that family that is sitting behind us in that picture where we are sitting on the ground, that is the family that came to church that week we were fasting that someone would cross our path at church, and that night we taught them the restoration, and they all committed to be baptized in 3 weeks!!!  soooo happy for them, yet so sad I won't be here for it! they are sooooo keen though. they know all the cook islanders in the ward, (because they are cook islandeese as well ( or cookies)) ;)

see you all next week!! (like in person this time ) haha

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!

G'day family and friends,

A pretty solid week this week. lots of things happening/ happened this week! 

First thing I got to say is that Elder Moller got transferred on Saturday. It was super last minute because he got the call Friday night, then left Saturday afternoon. he's in bunbury now! my new companion is THE MAN! Elder Torrie from Canada! been out for nine months, but is doing really well. I forgot to take a pic of him and I this week so I just took a really quick one since we've been here emailing this morning ;) but yeah pumped to be with Elder Torrie! gonna miss being with elder moller he was the man too. 

On Tuesday we felt inspired to tract around one of the member's houses, so we parked the bikes there and asked the members if there was anyone we should try in particular. then he said that he actually had a rugby mate just a few streets over that he reckoned would be pretty keen, so we knocked on his door, and no one answered, but then as we were leaving the door and going to the next, the guy came out, and he was like, "ohhhhhh elders! come over here, come sit down lets talk." but yeah he's actually keen as! we taught him a few more times this week, and he said that if he comes to know that everything we are talking about is true, that he is going to go "all in" so yeah pretty sweet. It's cool also because everytime we are with him, he posts some snap chat of us being there or of what we are teaching him. we taught the plan of salvation and spelled out the word love in it, and he loved it! so yeah he's being a missionary for us ;) :) 

Also on Saturday morning we got a text from a random number asking if we could help her out with garden stuff. she said that she was down in the dumps and that we met her a few weeks back, but yeah we ended up finding out who she was, and she was actually a referral from this guy that we tracted into. he told us he hated his neighbours, and that they definitely needed God in their lives, so we went over and his neighbours were actually really nice, so we just left our number and didn't think too much of it, but now she wants us to not only come over for service, but to share our message :) it's so cool how Heavenly Father prepares his children. it just goes to show how no effort is ever wasted!

Elder Torrie and I went tracting in the pouring rain sunday morning and found this girl from Zimbabwe who feels like she doesn't have much purpose in life, and she was so grateful after we taught her a brief bit of the plan of salvation, and about prayer. we'll send the sisters over to teach her because she's YSA age. But yeah, it's so fun teaching with elder torrie. he's just so wise. Also that girl that elder moller and I tracted into a few weeks back, C, she is getting ready to be baptized. she came to church yesterday! wooooooo!! 

Something I have come to really begin to recognize is about how God communicates to me personally. So grateful to have a personal connection with Heavenly Father. He reveals things to me on such a personal level, and he does it day by day and week by week. That's how I know he is real and that he loves me. I love inviting people to have that same sort of a relationship with him because it brings soooooooooooo much more direction. Everyone here is lost, and having a connection brings the direction. I know that from personal experience. 

Love you all family! CTR

Love elder Beeson 

the priesthood a week ago and passed the sacrament for the first time yesterday. he's the man. 

Elder Sto Tomas and Vainikolo. Elders I've served around my whole mission. they are gone-ski's now. 

my last minute pic this morning with Elder Torrie!

May 14, 2017

Dear Friends and family, 

This weekend was pretty sweet! It went by fast, but had some good things happen :) 

On Friday we went on exchanges with the Rockingham West Elders. I was with Elder Amparado, and we pretty much just smashed the tracting all day. It was pretty cool though. As we were walking back to the bikes after knocking for a few hours, we saw this young looking dude who looked like he was in deep thought sitting on this park bench. So we went up and started talking to him, and he told us that he comes to that spot everyday so he can be in deep thought! So we took the opportunity to teach him the Plan of Salvation, and taught him how to pray, and then he said his first prayer right there with us. it was cool because at the beginning of our conversation with him, he said that he was atheist! well I guess he's not ;)  I'm honestly convinced though that pretty much all of those who say they are atheists are not really atheist, they just haven't had a spiritual experience yet :)

Then on Saturday one of the recent converts in this ward came up to me and showed me some pics of the baptism she went to earlier in the day, it was G and E's baptism! I was so excited to see them in their whites! It made my day, and it was funny because they took a pic and photo shopped me into their pic! haha. I love those guys. So happy they were married and baptized this weekend!!! 

Something I learned this week is of how much more happiness is available when we give our all. The more we commit ourselves to the Lord, the more happiness we have. if we feel unhappy, we need to commit more to him. I love it! that's what I've been trying to do recently, and I can tell you that it works!! I'm just so happy, and Il ooooooooove the work :) 

Love you all! 

love Elder Beeson

 Huntsman spider

 caterpillar

and lizard.  Oh my!

Far out folks. This week was miraculous. Crazy stuff happened this week.

So that girl that I was emailing about last week that we found who was wanting to read the book of Mormon is being taught by the sisters now, and has a baptismal date set for next month! WOOOOOOO! I was super pumped about that.

 

Also, one of the elders in the district got his gallbladder taken out  this week, and so we had to take one of their appointments. We saw their investigators, C and T from New Zealand. Elder Daniels and I actually just contacted them on the street a few weeks back on exchanges. haha the initial contact with them was pretty funny, because we were just tracting, and then in between doors, we saw them walking, and C was wearing a beanie, and looked pretty suspicious, and T was pregnant ( at the time) and so we talked to them and asked if they believed in God and stuff, and Cjust told us straight up, "nah man, I'm a druggie." then his partner was like, "yeah we don't really believe in anything." hthen I just asked him if he was wanting to give up the drugs before baby was born, and he said that he would, but he doesn't think he can do it. Then we told him that we were keen as to help him out. So he gave us their address, and we didn't think too much of it. Then after that the elders later went over there and started teaching, and apparently C quit EVERYTHING cold turkey. 

 

So yeah he has been clean for like 4 weeks now. crazy. So we took their appointment with them, and we taught them pretty much all three lessons, and man they were feeling the spirit super strong, and so we invited them to be baptized, and C said, "You can count on it bro, I'm feeling it. " they are shooting for the 17th of June!! WOOOOOO!!   they are so cool.

 

 So that was something cool.

Then on Saturday we FINALLY set an official wedding and baptismal date for our investigator T. She's getting married to S, which is this dude I've known from literally day one of my mission.

Then on Monday we finally got to go around and teach this family that has been coming to church for the past few weeks, that leaves before we get to talk to them. it's the F family. they are a Maori family. So we went there and taught the plan of salvation, and we found out that the wife was actually baptized when she was eight. So then naturally her 9 year old daughter asks about baptism, and then we naturally extended the invitation for the rest of the family to be baptized! and they all said yes to the 3rd of June! WOOOOOOOOO!! So that will be the husband, and four of their daughters being baptized on that day. SUCH a miracle!!!!

 

Then yesterday during our weekly planning, we got a call from one of the ward missionaries, and he told us that one of the sisters that used to serve here has been talking with one of the investigators she used to teach, and she told the ward missionary that she feels like this investigator is ready to be baptized now. So we went over to his house, and literally as we walked up to his car port he just pulled in, and so we had a lesson with him outside, and invited him to be baptized, and he said yes! for the 17th of June! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! so yeah. MIRACULOUS  week.

 

We had a MLC on Friday last week, and we were talking about how we need to change the culture of the mission, and start talking about baptism HEAPS more. and so that's what our focus has been, and now look, lots of people are keen to be baptized. amazing. miracles.

 

So yeah I guess the biggest lesson I learned this week is that it is important to make sure that our focus is on the right thing. Our happiness level has everything to do with what we are focusing on. So if we focus on nasty thoughts and nasty things, then we are going to be feeling nasty. but if we focus on Christ and his gospel, which is all meant for us to find real peace, and real happiness, then we will have real peace and real happiness!

Loving the work soooooooooooo much right now.

pics from our temple pday today. also we weeded the bush and a member of parliament came. guess which one he is ;) parliament is like a representative or a member of the senate here apparently.

Hey family and friends,

This week was a bit hectic. lots of interesting things went down. lots of opposition, but still a good week :)

We just did HEAPS of tracting throughout the week. I love it though. nothing like teaching and testifying on the door step :)

We found this one lady while tractting. She said that she had a friend that she once saw was reading the Book of Mormon, and she wanted to read it as well, but then she ended up graduating before the girl could give her a copy. So yeah obviously we gave her a copy, and we shared with her a brief passage from Ether 12 that she then shared her insights from. She was suuuuper keen to read it though. Then we got a call from some of the other elders and they were having a pretty rough argument so we went down there and helped them out, and then yeah we had to rush another elder to the hospital this morning for gall stones. So just lots curveballs thrown this week. But good week nonetheless :)

I am kind of in a rush right now, but I am just so grateful for the restoration of the gospel, and it just feels so good to boldly say that I know Joseph Smith is a prophet and the Book of Mormon is true, because the spirit has told me so. Love it! love you all

love Elder Beeson

G'day everyone, 

This week went by suuuuuuper fast. I honestly only remember a few things that happened. I feel like I emailed yesterday, (don't worry I didn't ;) )  

On Monday night we got a call from this lady who we contacted a few days earlier from papua new guinea. Her name is L. She said when we originally contacted her, that she wanted to come to church, and yeah she didn't end up coming, but then she called us up the next day and said that she wanted to come, and she said that we could pop by. So we went by on Wednesday with one of the newly ordained elders, and taught L. She opened right up, and told us she wants to get on the right path, and so we invited her to be baptized, and she said that she wants to be! So we are aiming to help her to get there within the next month :) 

On exchanges apparently my companion and the other elder taught her at a members home with some dinner, and the spirit was super strong. So yeah, she's a cool lady! the only bummer is that as soon as her friends and family found out she was investigating, they are now swooping in to take her to their churches... haha so yeah she didn't end up coming to church this week, but she'll be there this next week :) 

Also met another Apostate member through tracting this week. He was a Jew, then he was baptized a Mormon, then he went back to being a Jew. So that was interesting, he said that we can come by again.. but we'll see ;) then we also tracted in to this guy from Zimbabwe he was super hard to read at first, but as soon as we started talking about the book of Mormon, he got pumped and wanted to read it! So we are teaching him now. 

But yeah this week was just heaps of door knocking, and just working hard. It's been fun though. Our mission president has had this big push recently of teaching, testifying, and inviting  people to act within a 60 second contact time. hahah it's been pretty funny applying it this week, because it's all really fast paced, but it keeps you focused on what's most important! 

We also had zone conference this last week, and something that came up not only there, but within a few different places to me was how important it is that we keep our spiritual experiences between us and the Lord sometimes, and about how important it is to take the time to pray, and to pray in faith! so much to learn in the gospel. Love it :)

hope yous have a good week 

love, Elder Beeson 

it's always a competition to see who can outflex the other ;) hahaha

April 17th

This week was insanely awesome. let me tell you about it :)
> On Tuesday night we got a call from Bishop telling us that there is a couple in our area that he is going to be marrying soon, that are interested in hearing more about the church! Woooo!! So we went by the next night, and met the couple. Their names are D and J. They are a Maori couple, and D is actually a member, just hasn't been to church in a while, so we went in, and J has had all these questions about the church for AGES. Most of her questions were surrounding why in our church we seem to have such a good family dynamic, so we ended up teaching them the Plan of Salvation. Their oldest daughter was sitting in the lesson as well. They all seemed to understand everything pretty well, and so we invited J and her daughter to be baptized after the wedding, and they both accepted! woooooooo!! pretty pumped for that :)
> Then this is the crazy thing that happened. it's got a bit of a back story, so I"ll tell you the back story.
> So about a week and a half ago, I had a dream that elder moller and I were tracting, and it was super cold outside. We were pretty much just looking for a place to get warm because of how cold it was. Then we passed by this house, and it had this warmth emanating from it, so we knocked on the door, and we were let in straight away, there was a whole family there. There was a mother and father preparing for dinner, then a few kids, a boy about in his 20's a girl in her late teens, and another son who was pretty young. there were also some grandparents there. The atmosphere was super comfortable, I felt I could completely be myself. So Then we got talking to the older son, and he was talking about how lately he was feeling like he needed to find purpose in life, and that he had had some loved ones pass away, and he wanted answers, so we began to teach the whole family the Plan of Salvation, and there was just so much warmth and love as we taught. Then my dream skipped to the following sunday and the whole family was at church, minus the grandparents that were there at the house. I was shocked, so we approached them and I totally forgot all of their names, so I asked their names again, and so they told me, and then I shook hands last with the dad, and I asked him what his family last name was, he told me it was "Liahona" and then I said, "What the?! That's the name of a compass in the Book of Mormon! You guys are meant to be Mormon!" Then yeah that was pretty much the dream.
> Then this week, we had a pretty parallel experience, and I didn't realize that it was parallel to this dream until after it all happened.
> So on Saturday we were tracting, and we weren't having too much success, it was just the aussies being their "cold" selves ;) hahaha. But then we passed by a house that was blasting some latino music, and I just have the biggest soft spot for latinos, so we knocked on the door, and then the father of the house let us in straight away, right after I asked where he was from in Spanish. So we went in, and the mom of the house was preparing dinner, and they had 3 kids, a boy in his 20's a girl in her late teens, and a younger daughter. I held a pretty decent conversation with them in Spanish. They were so nice and warm to us, we showed them the prince of peace video, and then another easter video came on after that. the Spirit was super strong afterwards. Then both the wife and the husband said that they had lost their parents within the last few years. So we talked about the plan of Salvation for a bit, and at the end of that brief discussion with them, we asked them if they would honestly be interested in hearing more of our message, and they all said that they would be. The father told us to come back when he came back from work. He's a FIFO worker. We said a prayer with them and the spirit was SO strong.
> There were some pretty crazy parallels that I realized later that night. the two I found that were pretty crazy were how in my dream there were grandparents there, and when we were there there were no grandparents, and how in my dream when the father said that their last name was Liahona, that this family was from south America. They were from Paraguay. So yeah after this realization came to mind, I had a prompting to write down this dream, and the experience, and to give it to them. and Elder moller had a prompting as well to write down the chapel address and our phone number because we forgot to leave it with them. So we doorbell ditched them with those things at around 9pm. and I felt like I did the right thing. Pretty cool experience. It's hard to put it all down in an email, but yeah, going to praying for this family heaps!
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> Easter was super good as well! heaps of activities. This ward is soooo good. love it.
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> I hope that all made sense.. :)
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> Love Elder Beeson :)