Crazy Week

Hey Everyone!

This week was CRAZY!

So first off, We had some really good lessons with Caroline at the beginning of the week and she has a baptismal date for the 5th of June. She acts as if she is already a member and has offered to drive the 20 minutes to Tobercurry to pick up some potential investigators who want to come to church (but couldn't make it last week because they didn't have money for petrol)! So she is doing great!

I've been trying my best to be a better example to the members here in Sligo as well as the Investigators and strangers whom we meet. On Sunday we had an excellent opportunity to serve! Saturday night we got a call from the Branch President's wife telling us that he was sick and couldn't come to church let alone pick up the Campbell's from Bundoran. We also found out that 2 speakers were needed to speak, and 3 teachers were needed! So Sunday morning study was a mad scramble of assembling talks and lessons and making sure they were slightly coordinated to make the meetings flow well, but not too much so that we taught the same things we spoke about! I also called and coordinated for two people to go and pick up the campbells from bundoran (which was really good; otherwise, our investigators might have outnumbered the members!). We had Malcom, Stephen, Katrina, Caroline, and Patricia at church! They all participated and had a good time (especially in the Gospel Principles class). I got to teach the gospel Doctrine class but that was heaven sent because the lesson was on Gideon (in Judges 6 &7) and that is just about the coolest Bible story ever, with the best message for less actives. So I was able to teach it with only a half hour of preparation. Normally as missionaries we are trying to get our lessons shorter and shorter and more powerful within that short amount of time, but this time I had to expand it to fill 45 minutes! That was a true challenge :D

I love you all!

Elder Beacham