It was the best two years....

My Last letter Home

Dear all,

This week was miraculous. The Lord just provided the way this week and made things happen.

I went on exchanges with Elder Cordner this week up in the city. We taught this Malaysian man who apparently goes every morning to pray outside the temple. There have been a lot of missionaries who have tried to talk to him in the past, but he was never really interested. Anywho, one of the temple workers saw him one day and had a prompting to go talk to him, so he did, and this temple worker invited him to church, so Poon ( the Malaysian guy) came to church this last Sunday, and the member arranged a time for us to meet with him and Poon.

So we had the talk about it all right next to the baptismal font, and we said an opening prayer, and the very first words that came out of Poon's mouth were, "I've never been baptized before" so naturally we invited him to be baptized, and he said that he would like to. It was such a miracle!

We also had a super good meeting up in the city on Friday, and during that meeting Elder Torrie and I had an impression that we needed to follow a prompting that we both got about three weeks ago, and that prompting was to set a date to have a baptism on the 1st, and then when a few weeks went by and we didn't have anyone at church, we kind of subconsciously gave up on that goal. So we decided that we needed to keep going for that goal, so on Saturday we tried to make some inspired plans of who to see, and literally no one was home, that we planned to see, so we decided to knock a few doors, and I remembered that the street we were on used to have a member that lived there. So we knocked on that door, and there was this 18 year old guy who told us that it was is new year's resolution to be baptized this year!! What the?! And apparently his older sister is a member. So it was pretty nuts. We are going back to teach him on Wednesday!

We decided to pray and fast yesterday that someone would be put in our path at church. So we were at church yesterday and it was our ward conference, so there were heaps of people there. We had a huge feed at the end of it, and we saw a few unfamiliar faces so we talked to a few of them, and one of them looked like they were a member just visiting from another ward or something, but then they actually were friends of the members!

They weren't members so we got talking to them and we found out that they live in our area! It's a whole family! A mom and 5 girls!  What the miracle! They told us that they loved church and that they want to learn more! Honestly, that one just fell out of the sky!! So we are teaching the Tanga family on Tuesday. They are Cook islanders, and they are cool!

I'm so grateful to have been able to serve here. There are countless things I have learned from so many different sources, like my companions and my mission president, but mainly from my relationship with God and Christ. They are real. I've come to the honest conclusion that either this is the full package of truth and happiness, or that the full package doesn't exist. The greatest thing that has helped me to believe in and trust in God is actually the changes I've been able to see in myself and in others from following what he asks us to do. You naturally have greater hope and direction when you are clean from sin. I've been the happiest since I've been here than I have my whole life because gradually and steadily my focus has shifted from myself to others. The Atonement of Christ is real because I have felt the effects of it in my life. I plan on becoming more and more like him. This mission has been the greatest kick start of becoming one of his disiciples.

Love you all! Thank you for your love and letters and putting up with all of the emails that I probably haven't responded to. ;) 

Love Elder Beeson

G'day everyone!

This week was a pretty interesting! We had some cool things happen this week, which was good because last week was pretty rough to be honest.

 

We went on a few exchanges. I went with Elder Noble on one of them, and we were walking everywhere, and so we decided that we would go "inspired tracting" along the way, but really we were just knocking all the doors that had flip- flops out front so we could find some Phillipinos for him to teach! And guess what? We didn't find Phillipinos to teach!

 

But we did find different Asian people who are pretty keen. We found a Indonesian family who has been looking for a church to go to, and a Malaysian dude who was keen to read the Book of Mormon. So yeah moral of the story, is that flip flop tracting is great ( the flip flops have to be small though ;) )

 

I also exchanged with Elder Tilivarua from Fiji this week. He's so funny. We were biking back to the flat for lunch, and we contacted this guy from Pakistan. He was pretty chill, and took a Book of Mormon, then he let us inside, and he's kind of a real health nut, so he pulled out all of these healthy things, and one of the things he pulled out was this apple cider vinegar, and he told us that it makes you skinny, so Elder Tilivarua wanted to have some because he's already gained some weight, and just after he drank it, I noticed on the bottle it said that it was naturally fermented..... buuuuuuuuuut we found out that it didn't actually have alcohol in it, so that's good! We had glow in the dark volley ball that night... it was alright.

 

The next morning, Elder Torrie and I decided to go to kind of this bush looking area, so we went and in between houses, this guy drove past us then pulled over, and asked if we were Mormons, and we said yes then he asked if we wanted to have a chat! We went over and he asked us quite a few questions, then we asked him questions as well, and we found out that he is actually going to bible school right now to become a Lutheran pastor! 

 

We then spent the next 2 hours talking about grace. It was hard to understand his definition of it all, and we ended up giving him a Book of Mormon, but yeah then we had a comp study about the whole thing afterwards, and we realized that we didn't understand each other, because we had different understandings of the plan of salvation. Wayyyy different. I get how to explain grace to people now heaps better than I did before!

 

Then yesterday we had S and T come to church! What a miracle! It's the 2nd time that is happened in my 3 and a half months being here! wooooo ;) 

This week I definitely learned how blessed we are to have the plan of salvation. It is so hard to understand a number of things that happen in life when you don't have a knowledge of the plan. But since we know it, it puts everything into proper prospective. The gospel is soo true.

Love you all!

Love Elder Beeson :)

Dear family and friends, 

This weekend was actually pretty full of opposition! I would definitely say it was one of the harder weeks of my mission, but nonetheless, I am still happy to be here serving! I'll share a little bit of what happened this week though, just so yous know whats going on here!

 

That one super keen guy that we picked up a week or two ago, the Iranian guy with dreads dropped us, and he left a note with the book of Mormon outside his door, saying he didn't want to see us anymore. 

Then the girl that was looking like she was super keen to be baptized, randomly moved to Mandurah, then the family that was supposed to be baptized a few weeks back now, have moved, and we don't know where they are, then the cool Maori guy we were teaching is out of credit on his phone, and his family doesn't know where he is, and then the worst one was yesterday at church...

 

We had our investigator come to church yesterday that we tracted into a weeks back, and we were so pumped/ shocked he made it, so during sacrament meeting, we told him that church was 3 hours, and he thought we were joking, but then we went to gospel principles, and he was looking super bored, then after that, as we were going to priesthood, I had to go to the bathroom, and so we told him we would be right back, and then literally one minute later we came back, and he was gone! We went to the car park, and his car was gone too! haha he literally peeled out and got away, so we shot him a text, and said that we would catch up with him during the week, but he texted back and swore at us and said he didn't believe in anything that was being taught. hahah.. yeah so that was pretty stink.

BUT

Amidst all of this, on Saturday, K was baptized. She was the lady that Elder Moller and I tracted into about 6 weeks ago. it was the first time that door knocking has ever yielded a baptism for me. So that was my tender mercy of the week.

I'm looking forward to smashing things this week though, get to start fresh with a new teaching pool! Elder torrie and I had a good talk about all of it last night, and we feel blessed to have a new start! it's going to be a sweet week! love it!

Love you all

love elder BEEson:)

Today at 12:38 AM

Elder Hamilton and I.. he was a model before the mission ;)

This last week and a half was super eventful. so eventful that I can hardly remember what happened... so this may be a lot shorter than what actually happened.

 

There were a few curve balls that happened this week.Some things didn't go as planned. Enough said there. 

We had zone conference this week, and with that we had the Kalgoorlie Elders come in. Super good conference! We were supposed to take the Kalgoorlie elders back to the train station the next morning after the conference, but the traffic was INSANE getting up to the city, and so we literally got there Just as the train was pulling out! haha so yeah, the next train to Kal didn't leave until Saturday morning, and so we had them with us for an extra 2 days! wooo!! hahahaha ALL of our food was smashed(gone) by then though. 

But yeah we had 2 other exchanges this week. Just been smashing the finding as always. We've had some pretty cool stuff happen though! There was this one dude that I contacted on exchanges AGES ago, but I told Elder Torrie that he should try to see these guys, so he went and he met this girl that lives there, and yeah Elder Torrie has taught her 2 more times on exchanges, and she is suuuuuuuuuuuper duper keen to be baptized. She brought it up herself, so we set a goal of baptizing her on the 1st of july! Woooo! but  long story short, I learned that there is always value in talking with everyone, because it can lead to opportunities down the road!

 

Also, I felt inspired to set a goal that for the rest of my mission I am going to give at least 1 book of Mormon out a day, and yeah so far so good! haven't missed a day yet, then again it hasn't hit a pday with that goal yet, so we'll see how we go ;) But it has been super cool to have that be the focus, because at the end of the day, if people know the Book of Mormon is true, and actually apply the principles contained in it, they will draw nearer to God by reading and applying than by doing anything else. So basically, giving out book of Mormons with specific passages to read I have found is pretty much the best way of planting the seed within others. I looooooove the Book of Mormon. loooove it

yeah I can't remember anything else that happened this week. but there was good stuff I promise!

Love you all

Love Elder BeesonElder Macki, my son. Elder Ramsay from Kalgoorlie, and temple pday baby!