Not in Williamsport - post from 03/13/2017

So.... this week was interesting. On Thursday night we got a call from

President Johnson. I figured he was calling to congratulate me for

being out a year or something. But that was far from the reason he

called. He told us that an elder had to go home because of an injury

and that I was going to replace him. That was Thursday night! Friday I

packed up and said goodbye to a couple people. Saturday I loaded the

car and headed off to my new area.  Williamsport disappeared just like

that. That quick that easy. So I am now in Lewisberg! It's so nice

here I love it! I also have a sweet companion too. His name is Elder

Ramos. He has been out for 23 months.... so he's going home after this

transfer. Everyone in the mission knows elder Ramos because he is such

a great missionary. It's been fun.

It was hard when I first heard. I was thinking, "are you serious. Why

right now? Why?" And such things. But I will go and do the things the

Lord commands. It's about Him and His work. Not me.

I honestly don't remember too much from Williamsport this week. But I

do remember what happened on Lewisberg! I love this area! It's similar

to somerset. Lots of land. I'm glad to get out of the city.... the

city life isn't for me... that's for sure!! Something cool is that

elder Ramos also served in Somerset. So we got the somerset boys

rolling around in Lewisberg.

So the first day I got here we went to try to see this person but she

wasn't home. But her daughters fiancé was and we talked to him and

shared the restoration with him. He asked about if the Book of Mormon

can help him and his love life and faith and a couple other things. We

said... "um duhhhh." Just kidding we didn't say that but it's really

cool how the Book of Mormon can truly help with anything in life. We

invited him to be baptized and he accepted on our first lesson. While

we had that lesson the spirit was super strong. It's cool because

elder Ramos and I have never taught together before, that was our

first time, and the lesson just flowed so perfectly.

We have taught the restoration two other times and each time the

lessons were just powerful!

There is a man that is not a member that is dating someone in the ward

so we had lunch and a lesson yesterday. That man is so prepared! He

accepted a baptismal date and he is so awesome. He was so into it and

he was really into the things we invited him to do.

The other lesson was with this kid that hasn't been coming but wants

to come back and his girlfriend. He is a genuine kid and is awesome!

His girlfriend isn't a member and has a rough life but wants to learn

about the church. She doesn't have too much of a knowledge about who

Christ or Heavenly Father are. So we are excited to help her come to

know who they are and what their plan is for us and just everything.

It's going to be great. She accepted a baptismal date.

And in these two lessons we had yesterday we had this kid named Edwin

come with us. He a couple years younger than I and he just got

baptized a couple weeks ago. He is so cool though! His testimony is

awesome and really helped the people!

Lots of good happening here. I love my companion. I love this area. I

love the members... oh yea. Haha we did service on Saturday and it was

like 0 degrees, seriously. It was so cold! My hands froze and some

members game me their gloves because they were freaking out that my

hands were red. Haha so I put them on and my hands started to hurt so

bad! Aw, it hurt. I was freaking out because it hurt so bad. I was

like pacing and haha man. I thought I was going to die. But I didn't

want the members to think I am a sissy so I acted like I was fine.

Haha. I survived luckily.

But yeah. I love it here! I'm so happy! I love this work! It's great!

Going to miss Williamsport and the people Therein but it's great here

in Lewisberg!

Love yinz.

Transfers - from 3/6/2017

This week I got my new companion. His name is Elder Wood. He is pretty

sweet. He is a big time crazy. He wrestled and rode bulls and all

these crazy things. But he is an amazing missionary. While we are out

and we get rejected, I tend to just say ok and walk away, but he keeps

talking to them and finds a way to spark interest to the person. He

would be a great salesman;) haha. It's awesome.

One time that happened and we were saying goodbye and she said, "you

look like a movie star. You got a big smile. You look like a famous

person, like Jim carry.... yea Jim carry." Haha I don't know where

everyone gets Jim carry from. Then my comp told her that I looked like

the guy from Horton hears a who. She laughed and agreed.

We cleaned out nasty apartment this week. We had 8 missionaries,

including the samuelsons (elderly couple), all at our apartment

cleaning! It took all day but it is a lot better now!

So something cool happened while we were out walking. A lady across

the intersection waved us down and the first the she says is, "I'm

from Utah!" She then told us about how her daughter just had major

health problems like heart attacks and strokes and hardly survived.

She asked if we could give a blessing so we gave her our number and

she called us thirty minutes and said her daughter wanted the

blessing. So we ran over there and her husband anointed and they asked

me to give the blessing because I am the senior companion. So as I

gave her a blessing I blessed her with a knowledge of what she can do

to heal physically and spiritually. She was a less active so that was

cool. After the blessing I was a little emotional because she was in

such bad shape and I just got home and went to the room and prayed and

asked God to help me know if she is going to be ok. The next day my

companion woke up and told me he had a dream that she was healed. So I

took that as my answer from God working through elder wood.

A lady we go and help out with every night told me I was special. We

go to her home and help her move her husband from the couch to bed and

lean him on his side while she cleans him. I am emotional every time I

leave that home. I just feel so much love for him. He isn't all there

because of a tumor but he makes jokes every once in a while. He was

trying to read my name and he said "Beamer" was my name and I said

"close! It's segon!" And he says.... "oh that's a bunch of sh%*." Haha

it was so funny. We all laughed! But the lady asked why we

missionaries do what we do. Why we help. Why we care. And I told her

about how I get emotional when we do this because I feel charity. And

I explained that charity is the pure love of Christ. Told her that we

feel it ourselves and for others and we want to share it. Then later

my comp had me share ,y testimony and I shared my conversion and my

testimony and she just looked at me and pointed and said,

".......you're special.....You're special." And I can't just explain

the way she said it. She said it in a way that she saw That meant a

lot because I often think the opposite. I really needed to hear it at

that time. It was god working through her for sure.

A lot of my companions and President Johnson tell me that I'm too hard

on myself.  I don't feel that I am. I kind of see that as a good

thing. I went from being careless about improvement and was

comfortable where I was but now I stress about improvement and stuff.

So something I need to work on is finding that happy medium of strict

and relaxed to myself. I love a quote about Brigham young that I

really need to start applying, "if you have a bad thought about

yourself tell it to go to hell, because that's exactly where it came

from."

I love the Book of Mormon. I love this work. It is true. It is truly

true. It's beautiful. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Elder Arnold from the seventy. He gave a great talk in general

conference last year and he spoke amazingly in the stake conference!!