Hola Everyone! I am still alive and doing well. Aug 26, 2015

Here is how the week went.

Saturday: Food, Class, More Food, Gym, More Class, Even More Food, Even More Class.... a pretty normal day here at the mtc and it makes the days fly by in a blur because they all seem the same. Some notable things from Saturday... I lost my suit coat and it was pretty devastating but then again we are at the MTC so who would steal a suit coat so I had faith it would turn up eventually. We taught Ines that night and it was super cool. I have been studying out of pmg and been using tabs to mark scriptures to help explains the lessons better for investigators so in lessons I can just pull the scriptures right up. The spirit prompted me to open up one of the tabs and it explained perfectly to Ines her question about baptism. 

Elder Brown

Sunday: Spiritual P-Day! We have tons of personal study time and personal time to write letters. Sunday mornings are when they assign callings to people in the districts. I was called to be the new district leader for the rest of the time here! Pretty much that means I have to be a good example still and help the district to stay on task. The rest of the day went great and smoothly. Temple walk with our zone is one of my favorite parts of the weeks right next to the devotionals. The Sunday night devotional was by Stephen Allen and he gave an awesome devotional about mission rules and looking forward and not behind. Also I found my jacket. 

Monday: Pretty cool day... We had three lessons and during the one with Alan I just felt super happy and really felt a love for what I was doing and for my investigators. I definitely needed that and it made me strengthen my resolve of working harder. I gave the baptismal questions to Alan, which is the first time I had done that. It was awesome he said he will be getting baptized in 2 weeks now. We still aren’t sure if he is an actual investigator or and actor because half of them are and half aren’t. Either way it was a cool experience. The tabs came in to save the day again with Phil who is a super hard investigator and has had a lot of hard experiences in his life so he is skeptical. Overall another great day at the MTC.

Tuesday: Spanish is hard but it is crazy how much I have learned in the last 3 weeks! We had 30 minutes normal conversations with 2 members who came in for a home teaching type of deal. I am so grateful for the power of the spirit.  We shared our favorite scriptures with them and it was really spiritual. Wee had a devotional this night and it was good but the speaker was hard to understand and he preached rather than taught. Still a very good talk. Oh and today was also ugly tie day!

Wednesday: Half way done with the MTC!!! Wow at times it feels like it has been so long but now that the days are blurring together it almost seems surreal how fast it is already going! We are learning Preterite in Spanish and it is super hard and probably the things I will need to work on most for the rest of my time here. Golden comes in today and I was hoping to see him but I didn’t. The tradition of smelling the cream soda tree is still going strong.

Thursday: Patience is definitely a virtue and something I need to work on. Charity is also and is also another things I need to work on with people in my zone but I still love them no matter how hard they try to be dumb and not work and find reasons why they shouldn’t be here. We are teaching Alan about the commandments, which were interesting but another great experience. If I eat like I did tonight then I will definitely gain 20 pounds before I leave. But we learned a ton more Spanish today so I was hungry. Anyways it was another great week at the MTC! I also saw Golden today which was great!! But I didn’t get a picture so I will have to do that for next week!

Friday: P-Day!! Laundry, Email, Hair cut, Spanish review and basketball then after all that we finish the P-day off with the temple before we have to go back to classes for the night. 

Funny story for the week: My companion has been struggling with remembering little words and it comes to show in the lessons... one lesson he told Phil that through repentance and baptism he can be freed of all is escudos instead of picadors which is fish instead of sins and both Phil and I corrected him but he ended up making the same mistake like 10 times and it was really funny Hahaha. We had a good laugh about it after but he said he definitely needed to use his language study time more effectively.

During the week I have noticed that right before lessons when I say a prayer with my comp. For the spirit to guide us in the lesson I immediately feel the power of the spirit come to me and calm me down and guides me through the lesson and when we end the lesson I feel it go away it is crazy! Maybe that is why I love teaching the lessons so much, I don’t know. But it is a testimony builder to me about the power of the spirit.

     You se queue El labor de Mormon as verdadero y el palabra de dios. Te Amo. Adios.

Elder Frandsen