Week 51, or something like that.
Hola
This week was full of a
lot of changes and right now I feel like a lost puppy. This new area that I am
in is a 180 turn from what I have been living in the last year, There are
mansions and a whole lot of people that want nothing to do with us. Basically the
opposite of the ghetto and I am not sure how much I enjoy the change. The
upside is that the ward members are great and from what I have seen are really
wanting to help with missionary work so we have something to work with other
than just tracting all day. At this point we only have a couple of
investigators that really aren’t progressing But there is a light at the end of
the tunnel and I think This will be a good area, it will just take a lot of
hard work like missionary work usually is.
My new companions
name Is Elder Durant, He is from Mission Viejo California and we have very
little in common other than we both serve here and at one point we both had
long hair. You would think that we wouldn’t get a long because of it but So far
I have gotten along with him better than any of my other companions, which
surprised me. He is a beach bum/hippy but He has a really good heart and loves
missionary work and I couldn’t ask for much more than that. We live in a four
Elder Apartment and the four of us have been out for a year or more So it is
fun to be around and living with some elders that have been out for awhile. None
of them are Spanish speaking Elders and this really isn’t a Spanish area but on
church Sunday I met a few members that are Spanish or speak Spanish and they offered
to practice Spanish with me so I wont lose it which was pretty cool.
Funny story from
the week, we have about 4 or 5 investigators and so we spent the first couple
of days trying to meet them so I know what we are working with. Well one of
them is this older Asian lady who speaks decent English but still has an
awesome accent. We show up at her house and she saw us coming so she met us out
side and she was clapping her hands saying "surprise surprise the Mormons
are here." it was one of the funniest things I have ever seen but it was
just the beginning of a very strange 45 minutes or so. We go into her house and
she has this huge self portrait hanging over her fie place and then gave us
this tasteless jello that was really hard to put down but as a missionary you
learn to put down strange food with a smile. Then she proceeded to tell us how
she had read the pamphlet we left her and how she knows that the trinity is
truth and how we are old fashioned for not believing in the trinity and for
using the word holy ghost, (this is all because she attended a catholic mass a
couple of years ago) so we spent about 30 minutes explaining the god head to
this little old Asian lady and it was definitely a very strange experience from
start to finish... But she keeps commitments and is really interested so I am
excited to see where it goes.
Other strange
thing that happened, So apparently this new app came out called Pokémon go and
we went to the local park to go contacting and We had heard nothing about this
game until we noticed all of the people at the park on their phones walking
around... now most people usually sit on their phones and do nothing but this
was a little different, there was this little kid who came up to us and said "stand
still.. There is a Pokémon next to you I need to catch it" and we were so
confused but his mom came up to us and explained the whole thing and once we
understood almost every person we saw was playing the game. It was like a scene
out of a horror movie where all the people get brainwashed ha-ha but I guess it
is good because it gets people out of their houses. But apparently a 26 and 27
year old broke into the Toledo zoo and 3 in the morning to go and catch a Pokémon
lol they are currently in jail.
Well that is all for the week! Say
your prayers and be a good person :)
Until next week,
Elder Frandsen
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