Wow I can’t believe I have been out
for three months already! Time flies.
Anyways here is how my week went...
2 Mondays ago: Not a whole lot
happened except for when a guy tried to bible bash in Wal-mart. By the end of
the conversation he almost said himself that the Book of Mormon makes sense but
he caught himself in the middle of the sentence and then left with out evening
buying anything. Well at least we gave him something to think about and it
helped me to continue to see how powerful the Book of Mormon is.
Last Tuesday: We met with Tim today
and had a really good lesson! We ended up teaching him the plan of salvation
and he has already listened to three chapters in Nephi on his phone... The only
thing that we forgot to do was to be baptized which is kind of a big one but we
live and we learn right? We also had a really awesome lesson with a Less active
who we are helping return back to church. He shared with us how he wants to be
sealed in the temple to his fiancé and how he is so thankful for us helping him
in the path to obtain this. This helped me to realize that its not just about
"baptisms and knocking doors” but helping all people come closer to Christ
whether they are fully active members or someone who we talk to on the street
for 2 minutes. Also while we were teaching him he has a question about
something and I wasn’t sure how to answer it then I just had a random scripture
pop into my head and I went to it and it was exactly what he needed. It is cool
how the spirit does that.
Wednesday: Missions aren’t just a
walk in the park... You may be having success but that doesn’t mean that it is
easy or that we are always going to be happy. Satan works harder during those
times when you are working the hardest to be a good missionary. This with the
stress of adjusting to missionary life all just came at me at once and it was
pretty hard going through out the day probably the hardest day yet but we had
interviews with the mission president that day and he gave me some great advice
and helped me a lot. It was still hard but this is probably something every
missionary goes through at some point. Later that night we had a cool
experience with another less active who finally let us in for the first time in
years and then opened up with us during the lesson and started to cry part way
through because he felt the spirit so strongly and realized how much he needed
church back in his life. It definitely helped me to forget about all my other
stresses for a while so it was really cool.
Thursday: Still another hard day but
we met with another less active who shared with us her baptism story and how
she wants to take the Sacrament again. This week has just been full of crazy
cool experiences with less actives and there desires to change. I really hope
that I will be able to help all of them do what is needed to get back on the
path again. Then that night we had another great lesson with Doug and Jessica!!!
The only weird thing is that we were teaching two people about marriage and why
it is important and why it is something that would need to happen before they
are baptized when we have never been married and if you asked me 5 months ago
if I was going to be talking to two people about being married I would have
thought you were weird ha-ha. But I hope we helped them to understand why being
married before you live together is important and that they can be guided in
knowing what they need to do in order to progress.
Friday: The Temple trip fell through
so We ended up not being able to do much but I did accidently get habanera
pepper in my eye during dinner... Yeah my eye was on fire for the rest of the
night but it was pretty funny. Then I ended up standing in a dumpster for 30
minutes when we were doing service that night stacking boards that ended up
making my body itch for the next day ha-ha. But we took another investigator on
a tour of historic Kirtland. I am grateful to be so close to Kirtland because
it has become such a great missionary tool and it helps to gauge how interested
the investigators are.
Saturday: Well apparently we are for
sure getting another set of Elders and they just bought the studio connection
to our apartment but we have no clue if they are splitting our area or if they
are making us Spanish only... Hopefully we find out before transfers but if not
then there isn’t much we can do about it. Tim wasn’t able to meet and had to go
out of town until Sunday night so he wasn’t able to come to church either but
when we met with him Sunday night we had a great lesson and this time invited
him to be baptized and he said yes he wants to take that step forward but he
wants to pray about it first which is awesome!
Sunday: We had two less actives we
have been working with come to church and same with Doug and Jessica and then
half way through the meeting as we were sitting by them this crazy homeless guy
came in asking for money so Elder Ogle and I had to go out and talk with him in
the hall way and he just kept asking for money and saying some other weird
things but finally after sacrament the bishop came out and handles the
situation and it worked out and everyone was happy but it was still not
something you expect to have happen when you are at church. But yeah nothing to
much else happened that was exciting because all of the Spanish investigators
who we usually meet on Sunday weren’t home :((
Well that is how my week went!
Here are a couple things I learned
this week....
I am so grateful for the atonement
and the hope that it gives us. Repentance for sins is an on going process,
which is hard, but in the end we are so much better because of it. If we went
to church every Sunday prepared to take the sacrament the way it is intended
then we would be so much better because of it. The gospel is simple and we need
to always remember that.
I am so grateful for the opportunity
to be serving a mission and learn more about and come closer to Christ each
day.
I love you all!
Elder Frandsen
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