Hey, high class campin' bums!

Looks like a super week. Those videos were so so so wonderful to see. It is so good to hear everyone's voices! ESPECIALLY when they read scrips :) Love you all.

This week was SOOOO much better.

I got a blessing last week, (can't remember if I told you) and something that was mentioned were two things: Help your sisters gain a LOVE for the Book of Mormon, and go to the Temple to receive revelation. Ahhh... the temple has been on my mind since I got to New Brighton!! And guess what? For the first time in 15 months I was able to go!!!!! Oddly, I felt so fortunate to know what it was like to not go to the temple for a very long time, because then I was able to recognize the true PEACE and joy that is felt there. I have SOOO taken that for granted with a temple that was 5 min away. It almost even helped me understand maybe how less actives feel! Living life, and not realizing how much peace and joy there is available until you're THERE! That was really neat. Time stood still, all my worries, burdens, and fears were lifted for that glorious hour and I felt a peace that I haven't felt once on my mission until that moment. It was amazing.

As Sister Smith and I sat in the Celestial Room, we were thinking about how we can get our sisters to gain a love for the Book of Mormon as well as continue their mission in diligence and obedience, and the idea came to invite them to take the Christlike Attribute activity in PMG and then pick an attribute to work on. With that, we committed them to read DAILY from the Book of Mormon (that is surprisingly difficult to do even as a missionary) and highlight anything that has relevance to that particular attribute that they are working on. We're doing it too! And I invite you to do so :) Our Mission Pres is working on helping us to become disciples of Jesus Christ. This is from him:

"The primary purpose of our earthly existence is to prepare to meet God and inherit the blessings he has promised to his worthy children. The pattern for how we prepare was set by the Savior during his earthly ministry. 
The following has been written about discipleship: “The word disciple comes from the Latin [meaning] a learner. A disciple of Christ is one who is learning to be like Christ—learning to think, to feel, and to act [like] he does” (Ensign, Sept. 1974, 81)." We can become better disciples through applying Christ's attributes!

Well, I love you all. I'm getting really excited to see you all! Have a good week, and please keep  Maria in your prayers (our investigator who is getting baptized on Saturday!)

All my love,

Sister Beeson

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