Let it snow, a night with the Osmond's

Hey Y'all.

A great start to Spring here in Cleveland. 

This week Ohio couldn’t make up its mind about what season it is and decided to dump almost a foot of snow on us throughout the weekend. Luckily Elder Allen and I still have that temporary car from his surgery so we weren’t stuck outside in it. But it is almost worse being on the roads because everyone in Cleveland seems to forget how to drive when it snows... and they don’t plow the streets... it feels almost like rainbow road on Mario cart, lol. 

Here are some highlights from the week. 

1. Last night there was a fireside at The Historic Kirtland sites and David Osmond performed at it, and It was super awesome. We took a returning member with us and he was super stoked about it and it helped him out a lot. 

David Osmond

David Osmond with all the Elders.
(I got to see Elder Watkins again :) )

2. At the fireside I ran into Brother Slamone ( a less active I had been working with in Perry) he came to the event with his wife and it was probably one of the greatest moments of my mission. When I started talking to him I could tell that he looked different. He looked happier or something but as we got to talking he told me of how he had made the decision to return to church and his wife thanked me for not giving up on him. He has gone to church now for two weeks in a row. I love that family and It makes me so happy to see the change in them. I am forever grateful that I had the opportunity to be a tool for the spirit to touch his heart and for him get that desire to go back to church. It was awesome. 

3. We taught 36 lessons this week and set 3 more baptismal dates and we had 5 investigators at church. I have never been so excited to go to bed each night as I was this week. This is exhausting but it is all worth it. 

4. Elder Allen and I were almost overtaken by three large pitbulls as we were tracking in the sketchier part of town but we made it to the side walk right before the dogs ran out of leash, hahaha. It was possibly one of the scariest but funniest things, mostly because I was watching Elder Allen wobble to the sidewalk in front of me the whole time. 

Charrise and co. (this is only half of the family that we are teaching)
They consider us part of their family now and they all gather 
around for when the "Elders" come.  I love these guys. 

5. Elder Allen and I are teaching half of the Spanish ward members English now during our less effective proselting time and it is super awesome getting to know these people. They are some of the nicest, most sincere people I have ever met. 

6. Cleveland is awesome. 

Well, I have now been out for over 250 days, I opened my mission call up one year ago from tomorrow. I could not have imagined even remotely close that this is where I would be at and this is what I would be doing before I opened that call. This past year has flown by and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else in the world, serving around any other people, or doing any other thing. I am grateful for Jesus Christ and what he did for us, I am grateful for the knowledge of a loving Heavenly Father. 

The church is true and the book is blue. Until next week,

Elder Frandsen