Life is hard sometimes, but with the Savior we can make it through, I know that!

Dear Family and Friends,

So a couple experiences from the week...

First of all, I got to see my favourite human being (Sister Sharp) TWICE in one week. This is a beautiful thing. She is amazing and I love her so much. Pictures to follow. Hallelujah for mission conference and zone meeting. 

We go visit this lovely lady named Morvia, who got baptised a LONG time ago, and was less active for quite a long time. She is hilarious. We write songs with her and sing them, and it makes her so happy. She found out I can play the guitar so next time we come I am going to play and sing for her, it'll be awesome :) we wrote a song about rain this week and then what happened? It rained every day. That's what we get I suppose haha. 

Also one day we were just walking our bikes trying to find our gypsy investigator (I will explain this later on) and we saw this lady who was kinda getting harassed by this man, so we went and rescued her and she is the NICEST lady ever. It was so cool cause we went up and just told the guy that we really really needed to talk to her, and he ended up going away (after offering us a box full of alcoholic chocolates). Her name is Marta, from Poland, and she has a beautiful little son and she wants us to come visit her again. Service, even if it's just rescuing someone from a creepy dude, brings miracles. 

Ok so the gypsy story. We are actually teaching a lot of gypsies (who are awesome! They love Jesus so much), but we have one in particular who really wants to get baptised named Rastislav. And he just lost his house a couple weeks ago and now his phone is off so we have zero ways to contact him. The only way we can....is by roaming around this certain road where all his gypsy cousins live and asking them if they know where he is. So a part of our day is designated to "find Rastislav" for an hour or so. We have met a lot of cool people from it as well. So hopefully we will find him soon! 

Another gypsy story. We are teaching this gypsy family from the Czech Republic, who are awesome! The daughter, who is 18, is especially awesome. Her name is Marketa and she loves her saviour so much. But one thing about gypsies is that they LOVE to feed you. And I happen to be allergic to gluten...so we went to visit, they kept bringing out loads of bread and I am like "me no bread. Bad bad" pointing at my stomach cause their English is not the best. They didn't really understand and just kept bringing out more food, and finally brought out this meat and gravy dish, with a load of bread sitting in the middle of the dish and everyone started eating and....so I ate. You may say "why did you eat it if you are allergic??" Well...at that point it would've been so rude and they couldn't understand why I wasn't eating anything. So I ate it. Yep. And we had a DA with a member right after, who fed us the most food I have EVER eaten in my entire life. Let's just say...my stomach was not happy with me, but we survived and now we just laugh about it. 

Last funny story for the week....we were walking our bikes home (bikes hate me, this is what I've decided. Every time I get on one something breaks), and we ran into this guy on the path and it was pitch black so we were panicked a bit in our hearts. And he started talking to us about God, and then he said "oh I have to go" and he walked across to the other side of the road but was still talking with us, so we basically ended up teaching this guy a lesson whilst yelling at eachother from opposite sides of the road haha. Good times in Peterborough. 

Also, on Monday was the conference with Elder Cook. OH MY GOODNESS. What an amazing experience. I had to play the organ as well, which was so cool because Sister Cook, randomly in the middle of her talk just had me come up and play and the mission sang a song and she added a random new part to it...and it was exciting. She is amazing. But I really really truly learned so much from the conference and felt the spirit so strong. One of my favorite things that he shared was 4 things that we really truly need to love as missionaries (although it can apply to any calling I think). Here are the 4 things and a couple of my thoughts...

1. Love the people. the people I have been called to serve are here in England right now. And I do truly love them. We can be called to serve lots of people, whether it be our family, friends, relief society sisters, young women, young men, ANYONE! Whoever it is, love them. 
2. Love your companion. Whether that be your eternal comp or your mission comp or just any person you happen to be lucky enough to live with. Love them. Even if it's hard sometimes. Just love them :) 
3. Love your mission President. Or we could say...bishop, stake president, anyone. Love your leaders, they are called of god and they truly care for you. I know that. 
4. And most importantly, love the Saviour. I love my Saviour so much. It always just amazes me how much he has done for each of us. Like...I am so imperfect. I make mistakes every single day. And even though I'm not even close to perfect, Christ suffered and died for me. Yes, he did it for everyone. But I fully believe he did it for me as an individual. He knows me and my individual struggles and trials and because he suffered and died for me, he knows how to help me through everything I go through. And I am so so so grateful for that. Life is hard sometimes. And without the saviour, it's even harder. But with him, we can make it through the hard times. It doesn't mean they will get taken away. But we can make it through, I know that. 

Life is good, the mission is awesome, and I am happy :) 

I love you all lots! 

~ Sister Emma Beazer ️🇬🇧🇨🇦

e-mail anytime:

emma.beazer@myldsmail.net

send real mail to:

Sister Emma Beazer

16 Lime Kiln Close

West Park

Peterborough

PE3 9TN

or the Mission Home Address:

Sister Emma Beazer

England Birmingham Mission

187 Penns Lane

Sutton Coldfield

West Midlands

United Kingdom

B76 1JU

I cut my companions hair!!

Back seat in the car selfie!

Travelling for days 

(feat elder Godfrey and elder Bowen, our mighty
district lord and son)

members

and lunch with the crew

When you miss your train but think it's coming...

and the STL's have to take you to zone meeting. #selfietime

When you have a sleepover to prepare for a conference....

A pic we took and a drawing that Sister Price did of the pic...
she is so talented....

A planner cover that a sister made for me. Yes, she painted it. 

And we are glowing :)

the biking life...

and singing for days!

Zone meeting :) oh happy days it's my daughter and I

MTC group reunited, 

and mother and daughter reunited

my beautiful mission posterity

What do you do when it's an elders birthday?  

Bake him a cake 

and heart attack the door.

Peterborough

Peterborough

Autumn is my favourite! 

Especially in a cemetery

Making POPCORN!!!  :)

I am so grateful for His perfect plan for me!

Dear Family and Friends,

Ok...where to even begin. So first of all, I am emailing today cause it is pday haha. Yes, pday on a Saturday. It's cause of the Apostle coming on Monday, so we won't have pday then. Not sure if we get another one next week or not...but hey! I would love to still hear from everyone on Monday cause I can read the emails during the week even if I don't get pday. And I want to know what's happening at home :) 

Second of all...TRANSFERS. So this is probably the craziest transfer of my entire mission. Like...ever. So I got a call that I would no longer be an STL (which I kinda was figuring anyways, so that was expected) and then we got dodge calls that night and learned we were BOTH leaving and the STL area was moving to Stamford. So Sister Nielsen and Sister Gillette are the STL's for Nottingham and Leicester in Stamford. Now...where did I go? I am in Peterborough, follow up training Sister McAravey, and so....I am in the same district as Sister Nielsen and Sister Gillette, AND Sister Dignos and Sister Koivisto. So I know everyone in my district and I've been on exchanges or been companions with all of them haha. So crazy! And I am in Leicester zone still....SOO crazy. Also a fun thing, my beloved daughter Sister Sharp is now in Demontfort, so she is in Leicester zone as well!! ALL my companions still in the mission are in my zone :) oh happy day!!! 

So since I last wrote (on Monday)......besides the craziness of transfers, we mostly just taught loads of lessons. OH and we went on exchange with the  Lincoln sisters and I went to Lincoln and taught a witch (yep. Witches are real) and it was crazy! And I touched a lot of horses in a field. And it was so good! 

Not a ton to say cause well...pday is random.  But yeah! Today we went for lunch with most of the district and it was fun. Pics to come :) I'll update you all as well on the elder cook conference when I can! We might have pday next week so PLEASE EMAIL ME. haha no emails for the week is so sad. I will respond when I have a pday. It could be the remainder of Monday, it could not happen....I'm not sure. 

But something that I think is so cool is how well God knows us. Like...He knows us perfectly. And I am so grateful to know I have a Heavenly Father who knows me and loves me. And I am so grateful for his perfect plan for me! It is amazing to me how things always work the way we need them to, even if it's not what we expected. God knows us. And that makes me so happy. 

LOVE YOU! 

~ Sister Emma Beazer ️🇬🇧🇨🇦

e-mail anytime:

emma.beazer@myldsmail.net

send real mail to:

Mission Home Address:

Sister Emma Beazer

England Birmingham Mission

187 Penns Lane

Sutton Coldfield

West Midlands

United Kingdom

B76 1JU

Our Canadian thanksgiving in Britain....
missionary style.....

New companion Sister McAravey!

most of the relief society district (minus 2 sisters)

Goodbyes

Goodbyes

Goodbyes

Goodbyes

Goodbyes

Goodbyes

Goodbyes

Goodbyes

Goodbyes

random diners on the road

Lincoln dragons

and creepy Nottingham statues

Lincoln and horses

No Thanksgiving in England - but thankful for my miracles!

Dear Family and Friends,

So my week! And some CRAZY news.

So first of all TRANSFERS ARE ON FRIDAY THIS WEEK. And we find out what is happening on Wednesday night. And we get an extra pday sometime this week (I am guessing Thursday right before transfers for packing and stuff). So if you want to email for then, feel free, if not, I'll hear from you the next week. AND Elder Quinton L. Cook is coming to the mission on Monday and we are having a mission conference. ANOTHER APOSTLE IS COMING! This will be the 3rd member of the Quorum of the 12 to come while I am on my mission. Wow. So I have no clue what is going to happen with pday next week. Please still email and I will respond when I get to :)

So next week, I will have heard from an apostle, I might be in a new area or have a new comp or both or something, and you will have heard from me an extra time :) CRAZY. 

Alright so wow....this week has been crazy! But amazing. Again, I'm probably just going to list a couple miracles from the week 'cause I don't have a ton of time, Sister Nielsen had to take a driving test today so that was fun and yeah! Anyways...this week. 

A couple cool things that happened, we had a multi zone conference with Leicester, as we are helping out with the poppy appeal this year so that was super fun! We got to see all the Sisters we work with, which was fun, and we are excited to help out with that more this year!! We also had MLC this week so it was a bit busy but I loved it, and I learned SO MUCH at MLC. I love that meeting :) We also had double exchanges which was SUPER crazy with all the meetings, but miracles happened as well and it was awesome. 

So miracle number 1/cool thing - We had dinner with a member in our ward named Hong, she is from China and she is awesome! She comes teaching with us all the time and just really helps us out all the time! She cooked us some traditional food from where she lives in China, because I told her I love spicy food and we don't have it much on our mission (British food is pretty bland). It was DELICIOUS, and as we were eating she told us it had pig tongue, fish ball, squid, fungus, and other delicious things haha. It really was good though. And the miracle is that she was able to make it completely gluten and dairy free :) YAY! 

Miracle #2 - exchanges with Sister Smith and Sister Selwa, who are in Derby. I was with Sister Smith who is a FANTASTIC missionary. She had been out for about a transfer now, but is SO good and loves to work and learn and improve. We saw miracles as we talked with everyone and just shared the gospel, we had a dinner with a family from America which was actually so nice, they are so missionary oriented (and I got to play their guitar and piano!!!!) and they were just so willing to do anything to help us. 

Miracle #3 - we had a surprise lesson with a friend named Delphin, who is from Africa. She wasn't home earlier in the week when we were supposed to have a lesson, so we just stopped by and let us in to teach her! We ended up sharing a lot about general conference and showed her the gospel library app which she LOVED, she said she will watch all the videos and listen to the scriptures, and we also shared some good gospel music with her. It was so cool to see how much she loved it all! 

Miracle #4 - THE RAI FAMILY! So there is this family from Nepal who have been taught by the missionaries for about a year. Never committed, haven't come to church, but they have been coming for the last 4 weeks, and I showed up to their lesson this weekend on exchange with Sister Olsen, we walked in, chit chatted for a minute, and then they dropped a bomb. The dad said, "Sisters, we have been meeting with missionaries for a long time, and we have decided we all want to get baptised and we have picked the day we want to do it, and we want your help to get us ready." WOW. We had been praying about how to help people prepare to get baptised, and this family is so prepared, and just...prepared themselves! So awesome. Faith brings miracles. 

Love you all!


~ Sister Emma Beazer ️🇬🇧🇨🇦

send real mail to:

Sister Emma Beazer
28 Pasteur House
City Heights
Ockbrooke Drive
Maperly
NOTTS NG3 6AX

or the Mission Home Address:

Sister Emma Beazer

England Birmingham Mission

187 Penns Lane

Sutton Coldfield

West Midlands

United Kingdom

B76 1JU

e-mail anytime:

emma.beazer@myldsmail.net

Dinner with Hong

exchanges with Sister Smith

and and my actual companion :)

We were too tired to move the beds
so we had our own sleepover. 

Exchanges with Notts 4

I told Sister Neilsen she was as good as
chocolate chip cookie dough and
she was so excited she took a picture!

We saw a fair! 

The goose fair!!

We were driving and saw a random castle.
Turns out it's in our area :)

I have never been happier than I am now!

Dear Family and Friends,

WOW! So I am just going to share a couple quick miracles from the week, cause...who doesn't love miracles?

Miracle #1 - Exchanges with the Peterborough sisters!! So this week we were doing a sister CHALLENGE week with all the sisters we work with, and we got to do some of the challenges while we were with the Peterborough sisters on exchange which was awesome. We prayed about being able to hand out a Book of Mormon in a different language, and took a Czech one out with us and lo and behold, we knocked on a door and a Czech family lived there! and accepted our copy of the Book of Mormon in their native tongue. So that was a miracle! I was with Sister Koivisto for the exchange, and she is fantastic! Just a few weeks out on the mission and already working hard and talking with everyone. So cool to see how prepared the greenies are for their missions - they just don't realize how great they are! So much faith and enthusiasm for the work. I love it'

Miracle #2 - We met a random guy outside the library while waiting for another guy to show up for our lesson (he never showed up) and we ended up teaching this man named Jay, who had met missionaries like 10 years ago! And he had never given them his number, but he still has a Book of Mormon and he gave us his number and we met with him again the next day! He is AWESOME! And has so many questions, and accepted baptism as soon as he knows that this is true. SO COOL.

Miracle #3 - we are teaching this amazing family who is SO PREPARED. There is the mom, and then 3 teenage kids (15, 13, and 11 years old) and then a baby who is just over 1 year old. We taught them the Plan of Salvation this week, and they accepted a baptismal date and are preparing for it and seem SO EXCITED. The oldest girl who is 15 was like "so if I come to church and love it, can I just get baptised like next week?" So awesome. They are so prepared and excited about the gospel :)

Miracle #4 and my thought for the week - GENERAL CONFERENCE! So remember how I sent out last week about preparing for conference? Well...this last week I worked really hard to really prepare myself for conference. And let me tell you...ALL MY QUESTIONS WERE ANSWERED! So crazy. Some weren't answered as specifically as I was expecting, but I know my next steps and what I need to do now, so that has been so cool! I love receiving answers to questions, and conference was so inspiring and amazing. One of my favourite talks was the one by Kazuhiko Yamashitu (I hope I spelled that right) and he talked about being ambitious for Christ. I loved the quote from his son "Though I am experiencing a lot of difficulties, I am truly happy." Because that is seriously how I feel every day. My mission is HARD. It is one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life. I have cried over people, watched people make mistakes that hurt them so badly, and just seen a lot of sadness and pain. But...I have also seen how the gospel truly blesses those who live it.  The gospel is what brings TRUE JOY to people. I have never been happier than I am now, as a missionary, and that is because I am truly living the gospel. And my whole purpose as a missionary is to bring that joy to people! Elder Nelson said in his talk, “That is why our missionaries leave their homes to preach His gospel. Their goal is not to increase the number of Church members,” said President Nelson. “Rather, our missionaries teach and baptize to bring joy to the people of the world.” And that truly is why I am out here. I want to bring joy to all those I teach and work with, because I have seen in my own life how much joy the gospel brings! It is amazing. This gospel is a gospel of happiness. "Adam fell, that men might be, and men are, that they might have joy!" This is so true. I hope each of you are feeling joy every day, and if not....my challenge to you is to pray, read from the scriptures, and follow the gospel. That is what truly will bring you happiness. I know it :)

I love you all lots!

~ Sister Emma Beazer ️🇬🇧🇨🇦

send real mail to:

Sister Emma Beazer
28 Pasteur House
City Heights
Ockbrooke Drive
Maperly
NOTTS NG3 6AX

or the Mission Home Address:

Sister Emma Beazer

England Birmingham Mission

187 Penns Lane

Sutton Coldfield

West Midlands

United Kingdom

B76 1JU

e-mail anytime:

emma.beazer@myldsmail.net

Believe!

Wollaton hall (batman's house)

Wallaton hall (batman's house)

Conference....just us....