Club Frandsen's Missionary: BAPTISMS, CHAMPIONSHIPS AND PARADES AND STUFF

Hi all people I know,

El tiempo vuela

Well I would definitely have to say that this week has been the best week of my mission. Tons has happened but the greatest even was the baptism of part of the Stubblefield family :) I'll start out with a funny story about it.

1. There was supposed to be 4 people getting baptized this past Saturday but one of them got stuck in Sandusky Ohio because the car she was riding in broke down on the way home so she will be getting baptized this Saturday... Satan does what he can to try to stop things... But the craziest part of the whole thing was that our ward mission leader said he was going to plan the baptism and we didn’t have to worry about it... I couldn’t really tell him no or anything so I agreed. We checked up on him during the week and he said that he was on top of things but when Saturday rolls around he hasn’t made the programs, assigned talks and he picked us up 40 minutes late to get to the church to fill up the font. So elder Brady and I had to improvise and figure out a way to fill up the font faster so I had the idea come to my head that the kitchen had big pots and hot water so we started filling up pot after pot full of hot water and wheeling it to the font and dumping it in. The font take 2 and half hours to fill up and we were there an hour before the baptism. So this was a rush. Finally about 30 minutes till the baptism Elder Brady grabs a large rolling garbage can and says" if we clean this out it'll double the amount of water" so next thing I know we are using a large garbage can full of water and rolling it back and forth from font to kitchen... But it was a miracle because right at !0 the font was filled up right to where it needed to be.... It was an eventful baptism to say the least.

Best Day Ever!

2.Charisse, Tiffany and Alexis were all baptized and there was a large attendance from the ward to support, which was awesome. Alexis and Charisse both were dunked in one try but Tiffany (she is deaf) didn’t quite understand that her whole body had to go under for it to count so the first to times we tried her feet came up out of the water like a rocking chair. The third time I had to step on her toes a little and put her under, check and then bring her back up. Luckily she enjoyed being in the water so it was good. After the baptism Charisse said that she felt like all the previous 46 years of guilt and shame that she had been holding in was now gone and she felt like a different person. It has been such a cool experience to watch as charisse has been changing and finding the light more fully in her life. The next day after she was confirmed she started to just cry when she sat down and she later said that she felt the most peace and comfort during her blessing then ever before. Later that night when we went to visit her she looked like a different person, she had a different light to her. Miracles are real. The gospel works. Doesn’t matter who it is or what they have been through.

Dah King

Kyrie

Kevin

3. Other things... So there was the championship parade this week in Cleveland and it was crazy... There were almost 1.6 million people packed in like sardines. None of our buses or trains was running because of how crowded it was. Elder Brady and I went to lunch with a member and he said he was going to take us for a little bit to the parade because it was by the lunch place and right when we showed up all the players were going by so we got to see Kyrie, Lebrun and Kevin love. It was sweet. I have never seen so many people in one place at one time.

4. A less active that lives on the end of our street was shot this week But is luckily alive. We have been working with her and her son and we have become pretty good friends. So when we heard on Thursday that there was a drive by and she was accidently shot it was really sad. It is sad how much stuff like that happens here in the city. The people here are so caught up in the worldly things and can’t let go of their pride that they are willing to do anything to show people it as well.

Life is hard, but the gospel brings us hope.

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Be nice and stuff

2 Nephi 4:17-35

Love you all

Elder Frandsen