There is a snake (demon) in my boot....

My Boys

Well, it's that time of the week again!                                                                                   March 15, 2017

What type of vehicles do most Mormon Families drive? BMW's (Big Mormon Wagons)

(viewer discretion advised... don’t read this to the kiddos if they are scared of things under the bed at night)

To explain the title, here is the story. We were teaching a less active and his daughter started saying some weird things and saying that there was something that was with her always and that it was telling her to not pray because God doesn’t want to hear her pray (she is like 8). She looked to the side of her and started whispering and then telling us what was going on and I had the feeling to not look and ignore it.  Of course I was dumb and looked to where she kept looking and talking and had this weird feeling come over me and I tried to just forget it... so by the time we left I had forgotten about what had happened and wasn’t thinking much of it and we got back to the apartment and I was getting ready for bed and I knelt down to pray and like 30 minutes (I fell asleep praying... oops) later something grabbed my ankle and pushed my knee really fast and I was in a sort of half sleep state when it happened. So I hopped up and thought it was my companion because we like to pull pranks on each other every once in a while but when i looked back I saw my companion kneeling down at his bed praying, asleep as well, so it couldn’t have been him. Well I got in bed and didn’t think much of it and 5 minutes later I was about to fall asleep again when something at the end of the bed grabbed my foot and pulled me and I hopped up real quick to grab my companion because I thought it was him again but he too was in bed now almost asleep. So I thought it was just a weird coincidence or something and then I tried falling asleep and about five minutes later it happened again, but from the other side of the bed and pulled my leg off the side. This time I got up really fast to catch whatever it was and again there was nothing there so at this point I knew something was up and told my companion and he thought I was playing games with him and being dumb. So I went out in the hall and checked the apartment and what not and I felt this really dark feeling the whole time. When I went back in my companion realized I was being serious and we talked about what it might be and I told him about the experience earlier at the less actives house. He looked at me and said that he had had the same thought to not look and ignore it and he actually did ignore it but he felt that same dark feeling and right then we both felt the temperature drop.... something had followed us home so we knelt down and prayed about it and I don’t have time to relate the rest of the story  so let's just say that I have a really strong testimony of the power of the priesthood now and how God’s power is so much more than the power that Satan has. I also realized another thing that Satan do things like that up to a certain point but in all reality he only has as much power as we allow him to have. And it isn’t just with demonic things but with anything in our life that leads us away from following God and keeping his commandments. The more we give into that, the more power we give Satan in our lives. 

Zone Conference

On a brighter note, Chet passed his interview and is going to be baptized this Saturday! I am super excited for him. Also, the ward has finally picked focus families and is getting more involved with missionary work from the ward council level :))) We had to give a discussion at Zone Conference about finding yesterday and we worked long and hard on this thing to make sure that we would give a good discussion focused on the needs of the Zone and it went a lot longer than expected but it was really good!! I learned a lot from preparing it and I hope that it helped the missionaries in the two Zones that were there. The Sterchaks are still doing just dandy and we have become really good friends with them and their children so it is always really fun to go over and teach them. The ward has rallied around them since they came to church and were able to meet them. Other than that I really can’t remember a whole lot else of what has happened this week.. drawing a blank right now.

Time is short and I can’t believe how fast it is flying by. I am grateful for my time as a missionary and to be able to learn more and more about the Gospel of Jesus Christ each day and all of the Doctrines and Principles contained within. I am grateful for modern day Prophets and Apostles that can help us to more fully understand how the Gospel applies in today’s world and circumstances. 

I love you all! Stay out of trouble and read your scriptures :)

Until next week,

Elder Frandsen