These last couple weeks have been a bit stressful and crazy.
Zone conference, no electricity for 4 days (we got it back though thank
goodness), the other elders moved out and into another piso, Elder Eskelsen got transferred back to the peninsula! And a lot more but I
just can´t think of it all right now.
Today is the start of the next transfer, my 3rd transfer in the field! I think yesterday was my 4 month mark--holy.
I
wanted to tell you guys about a guy we´ve been talking with for the
past month or so. Super nice man, works at a small food place which is
kinda similar to a fast food place because it sells hamburgers, hot
dogs, french fries, baguette sandwhiches, and grilled cheese sandwhich
stuff. But it is sooo much better. We´ve eaten there once or twice total
and it's really good. Anyway, he works all the time and we can´t get
into his house but we stop by every day almost and talk to him whenever
there isn´t anyone in the store about the Book of Mormon. We´ve been
leaving him chapters to read and he loves it. For a little bit he just
started reading from page 1 and got to the vision of the tree of life.
The next day he told us he was pretty confused and needed some help to
understand it haha. He is awesome. He loves to practice his English with
us whenever he can. The other day, he told us if we ever need help with
money or food, to come to him because he´ll take care of us :) aww.
Good thing we have this plastic card that money just magically appears
on it every month.
This last Wednesday we stopped a lady on the street and we started
explaining a little about the Book of Mormon with her. But not very far
into it another lady walked past, who we found out later was her friend,
and stopped and listened to us. We got the second lady´s number, named
Pilar, and got her addresses and a time to stop by yesterday. During the
quick lesson we had with her, she started crying. After asking if she
was alright she told us her 18 year old son is very sick and she felt
helpless. I felt so sorry for her. We left her house with another prayer
specifically for him and told her we would be back (tonight actually). I
am hoping that as we keep talking with her and sharing the message of
joy and happiness that it will unite their family more and help her son.
Honestly, my family is everything to me. And because we have the gospel
it makes it even more special to me. I learned to pray from you and
dad, I learned more about the Book of Mormon with you guys, your
testimonies, everything! I am so gratefuly for the knowledge that I do
have and the loving family that my Father in Heaven blessed me with.
Each one of you mean so much to me and are so special to me. Thank you
for everything that you have done for me.
Ok now it´s time for some funny stories!
1.We have some
pretty cheap chairs in our piso, not very good quality. As we were
finishing up plainning one night, I slid my chair back from the table to
get up and it completely broke! The whole middle thing that you sit on
had fallen down which left me, of course the 6 foot 6 guy, impossibly
squished down into that hole. My butt was touching the ground and my
feet were off the ground. Sorry for the bad description, I´ll try to
send a picture of it for you guys to really appreciate how funny it
was.
2. Elder Wilson sometimes just randomly askes me weird questions
that he doesn´t quite think through before they come out of his mouth
haha. The other day he asked me, while still deep in thought, "If you
could be any other gender, other than male, what would you be?" Haha
what a dork.
3. In p90x one morning, Elder Christensen, Wilson, and I were down
doing the workout and Eskelsen didn´t want to so he was sitting on the
couch huddled up in a ball with a blanket. At one point in the workout
the guy says something like "If you need a break, take the break!" and I
heard Eskelsen say "Ok, I guess I´m taking the break! Man you guys
should take the break too!" haha. Funny guy. I also heard him as he was
trying to make himself get out of bed, in a very high pitched voice, "Help! Help!" Haha.
Ok, that's all for now. Hope you enjoyed the stories from this week. Talk to you all next week!
Love,
Elder Franson
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