Dear family and friends,

 This past week and a half was pretty crazy! We've been very very busy!

My birthday was awesome too by the way! Let me tell you about it!

So, the night before my birthday, we had a lesson at M's house with the K's. It was an awesome lesson! We had a suuuuuuuper good dinner. K made a peach pie, and they got a chocolate cake for me too! There's a really funny video of the whole thing, I'll see if I can send it somehow sometime! But I love their family! It was the best :) 

Then on my actual birthday, we decided we would just walk the entire day, and street contact, while visiting prospective Elders. It was really hot too! it was a solid 42 celcius the whole day! We went to this dude's house named toots and he let us in and he hasn't been to church in years, so we eased our way into teaching him the Plan of Salvation again! He was cool. He had two of his kids tattooed on his pecks.

 We were walking still, and then Brother L pulled over and offered us a ride, but we told him we were walking for the day, He called us and told us to come to IGA to get some drinks, so we went and then we continued walking. We walked past this house that said "Kiaora" on the outside, so we decided to walk there because Kiaora means hello in Maori.

 So we knocked, and it was this pregnant lady, and she was keen on having us back! Then we went to Sister C's house and she made me peach cobbler! Nice! ( thank you mom for telling her about that ;) ) 

Then we went to the N's for dinner. We had pizza, I had pretty much a whole box. We went on ward splits, and we talked to our ward mission leader's land lord, who wasn't keen at all!  We went to D's house for ANOTHER dinner and dessert! I have nnnnnnnnnnevver  been so full in my life! hahaha Oh my goodness ..it was awesome though! 

This week we had M and K's interviews for baptism, and they both passed! They are going to be baptized on Saturday!! :) I'm soooooooo excited for them. They have changed heaps since we've been teaching them! The reason they have changed though is because they keep commitments. They each have such a strong testimony about the Book of Mormon. 

In fact, we had a lesson with them where we had them teach US the plan of salvation, and they taught it perfect!! It was cool because  K wasn't there when we taught it to M, so M explained it to K in Indonesian, then K taught it to us in English! ( thank you for the plan of salvation kit, Mom :) )

The baptism will be so good though, because the ward has fellowshipped them really well. Elder Matautia and I will be baptizing them both! He will be baptizing M, and I will be baptizing K. I'll be sure to send some pictures :)

Yesterday was a pretty cool day! We have been just walking heaps lately. We have this massive spider nest near our flat. It is a nest of globe spiders!! Scary!! They are huuuuuuuge. We have walked passed it everyday this past week. But after we passed it yesterday, we felt prompted to go to this less active's house on the way to this other less active's house we were walking to. 

We went in, and shared a quick scripture, and then right as we finished, these care workers for the lady that lived there walked in, and C, ( the less active) told the care workers she was Mormon, and that we were about to say a prayer. So we said a prayer, and left. We heard C talk some more about the church as we were leaving. It was cool we got to give C an chance to share the gospel in her own home. 

Then we saw a few potentials, it was good, one of them was excited to read the Book of Mormon, so we'll pray that goes well. 

Right after we gave B a Book of Mormon, we saw his neighbours across the street and he was leveling this massive pile of sand. So we asked if we could help, and surprisingly he said yes, and he got Elder Matautia and I some stuff to work with! It was fun! 

Then their neighbours came out, and then they just started asking us questions, and they were complimenting us so much and they asked if we could come by sometime because they thought we were amazing! hahaha !t was so funny. 

We are going to go by on Saturday to invite them all to church! The next door neighbours were especially keen! We then just left on the high note, and we are hoping to pull an Ammon with KING Lamoni ;)  

After the service, we went to the S's house, a less active who we have been visiting weekly. They have changed a ton since meeting them! They have put up pictures of the Savior and of the temple, and they have their scriptures on the coffee table and everything! The spirit is working on them. We had an awesome lesson with them on the Nature of God. 

This past week and a half I have learned a lot about service, and being willing to help no matter the cost. It has made the work even more enjoyable! I had a lot more experiences this week, but this is all I have time to email all of you :) 

Have a good week! CTR!! 

Love, 

Elder Beeson 

February 14, 2016

Dear family and friends, 

This week was madness! Lots of errand running with transfers and such, but there were some pretty cool things that happened this week!

So Elder Matautia and I were following up on some potentials in this suuuuuuuper rich cul-de-sac right on the coast that we tracted a few weeks back. No one was home. So we started to go up this hill to go see a less active. So we turned down this street as a truck passed us then pulled over. we were riding away from the truck, but then I got the impression that we needed to turn around, so we did. Then we got right up close to the truck, but then I'm pretty sure he saw us in his mirrors, so he pulled away. hahah dang it! 

But then, right around the corner came this back packer. He looked pretty hard core, so we went up to him, and started talking to him. Turns out he walked up all the way from Fremantle to Quinns Rocks, and he was trying to get to Geraldton. Which is like a 4 hour drive up the coast. hahaha! but then when he saw that there were no more roads past Butler, he turned back, and that's where we found him. Quinns rocks to Fremantle is like 50 k's! He told us that he hadn't eaten since Sunday, ( it was Wednesday) so we walked with him and put his backpack on our bikes and went to the Less Active's house to go get him food. 

His name was I, and he was from Cyprus the Island. We got to the Less Active's house and they made him some eggs on toast and gave us water ( it was 42 degrees that day ) that's like 109 degrees farenheit. Then we walked to the chapel and called up Brother K, and he came and just told I his life story, and bore very powerful testimony. Our new friend was in tears. Then we went to a petrol station, and got him enough money so he could catch the train back to Fremantle. We gave him a book of Mormon as well. He was the coolest guy though. He was super funny. Whenever we would take a break with him, he would take off his bandana, but then whenever he put it back on, he would be really funny again haha! I hope I see him again. 

We also had some awesome progress with M and K this week as well! We were worried to teach them the word of Wisdom because M works at the Mc café at Mcdonalds, and K is a bar tender! haha But we taught it, and then M stopped us, and she said," I think this is a reason why people don't want to join the church, but its dumb that they don't just because of this commandment. It shows they don't have enough faith in God that he will give them the energy to help them do the right things." It was awesome! Then we taught the law of Chastity with the L's on Saturday night and all was well there too! so they are looking solid to being baptized on the 27th :)) 

Yesterday we found out that one of our investigators has been meeting with Bishop and that she wants to get baptized asap now! She and her daughter set their own date for baptism next month! can't wait for that! We also got to see M and her two daughters come to church, ( K went to the ysa sunday with one of the ysa leaders in the ward to dianella) and K and A came to church as well ( the ones that set their own baptismal date :) ) It was awesome to see so many people progressing! 

On Saturday we had MLC at the mission home. Elder Oreardon came ( a member of the area 70) and we had a 3 hour discussion with him! Holy cowwwww!! it was amazing!!! he taught us how to teach by the spirit. I've learned this past week how important it is to teach by the spirit. I already knew why, but he just smashed it into us! We have to Observe, Listen, and discern. That's how you teach by the spirit! I can't wait to have more opportunities to apply that training!

Thank you family for the package for my birthday! haha I already opened it and loooooooooved everything in it! my companion loved the peachie-o's! hahaha I"ll send a video :))

love you all, 

love, Elder Beeson 

Dear Family and friends,

This week was awesome!! We saw a lot of progression from our Indonesian investigators :)

So on Monday the lesson we had with them was pretty much the make or break lesson. We felt prompted to teach about the nature of Heavenly Father and to show them the earthly father, Heavenly Father video. The Spirit was sooooooooo strong! The mother  and two younger daughters had already committed to a date, but her older 19 year old daughter came this time, and by the end of the lesson we were all shedding a few tears! Even the young girls! You could just see that they were feeling the spirit and realizing how much Heavenly Father loves them. So we invited the oldest daughter  to be baptized with her mom and sisters, so she could take the first step of being able to live with her family forever, and she said that she would! :)) They whole family wants to be baptized!!

On Wednesday we went to the F's to have a lesson with M and her family. The F's are a south African family. they are SOOOOOOO solid! We had an awesome lesson on the atonement, and all of the P family  read in preparation for the lesson! It was such a good night.

 Then on Thursday morning we got a call from M that she called her ex husband and asked if the daughters could be baptized, he just said straight up no. :( So it will only be M and K being baptized this month. But I reckon it is only a matter of time before the other girls get baptized too!

Then On Friday we had a lesson at M's house and taught the Plan of Salvation. K and M were both pretty much baring their testimonies the whole time! the Spirit was soooooooo strong!  K went with one of the YSA leaders in the ward to Mandurah for an activity!

Then yesterday we had an AWESOME fast Sunday. All of the testimonies were on point, and no one talked about any crazy things, Gospel principles was awesome we talked about faith, and they participated. Then they got fellowshipped in Relief Society and were invited to 2 member's homes for dinners this week! After church they stayed for a baptism, and they felt the spirit so strong! K said she had the goosebumps when she saw the baptism.

They are progressing sooooooo well! It's so cool to see how when we teach with the spirit that everything works out better.

We also are teaching another Mother and Daughter. They want to be baptized soon as well. They are Maori. They are super solid and stayed for all three hours of church and for the baptism as well! We will hopefully put them on a date for baptism this week too!

That is kind of a summary for the week! Sorry this email is all over the place I just don't have too much time to email! love you all

love elder Beeson

G'day friends and Family,

This week was short! Not too too much happened in the past 5 days, it was just raining pretty hard because there is a cyclone up north and we are getting some of the rain! Love it!

I totally forgot to say it in my last letter sorry-but Happy Bday, Claire!! I was thinking about Claire all day though I promise, so tell Claire happy birthday! 

I loooooooooooooove that experience with Andy!! I want you to tell Andy that I had a very similar experience when I was about his age. 

I was playing with a laser pen with Jack, then out of nowhere Jack took the pen out of my hands broke it, and threw it in the backyard. I was soooo annoyed and mad, so I went to dad and complained, and he told me to go into my room and pray and to ask Heavenly Father to help my feel better and to ask him to help me think of a scripture. So I went downstairs and I was having a pity party still, but as I sat there thinking, I decided that I would do it. So I got on my knees and I felt chills as I prayed, then when I finished my prayer I had a scripture come to mind: 2 Nephi 31:5 ( it talks about the Holy Ghost) I finally became aware of God's awareness of me that day. It makes me soooooo happy that Andy had that experience :) Tell him that I am proud of him.

On Friday to Saturday we exchanged with the AP's. Since there is a new exchange policy, we both went to their area for the day. I was with Elder Tutton from the UK. It was raining pretty hard all day but it was fun, there was a super cool view of the city when we were riding our bikes up the hill! 

We went to this less active's house and there was an Asian lady on the porch and the first thing she said was that she doesn't have time, even though she was just sitting there all relaxed with a cup of tea. So it actually wasn't a less active's house. Then her husband came out  (who was a minister for another church). He just started bashing us hard core!! 

I wanted to see how Elder Tutton would handle the situation, so we just listened, then Elder Tutton said a few things, then I did, then it was like the Spirit rebuked him for saying rude things against us, so he stopped talking trash, and he flipped the conversation over to how we should prove atheists wrong.

He invited us onto his porch and he went on this 15 minute discourse on the creation and stuff. Nothing I we hadn't heard before. But then we testified of the Savior and how he should be our focus, and not on proving them wrong. Then we left eventually. 

After that we saw this member family and right when we walked in, they were in the process of trying to kill a Huntsman spider! it was HUGE!! I tried to act like it wasn't a big deal but I was freaked out! haha! We had a short visit with them, then we went to another less active's house. We started teaching him the Restoration, but then he started talking about the 144000 in heaven.. hahaha I started to laugh, but he was serious. 

But yeah turns out he has been visiting with the JW's. Interesting lesson. He looked like he was asleep with his eyes open. 

Then we went to teach this old man who has been coming to church for years, but isn't baptized, we had a good lesson with him on the importance of prayer. He's funny because he had an objection to absolutely everything we said, but then he would agree in the end. Hopefully he decides to be baptized someday because he would be a champ!

Yesterday we went to see one of the potentials we tracted into the other day. It's a Maori and Cook Islander couple. We talked to the Maori dude on the porch, he never let us in, but he just started asking questions, and we ended up teaching him the Restoration on the porch. It was awesome! It was one of those experiences, where whenever I talked I was listening so myself talk. He was listening very intently too and he even came up with some analogies with some of the things we were teaching him! So we picked him up as a new investigator and will go by this week to teach him and his family :) 

We also are going to teach M and her daughters tonight as well! Her older daughter was there the last lesson, and we were able to teach the Restoration. They were all keen to read the Book of Mormon, so hopefully it goes well tonight, we are going to commit the oldest daughter to be baptized as well, so pray that it goes well!

I love the work, I love this area, I love my companion!

oh and I love all you too ;) 

Love,

Elder Beeson