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