Merriwazah!!

Family and Friends, 

this weekend went by very quick! Good things are happening though! 

On Thursday night we saw the W's, and we are helping them prepare for their sealing at the beginning of next month!! Super duper exciting!! haha they made sure to schedule the sealing before the end of the transfer just in case so I could come :) ;) It really has been cool to see them growing though since I've been here! They've given up the coffee and tea and have been doing everything they can to prepare for the temple, and you can just see the change in them! The Atonement is amazing :) 

On Friday we went on exchanges with the Butler Elders. I was With elder Codina who was trained in Canning vale as well! It was cool because he showed me all of the pictures he had with some of the members and investigators there! Anywho, then after lunch, we went to see this Russian and south African guy that we contacted on the street earlier this week, and the Russian guy was home, but he didn't really want to talk, so we just gave him a Russian Book of Mormon, but then the South African Dude wasn't there, Then since we had a half hour free, we decided to............... tract!! :) 

We decided to go to this nearby mini complex. We knocked on the first door, and it was this lady, and the first thing she said to us was, "Ohhh you guys are from the church that was started from a guy finding something in the ground!" haha and so we said, "Basically!" haha but we ended up having a really good conversation. She was just connecting soooo much whenever we talked about having a clean start, and understanding why bad things happen to good people, so we asked her if she wanted us to share more about that, and we told her that we would help her have a clean start.... blah blah blah, then right before we were about to leave, I had the distinct impression to tell her of her worth to God. So I started telling her about how God was her Father, and that he Loves her, and that He knows the ins and outs of here, and all of that, and she started crying. The Spirit was there! We could all feel it :) super cool! 

We had a few more appointments that day, and it was funny because we even saw the 2  new investigators that Elder Codina and I found on the blitz when we exchange for a bit then. We saw Q and S, and it was cool because they are so humble, they are willing to do whatever it takes to come closer to God. AFter we taught them how to pray We invited them to pray together that night, but I think Q misunderstood our invitataion, and just started to pray the way that we taught him. it was awesome!! D was there with us.

Saturday was great, the sisters had a baptism, and I played the piano for the service! We also weekly planned because we didn't have time to on Thursday, and we made a cake from a 2 month old expired cake mix hhaaha! everyone loved it at the baptism, and they all had the most horrified expression that it was that old hahaha!

Yesterday was a great Sabbath as usual, lots of visitors. We participated in the confirmation, and then after church we tracted for a few hours in the rain!! yesss!! ;) :) ( I honestly really do like it!) Once it got dark we saw brother S and the S's, and it was a great night! 

Lots of opposition lately, but its good! Love it all! the biggest thing I learned this week was that remembering who we are is one of the most important things we can do. It provides correct perspective, gives purpose to life, and helps us know we can change and teaches us how we can change! I love the gospel. it's part of me now :)  Love you all

Love Elder Beeson

Exchanges!

Family and Friends,

this week was quite the rollercoaster haha! I love every minute of it here though. We went on quite a few exchanges this week, but I don't have a lot of time, so I 'm going to summarize a few of the things that happened here:

-We went on exchanges with the Geraldton Elders. I was with Elder Ta'ala. He is the MAN! He actually served in Merriwa a year earlier, so he pretty much already knew everyone! 

-zone conference was awesome, all about overcoming opposition, (very much needed this week haha) 

-We exchanged with The Balcatta Elders. I was With Elder Matthews. We tracted the entire day, and it was awesome!! We tracted this street that is in this suburb that we just found out was in our ward, called "investigator parade" haha nothing really happened there though ;) Lots of little miracles. 

-On Monday we got a text from A, and he said that he and his family are not ready for the baptism this next week. He said that he and his family will be ready in a few months, when his wife quite smoking, and when he gets to see a little bit more of what the church is about. He is still doing really well though. He reads the Book of Mormon, and General Conference talks like everyday. He is the man. But yeah, the family will be baptized, just not next week, probably November.. I hope I'm still here by that time!!

- Tuesday we had our zone meeting which went really well. We talked about commitment, and being 100% committed to those we teach and especially to the Lord.

-To be honest a lot of our teaching pool has dissappeard, I don't know what happened!! So we have been smashing the finding lately. We found this Russian dude who tried to show us all this anti Mormon stuff haha! But we turned the conversation around and ended up getting a return appointment, and we just so happened to have a restoration dvd, so we gave him one, and it has Russian on it! nice nice. Literally right after that, we saw this guy on the street. His name is D, from Sudan, and we just started talking to him, and he had HEAPS of questions. like sooooooo many. So we told him we could answer all of his questions if he lets us come by, so he told us to just walk with him to his house, and so we did, and taught him the Restoration. It was pretty cool. We are going back on Monday! 

-Yesterday was pretty stormy the entire day. We tracted the entire day. We went on a mini exchange with the Edgewater Elders. We found them a few new investigators. Then we had a blitz in the Bulter Elder's area, and we exchanged with them as well, and we found this dude named Q, and as soon as he answered the door, he told us to come in, then we taught him and his partner. They were just baptized Christians a year a go, so they have been prepared! nice! 

yeah that was the week and a half. I'm sorry if this letter was a mess. Love you all

Love Elder Beeson

 

Happy Bday!

Dad:

Dad, the longer I am out, the more I feel like I'm becoming like you! haha it's funny because within the last weeks, I've really be reflecting on my growing up, and my childhood, and I really am beginning to realize how blessed I have been to have had you and mom pave the example. Everything from your nightly prayers together, to your weekly temple trips, to your early, early, early scripture study, to your whistling "come thou fount" to mom's continual ensign reading... (Etc.)

all of those things have impacted me in the best way possible. Those are things in my memory that will never leave. and I really feel that you and mom have fulfilled the scripture in 2 Nephi 25:26 "That [your] children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins." and I feel that that is the greatest accomplishment as a parent. So thank you dad. I love you, happy birthday!

Love Elder Beeson

Dear Mom, 

 I just want to thank you for showing your love for me. You do it all the time. You write me emails even though I don't give a good response, if I even do respond. You  have emailed me every week since I've been out. I know you love me because you always manage to squeeze a few words to me each week. Thank you. :)

You have been such a good example to me of consistent discipleship, even with competing priorities ( 5 kids, band support, callings in church, cleaning the house, etc.) I'm convinced that if you wouldn't have kept up your study habits and raised us in the way you did, that I would be a different person. I love how you show your love to each of us. You are willing to drop anything and everything to talk to us. You also have been such a good quiet example of study. You are always doing something to learn, especially from the scriptures and from the prophets and apostles. I Love you for all you do and for who you are. I'm so grateful to be your son. 

I love you mum!! 

Love Elder Beeson :) 

Oi!! hey everyone, This is going to be a quicky here. This week was quite the roller coaster, so I will just bullet point the week here:

-we went to Lancelin on pday. We went sand boarding in the dunes. It was soooooo sweet!.... but then on they way back I got a ticket......................ug hh

-got a call from a random number on Tuesday from this south African lady. She said that she is trying to find the true church, and wanted us to come teach her. So we went that night, and taught her the restoration, and now the Butler elders are teaching her!

-We had an awesome family home evening at T's house. two of her partner's mates moved in as well. This guy from Sudan named Sunday, and his aussie partner N, and they have a daughter as well. We taught the restoration with some candles, and everyone enjoyed it! Brother Reedy was soooooooooo bold to each of them, but it was a really good bold, he told them that they all needed to be baptized. So we invited all of them to be baptized, and they all said they would!! nice!! we didn't set a specific date, because they all have a lonnnnnnnng way to go haha!! but it was a really good vibe there. The spirit was there and everyone felt it :) 

-Transfers were good :) 

-We had Sister G's Parents come with us to teach E ( the Peruvian) haha we sort of looked like Jw's, but oh well haha! It went well, I think things will start to progress with him in a good way now :) 

-Had a lesson at the B's about recognizing the spirit and the wow! it was really good, we will have to help them with some wow issues, but it will work out :)

-We are going to start the quit smoking program with T and sunday on Tuesday! it is going to be so good, both of them have been reading the book of Mormon heaps, and so they are ready for the next step of change :) 

-we found out we have another suburb in our area!! after all this time!! what the heck, so we tracted there sunday morning. heaps of south Africans there.

-we had a good lesson with the S's they came to church again! it's funny because it always seems to be that whatever we teach them the night before church, someone in sacrament meeting always talks about it. It happened again yesterday, we taught about lehi's dream, then Bishop shared his testimony about holding to the rod! haha such cool tender mercies. 

-A called and said that he doesn't want us to visit his family until the day before the baptism, because the visits are stressing his wife out... :/ so that's the big work in progress right now, but it will all work out. we fasted for them and are praying for them, so we know it will all work out :) 

I love this area and these people. it's so nice being here!! I never want to come home hahaha it feels like home here :) 

Love you all 

love elder Beeson

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July 31st 2016

Family and Friends, 

this last week was pretty stinking awesome as usual!! 

On Monday we had a zone pday and we did a cool scavenger hunt thing hahaa! Elder Sto Tomas and I came dead last, how embarrassing. Then we had a FHE at the 's house. One of the LA sons brought his south african girlfriend, and she loved the lesson, gave her a BOM. We played a few games and it was pretty fun, then we saw brother S!

Tuesday was pretty busy, we had an awesome district meeting, then had some NANDOS! then Elder and sister Millar came and did some trunky work with elder Sto tomas haha! Then we saw T with L. She is doing heaps better. It's so cool to see the changes in people when they begin praying and reading. After that we went straight to the B's house and had an authentic German dish, it was sweet! the G family came to fellowship. They are such a solid family, super excited for their baptism later this month! they had a question about the sacrament, so we taught that, but then that's all we got to teach because Claudia wanted to go to mutual. Then I can't remember what happened after that!

Wednesday- had an awesome finding experience. So the week before last week, I was praying, and I had an image pop into my head. it was of a cloud that was red. I sat and pondered it for a bit, and then I realized that there is a street in our area called REDCLOUD!! So we tracted Redcloud on Wednesday, and 3 doors in, we walked up to this Maori house. They were just chilling in the garage. it was a father an son. the father) is 65 and the son  is in his thirties. 

We had a good conversation with them for about a half hour. He told us about how he used to be a president of a gang, but then he saw the condition of his kids, so he decided to leave the gang, and become a Christian. It was cool!! He is one of those Christian guys who just likes to keep things simple, and something that he kept saying over and over again in the conversation, was, " you just have to love God and love your neighbour, and that's it. " 

So we shared Moroni 7 with him. and talked about how we have to receive charity from God, and then give it. They both thanked us profusely for sharing it. The son said that he would have left in the middle of the conversation if he was uninterested. He told us he was able to do some self reflection that he wasn't able to do in like 7 years, ever since his wife died. They told us to come back any/ all the time. They told us as we were leaving, "Welcome to our family." it was awesome!!

We also went to the F's later that day and had a dinner with them and the B's came. We taught the POS for Andi, because he will not be able to have any lessons until his actual baptism!! haha he works 4 weeks away, and is only home for 1 week after. it was a good lesson, and the girls seemed to remember the majority of it! 

Thursday--  can't really remember what happened, but it was good! haha just a lot of planning I think! 

Friday- We went on exchange with the Joondalup Elders. I was with Elder Alatasi. He's the man. had some really good teaching opportunities. 

Saturday-We went on exchanges with the Assistants! haha I was with Elder Matautia!! like good old times!! it was sooooooo fun! We went contacting right in the downtown city of perth. it was fun and funny! met some crazies and JW's! haha Then we went to a BBQ at the chapel with some Recent converts and Less actives and investigators. That was fun. 

Then we tracted for a bit, and we tracted into this Maori dude who reminds me of my uncle john to the T! He had all this funky art work inside, and he made us some pretty unique food. it was some Japanese soup. haha random! I honestly think they wouldn't have let us in if it weren't for how light hearted Elder Matautia and I are together. They said we could come back any time, and he would feed us and stuff. So the next time we go on exchanges there, I am definitely going there! 

Then we had to book it back to our area to the baptism for Liahona. It went really well! had a lot of Liahona's less active family show up, so that was good! 

Sunday-had heaps of our investigators at church again! the B's came and so did T and R. We had a mean gospel principles lesson on prayer, and an awesome third hour lesson on family history and missionary work. haha it was a bit awkward talking about missionary work with all of our investigators there, but oh well! haha Then after church we went to Sister T's house. One of her son's friends was there too. We were just sharing a spiritual thought, but then that thought turned into an awesome discussion on prayer, and J ( the sons's friend) was super keen to learn more!! we gave her a chapter out of the BOM to read, and got her address and stuff for the Ellenbrook sisters. She said the closing prayer as well! nicee!!!!

Well it is officially official. I am here another transfer!! woooooo!! number 6!! I want to finish my mission here, just so much is happening!! :) 

I learned this week that Heavenly Father communicates to us through dreams and visions. I've experienced both. It's amazing what we can learn from him if we pay attention! 

love you all family and friends CTR!

Love Elder Beeson

G'day family and friends,

 What a weekend!! Lots of amazing things happened, let me share :)

So on Thursday, we taught L very quickly, we went over the baptismal interview questions, and she's all good :) She passed her interview yesterday, so she is all good for this weekend!! :)

Friday- was a bit crazy, it was good though, we went to E's house, and a senior couple were going to come with us there, because they Spanish speakers, and have been on 7 missions, so they know how to deal with the bible bashing investigators ;) Anywho, they couldn't come, so we went anyways, and as usual it was kind of a bash, but then I had kind of a prompting to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ, and so we just started teaching that, and the Spirit finally came. It was really cool. He agreed with everything we said once we taught that. Then we weekly planned for a bit, then we had a lesson at the B's! D and K came to fellowship. A was finally home again, and he told us of all the studying he has been doing since he's been gone. So he read through all the pamphlets, he read 1st and 2nd Nephi, and the book of moroni, and all the chapter headings inbetween, and now he has been reading the Doctrine and Covenants, and he is up to section 41! FAR OUT! And plus he's been listening to Motab! haha he told us that on the plane ride home that he was reading the Book of Mormon, and the guy next to him told him it wasn't true, but then he defended the BOM, and the guy stopped talking to him! haha nice! So needless to say, he accepted the invitation to be baptized!! woooooooooooo!!!! it is finally official :) The entire family will be baptized next month!!! 

 

Saturday was fun! We were on exchanges, I was with Elder Taupau from Melbourne. He's crack up. We helped a less active move for a few hours in the morning. Then we dropped off a birthday gift for D, then Elder Taupau and I bike through the rain, it was soooo fun! (I miss my bike so bad :( ) Then we had a few good contacts, but then Elder Taupau ripped his pants hard core!! hahaha so we had to go back to the flat and get him some. Then we visited a few less actives, and the lessons went really well. We saw the S's after we re-exchanged, and yeah, they are beginning to make some awesome progress!

Sunday was nutttttttttttts!!! We had 8 of our investigators come to church, and 13 of the less actives  we are working with! haha it was a bit stressful, because no one was playing prelude like 5 minutes before the meeting started, so I was going to play, but then one of the sisters played, and then the B came, so we had to sit by them, and then on top of that, I was asked like an hour before church to give a talk, and so yeah it was a bit nuts. All of the 8 stayed all 3 hours as well. All of them LOVED church. They all said they'll be there this next week :) It was pretty cool, because one of them that came,  wasn't actually too keen on coming, but he came and stayed all three hours, and now he is KEEN! We dropped off their son's waterbottle that they left at church, and they both looked just so happy. It was really cool to see how they are already looking so much different than they did when we first met them. They are changing!!! We also had a dinner at the F's house..  haha it was a total set up, because we invited them to invite their friends over for a dinner, and then we 'just so happened to show up' and taught a lesson. It was one of the kids' school teachers. It went pretty well, and we had an awesome roast lamb dinner :) 

Things are a bit crazy, but its awesome!!!! I loooooooove love love this area. I never want to leave it. It honestly feels like home!

this weekend I learned how important it is to always be prepared to share your testimony. It takes effort to share a powerful testimony, it takes honesty, and telling why you know what you know. 

Love you all family and friends!!

Love Elder Beeson

ps  feel free to send letters or packages with peachie--o's.. haha.. ;) but really.