Hey hey, fam!

Hope you had a good Halloween. Andy, your costume made me laugh... annoying orange? Talking orange? Can't remember... mission veil... Also Andy... thank you for your sweet letter and for fasting for me. That is the greatest thing you could do for me. I love you!

Honestly, not much of an update this week. I went on 2 exchanges... Exchanges are soooooooo exhausting. It was nice to spend time with different sisters. They each have their own talents, gifts, struggles and concerns. I am grateful for the way they make me grow.

 

We've been concerned about the unity between members and missionaries, and Heavenly Father knew just what he needed to do to fix that. Yesterday after church, we had a lesson with a convert in a member's home, and all of a sudden in the middle of the lesson I had a 'heart attack' that's what I'm calling them since I'd imagine that's how they feel. My heart felt like a spear was in it and it hurt really really bad. I tried to sit in different positions so the pain would release but it lasted for like a whole 5 minutes... After, I was just reeeeeeeeally tired and my chest was sore. My comp called up a few people and asked what we needed to do, and everyone of them said to just take it easy, rest a bit, take some ibuprophen and then get a blessing.

Well.... we asked a member if we could come over to get a blessing, and we walked in the door and guess who was there? Elder Christensen from the District.... hahahah... he is SUPER famous in my eyes. I felt so weird... He and the member gave me a blessing, and the members were really concerned and literally said we could call them up if I needed ANYTHING.

Then, someone else found about my weird pain and they offered to bring over soup and cookies and homemade rolls.

And then ANOTHER came over to bring more soup, more rolls and fruit... and these were people we honestly hardly knew! They have been texting us all morning too,  the Lord knows that service is the key to bringing people closer together.  I feel so grateful for them.  The members here are so amazing.  We really love and appreciate them. Don't worry pain is gone…weird.

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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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