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