couldn't stay there very long either. Then we went to S's. S&A and  were there, so we taught A the Restoration! He's a very good listener. We committed him to read the book of Mormon everyday by himself! nice! Then we went to go open the chapel for the sisters.

We were supposed to have dinner at A's, but then he cancelled last minute and said he'd drop it off at our flat. He got us NANDOS!! haha nandos to start and end our fast :) I didn't mind ;) then I mid-week correlated, and that was the night

Thursday-We went and did service until almost 4:00 at a less active's home. They had an orange orchard and they said we could take all the oranges we wanted! We did the service with Elder Brinkerhoff and Elder Suguturanga. It was hot that day too!! I darkened up a little bit. But when I say darkened, I really mean I got quite sunburned, but now it's turning into a tan ;)

It was crazy though because they have this spot in their backyard that looks EXACTLY like my backyard at home looking from the Abel's to the baseball field. I'll send a picture! It was freaking me out haha!

 

Sister T fed us lunch, and we took our oranges, and went home. We went to B's house. We shared a quick message and he gave  us heaps of less active referrals! We decided to go to one of them right after that. On our way there, we saw these two kiwis carrying groceries. We passed them then I had this feeling we should go back. We passed them like 5 minutes earlier, so I was doubting they were still going to be there. But they just so happened to be right where we last saw them!! what the heck?! The guy was talking to someone on the phone. Anyways, we got talking to them, and they were the NICEST, COOLEST people ever. They said they would love to have us come over anytime! They were so keen!!

After that we went to the less active's house and it turns out the girl we visited now has a partner. The guy was really cool. We talked to him and ended up teaching him the lesson! He said he wants to see what we're about. nice!! Then we rode to J's house. She was FINALLY home. We went over 2 Nephi 31 with her, because apparently she read it a few weeks ago. Then she said she'd come to church to figure out if it was true! Then we rode home and that was the night! It was a really good day :)

Friday-We weekly planned because we didn't have time to on Thursday. After that we went to try to visit 3 less actives, but none of them were home, and we rode ages to see them.. haha oh well. Then we talked to this lady on the street for a good half hour. She told us we can come back anytime to talk with her! nice! Then we had to book it to our dinner appointment at the N's! The N's are like the Indian/Burmese version of the Meyrings. Super nice house, and everything was super organized. We had some nice curry and really good dessert. They were telling us their conversion story the entire time. It was really cool. Apparently L. Tom Perry's nephew converted them.

We tried to see a less active, but they weren't home, J weren't home either. Then we went to the N's, and they were finally home! We talked about Church and doctrine for a long time, then we shared a scripture that dealt with everything they were talking about. After that we went home, and that was the night.

Saturday- We had a district blitz in the morning. I ran into a Scottish dude who talked to us for a while! hahaha I couldn't take his accent seriously because I was thinking of Dad!

I ate this fruit that was on this tree which tasted like a cross between a mango and apricot, but you had to peel it. That was cool.

We went back home to do 12 week and language study. After we went to sister L's house for lunch. She made a mean meat pie. After that we shared a quick scripture. haha it was funny because the whole day there was like no one on the roads because the footie grand final was happening, which is basically like super bowl sunday, and the local team here in WA was in the grand final. Apparently the west coast eagles got crushed. haha I know it sounds super irrelevant that I'm talking about this, but it really affected the work because everyone was just so ticked off! It was funny.

After that we went to S's. A wasn't home. We read a little bit of Mormon 9 with them. After that we saw Sister R and had a quick lesson on her doorstep about the sacrament.

Sunday-Lbailed on us on church in the morning, so we did 12 week and language study. After that we went to church, had mcm, then sat by S in the back. NONE of our investigators came ;( I was so bugged. Then during the middle of priesthood I got a call from President Fife! He called for news about transfers... and... I'm training!! woah!! haha so I'll find out who my new companion is on Thursday! Elder Mamea is going to Queens park with Elder Cranston. Man, I'm going to miss my companion. He's the best.

After that we went home and tried to visit a few people, no one was home. No one is ever home!! Then L picked us up and we had some dinner. After that she dropped us off at J's house. He's a less active guy. The coolest nicest guy though. He wanted us to bless his home because there has been weird stuff going on. Then he drove us home in his sports car and we took pictures with it! Then he offered us dinner for tonight! nice. Then I correlated and that was the night!

This week was an absolute blur! Each week is going by faster. Something I really learned this week is that if we, "Trust in the Lord with all [our] heart and lean not unto [our] own understanding," that he truly will, "direct [our] paths." I love the Lord. I love the work. I love Australia! Keep doing what you know you should!

love, elder Beeson

G'day family and Friends!

I had an awesome wild week! It's spring time here in WA which is like Utah's summer weather haha!

Wednesday-We went to the temple for p-day!! It was so nice! We were lucky getting there though, because I had no idea what trains and busses to take to get there, but then we saw a couple of other elders, and we just followed them! There were heaps of Elders that came too. It was so nice to be able to go back. I had heaps of different insights.

After that we went straight home, and as soon as we got home we had to go to our appointment at J and C's. We went there and their whole family was there, so they told us to come back the next day. haha we biked like 8 K's as fast as we could to even get there! oh well. Then we decided to have dinner and I needed to mid-week correlate so we went to the flat, and that was the night.

Thursday-Awesome day! We weekly planned in the morning, then we went to follow up to teach Bishop's Son's Friend named I. He was really excited for us to teach him. We went and asked his mom if we could teach him, and she said that it was fine. So we taught him and a few other friends in the park. We taught him the plan of salvation. He had heaps of questions, but that's kind of what you get when you teach kids! He committed to be baptized at the end of the lesson!! He'll be baptized on Oct 23rd! That was cool.

Then we had to walk to Js house but on our way there, we saw this black dude. Elder Mamea complimented the man on his jacket he was wearing, and the guy didn't really hear him, so he turned around after we passed him, and we ended up talking to him for a good 45 minutes on the street. Turns out this guy was from Ethiopia, and he was an Orthodox Christian. He apparently was a former investigator from Midland as well. He was kind of bashing on Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. Then Elder Mamea bore his strong and simple testimony about Joseph smith. I bore my testimony about the Book of Mormon. hahahah I was SUPER bold with him. I shared with him 2 Nephi 33:10. He was pretty shut down (in a good way) after we bore our testimonies. It was very powerful. Then we got his information, and he said we can come by and teach him within the next week!! Nice!!!

Then we went to J's house. Their whole family was there. They are from the Phillipines. Apparently, it was the first time they have been together in 6 years. We taught the gospel of Jesus Christ through 2 Nephi 31. After that C said she wasn't interested! What the heck?! I think she'll be baptized later on, she just has so much more responsibility now that her family is here.

Friday-We tried to see Brother T in the morning, but he wasn't home. Then we went by W's house, and he was finally home. We talked with him and shared a quick scripture before we had to go to our next appointment. We went to the chapel to teach D, this Chinese dude. We had , this phillipino guy in the ward come to teach him too! We gave him a chapel tour and we taught the restoration as well. It was so dumb though because he just would not take a Boom of Mormon!! He said he was too busy to read it and that he wasn't going to take a book he was going to be too busy to read anyways! We tried convincing him for a while, but he wouldn't budge. He's a really cool guy. I actually think he will read it though after his studies calm down.

After that we went and taught I again. We had a talk with his mom, and his mom said she didn't want him to be baptized. She just wanted him to learn about religion. She said it's fine if we keep teaching him, but she doesn't want him to be baptized. I feel like we will be able to soften her heart before October 23rd though. :) Elder Mamea and I have the faith!

Then we taught him in his backyard. His mom was inside and listening through the screen door. After that we went to A's for dinner.

On our way there we tried this potential's house. We got there as soon as this lady's expartner pulled up. hahaha he cussed us out pretty bad. hahaha I just wanted to say calm down dude!! or mate haha whatever, but yeah, he hated us with a passion.

Then we got to the K's and played with the K's kids for a while, then they told us A wasn't there, so we had to go home because there wasn't another male. We shared a quick thought, then we rode home, and they dropped us off some pizza. After that we went to J's house, but he wasn't home, then we tried a few others, and they weren't either, then that was pretty much the night!

Saturday- We had a district blitz in the sister's area. The zone leaders couldn't come because they were doing service. We tracted this street and found 3 solid potentials. We had another really rude guy cuss us out again haha!!

Then we talked to this born again Christian for like an hour. Nicest man. Then the zone leaders picked us up and we ate kfc at this really nice park. 

After that we went to our flat, and waited for L&L  to pick us up. Then we went to their house to wash their car and eat. After that we walked to J's and she wasn't home, so that was pretty much the night!

Sunday- I played the Organ for Sacrament meeting!!!  I was so nervous though because I have never played an actual church organ before in my life. I didn't know exactly how the volume worked, so the first two songs were pretty quiet, but by the last hymn, I was blasting it! It was fun. Then we taught primary. 

After Church, we went to the F's house. They are the best people ever!! I drank like 5 glasses of this island drink It had mango, coconut and pineapple and milk in it.  Then I talked with brother F for a while about how the ward needs more excitement for missionary work!! After that we taught a quick object lesson about repentance. Then Brother F drove us home, and then we went to see a few people, but then no one was home as usual, then I correlated and that was the night.

Monday- We had an AWESOME district meeting. I really just let the Spirit guide the meeting. By the end of it, we were all pumped and edified to go to work!! We were all balling! Then we had lunch, then we went to the S's and talked with them for a while. We shared a scripture about faith. They really took it in and agreed. It was really good. Then we went to Sister B's, and S L's house. We found 2 potentials on the way there! We got there like 5 minutes before their home teachers walked in.  So we just testified to what they said, and I shared a scripture out of 1 Timothy relating it to the message they shared.

Then we had dinner at the P's. They are a fun family to talk to. Smart, funny people. They always have super good food too! After dinner we shared a message. Then we tried to go by J's house, but he wasn't home. Then we went to the C's and shared a message with them. They are the best family! Then that was the night!

Good week, very busy and successful week! Thank you for your prayers. I pray for all of you as well!

Love, Elder Beeson