He has really enjoyed getting out and moving around a lot more. He said he's done more member visits this past week than he has done the rest of the time combined. It's nice that he was able to stay in the same area and get to know the members better, introduce them to Elder Phelan. 
The best part of this week happened on Wednesday. We were able to do a session in the temple! It was soo cool. We got to go with our district and it was great to be able to spend some te with them. I was able to feel the spirit very strongly while I was in the temple. (Brayden did mention on our call that while they were at the temple he ran into Elder Mecham who was there doing baptisms.)
So far I am loving my district, I feel a way stronger connection between all of us then last transfer, so whenever we see each other it is like a party (a righteous one... obviously).
Emoji for the day: 🍌 
This is the introduction given to his new companion in his letter this week:
"I have a new companion, his name is Elder Phelan. He is pretty cool. He is 5'6 and had red curly hair, he makes me look tall, it is great. I'll attach a picture of the both of us below." Chatting with him we learned that he is also the district leader and this is his first time training, he's from Arizona and Mandarin speaking (so cool).
He goes on to say:
Last week we did so much missionary work, it was amazing. We were able to teach a lesson to someone that was referred to us, she is great. At the end of teaching the lesson, we invited her to pray to know the truth of our message and she was like, "I don't even need to pray. I already known that what you have said is true." We were both like "WHAAAATTTT!? That's Awesome!! Hopefully we will be able to have another appointment with her later tonight or tomorrow. I think that she has the potential to be baptized!
One of the member visits that we had was with a guy who was from Japan, he gave us some bananas as a snack when we were leaving, it was epic.
Slang word of the day: eshay: wanna be gangsters
Until next time
It's been nice to be able to chat with Elder Beattie each week and hear about his life. We get to hear a little bit more details about what he shares in his letters. This week we learned that the one lady he mentioned in his letter that was referred for a discussion referred herself. Her son had been invited to play basketball at the church so while he was playing she went to the church site and did some research. From there she was curious and wanted to know more. She grew up as Hindu so has a faith background, which is great, but never felt like it was totally right. Hopefully she is willing to hear more and also willing to give these Elders a chance to bear their testimony's and she'll feel the truth through them.
One hilarious story that he shared with us that didn't make the letter was at one of the houses they went knocking they got barked at. Not by a dog.... by a guy. He really didn't want to hear what the Elders had to say so he started barking at them from the door to scare them away. I think he's just happy to be going out and doing some work that he'll happily take a guy barking at them. Haha. I'm glad to hear he's having all the experiences (good, bad, funny) and able to apply the things he's been learning. Sounds like Elder Phelan is a great trainer, keeping him busy and giving him exposure to the work.
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