Hows it going?! I´ll just start off the bat with some great stories haha.
We watched a dvd of Richard G. Scott last Thursday, and it was so amazing! He talked about prayer. In the middle of the talk he said he felt his wife there with him and was so greatful for heavenly father for letting her be there with him. I love that man!
This week was a very spiritual experience for me, on Sunday hermana Sitterud (MTC pres´s wife) fell and broke her arm. I was there with some other missionaries and I got to be there as Pres Sitterud blessed her (another missionary did the annointing). Then, on Monday, a sister in our district asked for a blessing, she wasn´t sick or anything, so 4 of us elders got to stand in as Elder Charrington gave her an incredible blessing of comfort and peace. I felt the spirit so strong there. Then after that!, another hermana in our district got all of a sudden so shaky and light headed and sick feeling so we got to give her a blessing too. I didn´t get to say it but I got to stand in on it. The power of the priesthood is amazing. I am so greatful that we have it here on the earth. To top it all off, yesterday in class we my teacher asked us what we would say to a person who told us they didn´t like or want to pray with their family. It was a weird question I thought at first, but we all answered and I started feeling the spirit a lot strong. After a little silence she told us, crying, that she feels that way with her family. Her dad is inactive and drinks a lot. It is very hard on her and she is having a difficult time. The missionaries go to her house every week and talk to them, but they figure the only problem they need to work on is the dad and they don´t talk to her personally (she's like 27 just so you know). I started crying! I realized how important every single person is, and that everybody has their own problems and difficulties in life. I realized that you´ve got to love everybody just like Jesus loved us. It is so important. From that experience I got a true desire to go out and serve the people here and love them. I am so greatful for my mission call here, and I know I was specifically called to Madrid Spain for a reason.
Ok, lets see... as you all know we go to the big park every Saturday (its called the Parque de Retiro I think, look it up on Google Earth!) and it is so great! Being able to talk to people and give them a little portion of the wonderful message we have is an amazing feeling. We got challanged by our teacher to challange somone to get baptized when i meet them in the park hahaha. I´m gonna do it! I want everybody to have this joy that I have. Our family is the best, and I wouldn´t trade it for anything, I want other families to feel like that as well!
Oh dad, thanks for the letter! I got it exactly a week after, but i also got another letter from girls camp that was send on the wednesday I think. So its all just different. They don´t do mail on Saturdays here though.
So my average day is wake up at 6 or 6:30, sometimes I do stairs in the morning. Breakfast at 7, class at 8 to 1, lunch from 1 to 2, class from 2 to 5, excercise from 5 to 6, dinner from 6:45 to 7:20ish, then class again from 7:30 to 9:30 haha. Not too exciting.
I saw Chelsea!!! It was so cool!! I loved it, she is doing great here and I can´t wait to see her again. She lives right next to Temple Square!
Ok I´m running out of time, but one last thing. We were teaching our fake investigator (our teacher) and then his friend came who is inactive but wantes to change and come back. So I got to teach a real investigator a real lesson and give them a tour of the temple!! So freaking cool! I felt the spirit so strong and it was so cool. I can´t wait to do that every day!
Ok I will get booted off this computer in 2 minutes and 32 seconds so I better sign off for now. But I will get back on later and finish replying. Thanks so much for the emails and the letters. Thanks dad for that great letter! I loved it.
I love you all, and am so grateful for everything you do for me. thanks for all the prayers. I love you all so much. I miss you guys, but I love it here so much and love serving these people. I find out my first transfer a week from this Sunday I think. I´ll let you all know!!
Love you all,
Love
Elder Franson
We watched a dvd of Richard G. Scott last Thursday, and it was so amazing! He talked about prayer. In the middle of the talk he said he felt his wife there with him and was so greatful for heavenly father for letting her be there with him. I love that man!
This week was a very spiritual experience for me, on Sunday hermana Sitterud (MTC pres´s wife) fell and broke her arm. I was there with some other missionaries and I got to be there as Pres Sitterud blessed her (another missionary did the annointing). Then, on Monday, a sister in our district asked for a blessing, she wasn´t sick or anything, so 4 of us elders got to stand in as Elder Charrington gave her an incredible blessing of comfort and peace. I felt the spirit so strong there. Then after that!, another hermana in our district got all of a sudden so shaky and light headed and sick feeling so we got to give her a blessing too. I didn´t get to say it but I got to stand in on it. The power of the priesthood is amazing. I am so greatful that we have it here on the earth. To top it all off, yesterday in class we my teacher asked us what we would say to a person who told us they didn´t like or want to pray with their family. It was a weird question I thought at first, but we all answered and I started feeling the spirit a lot strong. After a little silence she told us, crying, that she feels that way with her family. Her dad is inactive and drinks a lot. It is very hard on her and she is having a difficult time. The missionaries go to her house every week and talk to them, but they figure the only problem they need to work on is the dad and they don´t talk to her personally (she's like 27 just so you know). I started crying! I realized how important every single person is, and that everybody has their own problems and difficulties in life. I realized that you´ve got to love everybody just like Jesus loved us. It is so important. From that experience I got a true desire to go out and serve the people here and love them. I am so greatful for my mission call here, and I know I was specifically called to Madrid Spain for a reason.
Ok, lets see... as you all know we go to the big park every Saturday (its called the Parque de Retiro I think, look it up on Google Earth!) and it is so great! Being able to talk to people and give them a little portion of the wonderful message we have is an amazing feeling. We got challanged by our teacher to challange somone to get baptized when i meet them in the park hahaha. I´m gonna do it! I want everybody to have this joy that I have. Our family is the best, and I wouldn´t trade it for anything, I want other families to feel like that as well!
Oh dad, thanks for the letter! I got it exactly a week after, but i also got another letter from girls camp that was send on the wednesday I think. So its all just different. They don´t do mail on Saturdays here though.
So my average day is wake up at 6 or 6:30, sometimes I do stairs in the morning. Breakfast at 7, class at 8 to 1, lunch from 1 to 2, class from 2 to 5, excercise from 5 to 6, dinner from 6:45 to 7:20ish, then class again from 7:30 to 9:30 haha. Not too exciting.
I saw Chelsea!!! It was so cool!! I loved it, she is doing great here and I can´t wait to see her again. She lives right next to Temple Square!
Ok I´m running out of time, but one last thing. We were teaching our fake investigator (our teacher) and then his friend came who is inactive but wantes to change and come back. So I got to teach a real investigator a real lesson and give them a tour of the temple!! So freaking cool! I felt the spirit so strong and it was so cool. I can´t wait to do that every day!
Ok I will get booted off this computer in 2 minutes and 32 seconds so I better sign off for now. But I will get back on later and finish replying. Thanks so much for the emails and the letters. Thanks dad for that great letter! I loved it.
I love you all, and am so grateful for everything you do for me. thanks for all the prayers. I love you all so much. I miss you guys, but I love it here so much and love serving these people. I find out my first transfer a week from this Sunday I think. I´ll let you all know!!
Love you all,
Love
Elder Franson
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