Hola Amigos
So to start off this week I
will tell you a funny story,
So when we go over to Charrise’s
house with all the children I always come prepared with some candy to keep the
kids focused during the lessons and this certain day I just happened to bring
some chocolate kisses. Well there is this girl names Deanna that is over at
Charrises a lot and she has been known to try and flirt with the missionaries.
So this certain day as we were walking by she says " Hey Elder Frandsen
where is my kiss?" and me being the innocent missionary that I am thought
that she some how knew that I had chocolate kisses in my bag so I instinctively
pulled out a few of those and gave them to her and kept on walking... ha-ha she
didn’t like that so much because she was talking about a real kiss, I avoided
that one quite well I thought.
Well this week
went well, like every other week in the mission field, so I will share one of
the many miracles from the week. We set a date with Charrise to quit smoking
for this past Saturday and we were kind of doubting that she might make it and
from the looks of it we didn’t think it was going to happen. But Friday night
Charrise started to feel sick and the next day it continued until Saturday
night/Sunday morning she was throwing up and wasn’t able to come to church
because she went to the hospital to see what was wrong. She has been cutting
back on cigarettes since we met her and the side affects finally came in to
play this week on the date we had been praying for. When she went to the
hospital the doctor told her she has bronchitis and her right lung is bleeding
from the smoke and that she cannot smoke anymore. She hasn’t smoked since
Friday night and is pretty excited (even though it was kind of painful) that
she has no other choice now but to stop. God does answer prayers... just not
always in the ways that we expect. So she and her children will be getting
baptized on the 25th of June.
Another funny/cool
experience from the week... we have been working with a less active member to
wait drinking coffee and it has been really hard for him, This week when we
were meeting with him stood up and said "take it, take it all, I don’t
want the coffee in my house." and we were pretty surprised because it came
out of nowhere... so he then gave us all his coffee and almost gave us his
coffee maker but I didn’t feel comfortable taking that but I told him that if
he really thinks he cant throw it away by himself that next time we will take
it. We also hid his coffee pot ha-ha.
Okay one more cool experience out of
the many that happened. We took another less active member to the family
history center to help him get some names for the temple, as we are working
with him towards going to the temple and he was able to find 10 names! He was
so excited when we left. It was such a cool experience to be able to watch him
get into family history and realize the important work he is doing for his
ancestors. That same night a Spanish couple came in and the family history
worker asked me to help out because her Spanish isn’t all that great so I was
able to help this couple with getting started and finding names for the temple.
That was another really cool experience
Okay sorry one
more experience, The Nepal member that we have been helping to go back to
church this week told us that he was going to show us what Nepal food is like
so after church yesterday we went over and his aunt cooked us like a 4 course
meal... we had no clue what was going on because they don’t speak the best
English and were speaking Nepal most of the time so it was sort of awkward but
it was also one of the greatest meals that I have ever had. It was definitely
one of those priceless missionary moments... maybe once I leave here I will be
able to speak Nepal too...
Oh and the Cavs lost :(( sad day sad
day....
Well, the church is true, God is good
and I feel very blessed to have the opportunity to be serving the people of
Cleveland.
Alma 36:17-21
Keep the commandments :-)
Love you all!
Elder Frandsen
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