Just another "Pee" Day.

Hey Fam,

     As always, it was another great week in the mission field and sadly the amount of Great weeks in the mission field left for me are very small... :( Buuut to explain the title of the email I will give a short story of something not so great that happened this week. Yesterday we were at a members house for a dinner, and I love this couple, they are relatively new members and live in humble circumstances, yet they have 6 smaller dogs that are very hyper. I love dogs, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes people out here have A MILLION DOGS and they are crazy. Anyways, I sat down at the table and was talking with them when I felt this warmth come from no where on my ankle and my foot and I was confused and looked down and saw that one of their many dogs had decided to mark me as their territory with a big puddle of pee :((( lol so I say in my head "act like nothing happened and figure it out later,it will be okay." Well, it was hard to focus there for a bit and keep from not laughing or something but I didn’t want them to be embarrassed and at some point they were trying to round up the dogs and looked under the table and saw the present the dog left me, and yes I felt bad for them, but I guess it is just another thing about being a missionary!! Good times. 

     This week was awesome though. Elder McCarrey is my new companion and he is the perfect companion for me to finish my mission out with. He is Young, diligent, hard working and has the greatest sense of humor and could probably make the Devil laugh if he needed to. It has definitely given me an energy boost to finish out my mission strong and to keep on working hard and focusing on the people and not the things that are to shortly come. Sometimes that is difficult to do but he helps me to stay focused and we are able to learn a lot from each other. God truly is great and is mindful of the things that we need and how to help us keep growing. I have a testimony of that especially when it has come to the companions that I have had on my mission. I have had a very different and interesting group of companions but with each one I have learned something new and something that will help me. 
They have all been just the right companion that I needed at that time and I hope that I was the same for them. 

    Sunday night we went to this thing called the warriors Project put on by a church here in Akron and it is  a thing put on to help people who have overcome and are currently struggling with addictions of any kind. They have motivational speakers each week and we got invited and I am so glad that we went. The speaker was a man from this department of the US who had grown up in a broken home and basically lived in the streets his whole childhood. Well one thing led to another and he was running and gunning and was on all sorts of drugs and with all sorts of people and he shared his whole journey of how God helped him to beat the addictions and how the moment that he let go of all of his stuff (pride/other things that keep us attached to old habits) and just let God do his thing that he was set free from addiction. I have seen a lot of that the last two years and I had a decent understanding of how bad it was in areas of the US but Elder McCarrey had no idea and it was pretty eye opening. It was eye opening for me, none the less. It reminds me of how God is all about freedom and Satan is all about addiction. The commandments may seem restrictive but when everything is said and done they are actually what brings us the most freedom and happiness. 

     Other Cool things this week: Dakota, a member referral has come to church 3 weeks in a row and I have hope for him to see him go a long ways. We found a new investigator who is legitly named fat Albert. The Christie family is still doing great and the branch is so awesome at fellowshipping. Brother Stone, the one whose wife passed away a couple weeks ago, came to church for the first time in forever! The branch welcomed him right in and when we met with him on Saturday he kept talking about how all that he wanted was to be sealed to his wife and be able to go to the Temple. So we set some goals with him and are now working with him to get the Mel. Priesthood. We were tracting the other day and these two guys were really drunk and high and they said to us, "the word on the street is that we are gettin lit so we ain’t got time for the word" so we said okay and went on to the next house and we hear a cup fall down and break and the guy was like" ahh man that was my favorite cup!" Then he looks at us and says.”God works in mysterious ways huh?" It was so funny. 

      Well that is all fro this week! I can’t believe how fast this time has flown by... I am truly grateful for the life lessons that I have learned, the Gospel teachings that have sunk down in deep and that I have a true understandng of now. And for all the amazing experiences that I have each and every day. Life is hard and no one ever said that it would be easy but when we follow God it is all worth it. I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father  who gave his son for us so that we could overcome the natural man within us and put the things of the world behind us and find true Joy. The atonement of Jesus Christ is amazing and blesses my life everyday. I love you all!! Remember that God loves you no matter where you are at in your life and no matter what you may have done. Don’t give up.

Stay Cute,

Elder Frandsen