Hi

Picture of the district #MERICA

Nothing to out of the ordinary to Report this week so Ill keep it short and tell a couple stories from the week.

First: Our investigator Victoria who is a retired nice Chinese woman with a thick accent was telling us how much she enjoyed being a doctor and things about her career and what not. Previously I had mentioned that I wanted to go into the medical field so she looks at me and says " you will be a sexist doctor" and then she said you will look the part well and you have the right personality for it. I was confused and it was really funny to hear here say that but she continued on to say that I will be a "sexy" doctor wearing a stethoscope and other hospital get up... Now I was really confused as to what she was trying to say. So next she says, I will call you in ten years when I am sick and have you tell me what to do because you will be a successful doctor... Elder Durrant and I realized that she had been saying successful wrong the whole time and with her accent it was hard to understand... Language barriers always lead to weird miscommunications. 

Second: Ron is getting baptized this week and Ron is a little bit bigger than the average person,so there are no baptismal jumpsuits big enough for him. Elder Durrant and I had to go on a hunt for 5x white pants of some kind. We searched Wal-Mart, Target, Meijers, Lowes, Men’s plus sized clothing stores and a few other places and you wouldn’t believe how hard it is to find white pants... let alone white pants that are 5x. So we were about to give up on our search when we came upon this Plus sized clothing store for women and so we decided to give it a shot and we ended up finding the last pair of 5x white pants in the store on the clearance rack... hopefully Ron doesn’t mind wearing some Capri’s. We also got the pool approved to use for his baptism! 

Third: This week was pretty great because we had members out teaching with us everyday and we have members signed up to come out with us almost everyday this coming week as well. Church this week was really good as well, Sonja came again for the third week in a row and we had another investigator named Casey there along with a returning less active family. Things are looking up here and the work is moving forward. I love being able to serve where I am. 

Other than that, All is well in Zion. 

Read your scriptures and say your prayers

Until next week,

Elder Frandsen

Healing Power of the Atonement

Hi,

    So to start off I will share a quick little story with you of what happened yesterday:

Elder Durrant has a hammock that he set up out side so when we came back for dinner, I decided to hop in and try it out for a bit. Right after got in it this 5 year old kid comes up and says, "Hey mister how did you get up there?" I had the classic response of "magic" and right after I said that he said, "I have a knife you know..." So I sat there and thought about it for a bit and said "and why is that?" and he says " to throw it at your head for lying to me because I don’t play around mister I go to the school for USA killers and I can stab you in 3 different ways with it... come down here and let me show you something" And then he ran off and hasn’t been seen since... got to watch my back now so James Bond Jr. doesn’t get me... oh the joys of living in weird apartment complexes. 

     Well here are a few things that happened this past week:

1. An Investigator we are teaching right now named Ronald has been getting progressively worse in health which has made it so he can’t make it to church to be baptized, even though he has a great testimony of the gospel. So we called President Brown and asked him if we could just move forward with the baptism so we can help him to get the temple work done for his brother and daughter who have passed on and we got it approved. The only other catch is that he will have to be baptized in a pool because he doesn’t fit in the font... So we went on a search for a pool to use and we found a member in the ward with a pool. Ron is so excited to make these steps forward, so pray that his health will stay good enough that he can actually go through with it. 

2. We met with Sonja again this week and it was another awesome meeting. She read another 30 chapters of the Book of Mormon in between visits and came to church again this week with her daughter this time. And again the ward welcomed them both in and it seemed like she was a part of the ward and had been a member for years. The Bishop has offered his house for her to take the discussions at and we are starting that this week. It is so cool to watch again as someone finds the gospel and starts down that road of making those changes. Another thing that I thought was pretty awesome was when Sonja told us of how the thing that she loved the most of what she had read so far is the hope that Jesus Christ offers and how she can be forgiven of past transgressions. 

3. We were teaching a couple this week named mike and Lisa. Probably one of the weirdest lessons I have been a part of on my mission. While we were talking to them all of a sudden Lisa just leans over to Mike and starts making out with him on their couch right next to us like they had forgotten we were there and it continued n for a couple minutes and then they realized someone was there and they stopped before we just awkwardly excused ourselves... weird, weird and weirder. 

4. Transfers happened and Elder Durrant and I are staying together for another 6 weeks :))

    Anyways, these last couple of weeks I feel like I have learned more about the Atonement of Jesus Christ then all previous 19 years of my life combined. Growing up in the Church you are given the simple primary answers and then when you grown up you get some more of the complex answers to why things work but that is all that they are is just answers. That is until you figure out how to take them from being just answers to things that you actually have faith in and apply in daily life. And yes for the last year or so I have been doing that every day so you would think that I would have learned all of this already. I finally feel like these things are starting to sink in and I am understanding the Power that we can unlock from the atonement of Jesus Christ. I have made a lot of mistakes in my life that I regret and wish I could take back and I have stopped doing those things but I always wondered If I had fully let the Atonement work in my life to help me get over those things. So recently I feel like I understand more of what that means... of course repentance means to change and I have done that, but when we fully let the Atonement work in our lives it changes our heart and our desires and it helps us to turn away from wanting to follow the world. This happened for me as I put aside my doubts and put more faith in Jesus Christ and his Atonement. I wish I could put this all into words better, but what I can say is that I am so grateful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the power that it can bring into our lives. He can help us through everything and to overcome everything if we let him. I am grateful to be able to teach others about that and I am grateful that there is more to our purpose than just this life here on earth.

The Church is true and the book is blue!

Read ur scriptures.

 It’s good for u.

say Ur prayers 2. 

Love you all!

Until next week, 

Elder Frandsen

Went to the Toledo art museum This week and I got to be handicapped pete for the day because I was having a hard time walking with the back problems I have been having, lol. Also a less active member gave me a 3xl shirt and I decided to wear it.  

Good Time in Toledo

I got to to see Doug and Jessica a few days before the baptism :)

Goodtimes in Toledo

Hey Y'all!

     Well another week has come and gone and Clinton and Trump are still running for president, we still don’t know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a lollipop. For some reason I decided to cut my own hair for the first time and lets say I wouldn't recommend it but yet life still goes on... Some weeks are just a little more humid than others.

       I don’t have a lot of time to write this week so I will talk about a couple cool things that happened this week:

1. On Thursday I had a doctors appointment in Kirtland and I had talked to Doug and Jessica a few nights earlier and when they found out I would be in town they decided to surprise me and meet me at the Kirtland Historic Church Sites and we were able to go on a quick tour and take a few pictures and talk about their baptism, which happened yesterday. It was really awesome to see the growth that they made from a year ago when Elder Ogle and I went on that first tour with them, to now. Their conversion to the gospel is very strong and I loved being able to hear their testimonies on how much the restored gospel has changed their lives and relationships with their Heavenly Father. I am grateful that I was given the opportunity to help them with that process. Also, while Elder Durrant and I were there we made a stop off at the Kirtland Temple visitors center and saw these awesome Joseph Smith for president shirts so of course we bought them... Pretty good purchase if you ask me. 

2. Sonja Thompson (Formerly known as Beth) was another big miracle this week. So it started out with her texting us Friday and telling us that she had already read all the way to Alma in the first week that we gave her a Book of Mormon... That probably doesn’t sound super awesome but when you are a missionary and an investigator tells you something like that it is kinds like the 4th of July. But the icing on the cake was when she came to Church. It couldn’t have been a more picture perfect first for an investigator. The moment she walked in a ton of the ward came up and said hi and a couple offered to go to the 2nd and third hours of class with her and she made good friends with the YW president and Relief Society president. So that was exciting but the best part is that a lot of the ward came into the gospel principles class and it was the best class I have had in gospel principles while on my mission. The Spirit was there very strongly and the ward members took charge with helping Sonja there as well. It was such an awesome experience to watch. I am very grateful for an awesome ward that is willing to do missionary work. I am also grateful to be able to teach awesome people like Sonja out here in Ohio. 

   Missions are great.

   Read ur scriptures & say ur prayers

Until Next week,

Elder Frandsen

Me at the zoo in a child sized poncho.

Our matching Joseph Smith for president shirts..... lol

Jessica got baptized!

Billy the traveling bed bug

Billy the traveling bed bug

Hola todos 

Well to start off the letter will tell you about Billy,

So Elder Durrant and I are teaching this family that lives in this po dunk trailer park (my type of people :)) ) hahah and we have always been a little wary of bed bugs when we go over there but this time we decided to go inside and have the lesson because it was 50000 degrees outside and the lesson went well and everything until we started on out way home and I pulled out my planner and saw Billy the traveling bed bug and we both freaked out and grabbed the alcohol spray and sprayed everything down and well lets just say that billy is no longer here with us. Bed bug scares are the worst but it always makes for a good experience. 

     Miracle #1

This week we went back to follow up with beth (name has been changed) the one that was our miracle find a couple weeks ago and she told us the coolest story. So when we got to her house the door was already open and she said "I knew you were coming today because I prayed and asked for it So I left the door open" well we were both in shock because how often does that happen? and then she told us that the time when had had come before she and known we were coming because the night before she had prayed for us to come as well! Seriously so cool. She also said she has continued to pray about investigating and started to read the book of mormon and she said " you are probably going to think I am crazy But I feel like it is all true... " and well we were speechless again (this doesn't happen very much to me because usually it is hard to get me to be quiet) then she said that she knew she needs to be baptized (she knows this from study the doctrine with out us asking her too) and she first needs to get her husband on board but will be coming to church. It was a miracle and proof that god answers prayers. 

    Miracle #2

Longhui and Angelina who came to church last week had such a great experience that they said they talked to their parents about being baptized and there parents said "if you believe that it is true and feel it is right for you we will support you" they also said that they have recognized god answering their prayers. The progress that they have made in the last 3 weeks is amazing. We told them we will wait to set a date for baptism until they get to church again. God is good. 

Miracle #3

Doug and Jessica are getting baptized this coming Sunday!!!! I am so excited for them. They are my favorite people that I have met here in Ohio and are the reason that I saw my testimony grow so much in the first 6 months of my mission. the gospel is good. 

sad news from the week... President told me that my calling has been changed and that I am not assigned to speak spanish anymore and that I am and english Elder. There are no more branches in the mission so there are no more spanish Elders :(( 

Well it was a good week, didn't wreck on my bike so that is a plus. :)) 

as time goes on and I continue to recognize gods hand in my life I am more and more grateful for Everything I have and the opportunity to be here in Ohio serving as a representative of the lord. 

Remember to trust in the answers that you receive to prayers and you wont go astray.

Read ur scriptures.

Love y'all! 

Elder Frandsen

Mid Mark Crashes

Preparation Day Activities

Buenas Tardes Todos,

     Well we finally had a successful week here in the town of Sylvannia, Proselyting... not riding bikes. 

     To start off the week I will tell you a quick funny story of this guy names Abraham that we met. So he stops us as we are leaving our apartment and asks us what we do and the whole 9 yards and we taught him some stuff, explained what we do, blah blah blah but at the end he says "how do you know what you are doing is right? I met this guy in Africa that would get buckets of goat pee and dump it all over his head because he thought it was right so I decided to join him... How do I not know that what he is doing is right and what you are doing is wrong?" Well we kind of just sat there for a second not really sure what to say to this man who just told us he dumps goat pee on his head to make it to heaven. SO I kinda just said well, you could try reading this book for a week, pray about it and see how you feel and then go back to your old ways and see how you feel then and which you feel is more right and left it at that. So we will follow up in a week or two and see how it went... 

     That same night we were going over to visit an investigator and he had a friend over named James, James has served a few prison sentences so of course any normal person would judge him and think he isnt the best  guy. But that is the weird thing that I have learned on my mission, those whom we would think would be the nicest are usually the most judgmental and rude while those whom society would deem as failures or outcasts are those with the kindest hearts and are the most accepting. James told us of how while he was in prison he got a hold of a bible and that is all he did for three days was read and when he finished it he felt more love than he ever had previously and he said it was then that he turned his life over to God and Jesus, so we had a great talk and got his info and left. We stopped at a gas station like 15 minutes later and I am looking at the drinks deciding what I wanted when James walks up behind me and says “it's on me tonight boys" and he bought us a drink and gave us a pizza. We have an appointment with him this week and I hope that it will work out for the good. 

     Cool miracle for the week! Longhui and Angelina, our asian investigators, made it to church yesteday. At the begining of the week we thought wouldn’t have been possible because last week when we invited them and they asked their dad he was very firm in his decision that he wouldn’t let them go but Angelina (who is 11) shared with us that she said a prayer before asking her dad again if she and her brother could go and he changed his mind! Oh, to have the faith of a young child. God really does listen to our prayers. So they were able to come to church and they both loved it! It was Angelinas first time ever being in any sort of church building and Longhuis 2nd time.  God is preparing all different types of people to hear the gospel. 

If you look behind me you can see the tracks that were my downfall, look closer and you can see my flat tire, ripped pants and shirt and just how happy it all made me ;') 

       Well this week was a week crashes... First it started off last Tuesday with Elder Hampton hitting a pot hole and crashing on his bike and getting a flat tire, and then the next day consisted of me hitting some train tracks which then launched me about fifteen feet off of my bike which flattened my tire, ruined my pants, shirt and scraped me up pretty good... God was looking over me because it should have been a lot worse. and then the next day a greenie missionary (new guy) was on exchanges and he ran into a curb, knocked his chains off and fell off ripping his pants and then the following day Elder Durrant and I were riding to an appointment when he took a turn too sharp into gravel and crashed scraping him up pretty good. Short story of how I wrecked, I was going down a bike trail in front of Elder Durrant and I didnt realize the turn off had train track and I was going pretty fast and I only had about half a second reaction time from turn to tracks to realize what was going on and so I didnt have time to hit my brake so instead my reflexes were to try and bunny hop the tracks which ended up just propeling my launch off of the bike as my bike tire hit the first railroad track and I flew. I had time to think about what had just happened while I was in the air and I smacked the ground. It was quite enjoyable (pictures to come.) So let’s just say that this week, it was the missionaries-0 and bikes-4.

Patrick....rip

   

Other intersting things, we had a pet fish for a short time before cooking him. We named him Patrick that we caught in the pond behind our apartment... Elder Wheelwright and I both had our shirt burning ceremonies for our 1 year mark on Wednesday (the day I wrecked and ruined my shirt I was wearing so that was an easy choice). Good times. 

Ceremonial Shirt Burning

Well, this Friday is the year mark of entering the MTC.. Crazy how time flies. Love and miss you all! Trust in the lord and good things will come.

Read your scriptures.

Alma 36:3

Hasta la semana que viene,

Elder Frandsen

One year down, One more to go.

Hey Fam,

     On Wednesday I will hit my one-year left mark, I am not sure where the other year went because it still feels like yesterday that I was dropped off at the MTC. This time as a missionary goes by much too fast. I feel like I have grown and learned more about what life is all about in the past year than any previous years. I am grateful for the experiences and blessings that I have received while here in Ohio.

    This week was pretty good; we made a lot of good progress with investigators and in building up the work here. It started off with following up with a lady that grew up in a Mormon home but never became a member but loves the church, The missionaries ran into her about 3 weeks ago and committed her to start her family history and so we decided to follow up, she just let us right into the house and then began to tell us of how she prayed about whether or not she should investigate the church and the next day she went to some second hand store and the first thing she sees is a book written about the Mormon faith which has never happened before. So she thinks that is her answer that yes she should. Her husband isn’t all that onboard but her daughter has already started her family history and gone back like 3 generations. She is even giving some of her friends copies of the book of Mormon.... that never happens, so of course we are pretty pumped about that. Later that Day we met with Sister Bozeman who is a returning member and we are teaching her son who isn’t a member and her fiancée. We committed her son to a baptismal date for the beginning of September and committed them all to come to church this week and they all came!  Then the next day we met with our investigators Angelina and Longhui Zhou, who have no religious background but have been eating up everything that we teach them, But they ask the hardest questions that have answers but we aren’t always sure if they are ready for them yet So those are always interesting lessons. But next week they have said they will come to church, which will be the first time at any church ever in their lives.

    Other than that our focus has been working with the members to find friends and people interested in the gospel, So the week prior we had helped a couple identify a friend that goes to school with them and to invite him to do something, So this week we get a text from them telling us that he is coming to dinner the night we would be over so we were able to meet their friend and have an awesome conversation with him and he is actually from Cleveland right down the road from where I had been living the past 5 months or so we had some things in common there. So that was an awesome step forward.

    This week has been ridiculously hot, in the 90's with 60-70% humidity so tracking in the middle of the day is not fun but it did work to our favor a couple times because the people took pity on us and let us in to have a drink of water ha-ha. It feels like you are walking into a sauna when you open the door... makes me miss the plain old dry heat of Utah. The only other interesting thing that is going on now is that my companion and I go fishing for our morning workouts, which is pretty cool even though we are both really bad fishers. We decided that we should maybe just stick with the whole fishers of men thing instead of actual fisherman. 

     Sad news: Doug Gansler asked me to come back for his baptism and baptize him but President Brown put his foot down on that one and said no :( Oh well, I am just happy that Doug and Jessica have made the decision to be baptized. 

     Well that is all that I have for the week! Until next week, 

Elder Frandsen

"Faith does not require an answer to everything but the courage to move forward on answers already received." 

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