Hey Fam,
On Wednesday I
will hit my one-year left mark, I am not sure where the other year went because
it still feels like yesterday that I was dropped off at the MTC. This time as a
missionary goes by much too fast. I feel like I have grown and learned more about
what life is all about in the past year than any previous years. I am grateful
for the experiences and blessings that I have received while here in Ohio.
This week was pretty good;
we made a lot of good progress with investigators and in building up the work
here. It started off with following up with a lady that grew up in a Mormon
home but never became a member but loves the church, The missionaries ran into
her about 3 weeks ago and committed her to start her family history and so we
decided to follow up, she just let us right into the house and then began to
tell us of how she prayed about whether or not she should investigate the
church and the next day she went to some second hand store and the first thing
she sees is a book written about the Mormon faith which has never happened
before. So she thinks that is her answer that yes she should. Her husband isn’t
all that onboard but her daughter has already started her family history and
gone back like 3 generations. She is even giving some of her friends copies of
the book of Mormon.... that never happens, so of course we are pretty pumped
about that. Later that Day we met with Sister Bozeman who is a returning member
and we are teaching her son who isn’t a member and her fiancée. We committed
her son to a baptismal date for the beginning of September and committed them
all to come to church this week and they all came! Then the next day we
met with our investigators Angelina and Longhui Zhou, who have no religious
background but have been eating up everything that we teach them, But they ask
the hardest questions that have answers but we aren’t always sure if they are
ready for them yet So those are always interesting lessons. But next week they
have said they will come to church, which will be the first time at any church
ever in their lives.
Other than that our
focus has been working with the members to find friends and people interested
in the gospel, So the week prior we had helped a couple identify a friend that
goes to school with them and to invite him to do something, So this week we get
a text from them telling us that he is coming to dinner the night we would be
over so we were able to meet their friend and have an awesome conversation with
him and he is actually from Cleveland right down the road from where I had been
living the past 5 months or so we had some things in common there. So that was
an awesome step forward.
This week has been
ridiculously hot, in the 90's with 60-70% humidity so tracking in the middle of
the day is not fun but it did work to our favor a couple times because the
people took pity on us and let us in to have a drink of water ha-ha. It feels
like you are walking into a sauna when you open the door... makes me miss the
plain old dry heat of Utah. The only other interesting thing that is going on
now is that my companion and I go fishing for our morning workouts, which is
pretty cool even though we are both really bad fishers. We decided that we
should maybe just stick with the whole fishers of men thing instead of actual
fisherman.
Sad news: Doug
Gansler asked me to come back for his baptism and baptize him but President Brown
put his foot down on that one and said no :( Oh well, I am just happy that Doug
and Jessica have made the decision to be baptized.
Well that is all
that I have for the week! Until next week,
Elder Frandsen
"Faith does not require an answer to everything but
the courage to move forward on answers already received."
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