R and R

Family and friends, 

This week was all over the place, there were some miracles, then some un-miracles, and then miracles again.. haha let me explain!

So on Monday we contacted a referral that we got from the office. We knocked on the door, and this 71 year old aussie lady named R answered the door, she invited us in immediately! She sat us down and started talking to us about why she wanted us to come. She told us that last week she had a man come clean her carpets, and then he said that he was a Mormon, and she said she thought that Mormons were members of a cult, haha and then she said that she has been looking for a church to go to because she has been to quite a few different churches, and she didn't feel like she belonged, and then she said that she really wants to come to our church, because she found out that we are actually Christians, and then she asked us about our church, because she literally lives like 10 houses down from the church! So we taught the entire Restoration! At the end of it, she was like ," Wow! That's amazing, I don't  even have to read the BOM or that Pamphlet, I already believe everything you told me!" So we invited her to be baptized, and she said yes! She is scheduled for the 16th of July! haha Her daughter also really wants to be baptized. So that was quite the miracle. In her closing prayer, she even said, "Thank you for showing me which church I should join." It was awesome!!!!

On Wednesday, we went on exchanges with the Assistants. I was with Elder Lotter, we had a pretty random day, but it was really good. We went to the city for a few hours, and contacted right next to the train station. haha Met quite a few crazy people, but it was fun. There were also some very genuine people.

On Thursday we went to follow up with R. She came right out as soon as we knocked on the door, and she said, "Oh I actually can't come to the church," she showed us a picture in the back of her Restoration pamphlet, and it was a picture of a sacrament meeting, She said that she couldn't come because they were all dressed up and she felt uncomfortable dressing up. So we tried to resolve that concern, but then she just brought up all these other concerns, like the Word of Wisdom, and then she got onto some Anti- stuff. She told us that her husband showed her some Anti stuff, and that she was no longer interested. :( We tried with everything we could to keep her, but nothing worked. She even said a prayer with us on the porch, and as she was saying the prayer, I had the thought to invite her to a family home evening. So after she said the prayer, I told her that there were a few people in the ward who REALLY want to meet her, and that there is a family night at a family's house in the ward on Monday.. she said that she would like to come!! We told her that we would come Sunday morning to introduce her, her ride to the family home evening. Whew! She was hanging by a thread!

Later that night, we had an AMAZING lesson with N and her girls. Sister C picked her up. She is such perfect fellowshiper because she also used to be a JW. She was telling about her conversion story the entire time, and it is soooooo similar to the situation N is in right now. Sister C also used to work in the women's refuge and is a police officer, and N has gotten her house through the women's refuge. Perfect! Had an awesome lesson, but S C had to leave, so we didn't have a full lesson, which means we didn't get to invite them to be baptized! Next lesson for sure!!

Then on Sunday morning, we went with Sister F to see R. (Sister F  has the same first name.(Perfect ;) )) It worked out sooooooo well!! We also met R's daughter, they let us in and we had a lesson. They are all good! R just said we were moving a bit too quick, but yeah she will be coming tonight.

I''ve learned soo much from Elder Tutton. it's so sad killing him off, but I'm excited for what's ahead! My new companion is Elder Sto Tomas! ( Santo tomas) he came out the same day I did, and he is from the Phillipines! I'm so excited to serve with him! It will be awesome. I'm still here in Merriwa! I've been here 6 months, and I wouldn't mind being here 6 more :)

Love you family and friends 

love elder Beeson

Quick Week

Family, Friends, 

 

This weekend was so quick! I'll briefly tell you what happened!

On Thursday we saw the S's right after MCM. I think I already said this, but they are sooooooooooooo bogan haha they make  me laugh.

On Friday, we went to see N one of our new investigators who is an ex'd -JW. 

We did some weeding at her house with D, and H T. She was quite grateful. There is some really good potential with her! We were going to invite her to be baptized at the end of the service, but then her friend showed up and we didn't really get to see her for the last part of our service, plus we had a meeting with one of the high counselors pretty soon after that. Then we had dinner at Brother S's. He's progressing so well. It's cool because he told us that in his patriarchal blessing that it says that he will leave the church for a while, then he will come back stronger, and we are part of that!

On Saturday we had a ward activity for our ward conference yesterday. It was sooooooooo good! like usually ward activities are like decent at best, but Sister C put it together and it was awesome!! F and I( our Banglidesh investigators)  and their two kids came! It was like a carnival themed thing. We had our own booth, it was cool.  They loved it! They had a lip sync battle between the different auxiliaries in the ward as well. it was so funny! After the activity, we went to teach Kat the Gs. She's been struggling a bit lately, but we ended up having an awesome spirit led lesson on Personal Revelation. Everyone learned something new out of it! it was awesome.

On Sunday we went in the morning to see our Peruvian investigator, E. He was out cleaning his Guinea Pig cages on the porch, and we ended up talking to him for like an hour and a half there. He read 2 Nephi 31-33 which is awesome! But yeah, he's really investigating. He is the humblest guy, and I reckon as soon as he gets a testimony of the Book of Mormon, that he and his family will all be baptized! Then we had church, and for some reason church was only 2 hours, since it was ward conference, but then we stayed after to help out with B G's son's baptism. I played piano for it. Then later that night we had dinner at Bro S's again. Then we went to see the T's, I'm really glad we went though, because Brother T's grandmother passed away this week. We had a good lesson on the Atonement of Christ and the Resurrection. He showed us this clip that a tv show did on his Grandma. Apparently she was really famous. It was awesome because in the clip, she was talking about being sealed to her family and everything. It was awesome.

I love the work, our area is about to explode, I can't wait for it to happen!

Love elder Beeson

Shark Attacks, Rain Storms, Egyptian Orthodox, My Spanish Stinks!

Dear family and friends,
WHAT A WEEK!!! Far out this week was awesome!! I'm not sure where to even start!

We went on exchanges with the Geraldton Elders for a few days, that was a treat, because Elder Impas is the phillipino Version of my brother Jack! hahah he had the funniest sense of humor, but was really quiet about it. It was awesome.

On Friday we were tracting and we met this Egyptian Orthodox Christian lady named I. She looks south American but she's Egyptian. Anywho, we got a return appointment in the next morning, and so we came back with an Arabic Book of Mormon, and she fed us sweet potato! haha She's the coolest! We also caught up with our Banglidesh investigators on Saturday, they are really excited to come to  church this next Sunday! super excited for that!

On Sunday apparently there was a shark attack IN OUR AREA!!!!!!!! It was off of Mindarie beach, apparently this 60 year old lady was diving with her diving friend, and a great white ate her! so sad! :( the great white was 5.3 meters long, that's like 18 feet long!!!!!!!! My goodness gracious.

On Monday we tracted for 4 hours and found 1 potential haha! It was this Japanese rugby player, but he said he was super keen to learn more and come to church. Nice! We had a dinner at the C's with Brother G. Sister C is the best, she always makes super American food to make me feel at home ;) She made Jumbalaya with corn bread and it was awesome!!

Now Tuesday and Wednesday, the past two days have been pretty miracle packed, and awesome! So we exchanged with the Balcatta Elders, it was raining sooooooo hard the entire day. But yeah I was with Elder Collings, and we went to I's house, we couldn't go in because her husband wasn't home, so she brought out some chairs for us to sit on while the rain was coming down, she gave us some biscuits, and then she went inside, for a while and we both thought that she was making us some tea or coffee or something, so we were discussing how we could reject it in the nicest way possible! haha but it turns out she was just chilling inside, she just gave us those chairs and biscuits to have so we could wait out the storm! haha So we literally waited for like 25 minutes.

Then we tried a potential Elder Matautia and I found 2 transfers ago named S, she is a Chilean lady with a massive house, she let us in her little patio thing, and we had a really good talk with her, she really wanted us to come back, I spoke a little bit of Spanish to her, but I'm so bad haha but yeah it was still awesome. Then we had to drop the other elders off at a teaching appointment. Elder Tutton and Elder Parry taught someone Elder Tutton tracted into last week, who is suuuuuuuper duper keen. She said that she has been waiting for Mormon missionaries to knock on her door, and she has 4 kids, is MARRIED ( that's the real miracle) and she and her husband want to join the church!!! how amazing!! There are a few other minor things that happened on that day but that was the cool stuff from Tuesday.

Then yesterday, oh man, it was awesome!!!!!! We were texting just about every single person in the ward to ask if they could come and teach with us this lady that Elder Tutton and Elder Parry found on exchanges the day before. Last minute brother A said he could come. So we went there, and we met this lady, her name is N, she is a former JW, but is really in need of a change in her life because she has been in an abusive relationship for a long time, so yeah, we taught her, and she is soooooo excited to get to know a new community, because from her point of view, she really wants to come back to church because she knows it's right and that it'll help her, but she doesn't want to go to the kingdom hall! But yeah she has been pretty dang prepared.

Later that day, we visited a pretty ambiguous referral that we got from Sister G  the day before. She told us to go visit this south American family, so we knocked on the door and this Peruvian man named E answered the door, he let is in straight away ( my goodness if I served in south America, I would love it ;0 ) We started talking and he was really nice, but then all the sudden, he got a call from his wife, and he had to go pick her up, so he told us to come back in 20 minutes. So we tracted for a bit and met a solid potential from Malaysia, then we came back and he let us in again, I was intrigued by their piano, and then I told them that I play, so I played for them, and they loved it! Elder Tutton and I also spoke a little bit of Spanish to him, but we stunk haha! Then E's daughter played for us a song she made up it was really good actually, then E just started asking us questions, he asked us about the Book of Mormon, and then we ended up teaching pretty much the entire Restoration. He was in awe because he has been a catholic his whole life, but he hasn't really believed it, and everything we taught him lined up with what he has believed his whole life, like he believes that the godhead is three separate beings, and he also believes that god speaks to all of his children, needless to say, we have a return appointment with him and he is ALSO married and has 4 kids baptismal age!

We've been finding some solid families this week!! What a blessing it is to serve up here. I honestly never want to leave this area, I want to finish my mission in Merriwa!!

Love
Elder Beeson

Dear family and friends, this last week was super duper good! Soooo many good things are happening here in Merriwa. There have been some cool miracles this week. 

On Tuesday, we went to Brother S's house for dinner, he made a really good sausage curry, but then on Wednesday I was feeling sick all day.. I thought I had food poisoning, but then I took a nap during lunch, and I woke up with a fever, but then I worked through it, and it just went away as we kept working! So that was pretty cool! But anywho, we were tracting on Wednesday morning right before I was feeling really sick, and we met this south African lady named M, she opened up really quick. She told us her husband passed away 2 and a half months ago. She started to cry, but then Elder Tutton shared the PERFECTEST scripture in Mosiah 16, and then we talked about the resurrection, and it was such an awesome spirit. She told us to come back to teach her more! 

We also went by to see T, and His girlfriend was there as well, so we had a good lesson with them, and then T recommitted ( for the 3rd time) to take us to Nandos! But yeah, his girlfriend is pretty keen to learn more too, but it's funny because whenever we invite him to do something, he always hesitates, but then I ask his girlfriend L if she thinks its attractive for him to do it, and she always says yes! Then he does it, so it works haha! 

Elder Tutton also got his knee brace off this week, so we were able to walk around quite a bit, so we were walking all day on Tuesday, and we tracted into a Scottish dude named S who is a self-proclaimed football hooligan. He causes heaps of trouble in the games, and lights flares and stuff. Interesting guy, but he was pretty interested, so we picked up him and his partner as investigators!

On Wednesday we taught N again, and we had a really good lesson on the Book of Mormon, all of the P's bore their testimonies of the Book of Mormon, the spirit was so strong. I really hope N will make up her mind soon though hahaha! 

On Saturday we were on exchanges with the Joondalup Elders. I was with Elder Esterninos, and we decided to tract a pretty rich street in the morning. We knocked on this one door, and this South African lady looked like she was in a hurry, so I introduced ourselves and told her what we were doing, and she started talking to us, ( she actually wasn't in a hurry) Turns out she is on holiday right now from south Africa, and she is just here to paint her sister's house, then Elder Esterninos in his limited English asked her, "Do you like to read?" She said she did, so Elder Esterninos pulled out the book of Mormon, and started to explain what it was using the pictures in the front cover, it was awesome!! His English was really good, he read to her the last paragraph in the intro, and it said something about Joseph Smith, so she asked us who he was, so we explained, and then she asked what the biggest difference was between us and her ( she was catholic) and we explained, and anywho, long story short, she is pretty keen! we have a return appointment on Thursday, but yeah she committed herself to read Alma 7! It was so cool to see the gift of tongues working for Elder Esterninos. He is the man! 

Yesterday was an awesome sunday! Good 5th sunday lesson on the signs of the coming of Christ, this ward is just the beeest! Then later last night we had a musical fireside. The spirit there was so nice! amazing people and food and music!

I love this area and ward and stuff it's soooooo good

I love you all

Love elder Beeson

Dear Family and Friends, 

This week was another super duper good one! The weather was a bit crazy, but it was fun! hopefully the videos here work so you can see what I mean!

On Monday we visited this less active man from El Salvador. I tried to practice my Spanish, but I was reallllllly bad haha so was elder Tutton. We both took 5 years of Spanish, and we stink. But it was good though, he told us to come back on Friday to help him weed. Then we saw a part member family, and we taught a lesson on repentance with this object lesson I basically made up on the spot! hahaa it was funny. 

We've been working with this Less active named T, and he said that if we didn't come to church that he would shout us Nandos, so he didn't come this one week, and so he said he'd take us out on Tuesday... but he totally bailed!! haha Elder Tutton and I had to satisfy the nandos craving so we went there that night for dinner ;) We also that day visted the H's family. They are Swedish. another part member family, Sister H totally opened up, and she said that she wants us to come by to teach her girls every week! what a treat! The girls are pretty young, but it will be a good learning experience to teach simply to children! We also saw another returning member who is a police officer, at the end of it he was genuinely so happy we came by, because he told us he has been struggling to come back. I'm so glad we did go by!

On Wednesday night we had a really good lesson with M and K and the girls. S was asking SOOOOOOOOO Many questions about the plan of Salvation! haha it kind of got out of hand, but it was cool to see her open up quite a bit! It's really cool though because all three of the girls say they want to go on missions now, and S and J aren't even baptized yet! 

On Thursday we had an awesome zone conference! It motivated me sooooooooo much to find. I reckon the reason missions are "hard" is because no one wants to find. I really got a long lasting desire to find, and I think it is for that reason we were able to find Farzana and Iffekhar! Elder Tutton and I found Farzana while we were tracting on Friday. She is from Bangledesh ( I don't know how to spell it ;) ) She said that her whole life she has been looking for evidences of God's existence, and we told her that if she really wanted to know how to find Him, that we could help her find him. Super duper cool! Elder Tutton and Elder Collings taught her and her husband on exchanges on Saturday, and they are looking like a SOLID family. So that was cool. Then On Friday we also saw The Mechler's. Ben's Older sister Katrina joined in and she opened up heaps and shared a few of her own spiritual experiences she has had in the past. So we are teacher her now too! :) 

On Saturday we went on exchanges. I went with Elder Parry from Morgan, Utah. He's the man! haha it was fun! the video and picture on this email are of me and him. The wind and the storm in general was absolutely nuts! There was a tree in the church parking lot that was completely up rooted and on top of the fence. It was intense. Elder Parry and I visited a less active from Ireland and we had a really good discussion with him. Brother M has such a good heart, I feel I understand him pretty well. After exchanges we booked it to the H's to teach N and K. N committed to be baptized again! She just has to talk to her parents. I think that was what was missing the last time she was set on date, she didn't ever tell her parents so she didn't have any confidence, so hopefully that'll help :) 

Yesterday was a treat. We were sitting in ward council, then all the sudden this camera dude came in. He was recording throughout the whole day at church. Apparently they have been filming the F family ( a south African celestial family in our ward) for a Mormon message about keeping the Sabbath day holy! haha I was playing piano for sacrament meeting, and I had to sight read 3 of the songs while the guy was recording haha! it was alright though, but basically what I guess I'm trying to say is that I will soon be famous ;) :)

That was the week! the weeks are just flying by here! 

I've learned a lot from Elder Tutton since I've been with him. He teaches very simply and has a lot of patience. 

I love this gospel and this mission and my companion and my ward and area and everything! 

love Elder Beeson

Dear Family and Friends,
This week was AWESOME!! So many good things happened this week, there were just some awesome small miracles.

 On Wednesday, we had an awesome lesson with B who was a former. We had a lesson at The G's house and the G's bore powerful testimony to her. The spirit was pretty strong, she said she would be baptized as well!! We will be working with her to get her there hopefully by the end of next month :) She already has quit smoking as well which is AWESOME.

 On Thursday, we had an a really good lesson with this family that has been a potential family the whole time I have been here. It was the M family. The dad is full german and the wife is straight aussie. They let us in, and we were chatting, then we finally got to state our purpose clear, every other time we had been there in the past, something always districted either them or us to take us away from our purpose, and then we had a really good discussion with them on the Godhead. They all got really into it. We taught a little of the plan of salvation as well. The mother and son are both pretty keen and we will teach them this week!

 On Friday we went to visit a recent convert/ less active. His name is D and he has been struggling ever since he was baptized. We had a really long talk with him, but then he told us about how he really is wanting to come back. Then out of nowhere, he told us that his Mom wants to be baptized! haha nice!

So we set up a time to see him and his mom, and we will be seeing them tonight at the H's! pretty pumped about that. Then later that night we went to the G's. Pretty nuts, I made the connection that I met sister G's daughter before I came on my mission. They did this perth culture night at my grandma Gaye's house before I left. haha I 've been in Sister G's ward for like 4 months and just now made that connection! Her son used to be the bishop in Merriwa ward.  Bishop K! haha crazy. Then we went to the S's and Brother S told us about how he felt like he just needed to start reading his scriptures again! nice! that family is making some awesome progress!

 On Saturday we went to T's house. He's a less active that is making some awesome progress. We always just have really good discussions there. He told us that he prayed for the first time in YEARS, the night before. That was way cool. Then we talked to him about the Spirit, and then he shared with us a SUUUUUUPER spiritual experience that he had when he was young. Elder Tutton and I were blown away, after he told us about it, he was kind of teary eyed, and he told us that he wasn't going to drink that night! haha it was really cool though, and he ended up coming to church yesterday as well! nice!


 After church on sunday we went with D to see H. We had a super duper spiritual lesson with him about the plan of salvation! D is soooo good as a ward missionary. He knows how to teach. We also visited this Cook Islander Fella after dinner last night, and had a good lesson with him. He is 85 years old and has read the book of Mormon 49  times! Such a saint.
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> haha I feel like I missed writing about a lot of the miracles that happened this week, but overall this week was awesome!!
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> Ilove you friends and family,
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> love elder Beeson

Dear family and friends, 

What the week this has been. Madness. But it has been joyous as well. Good things are happening here in Merriwa. 

We have had Elder Esterninos with us for the past week because of an interesting situation. He is awesome though. His testimony is so powerful and sincere. On Wednesday, we followed up with a former that Elder Matautia found a few months ago. Her name was N. We invited her to be baptized, and she said yes, but then we didnt' see her again after that. So we felt we should follow up on her again, and she was finally home!! 

She was really excited for us to come back again as well. So that was a treat, then right after that we felt we needed to follow up with another former. His name is H he is from New way island ( that's not how you spell it but that's how it sounds ;) ) Any who, we were talking to him, and then he out of no where said, " have yous had a feed?" and we said no, then he said "meet me at Mackas in 15. " yeahhhh!! So we went to mackas ( Mcdonalds) and he bought us HEAPS  of food! like a full meal each and then 3 more burgers each.

 But yeah we got to know him, and he told us about how missionaries used to come by, but they never actually taught him anything, they just came by because they knew that he would feed them! Pretty sad. We got talking and he told us that his dad passed away last year. He said he has had heaps of questions ever since his passing. He asked us a lot of them, and we answered him back by asking him questions. He was really intrigued. We told him about the plan of salvation. He said that he didn't believe it was heaven and hell right after death, he belived there was a waiting period. pretty cool! We told him he was right, and he was really intrigued after that! Anywho, we ended up going back on Sunday, yesterday, and he gave us some umu ( meat covered in banana leaves which cooks underground) and he said that he wanted us to come back later this week! Nice! He's the man!

That night we got a call from the assistants saying that Elder Matautia had to come to MLC with his  bags packed.... :( so sad. So Thursday we said a lot of goodbyes to members and things. We ended the night at M's house. The spirit was so strong!! N came as well, which was a miracle because we haven't been in contact with her for like 3 weeks! Anywho, we pretty much had a testimony meeting, it really wasn't planned though. It was so powerful because the two girls J, and S bore their testimonies about how they knew the church was true as well, even though their stepmom has been giving them anti stuff. It was just pure testimony, and even N bore her testimony about how the things we have taught her have blessed her life. Everyone was a little teary, partly because Elder matautia was leaving, but mostly because the spirit was so stong there. 

On Friday morning we went to MLC and got our new companions. Elder Matautia ended up going down to my first area down towards canning vale to gosnells. and Elder Tutton the AP is now my companion. He is from the UK and this is his last transfer, which basically means I'll at least be in Merriwa until August, which I am pretty keen for! :) 

Sunday was pretty crazy becauase we had to go to Elder Esterninos's ward as well in the morning. We went to Joondalup ward and Merriwa ward. It was great! We had to Skype at different times though because Elder Tutton's family is only 7 hours behind while mine is 14. so yeah lots of time at Hirini's house haha!

This week was pretty awesome besides how frantic everything was. I love being a missionary. I honestly do not want to be anywhere else right now. It's sooooooo good. I feel so happy as I try my best to share the gospel with everyone. I know that this is the most joyous thing to do. I loooove love love it :)) 

happy mothers day again to y'all :) 

love Elder Beeson