Time Flies!

Hello! 

This week has flown by... Probably the fastest of my mission yet! 

Real quick, I forgot a little something in the address last week.

174 main street Painesville Ohio 44077 Apt #31

Well it is very very very very very very cold. I miss the dry cold of Utah! Being right next to the lake makes it so that it is humid, cold and windy all at once. We are walking 10 or so miles a day all over the town and so I have accepted the fact that I am just going to be cold for the rest of my life and that my fingers just won't have any feeling in them for the next 5 months or so. But that is okay because even though it is very cold I love every minute of it! Although I am a little scared because it has started to snow and elder strict land, who is from Arizona, has never driven in the snow before and he is already scary enough to be in the same car when he is driving in normal weather... I think I might just start walking the long walks to the meetings where we use the car. 

Well here is some highlight from the week!

We met with Tim again this week and made some real progress! He is praying about when he wants to be baptized. He isn’t sure yet because his mom is having surgery here soon and he is going to be helping her out pretty much full time. 

Painesville every Christmas puts up a bunch of lights in the town park right next to our apartment for Christmas so there are people walking around outside in the town at night now! Plus it is really cool and it makes the town seem a little less sad because everyone here seems so sad but this lightens up the mood.

We had an awesome lesson with Doug and Jessica this week! So they are still making the decision about marriage and we gave Jessica a blessing last week to have the strength to overcome her addiction of smoking and in the past week she has already cut down her usage almost by half!! She also shared with us how this is the happiest and most peaceful she has ever felt in her life and how reading the Book of Mormon and praying every day has helped so much and how thankful they both were for having found the church. It is so cool to see these changes take place in these people that we teach and watch them become happier and happier each week :)

So we taught a few more Spanish people this week and during one of them The guy and I were speaking in Spanish for the first five minutes and then we switched to English for a couple and then all of a sudden were just switching back and forth a lot and I would answer his question that he asked in English in Spanish and he would answer mine in Spanish when I would ask it in English Hahira I really surprised myself because I had always had a hard time just switching back and forth so it was really cool being able to do that. 

These past 3 weeks we have taught almost 90 lessons and we are walking all day and I have never been so tired in my life!! But I love it so I know that I will miss being tired like this after my mission so I might as well make the most of it. I am grateful for the Opportunity to be serving in this area and I am grateful for the opportunity to be serving in an area where there is so much church history. 

I am very thankful for my family and for their amazing examples. I am Thankful for the Gospel. I am thankful for The Book of Mormon. I am Thankful For the Atonement. I am thankful for a companion who puts up with my weirdness. Aaaand I am thankful for all of you :)

Love you all!! 

-Elder Frandsen