Club Frandsen's Missionary: The Holy Ghost and a Sheet of Paper

Hey Y'all,

I was able to go to the Detroit Temple this week for personal worship and it was super cool.

Here's the weekly joke:

Q: What did the lions say before going out to hunt the LDS missionaries?

A: Let us prey.

.... Yup, the jokes are getting lamer by the week I know.

Well here is the run down for the week;

Sonja: She was confirmed a member on Sunday and she asked Elder Cortez to do that so for the past week. Elder Cortez and I have been practicing how to give a blessing in English so he feels more comfortable with doing the confirmation. So he had been carrying around a piece of paper with the wording and things to practice for his pronunciation and one day he couldn’t find the paper and I was sitting at my study desk when he came down the stairs saying "Where's the sheet? I don’t know where I put my sheet". Since he still doesn’t know English the best and has a great accent, I didn’t realize that he was talking about the "sheet" of paper with the stuff he had been practicing and because of his accent I thought he was saying a completely different word all together. So, when we got it all figured out , we had a pretty good laugh about that one. (hence the title of the letter) and yes the sheet of paper helped because he did great.

Mike, Lisa and Kenji: Another great week for their small family. Mike has given up coffee as well and now they have set a quit date for smoking this upcoming week or so to give them a little time to prepare for that to make sure that they won’t go back to it after they have stopped. Kenji is all the way in Jacob of the Book of Mormon and Mike and Lisa are about to finish 2nd Nephi. Eveytime we come over they always have great questions and point out to us cool things that stuck out to them and how it has helped them. Members have been coming with us to every lesson with them and I can say that with the help of the members their progress has sped up a lot more! Mike is determined to be baptized with his family and has made tons of progress this week... The little miracles that they are experiencing each day are so cool to see, such a cool family.

Laurie & Tina: Laurie is a new investigator that we recently picked up and here is the story of how it happened... A couple months ago, a member that I had never met before, called and told us that she had a friend that might be interested. Her friend is deaf and was wondering if we knew of anyway that we could find someone to help teach her (even though the member is an ASLinterpreter). Nothing came of it, but we had kept that in mind for a while until we received a media referral from some ASL missionaries in Arizona saying that a women named Laurie had gone to the deaf branch with her cousin and loved it and wanted to know more... Well one small problem is that neither Elder Cortez or I know ASL... what a coincidence that we had recently talked with a member who did know ASL though, so we got in contact with the member, Tina, and went over to her house. She said she would love to help us and right before we were about to video call Laurie she asked us for the name of the woman and we told her it was Laurie and Tina got super excited and said Laurie is one of my good friends! So she video called Laurie and introduced ourselves and set up a time for next week for all of us to meet and teach her the first lesson. So on Saturday we were able to do that and taught Laurie the restoration and it was a really cool experience to teach and have Tina interpret. Laurie seemed to enjoy it and came to church the next day with Tina to interpret... she liked it but obviously it is hard to go to church and be the only deaf person there but a deaf branch has to start somehow. So we will see what God has in store for her and her husband. It was cool to see how it all came together and was able to work out and see all of the things just fall into place.

Other than that we had some lady tell us she was going to set up Bible studies with a whole trailer park for us to teach... so we will see if that one pans out!

It was another good week here in Toledo, Ohio. I have a real testimony of member missionary work. When members and missionaries work together the process for investigators is much smoother and it helps them along the path to conversion. When the members in this ward have come with us to lessons and fellowship the investigators, everything else just falls into place, and of course the Book of Mormon and it’s teachings are really what solidifies that conversion and brings us unto Christ and our Heavenly Father. I Love the Gospel of Jesus Christ and all that it teaches us and helps us to do. I am grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who has a perfect plan for each of us and I am grateful for the Book of Mormon that strengthens my testimony, of all of this every day.

Dont forget to read and pray!

Love y'all

Until next week,

Elder Frandsen