Hey Fam,
Got a new one for you this week..,
You Might be a Mormon if...
you have ever used the phrase "bless those that are not here that they can make it next time.." while offering a prayer at a state prison, youth detention center, or other place of incarceration.
Well to start off I will explain the title of the letter...
So we again, as we were driving home with a member, kept the tradition alive of shooting the flare gun when a new missionary comes to the area. So we pulled off to some of his property and shot the flare gun, except when I shot it this time I must have pointed it wrong or the shot was a dudd. It went like 40 yards not straight up but side ways and it landed in the ditch and all I saw was a tiny flame erupt and let's just say I have never ran so fast in my life... like probably ran a 4 flat 40 to stomp that fire out! Hahaha we got it all on video too and it is one of the funniest videos watching me run to put it out. The Spirit of God like a fire is burning I guess?
Next story, The two times that Elder Alder and I tried to go tracting this week we got the cops called on us!! Two days in a row and it was the same cop who came to check it out. That is why missionaries are scared of the big rich neighborhoods because the people don’t have to worry about getting food on their table so instead they worry about the person parked outside in their neighborhood for 2 minutes and calls the cops. But it is alright we are planting seeds with the cop that came both times So our plan is to get the cops called again this week and this time place a Book of Mormon!! Good idea?
Last part, We had Mission Leadership Council with all The Zone leaders and Sister Training Leaders Yesterday and it is a pretty long meeting. Elder Alder and I decided to make things a little bit more interesting by giving each other a sentence we had to use in an answer we gave and make it seem totally normal. I gave him "save 15% or more on car insurance" And he gave me "a fat guy in a kiddy pool" and Elder Alder pulled his off perfectly and it was getting near the end of the meeting and so I had to just go for it. They were talking about better ways to approach people on the street and I said" Sometimes we make it really awkward, Like a fat guy in a kiddy pool..." and I never got the chance to finish my thought because President was laughing too loud, lol. I will miss the weird little things about being a missionary when I am finished.
Other than that this week went really well. The investigators we have are progressing more and more and we have added some more solid people to our teaching pool. We keep relatively busy and as we know, a busy missionary is a happy missionary. We have made a plan to help Frank Festdogg plan to help him the priesthood by the end of April and baptize his daughter who just turned 9. He is already off to a great start and has come to church for 4 weeks in a row and brought her along with him. Lindsey has been reading the Book of Mormon and is almost ready to make the commitment of a date to be baptized. Chet we set a date with him this month for near the end of next month and he feels that he will be able to make it on this date this time. Alan has gotten over his sickness so we finally got to meet with him again and he is still doing great and progressing towards baptism. Fred in the first 2 weeks has become a lot more excited about coming to church and being able to join the church. The Sterchaks were sick last week so we couldn’t meet with them but we will be seeing them again tomorrow and they are still doing great. I am really excited for everything that we have going on plus we are working with the youth each week on getting there friends to come to things, and so we are getting the ward more involved in that way. We wanted to try a different approach to getting members involved by getting the youth involved and it has worked great!
Well that is it for the week! My time out here is slowly winding down... :( Missions are great and I am so grateful for everything that I have learned and have been able to experience over the last year and a half. I have learned a lot about the importance of self discipline/mastery, as we improve those then we have more power in our life to accomplish whatever we put our mind too. The more self mastery we have the easier it is for us to fully keep the commandments. But it is a lot easier said then done... A scripture That I Have really thought about recently is D&C 58:26-29
The church is true!!
Read the scriptures!!
Dont forget to pray!!
I love you all :)
Until next week,
Elder Frandsen
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