Holy Toledo!

Week 51, or something like that.

Hola 

    This week was full of a lot of changes and right now I feel like a lost puppy. This new area that I am in is a 180 turn from what I have been living in the last year, There are mansions and a whole lot of people that want nothing to do with us. Basically the opposite of the ghetto and I am not sure how much I enjoy the change. The upside is that the ward members are great and from what I have seen are really wanting to help with missionary work so we have something to work with other than just tracting all day. At this point we only have a couple of investigators that really aren’t progressing But there is a light at the end of the tunnel and I think This will be a good area, it will just take a lot of hard work like missionary work usually is. 

     My new companions name Is Elder Durant, He is from Mission Viejo California and we have very little in common other than we both serve here and at one point we both had long hair. You would think that we wouldn’t get a long because of it but So far I have gotten along with him better than any of my other companions, which surprised me. He is a beach bum/hippy but He has a really good heart and loves missionary work and I couldn’t ask for much more than that. We live in a four Elder Apartment and the four of us have been out for a year or more So it is fun to be around and living with some elders that have been out for awhile. None of them are Spanish speaking Elders and this really isn’t a Spanish area but on church Sunday I met a few members that are Spanish or speak Spanish and they offered to practice Spanish with me so I wont lose it which was pretty cool. 

     Funny story from the week, we have about 4 or 5 investigators and so we spent the first couple of days trying to meet them so I know what we are working with. Well one of them is this older Asian lady who speaks decent English but still has an awesome accent. We show up at her house and she saw us coming so she met us out side and she was clapping her hands saying "surprise surprise the Mormons are here." it was one of the funniest things I have ever seen but it was just the beginning of a very strange 45 minutes or so. We go into her house and she has this huge self portrait hanging over her fie place and then gave us this tasteless jello that was really hard to put down but as a missionary you learn to put down strange food with a smile. Then she proceeded to tell us how she had read the pamphlet we left her and how she knows that the trinity is truth and how we are old fashioned for not believing in the trinity and for using the word holy ghost, (this is all because she attended a catholic mass a couple of years ago) so we spent about 30 minutes explaining the god head to this little old Asian lady and it was definitely a very strange experience from start to finish... But she keeps commitments and is really interested so I am excited to see where it goes. 

     Other strange thing that happened, So apparently this new app came out called Pokémon go and we went to the local park to go contacting and We had heard nothing about this game until we noticed all of the people at the park on their phones walking around... now most people usually sit on their phones and do nothing but this was a little different, there was this little kid who came up to us and said "stand still.. There is a Pokémon next to you I need to catch it" and we were so confused but his mom came up to us and explained the whole thing and once we understood almost every person we saw was playing the game. It was like a scene out of a horror movie where all the people get brainwashed ha-ha but I guess it is good because it gets people out of their houses. But apparently a 26 and 27 year old broke into the Toledo zoo and 3 in the morning to go and catch a Pokémon lol they are currently in jail. 

Well that is all for the week! Say your prayers and be a good person :) 

Until next week,

Elder Frandsen

Goodbye Cleveland... :((((((((((((((((((((

Hiii

      Well, President surprised me on Sunday night when he called to tell me that I am being transferred.... I thought I was going to have another 6 weeks at least in the Lakewood ward but apparently the lord has different plans. President said it was a last minute change, and right now I am not too fond of last minute changes. The other crazy thing is that there will be no more Spanish Elders in the Lakewood ward so the 3-4 people we were teaching a week in Spanish are probably just going to be dropped now. My next area will be in the Toledo 2nd ward in Toledo Ohio... (I don’t know where that is either don’t worry ha-ha) But I am excited for the new things to come but sad to be leaving this ward after what seems like such a short time, especially when after a lot of hard work we are seeing the fruits of that labor pay off. Maybe it’s a good thing anyways because I would have been evacuated out of Cleveland for two weeks due to the RNC...

      Well, here is the good news from the week. We went with Charisse and Alexis to the temple! I think the greatest moment of my mission so far was when I watched both of them go into the font to be baptize for family names.  When Charisse got into the font started to cry and the spirit present was really strong. We were able to confirm them as well afterwards. The other cool part is we were able to drive down with Elder Titera the area 70 and his wife. She is Charisse’s fellowship member and has been working very closely with her to get some family names for the temple. It makes the work so much easier when you have a really good fellowship for investigators and recent converts. The ward also helped to make Charisse and Alexis like a part of the ward while driving there and back. It has definitely helped in making the transition from missionaries to ward members. I guess the big reason I was sent to this area was to meet the Stubblefield family because I met them the first night I was here and the last weekend here we were able to go to the temple. It has been the greatest experience to watch them make the changes necessary and see their testimonies grow. The other miracle that has come from the temple is that when Charise got home and told the rest of her family just how great it was, more of them decided that they were ready to meet with us and also Charisse has invited like 7 or 8 of her friends to take the missionary lessons at her house. She is almost a better missionary then we are. I am going to miss her and her family a lot, when I told her yesterday that I was leaving she started to cry and it was the saddest thing. They have become like another family to me. Missions are great and I am very grateful for the relationships that are made here. 

Kirkland with the Hollyfield's

     Other good news, Brother Crowning, the returning member we are working with, has finally quit smoking and set a date with the Bishop for getting his temple recommend and going to the temple! He is another miracle of my mission. More good new is that Doug and Jessica from my last area let me know that they are getting baptized on August 14th! I am hoping that president will allow me to be there for when they are baptized, but if not, I am so happy to hear that they are making that step forward. Also, Willy Hollyfield has set a date for baptism and has basically quit smoking... watching people come unto Christ and change their lives is a great thing to watch.

     I love this gospel and I am grateful for the knowledge and peace it brings me. 

Thanks for your love and support!

Alma 40:25

Until next week,

Elder Frandsen

Charisse and Alexis at the Temple

Bye Hollyfield's

Bro. dery ...gonna miss this guy

My District

Greatest Senior Couple x 100

A baptism, a warzone and some old friends.

My City

Hi,                                                               July 6, 2016

     I would like to start off my letter by letting everyone know that the ghetto of Cleveland is the place to be on the 4th of July. If you have ever wondered what it might be like to be on the front lines in an old civil war battle, then just make your way to Cleveland and you wont be disappointed. There were large firework shows on every corner and there were people sitting in their front yards shooting their guns in the air. When we were riding our bikes home we couldn’t see more than 50 yards in front of us, due to all of the smoke. The fireworks didn’t stop until 4 in the morning, the whole night it felt like our house was shaking because of all of the noise. It was definitely something that I wont forget. Also, the Lakewood ward is pretty great, they had a bunch of things going on all day and the 4th fell on preparation day so we got to do stuff with the members for most of the day.

     On Saturday Mercedes was baptized! Luke ( a young man who came home early from his mission) has been coming out with us a lot to get ready to go back out on his mission and he has helped a lot with the Stubblefield family and Mercedes wanted him to baptize her. It was a really good experience for both of them. Another miracle from Mercedes being a baptized a week later than originally planned is that her cousin is staying with them now and she was able to watch as Mercedes got ready for her baptism and was baptized. So we taught her the restoration and gave her a Book of Mormon and the next day we came back and she had already read a couple chapters and said she was ready to be baptized. She asked her mom for permission and she said yes so she came to church on Sunday and has a baptismal date for a couple weeks from now. Oh and this week luckily the font was filled up on time so no garbage cans were used to fill up the font. 

     On Sunday Doug and Jessica (investigators from my last area) came to The Lakewood ward to visit me. It was so awesome to see them again and to see that they are still just as strong in the gospel as before, Jessica also said that She quit smoking 6 days or so prior and feels like she has finally kicked the habit! They met with President Brown and will hopefully be getting baptized in the next month or two. Missions are awesome. I am grateful for all the friendships that I have made while I have been here. 

     One other miracle, Charisse’s husband is an alcoholic and hasn’t been living with them because she wont allow it. But he has visited a few times while we are there and has been nice and sort of listens but he visited the week after Charisse was baptized and said that she seemed happier or something was different and he wanted it because he hates where his life is going right now. So he asked her to give us his number to come over and teach and help him. Charisse has been praying for her husband to soften up and see the light and the answer finally came. We are going to start meeting with him this week. God really does know each of us and our situations personally and is constantly helping. 

    Well I have loved serving here in Cleveland and there are so many weird things that I see everyday but have now just become a normal part of everyday life... I dont think my life will ever be the same after living here. 

The church is true and the book is blue,

Don’t forget to read your scriptures.

Romans 8:28

Until next week,

Elder Frandsen

BAPTISMS, CHAMPIONSHIPS AND PARADES AND STUFF

Hi all people I know,

El tiempo vuela

    Well I would definitely have to say that this week has been the best week of my mission.  Tons has happened but the greatest even was the baptism of part of the Stubblefield family :) I'll start out with a funny story about it.

1. There was supposed to be 4 people getting baptized this past Saturday but one of them got stuck in Sandusky Ohio because the car she was riding in broke down on the way home so she will be getting baptized this Saturday... Satan does what he can to try to stop things... But the craziest part of the whole thing was that our ward mission leader said he was going to plan the baptism and we didn’t have to worry about it... I couldn’t really tell him no or anything so I agreed. We checked up on him during the week and he said that he was on top of things but when Saturday rolls around he hasn’t made the programs, assigned talks and he picked us up 40 minutes late to get to the church to fill up the font. So elder Brady and I had to improvise and figure out a way to fill up the font faster so I had the idea come to my head that the kitchen had big pots and hot water so we started filling up pot after pot full of hot water and wheeling it to the font and dumping it in. The font take 2 and half hours to fill up and we were there an hour before the baptism. So this was a rush. Finally about 30 minutes till the baptism Elder Brady grabs a large rolling garbage can and says" if we clean this out it'll double the amount of water" so next thing I know we are using a large garbage can full of water and rolling it back and forth from font to kitchen... But it was a miracle because right at !0 the font was filled up right to where it needed to be.... It was an eventful baptism to say the least. 

Best Day Ever!

2.Charisse, Tiffany and Alexis were all baptized and there was a large attendance from the ward to support, which was awesome. Alexis and Charisse both were dunked in one try but Tiffany (she is deaf) didn’t quite understand that her whole body had to go under for it to count so the first to times we tried her feet came up out of the water like a rocking chair. The third time I had to step on her toes a little and put her under, check and then bring her back up. Luckily she enjoyed being in the water so it was good. After the baptism Charisse said that she felt like all the previous 46 years of guilt and shame that she had been holding in was now gone and she felt like a different person. It has been such a cool experience to watch as charisse has been changing and finding the light more fully in her life. The next day after she was confirmed she started to just cry when she sat down and she later said that she felt the most peace and comfort during her blessing then ever before. Later that night when we went to visit her she looked like a different person, she had a different light to her. Miracles are real. The gospel works. Doesn’t matter who it is or what they have been through. 

Dah King

Kyrie

Kevin

3. Other things... So there was the championship parade this week in Cleveland and it was crazy... There were almost 1.6 million people packed in like sardines. None of our buses or trains was running because of how crowded it was. Elder Brady and I went to lunch with a member and he said he was going to take us for a little bit to the parade because it was by the lunch place and right when we showed up all the players were going by so we got to see Kyrie, Lebrun and Kevin love. It was sweet. I have never seen so many people in one place at one time. 

4. A less active that lives on the end of our street was shot this week But is luckily alive. We have been working with her and her son and we have become pretty good friends. So when we heard on Thursday that there was a drive by and she was accidently shot it was really sad. It is sad how much stuff like that happens here in the city. The people here are so caught up in the worldly things and can’t let go of their pride that they are willing to do anything to show people it as well. 

Life is hard, but the gospel brings us hope.

Read the scriptures

Say your prayers

Be nice and stuff

2 Nephi 4:17-35

Love you all

Elder Frandsen

Best Day Ever!

Our Study Room

​Poor Elder Brady got his front tire stolen.  lololol

#allin216 #thedroubtisover #protecttheland#cleveland#miracles#yeet

Hello Fellow Friends, Family and Acquaintances,

The Cav's Home

Yesterday we were given some foam fingers as we walked the streets...
 (yes that is the covered bald spot from the barber) 

    Hope your week went well and that god has watched over you as he has watched over this poor wayfaring city this week! It was one for the books... It looks like all the prayers really paid of for Lebron and Co. #champs the city went wild last night after the cavs won and I couldn’t fall asleep due to the amount of gun shots, fireworks, sirens and horns going off for about 3 hours or more straight. People were literally taking their guns out side and just unloading them into the air, ha-ha the people here are crazy. But when I woke up this morning and went outside it seemed like the city was brighter...  or something like that.

Well here are some bright spots from the week.

We had 12 investigators at church yesterday plus 4 less actives :) . It was one of the craziest days at church because I was playing mommy for Charisses children, like 6 of them ha-ha. I had to help them stay reverent during church, guide them to their classes and then find and round them up after church and then guide them to the car.... by the end of all of it one of the kids turned around to me and said "hey Happy Father’s day dad" ha-ha, it was the funniest thing and all the members that were around couldn’t stop laughing. But we were able to get most of the things planned out for the 4 baptisms we have this week at church, so it was all good :) ‘Twas a good day.

Other miracles, this week Elder Brady and I were conversing with some members and the idea came up of getting one of Charisses kids to girls camp this week and so I took it and ran with it. So we made some calls, visited with the girl (Alexis) and presented it to her and she said yes. So, when they came to church she and Charisse met with some of the members and they talked about it for an hour (talk about a miracle for fellowship) and got it all worked out! So she is going one day this week for girl’s camp. I think that will be a really awesome experience for her. 

Charisse has only smoked one cigarette this week! She is still on date for baptism this week and so are her other 3 children, Tiffany, Alexis and Mercedes. Another cool thing is that we set a Temple date with her and Alexis for July 9th and this week, we are having a stake member come and do family history with them both to get them names :)))) miracles, miracles, miracles :)))) Who woulda thought 3 months ago that this family would be where they are now?? God is a god of miracles. The other fun thing that happened with that family this week is that we went over for a BBQ on Sunday night and let me tell you that these inner city folks really know how to cook up some mean ribs. Also I had one of the other family members try and propose to me, it was kind of funny... later that night I texted her the scripture story of Joseph and Potipher’s wife... I don’t think she was to happy about that, lol. 

More miracles, so we have been working with a returning member towards the temple and this week he met with the bishop and set a date for the temple!! We also found him a ton of names to take to the temple :))))) Another less active/ returning member miracle was that we took another guy to the Family history center and he found 15 names to take to the temple! He was crying after wards because of the spirit he felt during that time... it was quite amazing :) 

Weird story, well Elder Brady and I came in contact with another man in the streets of Cleveland that thinks Jesus is black and that because of it that us white folk will not be saved... well I wasn't in the best mood because right before that the chain on my bike had broken and we were by a Spanish shop so I went to ask the Spaniards for help but I didn't know how to say tire in Spanish. So, I kept saying the round things on my bike in Spanish and we all had a good laugh about it...buuut after they helped me fix it the guy came up and proceeded to try and bible bash with us so I just said, " Alright sir, if you can prove to us with scriptures that Jesus was black and that he is only going to save a certain color of people then I will pay you 5 bucks, but if not, then you have to take this Book of Mormon and meet with us and let us share a message with you." So he agreed and then tried to prove to us that Jesus was black but failed miserably and accepted the book. We got him the info, but he still wouldn't accept the restoration pamphlet because the pick of Jesus was white on the front ha-ha-ha. It was a good time. 

Well this week was great, miracles everywhere, The Cav’s are the champions, the people are happy and nice and life is hopeful. The book is blue and the church is true :)

17 points of the true church... if you have time you should listen to it, really good talk. 

read ur scriptures

be good

keep the commandments

send some knee mails

Love you all!

hasta la semana que viene,

Elder Frandsen

Zone Conference

Me, after a long day of work here in Cleveland (I bought the 100 necklace from a girl in the streets for a dollar) (best purchase ever) 

Chocolate kisses to save the day... and few other miracles too

Hola Amigos

 So to start off this week I will tell you a funny story,

So when we go over to Charrise’s house with all the children I always come prepared with some candy to keep the kids focused during the lessons and this certain day I just happened to bring some chocolate kisses. Well there is this girl names Deanna that is over at Charrises a lot and she has been known to try and flirt with the missionaries. So this certain day as we were walking by she says " Hey Elder Frandsen where is my kiss?" and me being the innocent missionary that I am thought that she some how knew that I had chocolate kisses in my bag so I instinctively pulled out a few of those and gave them to her and kept on walking... ha-ha she didn’t like that so much because she was talking about a real kiss, I avoided that one quite well I thought. 

     Well this week went well, like every other week in the mission field, so I will share one of the many miracles from the week. We set a date with Charrise to quit smoking for this past Saturday and we were kind of doubting that she might make it and from the looks of it we didn’t think it was going to happen. But Friday night Charrise started to feel sick and the next day it continued until Saturday night/Sunday morning she was throwing up and wasn’t able to come to church because she went to the hospital to see what was wrong. She has been cutting back on cigarettes since we met her and the side affects finally came in to play this week on the date we had been praying for. When she went to the hospital the doctor told her she has bronchitis and her right lung is bleeding from the smoke and that she cannot smoke anymore. She hasn’t smoked since Friday night and is pretty excited (even though it was kind of painful) that she has no other choice now but to stop. God does answer prayers... just not always in the ways that we expect. So she and her children will be getting baptized on the 25th of June. 

     Another funny/cool experience from the week... we have been working with a less active member to wait drinking coffee and it has been really hard for him, This week when we were meeting with him stood up and said "take it, take it all, I don’t want the coffee in my house." and we were pretty surprised because it came out of nowhere... so he then gave us all his coffee and almost gave us his coffee maker but I didn’t feel comfortable taking that but I told him that if he really thinks he cant throw it away by himself that next time we will take it. We also hid his coffee pot ha-ha. 

Okay one more cool experience out of the many that happened. We took another less active member to the family history center to help him get some names for the temple, as we are working with him towards going to the temple and he was able to find 10 names! He was so excited when we left. It was such a cool experience to be able to watch him get into family history and realize the important work he is doing for his ancestors. That same night a Spanish couple came in and the family history worker asked me to help out because her Spanish isn’t all that great so I was able to help this couple with getting started and finding names for the temple. That was another really cool experience

     Okay sorry one more experience, The Nepal member that we have been helping to go back to church this week told us that he was going to show us what Nepal food is like so after church yesterday we went over and his aunt cooked us like a 4 course meal... we had no clue what was going on because they don’t speak the best English and were speaking Nepal most of the time so it was sort of awkward but it was also one of the greatest meals that I have ever had. It was definitely one of those priceless missionary moments... maybe once I leave here I will be able to speak Nepal too... 

Oh and the Cavs lost :(( sad day sad day....

Well, the church is true, God is good and I feel very blessed to have the opportunity to be serving the people of Cleveland.

Alma 36:17-21

Keep the commandments :-)

Love you all!

Elder Frandsen

LeBron where you at? :(((((

Hey Y'all :') 

No one is here.. Just like the Cavs last night

      Well today is a day of mourning here in the city of Cleveland because The Cavs got Murdered last night... R.I.P... Funeral plans are on hold until further notice. 

      Other than that the week was a good one here for us missionaries. Elder Allen was transferred out and Elder Brady came in. Elder Brady is from Monroe Utah (where in the world is that?) and was previously serving in a little farm community as well... Lets just say that the last 5 days have been quite the change for him. He has been out for 6 months and he is pretty shy but he makes up for in spirit. He is a super awesome teacher, which I am grateful for. 

      The transition from Elder Allen to Elder Brady with the Stubblefield family was a little rough at first but yesterday we had one the best lessons with that family yet. Charrise has been having a hard time with all the things going on in her life and with her family. So, this week we have been focusing on eternal families and how Jesus Christ and his atonement can heal the wounds in our family relationships and as we strive to live the gospel and for an eternal family that God will lift us up through our trials. So yesterday as we were talking about it, Elder Brady at the end bore a really powerful testimony to Charrise about the atonement and the spirit came flooding the room and Charrise started crying for about five minutes. I then asked her how she was feeling and she said that she was feeling something that she had felt before but had always pushed it away. We helped her to recognize the spirit in her life and she said that she knew everything was going to be alright because she felt the spirit tell her that. She knows she has some things to change but Heavenly father and Jesus Christ will be right there with her along the way. It was exactly what she needed. It was also what Elder Brady needed, because the family has now taken him in with no problem :)) Another miracle that came from that is that after all that, the dad (Big Rock) came in and we were able to teach him the restoration and explain a couple things to him, by the end he told us that he had decided to sit in on the lessons now! 

       Elder Brady has heard horror stories about serving in Cleveland (mostly false stories from hear say of other missionaries) So, he has been on his toes this past week. One day as we were riding to an appointment there was a little dog that ran out into the street and he saw it out of the corner of his aye and thought it was a big German Shepherd and yelped just loud enough for me to look back right as he hits his front tire into the sidewalk and goes sailing over his handle bars... Elder Brady is about 6 foot 4 and 250 pounds... This is an image that I will never forget of watching my companion get chased by a little dog and flying through the air, lol. We both had a good laugh about it afterwards. 

      Right after that last experience we got on the bus and sat down next to this guy who when he saw the name "Jesus Christ" on our name tags began to tell us his whole life story of how he was saved in 1987 by accepting Jesus Christ as his personal Savior and Redeemer.... since then he has served 6 sentences in prison and about how he was taken advantage of, in great detail, the first time he went to prison... I  think poor Elder Brady is scarred for life.  Hahah, but in all seriousness I have really enjoyed being with Elder Brady. He has helped me to get some of that Fire back that I had when I first came out. It has been a nice push along the path. 

       We have seen a lot of miracles with less actives these past two weeks. We have helped two get to the Family history center to get that all started so they can have a name to take to the temple here soon. The ward has started to see these people return to church and are now offering to help us with fellowshipping and it is awesome to watch these people return to church with open arms from the ward. 

       I just realized that at the end of this transfer that I will only have a year left in my time here in Ohio to serve the lord... I can't believe how fast it has gone by. I hope to make the most of every minute that I have left here. I am so grateful for the opportunity to be serving here. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world right now. God is good :)  

Dont Forget:

Say your prayers (pray for LeBron plz he needs it). 

Read some scriptures.

Go to church.

Be a good person.

John 14:15

Hasta la semana que viene,

Elder Frandsen

One of the stubblefield kids took my camera and I just found a whole bunch of random pictures lol.. Here is my little buddy Twonnie and Jeanna.

Another one of my bud twonnie

Life in the inner city :)))

Hi fam

     Well this week was another wild week with lots of strange and good things happened. 

1. The baptism fell through with it being the holiday weekend and all. The kids passed their interviews but they got offers to go to cedar point (big amusement park in Ohio) for the weekend and they are a very poor family and they don’t go on trips very much so we have pushed the baptism back a couple weeks. I think it will be good for the family because it will give Charrise some more time to quit smoking and join her 3 children when they are baptized. Another good thing that came from it was they were all able to meet with the bishop as well and get some other awesome fellowship from the ward. This is something elder Allen and I have been working on for a long time with them. 

2. Last week I forgot to tell the story of a young man named Sandesh Gazmer from Nepal. He is a refugee and he originally moved to salt lake and while he was there he was baptized into the Nepali branch. He moved to Ohio about a year after that and he lost contact with the church in the mix of things. But he got on the church’s website and referred himself and we were able to find him. He is super awesome and so are all the Nepali people. They are very kind and would give the shirt off their backs to help those in need. Also, I have now learned how to speak some very basic Nepal to use when I come over to their house. We have been teaching him English from the pamphlets and things. So we came to pick him up with a member on Sunday for church and when he came out he came with his cousin who is about the same age and not a member, so thus we have kept the 7-week streak alive of bringing a different new investigator to church. Another cool story from this was that we had a ward bbq yesterday and both Sandesh and his cousin (Gavin) came to it. The ward really took them in and now his cousin is interested in lessons and things. Miracles everywhere.

3. THE CAVS ARE GOING TO CHAMPIONSHIP :))))  the night that the cavs won the last game to make it to the finals the whole city went crazy and Elder Allen and I could not fall asleep for a while because of how loud our neighborhood was from all the fireworks and things. #allin216

4. Transfers are this week and sadly mine and Elder Allen’s time together is coming to a close. He is getting transferred to the other side of the mission. and My new companions name is Elder Brady and I will be meeting him tomorrow. I am kind of nervous with all of the investigators we have and making the transition from one Elder to the next But I think It will be okay. I have enjoyed serving with Elder Allen and I am also excited to see what my next companion has to offer as well. 

5. Good news... My hair is growing back in from that random bald spot that the barber gave me :))) SOS

6. We also were able to take our returning member to the family history center and help him get started in getting a name for the temple. It has been awesome working with this man because we met him about a month and a half ago by going through our contacts and getting the feeling that we should text him even though neither of us had met him before. The rest is history I guess. He is almost finished with the Book of Mormon, is almost done smoking and has met with the bishop to set some goals to get to the temple. I wish all people had the desire that he has. The world would be a better place. 2 days latter we also took him to hear Brad Wilcox speak at a fireside and it was one of the greatest firesides that I have ever been too. 

7. Well... Summer has officially started here in Cleveland and all I can say is that I really am not too fond of the humidity. It feels like I am walking into a sauna every time I walk out of the apartment and that doesn’t include how bad the allergies are out here. Also, It seems like the city just thinks that because it is warm outside now that they don’t have to wear any clothes... let’s just say I have seen some things that I wish I had never seen... also I think I have been offered more drugs and alcohol from random people on their porches in the last three days then the rest of my life combined. Lets just say that these last couple weeks have been probably the strangest/most interesting of my mission.  But I have learned a lot in this area and I love the ward and all the people here. 

    The church is true and the book is blue.

    Don’t forget to read your scriptures and say your prayers :)

    Proverbs 3:5-6

    Until next week,

-Elder Frandsen