So to start off I will
share a quick little story with you of what happened yesterday:
Elder Durrant has a hammock that he
set up out side so when we came back for dinner, I decided to hop in and try it
out for a bit. Right after got in it this 5 year old kid comes up and says, "Hey
mister how did you get up there?" I had the classic response of
"magic" and right after I said that he said, "I have a knife you
know..." So I sat there and thought about it for a bit and said "and
why is that?" and he says " to throw it at your head for lying to me
because I don’t play around mister I go to the school for USA killers and I can
stab you in 3 different ways with it... come down here and let me show you
something" And then he ran off and hasn’t been seen since... got to watch
my back now so James Bond Jr. doesn’t get me... oh the joys of living in weird
apartment complexes.
Well here are a
few things that happened this past week:
1. An Investigator we are teaching
right now named Ronald has been getting progressively worse in health which has
made it so he can’t make it to church to be baptized, even though he has a
great testimony of the gospel. So we called President Brown and asked him if we
could just move forward with the baptism so we can help him to get the temple
work done for his brother and daughter who have passed on and we got it
approved. The only other catch is that he will have to be baptized in a pool
because he doesn’t fit in the font... So we went on a search for a pool to use
and we found a member in the ward with a pool. Ron is so excited to make these
steps forward, so pray that his health will stay good enough that he can
actually go through with it.
2. We met with Sonja again this week
and it was another awesome meeting. She read another 30 chapters of the Book of
Mormon in between visits and came to church again this week with her daughter
this time. And again the ward welcomed them both in and it seemed like she was
a part of the ward and had been a member for years. The Bishop has offered his
house for her to take the discussions at and we are starting that this week. It
is so cool to watch again as someone finds the gospel and starts down that road
of making those changes. Another thing that I thought was pretty awesome was
when Sonja told us of how the thing that she loved the most of what she had
read so far is the hope that Jesus Christ offers and how she can be forgiven of
past transgressions.
3. We were teaching a couple this
week named mike and Lisa. Probably one of the weirdest lessons I have been a
part of on my mission. While we were talking to them all of a sudden Lisa just
leans over to Mike and starts making out with him on their couch right next to
us like they had forgotten we were there and it continued n for a couple minutes
and then they realized someone was there and they stopped before we just
awkwardly excused ourselves... weird, weird and weirder.
4. Transfers happened and Elder
Durrant and I are staying together for another 6 weeks :))
Anyways, these last
couple of weeks I feel like I have learned more about the Atonement of Jesus
Christ then all previous 19 years of my life combined. Growing up in the Church
you are given the simple primary answers and then when you grown up you get some
more of the complex answers to why things work but that is all that they are is
just answers. That is until you figure out how to take them from being just
answers to things that you actually have faith in and apply in daily life. And
yes for the last year or so I have been doing that every day so you would think
that I would have learned all of this already. I finally feel like these things
are starting to sink in and I am understanding the Power that we can unlock
from the atonement of Jesus Christ. I have made a lot of mistakes in my life
that I regret and wish I could take back and I have stopped doing those things
but I always wondered If I had fully let the Atonement work in my life to help
me get over those things. So recently I feel like I understand more of what
that means... of course repentance means to change and I have done that, but
when we fully let the Atonement work in our lives it changes our heart and our
desires and it helps us to turn away from wanting to follow the world. This
happened for me as I put aside my doubts and put more faith in Jesus Christ and
his Atonement. I wish I could put this all into words better, but what I can
say is that I am so grateful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the power
that it can bring into our lives. He can help us through everything and to
overcome everything if we let him. I am grateful to be able to teach others
about that and I am grateful that there is more to our purpose than just this
life here on earth.
The Church is true and the book is blue!
Read ur scriptures.
It’s good for u.
say Ur prayers 2.
Love you all!
Until next week,
Elder Frandsen
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| Went to the Toledo art museum This week and I got to be handicapped pete for the day because I was having a hard time walking with the back problems I have been having, lol. Also a less active member gave me a 3xl shirt and I decided to wear it. |
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