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