This week has been great,
like every other week in the mission haha. I got my new companion last Monday- Elder Wilson. I´ll send a couple pictures home this week. So he
is only one transfer ahead of me, just barely got out of his training
(Oh I forgot to answer that question from you mom, there is a 12 week
program for each new missionary with a booklet. Each week you have to
read certain stuff together from Preach My Gospel or watch an episode or
2 from the district or whatever). So it´s been great because we both
still have that drive and motivation. The hard thing about it has been
having 2 different trainers. Elder Pugh was my first and I got used to
how we did things, how he trained and taught. We had our ´groove´. And
now Elder Wilson does it so differently. Just with a lot of little
things. It's been a little tough with that, but I was working really hard
to work together and to have a ´Christ like love´. And it´s helped! The
best person that we can turn to for our problems is the Lord, because
he´ll always help us become stronger and better. Ether 12:27.
So, this week nothing super cool or interesting happened. Oh,
yesterday we got fed 3 times in like 6 hours.... it was so crazy. A
lentil soup from an Argentinian family--story about that
family in a second--which was sooo good. The funny thing with her lentil
soups (we´ve had a couple from her) is that he loves to put slices of
hot dogs in them haha. I wonder how dad would like that. The next meal,
immediately following this one, was from another member who just
looooooves the missionaries... and she just looooves tuna.... and I do
not looooove tuna. Haha this time actually she cooked us some rice and
mini chicken drum sticks (Another thing different here than America,
the drumsticks are super small. Haven´t seen a normal sized one yet.).
She put a tomato paste over the rice which I thought was interesting. I
didn´t like it too much but oh well, you gotta do what you gotta do
right? THEN, after we waddled out to our car with food babies--pretty
sure I could have had a triplets--we separated from the other elders and
hit the streets because all of our lessons failed us. I don´t know how I
did it honestly. But we walked for a while talking to basically
everyone we passed haha. I was amazed, because absolutely no one
listened to us or would even slow down. I started getting a little
discouraged, there was so much rejection. But something my companion
told me was that after those tough times, always, there is a miracle to
follow. Satan tries to get us down, but if we pull through and continue
to work hard there will be a miracle after. So sure enough, we found a
guy, Bolivian named Julio, who let us teach him right there on a bench
about the Book of Mormon. It was really cool to see that. So, we got a
new investigator!
Ok, back to the meals. Mari told us to come over and she was going
to show us how to make Bizcochón. So we get there, but she said we
didn´t have time that night to make it, but she already had some made
for us to just eat haha. I swear that lady constantly has 2 or 3 loaves
of bizcochon ready at all times for us haha. We ate some of that and
then her hot chocolate (that is where the picture came from that you
probably saw on Facebook of me drinking 4 glasses hahaha. I was just
trying to make a funny picture, I don´t think I could drink any more of
that heavenly drink than one glass. It is so different, very very thick. I
still miss the hot chocolate we had at home, but this stuff is still
pretty good.
We´ve had over the last couple of weeks a couple people make us
some crepes, one lady made it with ice cream in side and nutella haha so
good.
Ok so back to that Argentinian family. Their name is Cozzolino, and her daughter just barely got back from her mission in
Barcelona on Thursday.
I remember Jess telling me something about how weird it´ll be if I ever
see a missionary´s homecoming while I´m out here, and it was super
weird. But it didn´t make me sad or homesick at all like I thought it
might. She was an amazing missionary, and has been begging to come with
us to do some more work haha. Seeing her motivation and love for the
work has motivated me to be better and work harder. She´s so cool. And
then this next week is another homecoming for an elder serving in the Arizona Tempe mission!
We have that investigator, Hong, a Chinese lady who loves Jesus
Christ and really liked the chruch. She came once with Elder Pugh and me
but hadn´t come again. And then yesterday we were sitting down in
sacrement meeting and all of a sudden I saw Hong walk in with a friend!
So they came and sat by us. She is super busy and we can never get a
lesson with her, but at least she´s coming to chruch right?
Ok thats it for now, holy thats a long email. Thanks for everything
you guys, you are all the best. Arely tells me every time I see her
how popular I am on Facebook and that everytime she posts a picture of
me she gets notifications on it all day and night long hahaha. Thank you
for that.
I love you all,
Elder Franson
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