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| Yeet! The aftermath of exchanges. |
The soldier was given guard duty at 2 AM. He did his best for a while, but at about 4 AM he went to sleep. He woke up to find his commanding officer standing above him.
Remembering the penalty for being asleep on guard duty, The young man kept his head bowed for another moment and looked up and reverently said, A-a-a-men!
Well to be brief, here is how my week went down:
We went on two exchanges in the past week and will be going on another one tomorrow in Cleveland with the assistants. So I will share a couple of cool stories from exchanges this week. The first exchange we went on I was able to go with Elder Rawson, who is New and only been out for a few weeks and it was fun to see his excitement for everything that was going on. Well he and his trainer have had to do a lot of tracting the last couple of weeks because their area got split and they don’t have hardly anyone to teach and it is rough going when you are out all day everyday knocking on doors. We had a great day with 4 appointments planned and only about 45 minutes of finding. The cool experience happened not in the appointments but in the short amount of time that we had to go finding and it was just what he needed to help him to see that good things come from finding. We were with our Elders Quorum President and asked him where he thought we should go finding, so he referred us to a street close to the next appointment and dropped us off. We knocked on about 4 houses and no one answered or were not interested. I was praying that we would be able to have a cool experience to help Elder Rawson out. The next house we knocked on a bunch of little kids ran up and then ran back to get their dad, the dad came up and he was HUGE like a big body builder and had tattoos everywhere. We started talking and focused on asking good questions to help people recognize the importance of what we have to share. He told us about how they had a really good friend who was a member of the church. I asked if we could comeback the following week to share the message with their whole family and at the point where most people say no he paused and he said "you know what, Yeah you can do that. When can you come back? " We got all his info and when he shut the door Elder Rawson was so excited!! The next house we went to the lady who answered and let us right in and we were able to teach the restoration and set up a return appointment. She had just finished her last round of chemo that day and it was really awesome to be able to testify of Christ and his atonement while teaching her. When we got out of that lesson Elder Rawson was super excited to go back to his area and keep trying to find people and try a couple different things. Well Yesterday, we went on exchanges again and I was able to go with the district leader of another district in the zone. Our Mission President had asked me to talk about a couple things with him that he has been struggling with. So I was thinking about how I could help the guy and as we talked he shared how he had lost a desire somewhat to go out and find because of all the rejection. So I looked at the schedule and all we had time for was about 30 minutes of finding time and so I prayed that we would be able to have another good experience to help him build his faith, and once again we were able to pick up another young family with 6 kids to teach and had a guy let us right into his house and we were able to teach him the restoration!! The other crazy thing is that it was on the same street as with Elder Rawson, just on the other side. So we now have 4 new investigators on the same street. After the exchange when I talked with the Elder he shared how he appreciated the things that had happened because it helped him to recognize that that missionary work is fun when you work.
Elder Alder and I were able to find another young part member couple that just moved in and they agreed to let us come back and teach them!! So many great things happened this week.
Other than that, all of the people we are currently teaching are progressing well. We had a cool miracle where Chet, who is 82 and was smoking, we gave him a blessing to be able to quit and he hasn’t smoked for a week now! So many cool things happen everyday as a missionary. I am going to miss this stuff.
The lord is good to everyone but especially to those who are willing to sacrifice to keep his commandments and act in faith. I am so grateful for Jesus Christ and His atonement and all the power and hope that it brings into my life. I am grateful for the scriptures that we have to be able to learn from everyday. Last but not least I am grateful for the power of prayer and how much it helps us through the ups and downs of life.
Love you all!!
Dont forget to read and pray :)
Until Next week,
Elder Frandsen
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