Hey Y'all, El tiempo vuela.  |
| The Beginning of the day with the Elders in my District |
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| The end of the day with my district. |
To explain the heading real quick I will tell you what happened. So first, Today for Preparation day we decided to go to the zoo as a district and we had heard a rumor that you can ride camels at the zoo so we thought we would check it out. About 30 minutes after getting there we asked around a little and found out that we really could ride a camel so we found the place and it was probably the shortest camel ride in the history of all camel rides but I can now claim that I rode a camel. (pictures are coming)
Second, we share
the church building with the North Olmstead ward and they meet before we do.
Nate Orchard (Outside linebacker for the Cleveland Browns) is an active member
of the ward and his new teammate, Robert Griffin the 3rd (RG3), who was
recently signed by the browns to play quarterback came. Nate must have
invited him to come because right when sacrament started he came in the back
and sat by Nate and right after the meeting was over they both left before
anyone had much of a chance to talk to them. But he did pull up in his lambo,
which was pretty cool, not gonna lie. But we all know that Cleveland could use
a God fearing quarterback after their recent history with previous
quarterbacks...
Anyways here are
a couple of stories from the week.
1. Greg, Our
newly picked up investigator, texted us on Thursday after he had dropped off
the map for a couple months saying that he wanted to meet with us and come to
church on Sunday. So of course we were at McDonalds within an hour, meeting
with him, because it isn’t every day that you have someone say that. It was
really cool because about a month ago or more we were able to get into his
house and teach the Restoration and place a Book of Mormon, so he said for the
last month that he has been doing some studying on his own and he even
proceeded to tell us in detail about what happens in the first book of Nephi
and how it all makes so much sense and helps with understanding the Bible as
well. Then he proceeded to ask us what he had to do to be baptized and if there
were some kind of requirements. Elder Allen and I were both still in slight
shock from what he had said but when we finally came out of it we showed him
the Baptismal interview questions. He passed all of them except for the Word of
Wisdom, so we taught a little bit about that and explained to him what church
would be like. So he came with us to church on Sunday and he loved it! He was
participating in all the classes and he met a lot of the Ward (he speaks both
Spanish and English so that really helps with fellowship). After church we were
sitting with him and talking about some things and he told us that he hadn’t
smoked since Thursday, after we had talked to him about the Word of Wisdom. He
also told us that he had decided he wants to be baptized at the beginning of
July and he knows that this is where God wants him to be.
2. Dorothy, the investigator from Liberia
that we met 2 weeks ago, came to church on Sunday as well. She doesn’t speak
the best English so she wasn’t able to understand a whole lot of what was going
on but she said that even though it was long she still loved being in the
building because there is a good spirit there. She is also half way finished
with Nephi, which is awesome. She said she will be baptized in June if she can
understand the priesthood better, so we are currently trying to figure out how
to find some pamphlets and materials in her language. But she has been praying
about it all and progressing each time we meet with her.
3. On Saturday Elder
Allen and I had to help previous member of the ward move some things out of her
old house and lets just say that the house has not been cleaned in a few years
and has some water damage and stuff like that on the inside... It was easily
the grossest house I have ever been in but the Lord must strengthen his
servants in the work because 10 months ago before I came out, there is no way I
could have made it through that experience with out throwing up or just giving
up. But after two hours of it all we had all the stuff she needed moved out (
please pray that I don’t have fleas or something) hahah. It was good though
because now everything else that I deal with in life will be second hand to
this experience, lol.
4. All the rest of our progressing
investigators are all doing great. Charrise now has all of the missionary
pamphlets framed and hung up on the wall with a couple Books of Mormon opened
right underneath them. It was super cool when we walked in the house the other
day and saw it. All in all right now we have 18 progressing investigators that
have attended church with in the last couple weeks and it has made for a really
busy couple weeks.
All said, it was an awesome week. God
is good and knows exactly how to help us and what we need. It is our job to
learn to put our trust in him 100%
of the time.
Pray for Cleveland! ;)
Don’t forget to read your scriptures.
Psalms 25
Until next week, (when I will be 19)
Elder Frandsen
3044 west 104th
apt "down"
Cleveland Ohio 44111
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| Elder Diamond and I riding the Camel around the track |
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| A picture of my shoes on top of Camel Bob. |
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| Camel Bob, up closer and personal. |
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| Another picture of my friend Dan the Donkey |
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