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