What's New!

Well,
A lot has happened this week. We've been working hard and seeing some good results. We had the opportunity to teach a young family the first part of restoration. They felt the goodness of the message we shared and wanted us to come back the next week (we couldn’t come sooner because he's in the army and is away during the week). We also were able to visit some members and strengthen them. We have a hope that all will go well in our efforts.

The weather out here has been amazing! I've been tanning easily in the sun (as my envious sisters know I do) and it's actually really funny because the Sister missionaries here accused me of going tanning on P-Days because apparently I'm just getting that tan. I couldn't notice it until the other day when I looked at my hand. I realized that while I walk my cuff hung down on my hand a little bit and there was a tan line on the hand where it was! It's really funny :D.

We've been helping the President out here work on his house. He has been building it for a while and he needed our help putting up the second story plywood. It was really funny because Elder Dickerson and I are the only ones who did construction previously so it came easily to us but the others learned quickly :D.

It was really cool this weekend because we saw some tents in town on Rockwood Parade (it’s just a road here by the river) and they were all set up selling different things. It was Friday and we were in a hurry so we didn't have time to stop. So Saturday we hurriedly ate lunch in 10 minutes and then went down to spend the rest of our break looking at the different things set up. It turns out it's a French fair which comes into town every year. It was a lot of fun.

Sunday it rained :D. But the Sun came back out long enough to tempt us to leave our jackets and then it started pouring again. We took refuge in the church for 10 minutes while the darker clouds passed and then we went over to see an investigator we hadn't seen in a while. It was really good because we thought that he was interested but we just hadn't seen him in over 2 weeks and we weren't sure where he was at. But when we spoke to him, he told us that he knew that what we taught was good and true and he had wanted to come to the church the past 2 weeks, but hadn’t been because of the disapproval from his wife. This was really surprising because he seemed to just enjoy our visits with no visible progression, but obviously he was progressing!

We set up a time to do FHE with his whole family to make sure we include them all, and from now on we are going to try to teach them all together. We really can only see him once a week because of his work schedule so we're going to try to just always do FHE :D.

Anyway, that's a lot of what's new here. I am loving the mission. I am loving the Savior. I love you all. Take Care.

-Elder Beacham