Monday Already?

Hey Everyone! 

This picture was posted on Facebook.   According to the certificate, the picture was taken at the Kirtland Temple Visitor' Center.  It looks like Elder Ogle is not too happy with his plant.:)  You can tell Lafe has lost about 20 pounds, look at those baggy pants.  According to the last letter he hand wrote to us, he has also grow an inch.

So the apartment I am staying in finally got a mailbox so here is my new address

174 Mainstreet Painesville Ohio 44077

Well here is how my week went! 

Tuesday: We went back to Brentwood and we ran into this guy who actually came up to us and told us he felt like he needed to talk to us. When we told him who we are and what we do he just got this big smile on his face and told us to tell him more so we did! We ended up teaching him the restoration and the Plan of Salvation and by the end of it he said how everything that we had told him is exactly what he believed but he just hadn’t found a church yet that actually put it into words! Sadly he lives outside of our area :( but I know that the other missionaries will take good care of him. That was pretty cool.

Wednesday: We went to visit all of the potentials we had found the previous week and one of the people was not home but her brother answered the door so we ended up teaching him instead and he was really interested and we have a return appointment set up for this next week. We went out by the lake to do service for one of the members and it was really cool... the lake at night is really pretty with all of the stars. 

Thursday: It hit me how fast these last 3 1/2 months have flown by! Each day of this week has gone by so fast... People always said that time starts to just fly by after high school and now I know they weren’t kidding. Cool little story... So we have been working on a huge apartment complex with over 400 doors and we got down to the last door and for some reason god likes missionaries to find solid investigators always at the last door Hamah so we ended up teaching this guy named mike who loves the bible but told us he knows that there is something more out there but he doesn’t know what it is and then we gave him a book of Mormon and taught him about that and the restoration and he was super excited! We are meeting with him again this coming week as well! 

Friday: So Friday morning during studies I decided I needed to set new goals with learning Spanish so I did and during the day Elder Ogle and I learned 100 new words and that night we traced into an all Spanish apartment complex and taught 4 lessons in Spanish! We haven’t taught a solid lesson in Spanish for 3 weeks now and I feel like it is because we weren’t working the best we could to improve our Spanish so it was cool that the day that we set new goals that we were able to find some new Spanish investigators. 

 Saturday: The most exciting things that happened Saturday was that we had a very devote Jehovah’s Witness end up accepting a Book of Mormon and read from it. Which is something that JW's almost never do because they don’t accept other literature from other religions. We have been working with him for a couple weeks so it was exciting. 

Sunday: We had stake conference and Doug and Jessica came! Elder Perkins of the seventy spoke and gave a really great talk on faith. Afterwards we went back to the Spanish complex and taught 3 more lessons in Spanish and found 1 more investigator! 

Elder Ogle and I Decided two weeks ago that we wanted to teach 60 total lessons in two weeks so that was one of our goals and these last 2 weeks we taught 62 lessons and Have found so many new people to teach. I Love my companion and how much he pushes me to work harder every day. 

Well that’s all for this week! 

Love you all!

Elder Frandsen

This was texted to Lafe's dad from someone from in our Stake that was visiting a Stake Conference in Ohio.  

This was sent to us as a text, it read:  Your sons are doing wel and they are a pleasure to be with.  Jonathan from the Perry ward.