Wow another week gone by! The days feel like weeks and the weeks feel like days.
Well I finished up my training this past week and I am super excited to get another 6 weeks with Elder Ogle and Hopefully another 3 months in this area.
Well here is how my week went!
Wednesday: Elder Strickland finally got his new companion so now we arent in a triple up anymore! His new companion is from American Samoa and is awesome! We dont have the car again so we had an appointment at one end of our area in the afternoon and another on the complete opposite side at night so we walked like 15 miles but the weather has been really good so it wasnt too bad. We met with brother Salamone again and again we had another great lesson with him and are making progress each week. He told us his life story and he has lived one of the craziest lives I have ever heard. It is really cool the types of people that I meet each day.
Thursday: We had a lesson with Doug and Jessica and everytime we meet with them it takes me by surprise just how much happier they look from even the week prior! Their friends have been noticing as well and have been asking them why they are so much happier now and they have been talking with their friends about the gospel and they are inviting them to come over and take the missionary lessons with them which is a dream come true as a missionary haha. But it is so cool to watch people change their lives and follow Christ and His teachings. I am so thankful for this experience.
Friday: We started teaching this super baptist lady named Phillis and we were challenged as a mission to invite everyone to be baptized the first time that you really sit down and teach them a lesson. So, Elder Ogle and I did just that and we ended up having a really powerful first lesson and we invited her to be baptized at the end and she accepted! We have another lesson with her later this coming week and we will see what happens from there. Another cool experience, so we had a lesson with Tim and at our last lesson with him we commited him to pray everyday and that he would be blessed because of it. So when we followed up on the commitment he shared with us how every time that he has prayed he gets this super peaceful feeling and he is happier during work and it has been really cool! He is super excited to be baptized. Again it builds my testimony everytime that i see an investigator keep commitments and they are blessed because of it.
Saturday: So we had a meeting with a Spanish investigator and they called us and said they wanted to have dinner with us which is unusual but super awesome! She had met with missionaries before but she was pregnant and had 2 jobs and her husband was working full time as well so they couldn't find a whole lot of time to meet. So now that everything has calmed down they are super excited to meet with us again and after dinner she shared with us how she has seen the love that her husband's family has for each other and the good values that they have and how she wants that for her young family as well and how she wants to be sealed in the temple with her husband and child! He hasn't come to church for a while because he only speaks spanish but she speaks really good english and wants to translate for him and she also shared how she wants her son to serve a mission. This is a huge step forward in moving the work forward with the spanish work in this area! And it is so cool to find someone who is so ready to hear the gospel! This week has been full of all kinds of miracles.
Sunday: We had another Spanish lesson with a member there which was really cool! We have had 3 lessons in Spanish and my spanish has really improved this week just from having some one there to help teach me more. This week has flown by but there has been so much that happened and so many miracles.
I know the church is true and that by living by its principles and teachings that we can find peace and joy. We can find that extra strength that we need to get through the really big challenges in life. Jesus knows exactly what we went through and wants to help us through our challenges but we have to let him. Alma 7:11-13 have come to mean a lot to me as I have been on my mission. I love this gospel. I love this mission. I love my companion. I love my family.
Love you all! Dios Bendiga.
Elder Frandsen
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