Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Sleeping through the Restoration

Hey Folks,

     Where does a sister missionary go after she finishes her mission to get a little break?  To the RELIEF society...

I know, I am funny you dont have to tell me... (if you don’t get it or do not know what the Relief Society is you can contact your local missionaries for further assistance.)

     Anyway, This week didn’t quite go as we had hoped and thought that it would. So I'll start out with the story of why Ron’s baptism got canceled. 

    We went on exchanges on Thursday so the district leader could be here to do Ron”s baptismal interview, but about halfway through the day Ron calls us and says, "having some chest pains can’t meet today" or something along those lines, kind of inferring that he thought he was having a heart attack and then hung up. So Elder Durrant calls him later to make sure he is okay and told him that he and Elder Edwards would stop by in the morning to do the interview and give him a blessing (he was doing fine at this point) and Ron told them to call and come around 9:30-10:00. The next morning rolls around and they do just that and there is no answer the couple times they called and even stopped by on the way to exchange back and still nothing. Well later in the afternoon Ron calls us when I have the phone and I wasn’t really aware of what had transpired. So he starts out by yelling at us and saying something about waking him up or what not and didn’t give me a chance to say anything before he told us he was done and then hung up... it was right after that when the spirit kind of just confirmed what I had thought before that he wasn’t ready, especially if sleeping is more important than making a covenant with Heavenly Father.  So we called off the baptism after two weeks of planning and hard work to get a pool and what not all set up for him. Even though it was disappointing there was a silver lining, I didn’t have to worry anymore about accidentally dropping a 500+ pound man in the water and not being able to get him back up and out of the water... I may have had a nightmare or two of messing up a couple nights before. It was all just an altogether interesting situation.

     But there is good news from the week! We started the discussions with Sonja over at the Bishops house and even though the lesson may have gone a bit longer than planned (adults always like to talk) it was still really awesome. She came prepared with tons of great questions and basically could have taught us the plan of salvation because of how much she had studied it. It’s always a missionaries dream to have an investigator come prepared to a lesson having kept the previous commitment and with lots of questions, more often than not though, that isn’t the case. But with Sonja it goes to show that we get out of things what we put into them... The more effort we give the better it is. Sonja came to church again this week and again it was really great. We also have a baptismal date set for around the beginning/middle of October. It is one of the most rewarding things about being a missionary watching as people begin to find their own relationship with god and growing their faith in Jesus Christ as their own personal Savior. 

One other little story from the week. I got to go on exchanges with Elder Clawson who is a greenie of about a month or so and it was fun too watch him take charge of his area for the first time and go through a lot of the same challenges that I went through just one year ago. It is crazy how fast that time goes by and how much we each grow in that short amount of time. I was also able to find them a Spanish investigator that spoke mostly Spanish so that was pretty cool to be able to use Spanish again. That night though, we went over to a part member family and we had decided to share a message about the priesthood but right before we could do that the husband asked if we could give him a blessing so we directed our message towards that of faith and the power of the priesthood. So when It came time to give the blessing for some reason he asked me to do it and of course I was happy to do it. I didn’t know this guy 20 minutes previous and I was able to give him a blessing that talked about and addressed all the things he was struggling with and the coolest part is I don’t remember one word that I said, when he told me that afterward. Well right after that his wife asked If I could give a blessing and the same thing happened... and then the daughter asked as well and again the same thing happened. It was a really cool experience for me to be able to do that and again be able to rely on the spirit for what to say. I am always very humbled to be the one asked to give a blessing because I always feel like my companion or the other missionary I am with probably has 10x the faith I do and would do much better, but they are always really great experiences. 

Well that is all to report this week from Toledo Ohio.

Read your scriptures daily its good for you I promise

God loves you.

Until next week,

Elder Frandsen

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