Dear friends and family, what a great week. I know I say this every week, but this week was crazy!

On Tuesday we followed up with M,  the Chilean lady that we found 2 days earlier. She let us right in, and we met her son. They are pretty active in the 7th day Adventist church, but very open and willing to learn, read, and pray about the Book of Mormon. We had a really good lesson with them on the Restoration. Half way through the lesson M's other daughter S came out and joined! M tried to read the Book of Mormon, but didn't really understand it, and neither did her sonl because they are super Spanish and stuff ;) so luckily we brought 2 copies of the book of Mormon in Spanish! They were thrilled! M is such a sweet lady, after our lesson, she went into the other room and told us to wait, so we waited and talked to her son for like 20 minutes, and then she came out with empanadas. She's the best! Found a family!! :) 

Elder Matautia and I got our new Golden companion, fresh from the mtc on Thursday! His name is Elder Aldous from Nampa Idaho! He is half Korean, and is just the man. he was the senior class president at his school, so he is a good natured people-person. He honestly fits right into our companionship because he has the same sense of humour as Elder Matautia and I. 

Elder Matautia was really sick this week. so we had to exchange with the Kenwick elders quite a bit, so elder matautia could get his rest/whatever else he needed. So Elder Aldous, Elder given and I were pretty much companions for 2 days. We went to an elder's Christmas party, and met and talked and taught these African dudes who were friends with the member in the ward. The dude I was talking to had dreads. It was funny because I was explaining to him a little bit about what the party was all about, and I told him that there wasn't any drinks or drugs or anything at the party, and then he kind of took it the wrong way, and said, "I don't smoke man, I know it looks like I do because of my hair, but I'm clean man. " hahaha. 

Elder Given, Aldous and I were riding bikes, and I had this feeling that we needed to go see a less active, so we went there, and she opened the door, and said that we caught her at her worst. she said that her Sister was in the hospital in a coma, and is probably going to die. she was pretty "delirious" ( she said that herself)  and so she asked for a blessing. It was a powerful blessing that Elder Given gave her. It was cool to me how subltle the prompting was to go visit her. It just made me realize again how important it is to be in tune, and to pay attention to the smallest thoughts of inspiration. 

We are having a baptism on Wednesday! J is super pumped for it! I'll send some pictures :) 

Also, we are going to the temple this next week, so I won't email until next Wednesday!

I learned this week about how important the Book of Mormon is in the conversion process. As I've pondered this week on my own conversion to the Gospel, I have come to realize how massive of an impact the Book of Mormon has been throughout the whole process. Everytime I read that book with sincerity, looking for answers to my prayers, and looking for how I can align myself with Him, an answer ALWAYS comes. We are sooooooo blessed to have the Book of Mormon. 

I love you all family! merry Christmas.

Love Elder Beeson

G'day family and friends, what weekend!

We've been working a lot with our investigator J this week. He passed his baptismal interview, and so he will be baptized on the 14th at mutual! one of the priests will be baptizing him, it's going to be awesome!! His mom texted us sunday morning and told us that he didn't  have anything to wear, so we gave him one of my white shirts and a tie to keep. I love how simple his testimony is. 

Yesterday was pretty cool. We have been working a lot with the Ward family, they are progressing really well. We made oti with them ( a samoan drink)  and then had a lesson. C has heaps of questions, but all of them are sincere. He's an ex-bikie and loves anciet history, so when we introduced him to the Book of Mormon, he was pumped to read it! 

On our way back from that with them, we saw this old lady moving these massive palm tree leaves to the verge across the street, so we pulled over and asked her if we could help, she said yes. YES!  so we went and helped her and it turns out she is from Chile, so I tried my best to work my Spanish magic ;) and actually held a pretty decent conversation with her! She was so touched by us helping her, so she invited us in, and gave us something to eat, and we started to teach her a little bit of the Restoration and plan of salvation mixed, and told us that she would read and pray about the book of Mormon! So that was a cool miracle :) 

This morning we got permission from President Fife to go fishing with our investigator, so we got up at 5:30 and fished with him and his son all morning, it was fun! We had to dig for these worms that have pinchers as the bate, and yeah it was my first time fishing hahaha. such a boy scout ;) but I caught 5 fish! 

We got transfer calls last night, and Elder Matautia and I are going to be training a missionary! we are soooooooooooo pumped!! it pretty much guarantees me being here until march haha, its alright, I love this ward, and the ward family ;) 

I learned this weekend about how important it is to pray with real intent. Whenever we do, we are sure to get the answer. I've experienced getting answers to my prayers so many times, and it has always happened whenever I had the intention to act on the answer I was to receive. There is no better feeling than knowing you have a strong connection with Heavenly Father, there is nothing that can mirror it! 

I love you all family, and friends, stay warm ;) I will for sure ;) 

Love Elder Beeson

December 1st

Hey family/ friends! Good week and a half! I'll share some spiritual and some not as spiritual highlights of the week! 

We were tracting and we met this Phillipino dude and he told us he had a question for us about eternal marriage, and he said that he wanted us to come back in 15 minutes to give him the answer. Neither me or Elder Matautia and I had our bibles on us, and we knew it would be a bit of a bible bash, so we got our bibles and went back. He let us in, and was just straight preaching to us. haha pulled out the anti Mormon and the youtube temple stuff. But he has a friend that is in the ward, and so we knew that he couldn't be too bad, so we went back the next day and talked with about  the Restoration! We took a recently returned missionary with us to that lesson. it was good. And in the end he committed to pray to God about the book of Mormon. 

On Thursday there was a last minute child of record baptism, and I was called just a few hours before to be the speaker. We were super busy so I didn't get to really prepare anything, but it was a good opportunity for me to work on the goal I have set to rely more on the spirit in teaching! it went well :) 

On Friday we went on exchanges with the Assistants, and we got permission to go visit one of our recent converts! She worked in the shops that was like a 5 minute drive from the Assistant's flat, and it was good to see her. She was pretty busy with work, but it was a surprise to her to see elder Matautia and I back together again! haha. 

We had a zone service on Saturday painting some fences, it was fun but hot! it hit 40 degrees! ( I think that's like 104 farenheit) then later that day we had a thanksgiving with the same Maori family I had it with when I was in this area last year! it was super fun :) 

On sunday we went to Narrogin branch to do this member-missionary-zone conference thing that is being put on by the stake. it was a really spiritual experience for me. there were about 30 people there at most, ( most people were visiting from the stake.) but each of the people that were there, all wanted to be there. It was a COMPLETELY different feel to what sacrament meeting usually feels like for me. They had 1 old man passing the sacrament. It was powerful. It put the image in my mind of how it would be if the saviour was passing it. I was then the first speaker for the meeting, and again, I tried my best to rely on the spirit. I had a few thoughts and ideas, but as I talked everything felt like it just flowed. the whole 3 hour block was just awesome though. The branch fed us afterwards, and we took a picture with them. I'll try to send it this Monday. 

We had a really good lesson with the Ward's on Monday! We only really taught M and K, but it was good. we taught the entire restoration, and it was nice because there was never a feeling I had of that made me feel like they weren't keen and didn't want to listen. they were both fully engaged, and it made the lesson flow and the spirit  was there. We invited them to be baptized, and the brother, said he doesn't know yet, but probably, and his wife is still holding on to some catholic things, but it'll happen in time 100%! 

This week was awesome a few things I learned is about how important it is to rely on the spirit, and about how much of an effect music can have on us. it's super important to listen to whatever will bring the Spirit. I try to do it everyday! 

sorry for the long all over the place email, but I hope you know that I'm happy, and I love my companion, the people and the Lord! and you all too ;)

Love Elder Beeson

Dear family and friends, 

this week was pretty crazy again. Every week I've been here has been pretty nuts. I love this ward and area! 

it's been so good to be back with Elder Matautia. haha it's like we never parted ;) 

just a few highlights of the week:

-Went on exchanges with the como Elders I was with Elder Manlapat. we were tracting, and we came across this sales lady. she asked us what we were selling, and I said "religion" and then we talked for ages! haha she was being super real with us, she knew that her company she was working for was a straight fraud, and she said she would be all goods with door knocking if she knew what she was doing was true, and so we took that opportunity to testify to what we were doing was actually true! We had a super real talk with her, and introduced the BOM, and she was super keen to read it. I asked her to honestly tell me if she was actually keen or not, and she said she was! So we referred her to the Murdoch sisters. cool miracle :) 

-Friday was crazy. I was called on Thursday morning to play for a funeral the next day. it was Ephram White's funeral. he was the patriarch's son. Anywho it was even bigger because they are a Maori family, and so I played piano for about 1000 people, and was sight reading, hahah I was kind of tripping out because I never even heard one of the songs I was  playing, but it went well :) ! it was cool though, because since I was on the stand, I got to see everyone's faces the entire time while they were listening to the talks and stuff. there were soooooo many people in the crowd that just looked lost and scared and frustrated. ( lots of non-members were there.) and yet they all had a look of love on their face for Ephram and for his family, and so I had a very strong impression of how much heavenly Father loves his children. Wayyyyyyyyyy more than all the Maori's there combined. They did a sweet haka at the end of the service. It was powerful. We helped serve food at the massive feed later that night. 

-Saturday was just random! we biked from Gosnells to Piara waters which took like the whole day, because of bloody noses and other stuff, but then we finally got there and the first door we knocked on were these Indian dudes. Long story short, they gave us curry and we gave them a BOM, and then ate the curry, and then we had to get back, but we got lost, and were going to cross a river, but then we found a frog, and since it was the first frog I have ever seen in Australia, I naturally had to catch it, but ripped my pants in the process. hahaha it turned out the be the randomest day ever. it was good though! 

I love serving here. love the people, the "culture" and the food, and the frogs ;) 

everything is good :) 

we are going to Narrogin this sunday to do another member training thing. I'll send pics!

Love you all!

love Elder Beeson

ps we are going to the temple next week so I won't email until Thursday! 

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Dear family and friends, 

this week was pretty crazy again. Every week I've been here has been pretty nuts. I love this ward and area! 

it's been so good to be back with Elder Matautia. haha it's like we never parted ;) 

just a few highlights of the week:

-Went on exchanges with the como Elders I was with Elder Manlapat. we were tracting, and we came acrossed this sales lady. she asked us what we were selling, and I said "religion" and then we talked for ages! haha she was being super real with us, she knew that her company she was working for was a straight fraud, and she said she would be all goods with door knocking if she knew what she was doing was true, and so we took that opportunity to testify to what we were doing was actually true! We had a super real talk with her, and introduced the BOM, and she was super keen to read it. I asked her to honestly tell me if she was actually keen or not, and she said she was! So we referred her to the Murdoch sisters. cool miracle :) 

-Friday was crazy. I was called on Thursday morning to play for a funeral the next day. it was Ephram White's funeral. he was the patriarch's son. Anywho it was even bigger because they are a Maori family, and so I played piano for about 1000 people, and was sight reading. I was kind of tripping out because I never even heard one of the songs I was  playing, but it went well :) ! it was cool though, because since I was on the stand, I got to see everyone's faces the entire time while they were listening to the talks and stuff. there were soooooo many people in the crowd that just looked lost and scared and frustrated. ( lots of non-members were there.) and yet they all had a look of love on their face for Ephram and for his family, and so I had a very strong impression of how much heavenly Father loves his children. Wayyyyyyyyyy more than all the Maori's there combined. They did a sweet haka at the end of the service. It was powerful. We helped serve food at the massive feed later that night. 

-Saturday was just random! we biked from Gosnells to Piara waters which took like the whole day, because of bloody noses and other stuff, but then we finally got there and the first door we knocked on were these Indian dudes. Long story short, they gave us curry and we gave them a BOM, and then ate the curry, and then we had to get back, but we got lost, and were going to cross a river, but then we found a frog, and since it was the first frog I have ever seen in Australia, I naturally had to catch it, but ripped my pants in the process. hahaha it turned out the be the randomest day ever. it was good though! 

I love serving here. love the people, the "culture" and the food, and the frogs ;) 

everything is good :) 

we are going to Narrogin this sunday to do another member training thing. I'll send pics!

Love you all!

love Elder Beeson

ps we are going to the temple next week so I won't email until Thursday! 

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November 14th-Albany

Dear family and friends, 

I cannot begin to explain how crazy this week was, it was awesome!!!!!! 

I'll go spiritual/ cool things that happened this week. 

So We've been working with C and K and they are both just suuuuuper keen. We went over on Tuesday and we had a super good lesson with C. He loves us, he showed us all of his prized possesions. He used to be a hard out bikie, but now he is a softie ;)

We shared Mosiah 3:19 with him and the whole time we were talking about it, you could just feel the clarity he was experiencing as we broke down the scripture with him. He was pretty much bearing testimony by telling his experiences with each line from the scripture. He gave us some spring onions from his garden, and we made some teriyaki chicken with them and gave them some, since K has been feeling ill. 

We got a call from a member in Doubleview ward who had  a prompting to call one of his clients from work, he told us that he called this friend ( D) and it turns out Dis in some big time need of help. He had to get all of his stuff put together and cleaned so he could sell his house. So we called D, and he was really happy when we told him that we could give him a hand, so we went to his house and did service there for a few hours. He made us sandwiches and told us that he isn't religious or anything but that he had questions, and then he went on to talk about all of these spiritual experiences he has had since splitting up with his wife. It has caused him to go from atheism to believing in something. We got to bear testimony to him that if he continued to follow the promptings that God would show him the way. He was wayyyy more positive about everything after we talked to him. 

It's cool how Heavenly Father is preparing ALL of his children to receive the gospel. Even the Atheist Aussies. and the rough bikies. He knows and loves them. It's such a blessing to be part of the work of harvesting those souls for Him. 

We also went to Albany Branch this weekend. President Fife gave us permission to go with one of the High councillors and the STL's to give them some training on how to do member missionary work. We had to wake up suuuuuuper early to go down there. (3am) and we got there right in time for church to start at 9. They were the nicest people there, and soooooooo welcoming.  Right after church we got a call from President Fife. Long story short, Elder Tua'itanu is getting emergency transferred to be the Assistant. Elder Matautia is my new companion! I have already served 4 months with Elder Matautia, but president told me that  I would be his last companion until he goes home in January. Crazy. This is all going down tomorrow. Then we travelled back up and took some pics along the way! It was fun :) 

I relearned this week how important it is to have the Holy Ghost with us in the work. We are the instruments, and the Holy Ghost does everything else. There is so much more clarity in life whenever we have the companionship of the Holy Ghost. It's something we have to work for to have, but it is definitely worth it. 

I love my mission, my companion, and my new companion

love yous too! 

Love

Elder Beeson​

This week was fun! I learned a lot for sure. I'll give you the highlights of the week spiritual and not as spiritual ;) 

I will start with the not as spiritual stuff, save the best for last! 

We had our zone pday on Monday and did some Halloween stuff! haha we did some good appropriate "costumes" our district was a garden, and I was a tomato haha. 

We've also been feeding a cat every day this week. we wake up at 5:45 to do it. and we have to put it in everyday at 5:30. it is so funny because everyday without fail my companion dry heaves hahahaha!! 

We also had a cottage evening at the O's house this week, and we played some ice breaker games, and I swear, elder Tua'itanu and I are on a whole other level of unity because I was able to guess what he was doing in 3 seconds or less each time he acted something out ;) 

So something pretty cool happened this week. elder Tua'itanu and I had a pretty in depth real talk about how things are going in the area and we decided to pretty much drop everyone and to start fresh. we had a few people on baptismal date, but neither of them were progressing. So we had faith that heavenly Father would put someone in our path, and then the next day, we got a call from a member family in the ward who I was pretty close to last year when I served here, Sister R told us that she had been working with a family for the last 6 months, and she said that she feels they are ready. Apparently she has like already taught and told them about the restoration, and plan of salvation, and has given them a book of Mormon, so she said that she had an appointment set up for us to meet them!

so the morning of the appointment K texted sister R and said that she felt like I was meant to come back and teach their family. We went over and met C and K! honestly they are soooooooooo prepared. C went into depth on all the kind of spiritual experiences he has been having over the past year or two, it was cool. 

near the close of the lesson, Elder Tua'itanu leaned over to me and said that he felt that we should give C a blessing.  elder Tua'itanu was just the man and he acted on the prompting and C accepted a blessing, so we gave him one and man, it was suuuuper powerful. We left after that, and Sister R told us that after we left, he said that he felt an intense warmth, and then as soon as we took our hands off of his head, he felt coldness. Can't wait to see what happens on Tuesday when we see them next :) 

We also did our first member-missionary zone conference last night! it was good! We felt inspired to talk about how bearing real, powerful testimony is the best way to help people feel the spirit. and also how escaping the comfort zone is really important in all missionary work. We did an object lesson for it, and it didn't really work, but it was good/ funny! 

I feel like the thing I learned this week was how important it is to be ourselves while doing this work. it's important because when we are ourselves, the spirit can be with us because we are being our true selves, and the holy ghost can only testify to when truth is there. 

I hope that all made sense! 

Love you all family

Love elder Beeson

G’day family and friends. This week was pretty nuts! 

On Wednesday I went on exchanges with the Armadale Elders. I was with Elder Antonio. He is super funny. We helped a Malaysian family move from his ward into ours. We tracted for a few hours after that! It was fun! We were talking to a phillipino lady at the door, and she let us in, and so we started talking a bit about her religious background and she said that she was baptized a Mormon in the phillipines 30 years ago! What the heck!! Anywho, Then we talked to another Phillipino lady who was a born again. She cried as she told us her story, and it was good, but then she said, “you know I think the reason you came to my door was because you need to learn from me, not me from you.”love the born agains ;) Then we went to our ward trunk or treat party. It’s funny because I was at the same party last year! It was fun J

We decided to drop a few of our investigators this week. It was good because we had some cool miracles happen! We met an Indonesian lady while tracting that said that she really missed going to church. She said that she would come to church if she knew people. So we told her that we’d introduce her to some people! She also has an 8 year old son who her family from back home wants to be baptized, so we told her that we do baptisms, and her face just lit up! She told us that her son always asks these crazy doctrinal questions and she wants someone to answer them for her! (Adam and eve’s kids getting married… ;) )

We also got a call from Sister R who said that she has been working on a family for us to teach. She said that the dad of this family is really just searching for more spiritual enlightenment right now. Apparently he has been doing some simple things that Sister R has been inviting him to do, and has been having experiences! So she set up a dinner to be able to teach her friend’s whole family!!! Such a miracle. All of their beliefs are like parallel to ours as well. J

We also had a pretty crazy Saturday. We had a zone service project in a swamp. We all got pretty dirty. Elder Tua’itanu and I had another service project after that. Then we had to help out with a baptism. It was pretty rushed, but ended up being pretty decent. Then we had to rush to our chapel for our ward cultural night. Hhahahaha it was sooooo funny. I straight up joined the Samoan, phillipino, and Tahitian cultural dances. ( I was invited to be all 3) but since my dance moves don’t really go with any of the cultures, I probably looked pretty disrespectful. But luckily everyone in the ward knows me…. ;) But yeah it was pretty fun!

Ohhh!! One more thing, We got permission from President fife to go to Narrogin and Albany to do this member zone conference thing so we can “refresh” the members how to do member missionary work! Super excited!!! We are going to Albany branch on the 13^th. It is apparently the furthest church unit away from Salt lake in the world!

One thing I learned this week is about how much our intentions matter whenever we are talking about the gospel to someone else. If our intentions when we are talking to them are to just baptize them for the sake of baptizing them, they will be able to feel it. But if your intentions are to show them you love them, they can start the real conversion process. Everyone in my life that has been involved in my conversion process has helped me because I know they love me. I finally have realized that the only two things I need to worry about as a missionary is 1) having the spirit with me, and 2) Loving everyone I come into contact with. I’ve applied it this week and it made this week a lot different than anyother week I’ve had on my mission thus far J

also, we are going to be feeding a cat for the next 2 weeks, and we have to wake up at 5:30 to do it, so we can help this older man.  

Love you all, CTR! 

Love Elder Beeson  

G'day Friends and Family! What a loooooooooong week! it was good, but super duper busy!

On Monday after our pday we took a recently returned mini missionary, A ( who is actually older than both Elder Tua'itanu and I) to see a referral we received down in Harrisdale. So we went there and met D who is Sri Lanken. he's in his 30's and speaks good English. Apparently his brother who is living in Texas referred him because his brother just got baptized! So we asked him heaps of questions to see where he is at with everything, and we found that he wants to start on a clean slate so we taught the gospel of Jesus Christ, and then we had A extend the Baptismal invitation and he said yes!! wooooo! he will be baptized next month :) 

We had transfers this week, it was pretty nuts getting things all sussed, but it all worked out great :) 

We also had HEAPS of stake meetings this week. They were all good meetings, but I'm kind of sick of meetings to be honest! haha. 

We saw A on Thursday night, and we went in NOT having the mindset of figuring out what we had to do to get him baptized. So we just asked him some questions about things that we feel we have overlooked ( his brother passed away a few months back) so we asked him about that, and to be honest, normally I feel really uncomfortable and am not sure what to do whenever something sad happens, but I just trusted that something would come to mind if I just listened. So we were just listening and then all of the sudden as soon as I opened my mouth, I knew EXACTLY what to say, and everything became really clear. I felt the spirit strong during that lesson, especially as I opened my mouth. I honestly think that one of the best ways to prove the existence of our loving heavenly father is to trust in him to give you what you need to say when you have no idea what to say, and not only that, but the feeling you get when you do it. It's hard to describe, but it brings peace to me. 

On Friday we had lunch with our district leader at our flat, and then when we went back out to the car, the car was robbed!! haha they only took Elder Given & Taupau's stuff, none of mine or Elder Tua'itanu's stuff. The other Elders were sooooo mad. haha Honestly there are soooo many robberies where we live. it is the HOOD here in Gozzies! ;) hahaha. 

We had heaps of random days this week. Saturday was crazy as well. The sisters called us a quarter to 5 because they needed us to unlock the chapel for a baptism of a child of record. that started at 5!! So we got there and the font wasn't filled or anything, and it was already 5pm, and we didn't have the key to the font to fill it up, so elder Tua'itanu helped me jump over the glass of the font to start filling it up! hahahaa the space between the ceiling and the top of the glass was pretty thin, it was pretty funny but crazy. It was a good baptism, but it started like 40 minutes late. 

Elder Tua'itanu and I also didn't have to play organ this week in sacrament meeting ( we tag team it ;) ) but we still had to play for primary. I love helping out in primary! hah the kids are so funny! After church we had a cottage evening and played some reverse charades at the H's. We did an object lesson in the which we needed a paperclip, and we could not find any anywhere, so we went paper clip tracting! ;) we got one and had a good conversation with the H's next door neighbour :) 

One thing I learned this week was that at the end of the day, no matter our callings, how strong or weak we are, how fat or skinny or what ever, heavenly father loves his children unconditionally. BUT sometimes we can only feel that love if we do things that align ourselves with him. 

I love you family! ctr!! 

Love Elder Beeson

ps feel free to send me peachie o's and socks ;) 

Sorry Mom

Sorry mom!! haha liza said you were pretty mad that I didn't respond to your last email! But I will from now on be a little more personal. I kind of got rebuked in General conference for not writing very meaningful letters, so I will try my best. My letter today won't be all the sudden amazing, but I will work towards it :) 

That's really cool though that the stake had that fast on being a pornography free stake.  

I really do feel that it is the biggest spiritual disease ever! It's soooooooooooo so so nice to be a missionary though, and not have to worry about it. The truth of it though, isn't the fact that because I'm a missionary that I am protected, it is the fact that the spiritual habits I have are getting stronger and stronger. Anyone can have the clean life if they do the things you just said. 

I looooooooooooooooooooooooved conference. my favorites were Elder Cook and Elder Oaks of course ;) annnnnnnnnd Elder Cornish! Loved it!!

Love you mom! I'll do my best to write you every week now, because you are important to me and I love you :) 

What a week and  a half-ish! Lots has happened! Miracles all over the place.  So yes, we went to wave rock on Monday. It's suuuuuuuuper far away.  We didn't realize how far it was.  Literally it was a four hour drive.  But it was worth it though.  I got to catch up with my MTC companion, Elder Wheeler. He is serving down in Narrogin so he doesn't get to see other missionaries much, so it was cool!  We taught A that night, and we also felt inspired to go to the Conklins to invite them to host a cottage evening.  They accepted! Nice.

On Tuesday I felt prompted to call a less active who I used to visit when I served here last year. So we called him up, and he told us that he moved to Baldivis, but he told us that we should go visit this former that I taught when I served here before, so he described to us where he lived.  He told us to visit him, so after we hung up, we went there and he was home, we talked to him and he told us that lately he has just felt that he should give up drinking and smoking! He told us that he gave up drinking six months ago, and that he wants to quite smoking, and then when we told him about the Quit Smoking program, he was pretty keen to get going on that! He said the he would like to be baptized too!  What a miracle!

I went on exchanges with Elder Given this week.  We had lots of fun.  We made a subconscious goal to talk with absolutely everyone! There were some good experiences from it too!  We found this girl tracting who is from the new apostolic church.  She was pretty keen to come to conference! We biked to Gosnells down to the bottom of Harrisdale, which is pretty far!  It was good though.  

On Thursday, we had a real good lesson with A. My comp was just super bold in telling him that the only way to receive an answer to his prayer, he is just going to have to commit, and the answer will come.  It takes faith!  

On Friday, we had MLC.  It was nice to catch up with Elder Miller and Sto Tomas and Elder Matautia.  There have been heaps of amazing things happening throughout the mission  ever since Pres. Fife has been emphasizing the use of the Book of Mormon.  We've given wayyyy more BOM's than we usually do since he has.

I thoroughly enjoyed conference this time around.  A common theme to me throughout the conference was repentance, which is something I feel I have a night and day understanding of in comparison to before my mission.  I remember before my mission, I really wanted to know what repentance truly was and how to do it.  As I have come to know what it is, and more importantly felt it, I have been trying my best to share it with everyone I meet.  I really have been able to feel the Atoning power of Christ in my life. as I've been removing weeds of my life with wholesome good fruits. There is honestly, no greater feeling to me, than the feeling of forgiveness from the Lord.  It's funny because whenever we teach people about repentance,( we try to teach at least some part about it to everyone we talk to) and there are so many people who have never even heard the word!  I am soooooooooo so so grateful to know what repentance is, how it is made possible, and how to do it.  It is to me what brings the greatest amount of hope in life.  

I love you family and friends. I hope each of you experience the joy of repentance through applying the atonement. It is the greatest feeling, and the ONLY way to be able to feel completely pure.

Love to all!  CTR!

Love,

Elder Beeson

Canning Vale

Dear family and friends, 

This week and a half has gone by incredibly quick! Elder Tua'itanu and I are both still trying to recover from the flu, but we've been working hard nonetheless! Apparently it is the coldest September on record here in perth. a chilly  average of 15 degrees ;) hahaha. (I don't even know if that's the average, I'm just guessing)

A is doing soooooooooooo well! We've been teaching him from "The beginning" and it has been really good for him and even more for us, because we have to learn how to simplify things! haha we found out that his full first name is ********, so I'm going to call him that now, (tsh so much cooler ;) 

We went to Canning Vale quite a bit this past week (my first area! they actually closed down the canning vale area, so we cover all of what I covered when I served in canning vale, and muuuuuuuuuch more :) ) We met this phillipino lady who wanted us to give her a book, so we gave her a book of Mormon in English and in tagolog, because I know from serving there that there are heaps of phillipinos there hahah! 

We also went to Canning vale on 2 of the exchanges we went on this past week. On one of the exchanges, I was with Elder Daniels from Orlando, we were trying our best to follow the Spirit the whole day, and so we made a deal at the beginning of the exchange that we would act on every prompting, NO MATTER WHAT! and we prayed that we would be able to find those who have been following promptings without even knowing it. haha it was good though. our day ended up being soooo much different that we planned for. We ended up seeing this excommunicated dude, and it was actually really good, he was telling us about all of these experiences he had on his mission, and then at the end we asked him if there was anything we could do for him, and he told us that we could clean up the dog poo in the back yard, so we did!! haha I think he was testing our sincerity to serve. Later that day, we tried to see this chinese investigator that I've never met. We got there, but the lady in the carport told us that he wasn't home, but then Elder Daniels had the impression that we should go talk to the kid we passed while biking there who was playing basketball in the park. I tried to justify it because he looked like a young kid from far away, but we went, and started talking to this kid. he was 16 and had a huge tattoo on his leg, he is from NZ. He told us that earlier that day that he was just sitting on his bed, and that he felt like he should go play basketball, and he just said that he felt like he needed to come to the court he was at, instead of the other nicer courts that were closer to his house, so we told him the reason he felt like he needed to be at the court he was at, was because we had something to give him, so we gave him a book of Mormon, and promised him HEAPS of blessings if he read it! We talked with him for ages, and he had heaps of questions. Pretty much taught the whole plan of salvation, and he was getting so happy and excited. he even said the closing prayer when we left! it was awesome! we are going back to see him this weekend :) 

We also went to canning vale on another exchange with Elder Otero. We biked ALL DAY in the rain! haha it was fun though, because he shouted NANDOS!!!!!! I will bike in the rain all day for nandos. ;) anywho, we tried to see this former that was suuuuuper duper keen back when I served there, and we got there, but this indian dude in a wheel chair answered the door. ( haha definitely not the guy I knew) but he told us that he was in the middle of playing piano when we knocked, then I told him I play piano, and then we asked if he could play for us, so he let us in, and then told me to play, and so I did, and after I played he said that I'm too good, and so he didn't end up playing for us! haha. but then his friend came in and then made us some tea, which we had to awkwardly reject, and then he made us coffee, and we had to reject that as well!! hahahahahhaa. then he just came out with milk ( third time is the charm) all the while, we were talking with S( the wheelchaired indian) He pretty much believes in absolutely everything we do, EXCEPT his idea of who God is, is pretty warped. ) he was pretty pumped when we pulled out the book of Mormon, he said he would read the whole thing! hah! and then at the end he said that he will drop everything and follow this "path" if he comes to know if it is true. Miracle!! it was awesome. 

but yeah, this week was awesome, Elder Tua'itanu and I still haven't had a normal morning yet, where we just go out and tract, but it will come one day! hahah ;) 

 Love yous

Love elder beeson😃🌶🍗🌯🦃🍩