This week has probably been one of the best that I´ve seen since I´ve been out here. We saw a bunch of miracles and I learned so much. We had a zone meeting on Wednesday--every month, and we use telecom since our zone is ´The Canary Islands´. The zone leader asked me to share a spiritual thought during it. Rewind, I had gotten a letter from Grandpa Franson with 3 scriptures on it and really liked them. 2 of them were from Alma 37. So I decided to share those two which talked mainly about having all of our actions, thoughts, and deeds in the Lord. During it I just felt the spanish smoothly come out of my mouth, which was a really cool feeling. I pray every day for the gift of tongues as I go out to preach His Gospel. In Preach My Gospel there is a section on the gift of tongues which says something along the lines of ´part of receiving the gift of tongues is working hard and struggling with the language.´ It is important, with everything in this church, to work hard and show to our Lord that we really do desire that gift or blessing. Ether 12:6 the blessings will come AFTER the trial of our faith.
Another thing that i really noticed this week was that I was just so happy. So so so happy, I would kneel down to pray at night and during the pray I just couldn't help smiling. I love missionary work.
Ok, on Thursday we had a really cool thing happen. We were walking to a sweet old lady´s house, who we had previously met on the street (oh and we had confirmed our lesson with her about 2 hours earlier) and as we got there and knocked on the door we heard some footsteps and a dog inside but no one answered. So we left, I was a little annoyed that we just got set up but we started right in with contacting on the streets. The first person we stopped and talked to was an 18 year old college student who ended up being super nice and open minded. We had a lesson right there on a bench and taught him about the Book of Mormon. We had another lesson with him on Saturday and we set up a baptismal date! Usually we ask people the question if they´ll be baptized and they seem a little hesitant and then we say ´after more preparation and when you receive an answer for yourself that this is true?´ and some seem a little more willing. Well this guy, Jacob, said yes before we even finished the first question! haha I was super happy,
Funny story--So the streets here are way narrow as it is, and then everyone parallel parks on them which makes them almost impossible to drive. One guy drove past us and hit a car that was parked, and we were right there haha. He, staying in his car, asked us if it was ours and we said no. He then said ´Well, shhhh´ and drove off! Hahaha these people.
We have a new investigator, her name is Mabel and she´s from the Dominican Republic. We´ve started teaching her and she seems to like it. She works everyday until 7ish everyday, lives alone except for a tiny dog that keeps her company. That sad thing is that the dog sits at home for those 9 or 10 hours until she returns and takes her on a short walk to the park. Life here is super different than in Soda Springs, I am used to having space and places to go other than more buildings and roads.
Elder Christensen and I sang a hymn in sacrament this last week, I´ve been a little sick lately so my voice sounds bad and there were a couple close calls to my voice cracking but i made it through haha. There are hardly any musical numbers, almost every time it´s been another hymn. One time the choir sang but that was it.
Thats probably it for this week, I gotta go get back to our piso to eat some of my newly bought food! I think I´ve gained some weight. I´m not sure though because every scale I´ve used has been different. I found some Lays salt and vinegar chips but they were pretty expensive and really small. I miss that endless supply in our pantry :)
Love you all, thanks for your prayers and support.
Love Elder Franson
"Julian and me."
"Spain parking. This is our car, and Elder Christensen was somehow able to squeeze right in there."
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