Another Week Down!

Hola, Familia y Amigos,

     Here is how my week went,

Saturday: I have never been so excited for Saturday to be over so it can be Sunday! It is a weird feeling for sure because it was always I was sad when Saturday was over because it meant school was coming and it was the end of the weekend. I guess missions do that to you. A funny thing that happened was one of our district’s teacher pulled my companion aside and talked to him about obeying page 33 better. He is in love with one of the sister missionaries and it is really funny yet annoying at the same time but I think when the teacher said something he finally realized how distracted he was getting by it all. Oh well u guess we will see!

Sunday: I love Sundays here at the MTC! This Sunday was a little different because I had to go to district ad zone meeting because I am district leader so that took up half the morning but I still got an hour for personal study so that was good! Getting the leadership lessons is also a good experience. We had a great rest of the day and the devotional from brother dahlquist was really cool and he taught about his experiences from being a mission president and how we need to be spiritual anchors and vessels for others to build off of.

Monday: Just another day that started off the week full of long days with classes. I have notices that the dyas are starting to blur together here! We have a weekend hangover from speaking English on Sunday and we can always tell when on Monday our Spanish struggles more than usual. By the end of the day it has pretty much caught up though.

Tuesday: I knew that I would have at least one apostle come before I left this place and I was so excited when I found out Elder Oaks was coming!! It was awesome and such an amazing talk! He was asked to talk about teaching out of preach my gospel by the prophet and so that’s what he did. His wife first talked and talked about the story of Paul and how at first he was the vilest of sinners and was changed to the greatest of teachers and apostles of the lord. Brother oaks really explained what parts of preach my gospel meant and how we can have the spirit with us to teach. It was so awesome and I can already tell that by using what he talked about I can feel the spirit more in lessons!

Wednesday: 1 Month down!! It is crazy how fast the last 4 weeks have gone by!! The days seem long but the weeks seem short it is crazy but I am loving my time here. My district was picked to host this day and I was able to help pick up Jacob Ence and hosted Jonathan Hill! I also hosted another kid who is going to Cleveland as well! I am grateful for the experience to host it was awesome.

Thursday: I saw garret parry today! There are so many kids from school here now it is crazy but so awesome! I am glad to see how many of us want to serve the lord. Today was also the last lesson with our investigator Alan :( He is getting baptized in two weeks but then again he is just an actor so yeah but I am still grateful for the opportunity to teach him and all the lessons that we learned from it. I also had the most spiritual experience so far in our lesson with Hermano Croft Who is acting like one of the investigators from his mission. Ill just leave it at that. 

Friday: Today!! We receive our travel plans today!! Crazy huh?? I only have 10 more days left in this joint before I am in Cleveland! I am so excited to get out in the field and to start teaching people! P-Days are much needed and I am Grateful for the one day where we can rest and think about what we have learned during the week.

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Funny Story: During one of the lessons I meant to ask someone to pray but I accidently said Will you read before we start this lesson to invite the spirit. And then I just bowed my head and when there was no prayer being said 10 seconds later I looked up to see the investigator with the most confused look on her face and my companion just laughing to himself. We had a good laugh out of it. I also asked her to read the wrong scripture that lesson and she read about translating the books instead of how to feel the spirit so she was a bit confused again. It was a great lesson still and we could all feel the love even if my Spanish isn’t perfect.

I love it here and I love learning a language. Thanks everyone for being such great examples to me! 

You se a la iglesia es verdad. yo se el libro de mormon es verdad tambien. estoy aggradecido for la opurtunidad ser aqui ahora aprendiendo la cosas estoy aprendiendo sobre la iglesia y mi mismo. yo esperanza ustedes tienen un bueno semana :) 

Adios! Te Amo.

Elder Frandsen

Garret's mom sent me a couple more pictures of Garret and Lafe at the MTC.

Devin and Lafe at the MTC