Tuesday, November 3, 2015

"Juan" more week in the books.



An investigator sent this picture with the message, 
"Fabulous Elder. Mighty Men of God."  I am sure the Sisters are wonderful too!

Hi Everyone,


Quick story about Juan... I met Juan last night in a street contact and we got to talking Spanish and it was going great and he seemed like a golden investigator... until I asked him where he lived and when we could meet with him again then that is when he told me that he just happened to be moving to Mexico the next day and has no clue when he will be back :( the sad life of being a Spanish speaking missionary in the states... That is the 4th time that has happened... planting seeds is better than nothing at all, right? 

Also, another quick little funny story or two!

Joseph Smith was arrested in Painesville about 20 yards from our apartment 8 times in one day! So if I get arrested some time soon I guess that I am in good company! 

The other day we were knocking on some doors at a big apartment complex and this lady was walking by when I was talking to this guy and turned her head and blew her smoke out right as I was breathing in. I then proceeded to cough for a few minutes and I have never been so light headed in my life... The life of a missionary! My companion and I had a good laugh afterwards because there isn’t a whole lot we can do about that one. 


Last Tuesday: Some people came and dropped off the beds for the two new elders who were coming in but we still had no clue what was going on so that was fun! But the sad story from the day is that we had talked to stabbing about giving his mom a blessing because she wasn’t doing well that night and he texted us at 5:30 saying that we should come by around ten because she is getting worse and then he texted us 10 minutes later telling us that she had passed away :( It was the saddest text I have ever received. Something cool though is that two days prior we had taught him the plan of salvation and how we can see our families again after this life and I hope that message was and is able to bring him peace through out this tough time. I hope we can continue to help him.

Wednesday: Two transfers down already!! We met the two new guys, Elder Fairbanks and Strictland, and finally found out how the area was going to be split... So we are now the Painesville and Painesville township Spanish biking elders so yes we do not have a car anymore and winter is upon us... this will be fun :) But yeah the new guys have a huge area and are pretty much starting from scratch because most of the people we had are still in our area. But I know that they will do great! We also started a random puzzle that we now work on every night for ten minutes and will hopefully have it finished by next transfers but you got to do what you got to do to keep entertained at night. 

Thursday: Let the walking begin... Luckily I had just bought my jacket the day before because now that we don’t have a car we are walking! We walked a total of 10 miles or so in just a couple hours but we were rewarded for our efforts! We have decided that we are going to finish knocking all of the apartment complexes in our area so we walked to one and knocked on probably 20 doors and ended up teaching 8 lessons total placing 4 BOMs and have 6 return appointments set for this week and that wasn’t’ even half of the apartments at this place. After that we were supposed to meet with Doug and Jessica but Doug is sick so we went out with one of the members in our ward to a couple of people he thought we could talk to and we ended up going to the wrong house but it worked out because we ended up teaching the guy the first lesson at his door step and the member from the ward gave him a BOM with his number in it. 

Friday: Halloween Eve! We forgot to grab our helmets from the other elders before they left so that messed up our plans a bit but we found a ride and ended up doing a couple hours of service for this Lady in the ward who is sick. I actually learned something useful from my job I had this summer! Her lawn mower was running and I remembered how to fix and change the spark plug from this summer and it ended up being just what we needed so yeah that was fun! Also her yard needed some work done in other ways and when we finished she was so happy to be able to see parts of her lawn that she hadn’t seen in years that she almost started crying. It was really fun being able to help her and see her that happy afterwards :)

Saturday Halloween: well the reality of being a missionary is that Halloween really is not much different than any other day of the year... BUUUUT we made the most of it before it got dark and all the little kids started mobbing the apartment complex we wanted to knock. First we had an awesome lesson with Tim and He told us he is going to be baptized but he just hasn’t decided on what date yet so technically we cant count him yet but it was still such a awesome thing to hear!! We reviewed what we had taught him before to make sure that he really understood and were able to answer his questions and concerns that he had. He is a really great guy. Other than that not a whole lot happened other than the many different smells that I encountered during the day as we knocked different doors... 

Sunday: Another miracle happened! First, One of the less actives we have been working with that told us how he doesn’t know if he believes Thomas Monson is a prophet and told us that he would never bare his testimony in front of people but he found his answer to the first and bore his testimony second and it was so cool! During his testimony when he said that he had found out for himself that Thomas Monson is a prophet of God and that we should follow him, Elder Ogle and I both were so surprised that we almost jumped in our seats but we felt like 2 kids at a candy shop! Secondly, we met with the bishop for the first time and sat down and had a really great talk and established that we were here to help him build up the ward and want to do whatever we can to help take the burden and load off of his shoulders and he was so surprised and happy it was really cool! He then opened up to us about what we could do to help him this week and how we can prepare some people to get to the temple. I am so thankful that we could finally establish a good relationship there and hopefully that will help with the process of having more members open up to us and refer us to their friends.


Well it was a good week! We have already walked about 35 miles or so in the last three days! Also if anyone has any tips for getting rid of smelly feet then please let me know because Elder Strictlands feet are very ripe smelling ha-ha and we have all been trying to figure out how to fix the problem Ha-ha. 

Oh also we found out last night that Elder Ogle and I are leading the zone in lessons and investigators!! This really surprised me because I thought we were in the middle and that we can work a lot harder which we can. But I hope that the rest of the zone does pass us because that means that everyone is seeing success and more people are hearing the gospel. 


Love ya all! 

Elder Frandsen



The Bigs Crouch


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