Dear Family and Friends

This week just flewwwwwwww by! Good week though as far as I can remember. just going to bulletpoint the highlights today :-)

-We decided to go bush tracting this last week. it was fun/ scary. there are soooooo many massive guard dogs out bush. Met a few nice people though. Also saw a got a pic with a tiger snake while we were out there!

-The sisters gave us one of their potentials to follow up with, they are a cook island/ aussie couple. The wife who claimed to be atheist from when we first started talking to them committed to read about the plan of salvation, and to pray by the end of our discussion. so that was pretty neat. 

-We have been working with a part member family that just needs to get married, but we found out they have another friend who lives with them and we got to catch up with him, and he wants to investigate again. haha he told us that he is all about the "deep stuff" though. hahah we'll see ;) but yeah, it was cool had a mean talk with him, and apparently he was about to be baptized when he was in NZ. Seeing him tomorrow :) 

-We've been smashing the bikes here. it's nice! Loooooooooooove biking. miss biking in a straight biking area. Gets you out of the comfort zone :) 

but yeah, I love this ward. so many cool members. 

This week I've been reading HEAPS of church history stuff, and it has strengthened my testimony of the prophet Joseph Smith. I look up to him. He had sooo much stuff happen to him, but he always was one who would lift others, and help them out. I hope to become like that. 

Love you all family! CTR

love Elder Beeson

Hey everyone!

This week was pretty good! It went by suuuuuuuuuuper duper fast, and we had a pretty stinking amazing miracle this week!

There have honestly been so many general authorities in Perth over the last few weeks. We had Elder Renlund, Elder Hallstrom, Elder Nielson, Elder O'reardon, and this week we had Elder Cardon of the Seventy come. It was awesome, we had an MLC with him, and he gave us some awesome ideas of how we can better work in our wards. Then he came to zone conference as well. suuuuuuuper good!

On Thursday we had to go to the chapel to set everything up, so we went there after picking up the Kalgoorlie elders from the train station, and we saw this Maori dude just sitting under a tree right out front of the chapel. We told him he could come in if he wanted to have some air con, but he said that he was all good, so we went in and were setting up, then about 5 minutes later we heard a knock on the door so we went out, and it was the Maori dude! He asked us, "Hey do you guys have like a preacher or someone I can talk to? I've just have had heaps of stuff on my mind lately."

So we told him that he could talk to us, and yeah he opened up, and was just saying how he really feels like he wants to have a fresh start, and that he has made some bad choices in the past that he wants to get rid of, and how he wants to find more purpose in life, etc. and yeah it was amazing!! So we took him on a chapel tour and taught him about Christ, and the Atonement, and yeah we ended in the baptismal font room, and invited him to be baptized, and he said yes! He said he wants to be baptized on the 2nd of April!! woooooooooo! crazy cool miracle. We had to hand him off to the Rocky West elders though, because he's not in our area :/ but it's all good, it's all one work :)

I'm loving this ward though, there are heaps of islanders Maori's, there are HEAPS of Cookies ( cook islanders) they are super cool. They have these drums that I'm going to jam on someday ;)

I love the area, my companion, the zone, Everything! things are awesome :) This week I've reflected heaps about how lucky I am to be a missionary, and so I've just tried to embrace every minute of it this week, and it has made the work even better :) Love you all!

Love Elder Beeson

An Aborigine hand painted my personal scriptures!

Meeting Elder Renlund

Baldivis Baby!

G'day family and friends!

This week was amazing!!! It honestly felt like we finally hit a bit of an Oasis after this transfer of a desert. Super good week :)

This week we have had a super cool miracle still in the process of developing. So on Monday we visited the H 's a returning member/ recent convert family, and the Dad's parents have moved in for good to help them raise their kids. The parents of the dad ( the parents names are G and E)  have been really nice and respectful whenever we share anything, but nothing has been softening their hearts to actually learn.. UNTIL.. they had a death in the family this last weekend.

A distant relative committed suicide last weekend :( and they were doing heaps of funeral stuff over the weekend. And so in the middle of some small talk we were having, E just speaks up and says, "Is it still possible for my grandson to still be saved, even though he committed suicide?" and we told her that yes, it is possible!

 She was super teary eyed as she asked it, and so we took that opportunity to teach the plan of salvation, and we taught the whole thing, and it was good, but when we finished it up, I had a feeling that we should go more into depth with the spirit world, and so we talked about the temple, and about doing baptisms for the dead, and that was what ended up connecting with them the most! Then we felt prompted to invite them to be baptized and they both said that they would once the feel of what we said is true! ( hahah I already know that they know it's true ;) ). We had another lesson with them on Thursday as well and the Spirit was suuuuuuuuper strong as we taught the Godhead, reviewed the Plan of Salvation, and taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ. At the end of the lesson, all of the H girls came in for the closing prayer! That has NEVER HAPPENED!  Suuuuuper cool.

Elder Aldous ( my former comp) and I went on exchanges on Wednesday, and we had a pretty cool 4th floor last door experience! We had about 20 minutes until lunch time, and we could have easily just gone back to the flat for lunch, and used the 20 minutes to spare as travel time, but we planned to tract, so we decided that we would stick with the plan and tract it out! We tracted out this cul-de-sac. and literally no one was home, because it was like the middle of the day on a Wednesday. Then we got to the last house on that little street, and this guy was polishing his car, and when we approached him, he said that he was impressed with us for having patience to go from door to door with no one answering, so we got talking to him for a bit, and then his partner came out, and she just started asking heaps of really good questions about Christ, and our church, and so anywho, long story short, they let us in, and we were able to teach repentance, and the Atonement. Super cool simple experience that just has strengthened my testimony about being diligent :)

On Saturday we had mission conference with Elder Renlund. It was amazing! There were heaps of things that he said that just spoke to my heart. I honestly feel like he is the apostle I connect with the most, not because he came to our mission, but from the talks I read from him in preparation for his coming, and from just how he acted when he was here, I feel like I connect with him :)

Yesterday we had a special stake conference with Elder Renlund, and it was good we had 5 of our investigators come to it! G and E were there, and they were super intrigued by everything he said. I got to shake hands with him 2 more times on Sunday ...:)

Then I got a call from President during MCM that I am going to be transferred. I'm going down to Rockingham zone to serve in Baldivis! Woooooooooo!! My new companion is Elder Mollar from New Zealand. super pumped to serve with him. I'm for sure going to miss this ward, I've literally spent half of my mission here, but I'm super excited for a fresh start :)

Something I learned this week is of the power of fasting and prayer. When we fast and pray with absolute confidence that God will bless us with what is needed, then he WILL bless us with what is needed, and often miracles are needed, and that's what happened this week. I love this work, can't get enough of it!

Love you all!

love Elder Beeson

Dear Everyone, 

This last week was good! 

We went on exchanges with the Como elders, I went with Elder Manlapat, and we worked HARD! it was so fun. Lots of cool little miracles throughout the day. it's been random lately though because we have run into heaps of off-the-records less actives, just from biking and bussing. We had a few less actives approach us as we were doing that not only on exchanges but throughout the week! We biked to one of the randomest corners of our area, where I have never been, and it is random, it's like a kennel district for breeding dogs, and so the whole time there, there was just heaps of barking. I felt like I was in a third world country. hahah did some tracting... had some VERY interesting experiences there... ( if you want to know, email me about it. (it's not appropriate for this mass email...)) But yeah I got super sun burned, but it's already a tan now, so that's good ;)

We also went on exchanges with the assistants. It was funny/ good to be with elder Tua'itanu again. Did some mean street contacting up in the city. We found this lady who knows my friend Morgan who is serving in Belgium right now!! What the heck?!!!! 

Also, we totally got caught up with these two Asians who approached me and asked if I could take a picture of him and his girl friend with their Australian t shirts. and so I took a few pics, and then we asked where they were from, and the didn't really answer, then we told them we were missionaries, and then the dude totally shut down, but the girl was "interested." So we gave them some pamphlets, and then as we were walking away, we noticed all of these people with cameras following us, and apparently the two Asians were being filmed for a comedy show that will be airing on ABC-I in May! Apparently they were pretty famous Youtubers.  haha So we had to sign a paper and yeah, I reckon we will probably be on tv- hahahaha!! 

Yesterday we went tracting and found these two super Bogan dudes, one of them was super drunk, but they both opened up heaps, and we found their concern, and they were pumped to read the Book of Mormon once we shared it with them, and they are also pumped to come to church this next sunday because we told them that an apostle is coming ( side note, Elder Rendlund is coming to our mission this weekend!!!!!) and they said they want to come! 

 Then we went to a dinner, and it was a surprise birthday party dinner thing! It was good! The ward members even invited members from Merriwa ward, my last area! it was so nice of them! I'm going to miss this ward when I leave.. IF I leave ;) hahah love it!

This week I focused a lot on the power of prayer. It's amazing of how prayer is connected with every principle of the gospel, it's how we repent, it's how we show faith, it's how we endure to the end, etc. I've had many experiences this week when I felt the power of prayer very strong in my life. I'm so grateful to be able to have that constant connection with God. it's such a blessing that many people don't understand or don't even know about! So I am very grateful for it :) 

I love you all! 

love Elder Beeson

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Flooding Perth with.....water!

Dear family and Friends,

This week was crazy in every way! It has been the coldest February here in the last 100 years! Lots of storms and flooding.

On Monday night we went by to see one of our investigators, but he was busy so we ended up talking to/ teaching his friend who was Hindu. It was funny because he was just bashing on us for not being vegetarians. He accused us of being murderers for eating meat. My companion got a little defensive, because that is literally all we eat ;)

On Tuesday I woke up feeling really sick. It literally has only been like the 2nd day of my mission feeling sick. I was supposed to rest the whole day, but we had heaps of meetings and stuff to prepare for so I didn't get to rest, but I had a blessing from our wonderful district leader, and I was fully recovered by the next day! :)

We had 2 power outages this week as well. One of them was really funny because we had the Albany elders stay with us at our flat for stake conference, and they were in the middle of getting haircut, but then yeah... the power went out, so he had to get the rest of his hair cut a bit later.. haha. Also the wind was blowing so hard that it blew off the gate in the backyard. ( if my companion or I had a camera I would have taken pictures...)

Last night I had sort of a birthday dinner with some of my favorite members and some investigators. they went all out! They made a roast and even made a peach pie! Which I specifically told them NOT to make ;) haha. I love the members here!

Honestly though this week was pretty tiring because we had 6 meetings within a 24 hour period, and another 6 meetings throughout the week. But I learned about how important it is to be prepared for meetings, because those who preside take time to think of how they can help everyone who comes to the meeting. So I learned that every meeting is good and worth it as long as you are seeking revelation, or of how you can change something, as a result of what you learned.

Love you all!

CTR

Follow the Spirit

Love your peers.

love elder Beeson