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:)

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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

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and lizard.  Oh my!