I LOVE TO SEE THE TEMPLE

I LOVE TO SEE THE TEMPLE

Monday, 19 September 2016

To serve as an instrument in His hands...

Dear Family and Friends,

So first a couple things about my companion - her name is Sister Nielsen, she is from UTAH (Orem area), she loves to run and we go running together, she wants to be healthy, hence the kale chip picture, and her favourite color is orange. She loves music and we play Ukelele and guitar together and sing. She loves tennis, we are seeing miracles together. OH! She was trained by my first every STL, Sister Ronspies, who I love to death so it is cool to serve with her daughter. And...yeah. Any other questions about her? We get along GREAT, have the same taste in music...and just love life!

My week summed up is this  - Meetings x 5, shaking hands with a 70, running in the rain, and the baptism of a lifetime.

So basically, this week we had 2 zone meetings, a district meeting with our mission president, an exchange and stake conference with a member of the 70 there (who we ran into as we were leaving and got to talk to for a few minutes! Nicest guy). It has been INSANE. I am going to share just a couple highlights, because there is SO MUCH I could say and not enough time to write it all. We are emailing a bit late because we spent the earlier part of pday with our district, and I FORGOT to take a picture so I will repent and do that for next week.

Highlight number 1 - so last week we did a TON of finding, and this week it SO paid off as we had lessons with some families that we found who are amazing. So prepared to hear the gospel, they both have family who are members and so know a bit about the church and want to know more and read and pray and come to church and be together as a family forever! WOW. Talk about golden. And we seriously just have met some of the nicest people of my whole mission the last few weeks. I swear, people in Nottingham are SO SO nice, even if its a bit of a dodgy place.

Highlight number 2 - zone meetings! WOW. The zone meetings in Leicester and Nottingham were FANTASTIC. It is cool to see how different the zones are when things change, and moving into a completely new zone has been really cool. Each zone has its own vibe, and so...yeah. I have also met a ton of missionaries that I have never ever seen before, which has been cool. The meetings also made me feel super old cause I go home before almost everyone else in both zones haha. AH. But it was fantastic to be able to really set some good goals with the zones we work with, and to see the faith that everyone has! Life is good.

Highlight number 3 - STAKE CONFERENCE! Wow. The stake conference was all about self reliance, which is cool cause I just had my self reliance meeting a few weeks ago, and..wow. I learned a lot from the conference about things I need to be better at to be not only temporally self reliant, but spiritually as well. The temple is going to be a big part of my life when I go home, that is for sure.

Last, but not least, Highlight number 4 - The baptism of the Sebastio girls. So I taught Chelsea and Esther Sebastio in Coventry for probably about 5 months, and put them on a baptismal date and then left a week before their date...but...President gave me permission to go back for it! WOW. So the rest of the family are members, but had not been active for a few years, and so we went by during the beginning of my time in Coventry and started teaching all of them! Gomez, the oldest brother, started bringing his siblings to church...and from there it just lead to a lot of miracles happening in this family. Gomez got the priesthood about a week ago, and this weekend was able to baptise his two sisters, Chelsea and Esther, and their father was able to participate in confirming them members of the church and giving them the gift of the holy ghost. I cant even explain the spirit that was there as this family became united as members in the church, and just seeing them all sitting together on the front row, all together in the church with the spirit so strong was AMAZING. I don't think there was a dry eye in the room for part of the service, because the spirit was just so strong I cant even explain. I am so grateful for the opportunity that God gave me to serve as an instrument in his hands to help this family come back and be united together. WOW. It was absolutely amazing. I love them so so so much.

So wow. That was basically my week! There are more things that happened, but...yeah! Sister Nielsen hit her year mark, we went running in the rain, and the trees are changing color! Life is good and I am so happy. My challenge for everyone this week is just to notice God's hand in your life, and when you notice it, write the experience down in a journal. You will begin to see his hand in your life daily and see the blessings you didn't even know you had. We are SO blessed. God loves us so much. He truly loves his children and places us where we need to be to learn and grow the most. I know that.

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

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Nottingham Zone Meeting!




Exchanges!




Sunset!!

Kale Chips!


Happiest Day of my life!




The year mark of Sister Neilsen!





More

Leicester 

zone

meeting


Look at the elder in the curtain...

hahahahaha!



Driving in the fog . . . . . . .











Monday, 12 September 2016

Trusting the Lord with our whole souls!

Dear Family and Friends!

Monday - we said some goodbyes, and had pday at the cathedral (I think I sent pics last week?) it was a fantastic last pday in Coventry :) and I finally packed everything.....

Tuesday - transfers!! We drove to the mission home, moved my stuff into the Notts Car, and off I went! We had a crazy day as we drove a bunch of greenies and their trainers home, and all their luggage and things as well! It was super busy and we didn't get back till just after 9, so it was a crazy first day!

Wednesday - we had district meeting! We got to meet our district, which was way fun. We have 2 sets of elders in our district..and....I now have a son! So basically, the district leader is training, and I am the oldest serving sister in the district so I am his mission mum haha. I now have a son and daughter - life is complete :) but it was really cool to get to know everyone a bit better, and to spend that time with them. Then we went out and taught some lessons, did some finding, and then travelled out to this tiny village for a DA. We cover a few tiny villages outside Nottingham (our area is pretty big) so that was a beautiful drive!

Thursday -  we weekly planned, which took ages but it was really effective as we set some goals for the transfer as well. Also...we have 8 sets of sisters we are now looking after, so we had to plan time for 8 exchanges in the next 5 weeks haha. SO BUSY! Then we visited a few investigators, did some more finding, and that was our day!

Friday - Sister Nielsen took her theory test and PASSED! Hallelujah. So now she will have to take her practical in a few weeks....she hits her year mark this week, so it'll be just me driving for a little while haha. We then had quite a few lessons, and met some cool new people that we are going to start teaching this next week, and....it was a solid day!

Saturday - we helped out with the COOLEST ward activity I have seen for a long time! It was a medieval activity, and people were wearing fancy dress and there were stocks and a castle and pony rides and decorations and it was so awesome! We were in charge of making princess hats, crowns, and jester hats for all the little kids. It was crazy but SO fun! And then we went finding and ran into a concert that was on outside, which was exciting haha. We were knocking doors with music playing and it was super fun.

Sunday - church! Wow. The ward here is fantastic, it's like a big family and everyone has connections to Canada, which is so cool :) lots of connections to Alberta as well, and so many people have served in the calgary mission! It's so cool. So we met a ton of people, and then traveled out to another tiny village to do some family history with the sweetest lady and her husband, and went finding some more....and...yeah!

This week has been just a testimony to me that faith brings miracles. We have met so many cool people just from having the faith to set high goals and then work hard to achieve them! I truly believe that faith works huge miracles in our lives, and in the lives of those around it as we do our best to increase it. There is a quote by John K. Carmack that says "increasing our faith required trusting the Lord with our whole souls." I know that in order for us to increase our faith, we have to trust in God and his promises to us, and then WORK. Nothing happens in missionary work unless you do actual work, and when you do that and trust in God, miracles happen.

I love you all lots!

~ Sister Emma Beazer ❤️🇬🇧🇨🇦

send real mail to:
Sister Emma Beazer
* still waiting for her new address in Nottingham!

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


Good-byes.....

....more good-byes...

....and more good-byes...
Meet my new companion - Sister Nielsen!


Ahhh... we meet again.

There is a Taco Bell in Nottingham!  OH HAPPY DAY!!

















































Medieval activity


























The view from our flat. 

Elders in our ward - familiar faces











































Sister Nielsen and Sister Beazer!


Companions in Nottingham :)





































The many views of Nottingham!






















The organ in this church in Nottingham! Wow!

























Running in the rain!!!


























The things that happen while finding........




Driving in England


Monday, 5 September 2016

It's the little things . . .

Dear Family and Friends,

So first of all...the big news. Transfers is tomorrow and.....I AM LEAVING. Goodbye Coventry and....HELLO NOTTINGHAM. Wow. It's pretty crazy, but I am way excited. And the other crazy thing is that the STL areas got changed a bit so Nottingham STLS now cover Leicester zone, so I still get to work with all the sisters there which is awesome :) I love them all so much so I am excited to be with them for another transfer. I am way sad to leave Coventry though....it's weird to think that I've been here 6 months already, time is flying way too fast.

I don't have a ton of time cause I spent a lot of the morning packing haha, and then we went out with the district to the cathedral for the last time. Im going to miss this district a LOT. Ah. But it's all good. 

This week has really been amazing, we have seen SO many miracles. We taught the most lessons I have taught in this area for awhile, we met a few amazing new people, and we have baptisms set up for all next transfer for people that I love to death. They will be lifelong friends and I am so excited for them :)

Sorry again about the short email, I really have like no time....but I'll end it with a little spiritual thought :)

This week I have learned a lot about following the answers and promptings God gives to you. A lot of times, he will tell us "speak to this person, write this personal an email/note/letter, smile at so and so" or just like...little random things to do, maybe talking to someone we haven't for a long time, or talking to someone new we just met, or doing a random act of service or something little. Most of the time, I tend to think that "well...this is just me and my thoughts. They probably don't need me to say anything" and I will just brush it off. But a lot of the time, those little thoughts or feelings are so important and can really help the people you may interact with. I've noticed that this week with being prompted to talk to people who aren't really interested in the gospel, but they are from Canada and now they know a little something new about the Mormons, or maybe they have never heard of God and now they have. Even if it's a little thing you do, it can change someone's life which I think is amazing. Sometimes, people just need to talk to someone, and maybe it'll be you
if you just follow those little promptings.

I love being a missionary, I love the people here so much, and I am excited for my new adventures in Nottingham!!!

Love you all :)
~ Sister Emma Beazer ❤️🇬🇧🇨🇦

send real mail to:
Sister Emma Beazer
waiting for her new address in Nottingham!

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


Travelling to Peterborough early in the morning. 

#leavingthemission 

#withpermission


Early early exchanges. 

Last district meeting.


Driving!

Posh house. 

























Exchanges.















Our mission leaders are.......


crazy!


crazy!!

crazy!!!


Christmas in Demontfort 


Our favorite zone lords ......

Domino's dodge night!!



















































































































































Last Pday in Coventry....




















Last day together in Coventry . . . .