Dear Family and Friends, and other acquaintances, this week and a half was a blurrrr! I'll share with you what I DO remember from the crazy week.

On Wednesday, we went on exchanges with the Balcatta Elders, I was will Elder Collings, from the UK. We had some pretty good success in finding in the morning. Lots of people were really receptive, it was pretty cool. Got a few return appointments and things. Then later in the day we went to this Less Active's house who hasn't been to church in ages. He is like a 60 year old rockstar! hahaha he is the coolest. He showed us his home made recording studio, then we shared a simple spiritual thought with him. After that I felt prompted that we needed to go to a Potential family's house, so we went there, and as soon as we knocked on the door, the guy we usually talk to rushed out the door to go meet a friend, but then his mom invited us in and she gave us cake and water :) There were heaps of people that just kept coming and going, it was pretty random. There was a lot of awkward small talk, but then we got into a pretty cool discussion, we ended up sharing the book of Mormon with them. the  Mom's friend was over as well, and she was kind of trashing the church, then as soon as I pulled out the Book of Mormon, she just left. But then we shared it, and the spirit was soooooo strong, it was just the most peaceful feeling in the room. We shared a scripture out of 3 Nephi 18, and they really liked it. So basically it was a good thing that the mom's friend left because it may not have been as spiritual ;) But yeah, there is HEAPS of potential in that family. They are German.

On Thursday we had another lesson with . It was cool, when we were following up at the beginning of the visit, we just asked her how she was feeling about her baptism, and she said that she was feeling really good about it. We asked her if she had prayed about it, and she said that she had, and she knew she HAD to be baptized!! That was aweeeesome!! super cool. haha it made the lesson go really smooth, just because she usually is the hardest person ever to read, but because we knew her desires, it made it soo much easier.

Conference of course was AMAZING. My favourite talk was Elder Renlunds. His hit me hardest. Later sunday afternoon, we were tracting, and weren't finding much success, but then we felt like we should go and see this former investigator name H, and then when we walked up H wasn't there, but he had his nephew there house sitting. We could have easily just brushed him off because we had other places to go, but we decided to stay and talk to him for a while. We ended up talking about the book of Mormon, and it was awesome! He said he wanted us to come back before H came back the next week to teach him more. He even texted us like 15 minutes later and told us that he had already read 3 Nephi 11, and was wondering if there was another good chapter that he could read!! that was neat!! Then we saw a few more less active families. One of them is the G's, we have been trying to get in for like a month, and then they finally let us in. We had a good talk with them, and a really powerful lesson on how we need to recognize promptings of the spirit. It was cool.

Yesterday was a really good hard working day as well. We literally just walked the entire day and talked with absolutely every person we could see. We followed up with someone Elder Collings and I found and she's pretty keen!  We had some really good conversations and quite a few people said we could come back!

I guess the biggest thing I learned this week is that without the Spirit, we are NOTHING! completely useless. I know that without having those promptings that we wouldn't have been able to help the people we were supposed to. I've learned that it is far more worth it to make decisions that help you have the spirit throughout the day, rather than to disobey "for fun." The spirit also comes strongly when you are working diligently. I love it!

Well family and friends, I hope you are all doing well. Thank you for your emails each week. They mean so much to me. A lot of the time I don't have time to email you all back, but know that I read all of them, and love all of you :)

love elder Beeson