Elder Payden C. Beus on the Indianola Pier 2/1811

Elder Payden C. Beus and Elder Yost

From Elder Thorntons mom

This is an E-mail from another missionary mom. She mentions Elder Beus on the LDS missioary mom website.

Hi Ladies,

Heard from my son last night. He is back in Silverdale and his new comps are
Elders Isham, Ferris, and Davis. He is also excited that Elder Beus, his MTC
Comp, is in his zone now. They haven't been in the same zone since they left
the MTC, so he is excited to catch up. They became good friends while in the
MTC.

Are any of the moms of these young men on this list?

Blessings,

Sheri Thornton
mm to Elder Joseph Thornton
WA-TAC mission, 7/09 - 7/11

From the Gunnell's

We had a great time at dinner with your sons. They have been working hard, they were tracting right up until dinner time!

Love-
The Gunnell Family

Good things

The last few weeks I have received news from people who are in the Tacoma Washington mission. This is a copy of an E-Mail form Adele Stokes -Kingston, Washington


> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm a member of the Kingston Ward where your son is serving and I
> just wanted
> to send you a quick note and tell how much we enjoy having him in our
> ward. He
> has been to my home only a couple of times , he is always respectful
> and kind. He has a genuine testimony and a love for the gospel and
> family. I know he will
> be successful in his life.
> >
> >I have a son serving a mission and he will be released on August 3rd
> also, so I
> am looking forward to seeing him again. It is a big sacrifice let them go but
> when they come home it is all worth it.
> >
> >Hope all is well with you and your family.
> >
> >with love,
> >Adele Stokes
>
I Had responded to her E Mail with info about our family. She replied again with nice things to say about Payden, then she told me about her family.

Dear Julie,

It is great to hear from you and I am happy to say that Elder Beus
looks great. On Sunday they brought a man to church for the second
week so that is good. He always looks like he is sincerely concerned
about others. He is one of God's best.
Just thought I could share that

Christams Eve pictures 2010

Payden called about 10:30 on Christmas day. We all got to talk to him. He sounds good. He had dinner at the Gunnels home for Christmas eve - they have a son on a mission in Texas.She took these pictures and emailed them to me. Then on Christmas day they went to their ward mission leaders house and spent the day with them. This is a part of what he wrote in his email on Monday
Hey guys! It was great to talk to you too. I was really excited. It sounds like you guys are doing great. We just hung out at the Whittles and we went on a hay ride and caroling. It was really fun. They took us down to this historic light house on the beach and we played around there for a few minutes. It is so pretty here. That was neat to hear Boomer and the girls on the phone. That is so wild they are all having babies the same month. That is going to be weird to come home to four new babies. Well not a whole lot is new. We are going to go tour a battle ship today with the zone. I am way excited. Well it was great talking to you. I can't wait for mothers day! I love you guys!!

Hey Beus Bunch! How are you? Things are great here. We just had our mission Christmas party. It was a lot of fun. Thank you so much for the packages. I am excited to open them. We had some good food and sang some carols and had a pretty awesome testimony meeting. It was very spiritual. I was asked to speak in sacrament meeting. That went really well. My topic was on the Savior. Lucky for me I have been on a big phase of studying the atonement and His miracles so it was pretty easy and fun to prepare. I just talked about how I came to know Him as my Savior from reading the Book of Mormon. Read Messiah 14 and that is where I shared that chapter with them and bore my testimony. I am really grateful for all that He did for me and for the atonement. It has really blessed me and helped me to be where I am today. Just turning around from where I was three or four years ago and seeing the effects or the atonement is just amazing. Oh and seeing it’s influence in our investigators lives is even more amazing. I just love seeing their whole countenance change because of it. My studies are really helping me to come closer to him. Mission life is the life. Are you guys still reading every morning? I hope so. You know how much it helps. How is the ward? How is the Sunday school dad? Not much else is new. I don't know what time I will call on Christmas. I’ll try for 9 my time so it will be 10 your time. But I will let you know next Monday for sure. We are going to our ward mission leaders and hanging with them all day. It will be fun. They are a great family. Well I hope you have a great holiday. Remember what Christmas is for. Jesus Christ. I love all of you! The church is true the book is blue! Merry Christmas

hey guys! I'm so sorry its taken me so long to email. I I explained it in my letter I sent today. So I did get transferred. I am in Kingston. It is in the Silverdale zone which is where I was trained. So on Monday night we were caught in that big storm that hit you. It was horrible. Kingston is like an hour and a half away from the transfer building in Tacoma and it took 5 hours to drive to at least Bremerton where we stayed the night. I explained it all in the letter. but the roads are still iced over and we can't really drive anywhere because there are a lot of really big hills around here and we just have a Corrolla and can't handle it. So we have been stuck at our apartment for the past two days. But we are at a members house emailing. She took this picture of us. My companion is elder Bartlett. I didn't want the hat but she forced me. Kinda funny. So my watch broke because the little knob on the side snagged on something and came out. But I got it replaced with that warranty. I have enough warm clothes for now. I have a scarf, hat, gloves and that gray sweater form last year. We are going to our ward mission leaders house for Thanksgiving - Brother Wittles. He was just called a few weeks ago and he is great. So i think I'll get Calie's present and you can get Daniels. It sounds like McKell is having fun. How many dates have you been on with Alan. He better watch out! just kidding. I'll write you a letter next week mick. that stinks about the football team though. Oh my address is P.O. box 716 Kingston, Wa 98346. well I need to get going. I hope things are well with you guys. I love you!

Elder Beus and Elder Owens 7/10 Winlock

6/27/10 Phil Pistey's baptism -

far left is Bro Ikerd, far right is Bro Gilman - Phils main fellowship. Elder Owens, Phil, Elder Beus in center. Zone Centrailia - Area Winlock

We foud a guy who owns a camel. The camel's name is "BEN" 6/10

Elder Beus and Elder Owens 6/10 Winlock, Wa

Mt Rainier 5/24/10 Zone: Grham, Area: Firgrove

Bits and pieces of an email sent on 6/07/10

Well hey i got good news for you. I got transferred finally! I am now in a town called Winlock. Its in the Centralia zone. I love it here already. It is like in the middle of no where. Everything is way spread out and its a ghetto place. Those are good areas because people are humble. My are is huge too. I think it takes like forty minutes to drive from top to bottom. So yeah I am in a car now. My comp is Elder Owens. I came out a transfer after him and he is the district leader. I really like him. We just hit it off and get along great. So my address is 796 Byham Rd. Winlock, Wa 98596. We live in a house by ourselves. It is pretty nice to be on our own. I am way excited to be here. We have a few people we are working with too. Owens said that I must have done something right because I came just at the right time to get stuff done. So it should be a great transfer.


this is part of a letter that Payden had sent on 6/14/10

Hey whats up family? So this has been a pretty good week. A lot has happened. I am still trying to get used to the area and stuff but I am loving it. Our area is huge. It is a lot nicer than dinky Firgrove ha ha. I just talked to one of the sisters that took over it and she said that things are going well there though. Anyways so my companion is Elder Owens. He is from Salt Lake. He lives by the U. he is really a great guy. He is really obedient and loves to work hard. We get along great. We try to serve each other and we try to build comp unity and stuff. We do have at least seven investigators right now. We don't really have any of them on date yet unfortunately. One of them came to church yesterday. His name is Phil and he seems really solid. he is just praying about baptism and we are going to put him on date for the 27th this week. We found two new investigators on Thursday, this lady Cindy and her grand daughter justice. They are going through a really rough time and are really interested. I'll tell you more about them in the letter

Every month we get together with Craig's family for FHE and to celebrate the birthdays for that month. Every one gives $1.00 to the birthday people. We put Payden's in his birthday package and this is a picture of him holding up his cash. Love that smile!!!

MOYHERS DAY MAY 9th 2010

Wow - I looked so forward to mothers day . I could hardly wait for the day to get here. Payden called right when he said he would - at 7:30 P.M. And just for the record - I only got a tiny bit teary eyed at first but I did NOT cry. I did better than I thought I would. Payden sounded so good, so happy, and so positive. He loves his area and he really likes his companion. He said he also likes all of the Elders in his zone. They get together on P-Days and play volley ball.Payden talked about May 6Th. They went to the Seattle temple for the yearly temple trip. Half of the mission went on one day and the other went the next day. He said that they were all in the chapel and the President of the temple and the mission President both spoke to the the missionaries. He said it was so good. The mission President asked all of the missionaries to bring two questions to the temple with them and to fast and pray about them before hand. One question was personal and the other was something to do with their area or about the mission. Payden said that both of his questions were answered that day. He loved that day. He talked to me first, McKell, Tammy, Matt, Calie Jo, Craig and then me again. It was so good to just hear his voice and the enthusiasm about missionary work. He said that time is going by fast for him. He just wants to concentrate on his mission. He sounds the same in some ways and kinda like a different kid in other ways. I was very happy to hear him and to know that he is happy and doing so well. This has been such a blessing in our lives - for all of us. We love and appreciate him. He has a good heart. He said that he and his companion are working hard and that they are diligent and practicing faith. Only 7 more months until Christmas and I can talk to him again!!!!!!!!!!

4/26/10

HEY FAM!!!! guess what! I am staying in Firgrove!! Crazy huh? I am really excited. And Sanders is staying too. We are just starting to get really close so I'm glad he is. Only four missionaries are leaving the zone out of 16 of us. Crazy. I am excited though. I love the missionaries in this zone. We are all super close. So I have something I need to tell you. Now don't get mad though ha ha. Our bikes got stolen on Friday night. We LOCKED them up to go finding and when we came back they were gone. Someone cut the chain. But don't worry we are taken care of. This guy let us borrow some bikes. Then I have insurance on mine so I just need to call CTR bikes and they will send me another one. And this other guy in the ward offered to buy at least one of us a bike. So it will be okay. So the ward is trying to help more to find us a place to live. They are announcing it in church. So on mothers day I guess I will call around 7:30. So be ready! Well I need to get going. Thanks for everything I love you guys tons!!

4/19/10

Dear family,
Hey guys how are you? Things are going good her. Not much has been going on. We are just trying to stay busy. The problem is that we are not getting referrals from members. Do you remember Elder Connolly from the MTC? He is in the zone next to us and we share the same church building so I see him allot. Any way, his ward is so excited about the work they are having baptisms right and left because they get so many referrals. So we have been working hard to find people ourselves. I have retracted our area almost three times now because it is so small. The perimeter of it is 1.3 miles by 2.3 miles. So funny story. Sunday night I got a flat after our last appointment. On the walk home we found a frog and caught it and took it home. We only kept it for 24 hours though. . We let it go the next night. We named it Roadkill. What time do you have church? I need to know so I can call when you are home for mothers day. So on May 5Th we are taking our once a year temple trip . I am pretty excited. The Seattle temple is really pretty. I hear the Vancouver temple is pretty small. Families from our ward have gone. This week we are doing a zone shift. That's when one companion goes to another area in the zone and the other stays. So we just get switched around. I am going to Eaton ville which is at the bottom of our zone. I am pretty excited because I'll be with one of my favorite missionaries. Elder Cook. Well I need to get going. Everything is fine here. I have plenty of money and my gear is holding up. I don't really need anything. Thanks for all you do! I love you guys! Love Elder Beus